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Lincoln on Government

Presidency of the United States of America on March 4, 1861, seven southern slave states had already succeeded from the Union form...

The Seventeenth Amendment and Insuring the Peaceful Transition of Presidents

1. Prior to the 17th Amendment positions in the US Senate were elected by state legislature. The thought at...

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" ...

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...

James Madison Human Nature and Political Factions

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

Historic Events/U.S. Constitution

regards to the location chosen to establish the Plymouth colony (Mayflower, 2011). The precise influence of the Mayflower Compact ...

The Branches of Government and Principles of the Constitution

government that has endured and survived countless conflicts and obstacles. The effectiveness of the checks and balances pl...

Role Of Congress In National Security

any other official militia of the country.4 The Constitution divides the powers regarding war between the President and the Co...

Wrongful Imprisonment in Colorado

under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...

The Eleventh Amendment

the Revolution" (Orth, 1987, p. 7). The case that started the furor, as mentioned, was Chisholm v. Georgia, which was heard by th...

The Constitution and Its Relation to Military Officers

July; all the delegates considered it in August, 1787 (Wright and MacGregor, 1987). Unfortunately, the delegates never reached a d...

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...

Post-Taliban Women's Rights And Government Implementation

the guise of personal agenda. The Taliban refused to honor Muhammads quest for gender equality by creating a harsh and oppression...

The American System of Government

of the amount of power the states would hold. Today, many are used to hearing about the Constitutional rights of others. This eme...

Who is American?

is the institution of slavery expressly forbidden. A great many scholars have argued that it is the fact that the nation was found...

Originalism and Non-Originalism

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

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

US Constitution and Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke's Influence

In six pages this paper discusses how the American Constitution was influenced by Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean Ja...

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...

Democracy in India

Vajpayee wanted a fixed tenure as it respects Parliament as well as the state legislatures1. Why? According to the prime minister ...

Media Coverage in the Michael Vick Dog Fighting Case

most, despite the fact that he was personally responsible for the deliberate mistreatment and deaths of other living and breathing...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

The Vagueness of the United States Constitution

existing. One can well argue that the founding fathers were incredibly wise, or that they were very lucky, when they put the Const...

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 ...

Prison: Keep Them Public Or Make Them Private?

wherewithal to actually decrease prison populations while at the same time increase community safety is found in the way public fa...

Private and Public Education

and democracy are inextricable is fine, but what should not be overlooked is that times have changed. Today, children receive a pu...

“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

Erin Brockovich, Private Eye

on his phone, and settles down to wait, telling him there is nothing else anyone can do. He almost says But youre Erin Brockovich,...