Western Civilizations: Essay 1 All societies today follow strict rules of conduct to regulate society. ... The patrician government leaders would create laws to protect strictly their own interests, not the interests of the plebeians. These laws were often very unjust to the majority, so the plebeians "forced the patrician rulers to put Roman law in writing in a codified form so that it would be equally available to all and would restrict arbitrary interpretation by patrician magistrates" (Grant 49). ...

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As the two-party system emerged, Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans disagreed on many matters. Their political philosophies were complete opposites in almost every aspect. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, the two people whose names appear in the names of the a...

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Aristotle was a philosopher who lived from 384 B.C. to 322 B.C. He spent twenty years studying and working at Plato's Academy. Plato was an influential philosopher and scholar that made a tremendous impact on Aristotle. Many of Plato's ideologies were presented in Aristotle's works. Aristotle demons...

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