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The Right to Private Property in the Constitution

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

Political Document Relevance of the Constitution of the United States

and internal issues of social unrest and social justice. The U.S. Constitution is a document that does not deal with the limitati...

An Examination of the U.S. Constitution and the Articles of Confederation

history in relationship to other members of the Union. New York has remained under the control of the British for far longer than ...

Individual Rights and Liberties Evolution in England, the English Colonies, and States Confederation

Suddenly, natural rights were introduced into the constitutional equation, which suggested that man had certain inalienable rights...

An Examination of the Articles of Confederation

with Great Britain. English merchants were giving liberal credit to their old customers in the US, encouraging the former colonies...

Education and the Constitution

involves school and the condition of religion in schools. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy over the simp...

Discussion of Christian Marriage

In four pages the constitution of marriage is considered in an examination of what a Christian marriage means. One source is cite...

Resources and Tools of a Consultant

Executives International, 2003). This software will "collate, share and analyze vital customer information" (Financial Executives ...

Constitution of Cameroon

country until the late 1800s (Countries of the World, 2003). Because of Cameroons coastal borders, European slave trade often cam...

Supreme Court Decision Making and the U.S. Constitution

did not take the same stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require ...

US Cities Prohibition of Alcohol Sales as 'Unconstitutional'

Increasingly, cities within otherwise "wet" areas seek to prohibit the sale and use of alcohol within specific areas of these citi...

American Criminal Justice and the Constitution

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

1750 to 1790 Colonial America and the Adoption of 'Revolutionary Habits'

operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

Texas and Illinois Governmental Differences

even to this day (Ginsberg et al, 2001). There really is no "common political culture," and this is a state of huge economic diver...

Adoption of the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution

government the ability to restrict inherent rights, so no list of those rights was necessary" (Mount, 2005). Many people worried t...

Legalizing Abortion

are not right to lifers, the idea that someone is not born would immediately prompt the idea that the individual is not a person. ...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Reform and the U.S. Constitution

writes for the Yale Law Journal, provides a very compelling argument in the case of reform. His contention was that the Constituti...

Historical Changing of America

authorized veto power over state legislation. New Jersey also argued that there was no need for two houses, which prevente...

Constitutional Amendments and Their Significance

Many people will find personal significance in terms of the fourth amendment. One does not have to be a criminal to receive this p...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

People's Political Needs as Met by the U.S. Constitution

that national character is essential (1989). While the authors of the Federalist Papers did support states rights to an extent, th...

English Law and the Legal System of England

new law since the seventh century (Barker and Padfield, 1996). These are seen as the more modern laws. This took the place of prim...

Process of Electing Presidents in America

As this indicates, the only legal requirement for the presidential election is the provision in the Constitution that spells out t...

The Boys Scouts in Litigation

they affirmed their intention to found a Christian nation under God.1 Historian Frank Lambert refers to these men as the "Puritan ...

Comparing Constitutions of the U.S. and California

activities are done in a "reasonable time, place and manner," as the instructions point out. The freedom of speech, as stated in t...

The Origins of Western Law

But surprisingly, even after the Protestant Reformation and native languages began supplanting Latin in speech and literature, "a ...

Controversies Surrounding the Ratification of the Constitution

United States political discourse should proceed in keeping with the original intent of the writers of the Constitution of the Uni...

James Madison Human Nature and Political Factions

Our founding fathers conception of human nature varied somewhat. Some believed that humans were inherently...