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Political Comparison of Formal Power in Spain vs. France

In eight pages this research paper investigates formal state power in France and Spain as reflected in each country's constitution...

Justice System of Puerto Rico

In four pages this overview of Puerto Rico's system of justice includes its constitution, civil laws, and also considers how the f...

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...

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...

Essay on the Chicago Tribune

in the country at the time were pretty much in the minority. During the 19th century, illiteracy was far more common than it is to...

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...

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...

Progressivism and the Arizona State Constitution

Part I Arizona Statehood Prior to the onslaught of people of European origin into Arizona, the region...

Drafting the Constitution

the Articles, the US was not a nation, but as the state were referred to vaguely as being united by "a firm league of friendship" ...

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

A Comparison of Two Documents

law, except when they have been judged as criminals. The Magna Carta specifically maintains that no one should be imprisoned or l...

The American Working Class and the Constitution

would change with the defeat of the imminent defeat of the South in the Civil War. On January 31, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment ...

The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution - Different Approaches to Government

have now (Faragher et al 176). Delegates were elected annually by means devised by each state, and could only serve three years ou...

Political Structure of the State of Texas

Governors and Lieutenant Governors serve for two-year terms. The main purpose of this branch is to help enforce rules, regulations...

The First Amendment

Klan can exist in the same nation and put out their own particular beliefs. People can agree or not agree with the government and ...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

Slavery and American Independence

there for the use of the whites. The Revolution, however, would impact much more than just white Englishmen. The road to t...

Originalism and Non-Originalism

be" this "promotes serious public debate about government and its limitations" (Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, 2008). ...

Habermas on Nations, States and a European Constitution

the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...

State Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky

In six pages the nullification of these state resolutions is examined in a discussion that continues the time between their passag...

Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson

This paper examines this exhaustive work by Thomas Jefferson in an analysis of what Virginia, its land, and its people meant to hi...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

UK Constitutional Improvements

at the constitution in this respect there are many element missing, such as the right to privacy and the many freedoms granted to ...

Impartial Government and the U.S. Bill of Rights

establishing America as its own liberated and democratic country, "the privilege of the informed and the involved" (Muczyk PG). M...

British Constitutions and Convention Importance

relations of the various state organs to one another an to the private citizen" (Hood et al, 1987; 5). If we assume this definitio...

Careers in the US State Department- IT Security

It seeks an Information Technology Specialist to design and implement functional goals and protocols "for the rapid sharing and st...

Creation of America's Constitution

called upon each state to appoint a representative and attend a meeting he called the Continental Congress" (U.S. Constitution: Ba...

Slavery Compromises and the Constitution of the United States

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...