The Treaty of Paris removed a long-standing threat to the colonies (from the French) while at the same time Great Britain, under George Grenville undertook a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over the colonies and to make them effectively pay for their defense and return income to England. ... The Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally recognized the new nation, but there were many administrative problems under the Articles of Confederation. ... Congress believed that the first need of the new administration was that of unity among the new states. ... The Articles of Conf...

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Hamilton refuted the Articles of Confederation and proposed a Constitutional convention. ... The Federalist contained attacks on the Articles of Confederation, insights into human nature, evasions of Constitutional criticisms, and an explanation of the proposed operation of the new government. ... Madison, however, was a proud Virginian who favored the planter and farmer from the South, rather than the merchant and speculator from the industrious North. ... Hamilton's contributions and vision of a centralized economy has provided the model for an economic system that still exists tod...

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However, things were much different during the years of Canada's early confederation. ... The same fathers of confederation that came up with section 91 also created our famously irrelevant Senate, or the "chamber of sober thought,"" designed to counterbalance the effects of democracy in Canada (Simpson, 18). ... It seems Canada's opposition parties haven't learned from history that the Liberals can only be ousted from power by coalitions promising the moderation and compromise that Canadians have always preferred. ... Even in England, the system Canada is so much based upon,...

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encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. ... Furthermore, Wilhelm would need Biz to ensure that within the new North German Confederation, Prussia (aka Wilhelm) remained dominant. ... Biz had no feeling for the Junkers from whom he sprung." ... However, Biz maintained this alliance only as long as he thought he and Germany could derive benefits from the connection, and no longer. Actually, Biz had given the North German Confederation universal manhood suffrage in 1866 (which carried over to the German Imperial Consti...

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Moreover, the general political atmosphere in Europe did not allow new concessions to Italian balance when the powers were concerned with maintaining the balance of power and to prevent the setting of French hegemony in Europe again. ... He and Garibaldi had little political principle but only unification from below and under the flag of republicanism. ... In conclusion the question before Italy was foreign rule on independence, unity in federation, political change from above or social and economic revolution from below. ... Moreover, the war was to be achieved from above not below, by the mo...

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