Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and diplomat, and one of the most important authors of the U.S. ... He was one of the youngest and most brilliant members of this congress. ... In 1778, he was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress, and served as chairman of some of the Congress's most important standing committees. ... He was the most popular American in Paris. ... He was an extreme Federalist partisan and one of President Thomas Jefferson's most severe critics. ...

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A nine (9) year term was voted down though most delegates agreed with Madison's apprehensions about equality. ... The Framers did not want a popular election. ... They felt a popular election would arouse public passions. Therefore, the notion of a popular election was rejected. ...

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Did you know that the famous scientist and astronomer Galileo was censored? Censorship is not as recent as most people think. The Roman Catholic Church has been censoring material that they feel is inappropriate since the Middle Ages, including secular music and philosophical viewpoints of the wor...

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This phase was creating a popular republic with the Declaration of Independence. ... He starts with the first ten, known by most as the bill of rights. ... Most of the constitution is rights that can not be taken away without a fight. ...

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James Madison was one of the leading and most important architects of this most important document. ... It would make the position equal rather than being more popular in one state only because they pay more. ...

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The United States Supreme Court has often played a major role in expanding constitutional liberties in the United States. There was Plessy vs. Ferguson, where Homer Adolph Plessy, who was seven-eighths Caucasian, took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train and once he refused to move to ...

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At age nineteen, John was a popular lieutenant in a local militia. ... The chief justice is the most important judicial figure in U.S. history. ... The most famous case before the Court during that time was McCulloch versus Maryland in 1819. ...

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For most of the 20th century, only one political party, the government- controlled Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), played an influential role in politics or in the decision-making process. After it was founded in 1929, the government party monopolized most national political offices. ... The president is elected by direct popular vote every six years and cannot be reelected. ... Therefore, most members of Mexico's congress owe their political careers to the president. ... Members of the president's handpicked cabinet are the most influential members of the executi...

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It is arguably the most important part of the U.S. ... On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey devoted one of her shows to "Mad Cow Disease- the popular name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a degenerative neurological disease of cattle. ...

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Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are clear violations of our Constitutional rights. In the United States of America, people have the right to free speech and education. Censorship is a violation of t...

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The Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. ... Cyberpunks, those most popularly associated with the Internet, are members of a rebellious society that are polluting these networks with information containing pornography, racism, and other forms of explicit information. ...

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The case is one of the most influential cases in Supreme Court history. ... This federal bank was not very popular because it competed with the state banks for customers and it set limits on state and private loans" (McCulloch Vs. ...

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Gun control laws have been around for about 200 years now and are at their most controversial right now. ... As with many social problems, legislating contrary to the popular morality of the society only shifted the problem from dueling to brawling-it did not solve it" (Cramer and Burnett 7). Possibly the most important law though, is the Gun Control Act of 1968. ... On this day, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight were injured when they were shot at by someone, who was most likely James Eagan Holmes (Parker, Bunch, Lee, Ingold, Steffen, and Brown 1). ...

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Law: The First Amendment Gone Gray The First Amendment is, perhaps, of all the constitutional rights that American's hold dear, the most precious in our hearts. ... For freedom of expression does not always apply to those ideas popular in our culture. ... But we have the right to just not listen, and most importantly, not to buy their story....

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Even the most ardent proponents of stricter gun laws no longer expect such laws to solve the hard-core crime problem, or even to make much of a dent in it. ... Even the most effective gun control policy would not totally eliminate homicide; this argument could be criticized for not dealing with the concept of "interpersonal hatred" (Nesbit 175). ... Most gun owners can be found skeet shooting, deer hunting, or polishing a gun collection. ... When asked about the Second Amendment, the battle is "to retake the most precious, most sacred ground on earth," says NRA Executive Vice President, Wayne ...

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The District courts are where most cases involving federal law begin. ... Bush may have the opportunity to nominate four justices, most likely to be conservative opinions, to the court. ... Legislative Branch The Legislative branch of the federal government, commonly known as the Congress, is probably the most influential of the branches. ...

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