Question: To what extent has political culture in the United States been influenced by the Constitution and Federalism? ... There has been much debate over how much emphasis on economic interests was behind the Constitution. ... Today, Americans don't have to worry about tyranny and the horror of absolute, British rule is a distant tale people only hear about in history classes. ... Both the Framers of the Constitution and contemporary society place a huge mistrust in the government. ... Today, representative equality has been reached as a result of the Constitution. ...

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Part I: Provide a history of the formation of the constitution and of early American government through Jefferson's Presidency. ... The second continental congress met again in 1776 and wrote and signed the Declaration on Independence on the 4th of July that year marking its place in American history as a national holiday. Of course if arguments were finished after one side makes a bold declaration on a piece of paper that would be quite a different history but the war waged on until 1783. Since the Declaration many of the states adopted their own "constitutions", other maintained relia...

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However, over the course of American history, the shape of American democracy and how it was defined has greatly evolved. In the early part of American history, I believe that the government was a democracy. ... Many Anti-Federalists agreed that the Constitution was a class-based document. ... The government of America is also set up for massive changes, such as those made to the Constitution. There have been 27 amendments since the Constitution was ratified. ...

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Anti-Federalists During the time of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, two camps of political thought emerged. ... Because the lack of a bill of rights in the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists focused almost all of their energies on attacking the Constitution because it did not explicitly guarantee the rights of the people. ... History had taught the Federalists that certain people would not be willing to set aside personal interests to dedicate themselves to the common good. ... The Federalists were in full support of the Constitution and they wrote series of essays...

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Anti-Federalists During the time of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, two camps of political thought emerged. ... Because the lack of a bill of rights in the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists focused almost all of their energies on attacking the Constitution because it did not explicitly guarantee the rights of the people. ... History had taught the Federalists that certain people would not be willing to set aside personal interests to dedicate themselves to the common good. ... The Federalists were in full support of the Constitution and they wrote series of essays...

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They were strict interpreters of the Constitution and supported a government that represented its entire people, not just the wealthy. ... Jackson also had a history of misgivings with banking and paper money after he dealt with bankruptcy when he accepted bank notes that later depreciated in value. ... One of the worst social atrocities in American history was committed by the Democrats upon the removal of the American Indians from their native lands in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to American territory west of the Mississippi River. ... Democrats let a blatant decree against the first am...

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Introduction Fundamental Rights is a charter of rights contained in the Constitution of India. ... Task of developing a constitution for the nation was undertaken by the Constituent Assembly of India, composing of elected representatives. ... A notable development during that period having significant effect on the Indian constitution took place on 10 December 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called upon all member states to adopt these rights in their respective constitutions. The fundamental rights were included in t...

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Beard wrote Framing the Constitution. Beard felt those who created the Constitution were primarily of the upper, elite class. ... Throughout the work, Beard criticizes the Constitution and the men who put it together. ... I personally disagree with Beard's outlook on the Fathers of the Constitution. ... He makes his case by submitting the actual events that have occurred throughout history. ...

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The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton wanted to help the ratification of the "new" Constitution, in 1787, so he decided that he would write and publish articles in order to explain the concepts of this Constitution. ... Although they are not part of the Constitution or legal documents, The Federalists Papers gained much popularity in the midst of the ratification of the Constitution. ... These Papers have been very important in American history because of the vital and genuine explanation of the Constitution. ... The Framer's of the Constitution had certain type of government an...

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The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton wanted to help the ratification of the "new" Constitution, in 1787, so he decided that he would write and publish articles in order to explain the concepts of this Constitution. ... Although they are not part of the Constitution or legal documents, The Federalists Papers gained much popularity in the midst of the ratification of the Constitution. ... These Papers have been very important in American history because of the vital and genuine explanation of the Constitution. ... The Framer's of the Constitution had certain type of governm...

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The French Revolution was a period of significant social and political changes in French history which had major impact on the political, social and cultural developments not only in France and Western Europe. ... This essay will argue that the French Revolution is the "dawn of the modern era" and that it inaugurated a new, modern period in Western history in France, Europe and other Westernized countries worldwide. ... Separation of Government and Religion In 1791, the National Assembly brought forward a new constitution. ... Under the new constitution, the old distinctions between the c...

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The American Revolution A History In this concisely drawn book that covers the colonial period from 1763 to 1790, the author attempts to explain the bases of the American Revolution. ... Another thing is the timeline gets confusing on the dates such as the debate over independence and the debate over the Constitution. The authors writing style was very easy to read and follow, this book is divided into seven chapters, Origins, American Resistance, Revolution, Constitution-making and War, Republicanism, Republican Society, The Federal Constitution. ... The book is more like a bibliograp...

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Absolute Monarchy - a government headed by a hereditary ruler whose power is limited by a constitution and shared with a representative assembly, such as parliament. Constitutional Monarchy - a government headed by a hereditary ruler whose power is limited by a constitution and shared with a representative assembly such as parliament. ... Constitutional Republic - a republic in which the people and their representatives are limited by a constitution. ... Chappie James - The first black American in the history of the US armed forces to achieve the rank of four-star general. ...

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Recent work suggests that the people who fought in it hoped that it would be, and many of the state constitutions that emerged in the aftermath of the conflict, especially in Pennsylvania, reflected highly democratic tendencies for the time allowing all white males, and a few free blacks to vote. But the aftermath of the Revolution turned away from these principles, as new constitutions were written that were aimed more at preserving property and by extension, political power of elites than anything approaching democracy. ... The entire premise of Gordon Wood's history of the American Rev...

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Throughout the history of the United States there have been many changes politically and geographically. ... Constitution demands that a Census of the Population be taken every ten years for this purpose. ... There have been many changes on both levels throughout the history of the United States. ... The geography of elections has defintiely had its changes throughout our history. Changes have been made in laws and in the Constitution to try and give the best equal representation it can. ...

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Outside of a common identity based in a shared history, America is a nation held together by government. ... Most importantly the noted difficulty of amending the Constitution, which is the only way to permanently institutionalize a change to this process. ... This would have the desirable democratizing effect without the burden of amending the constitution thanks to the fact that the apportioning of these votes is left to the States. ... This is because more candidates marginalize anyone's chance of reaching 270, and inevitably lead to a lot of President's being chosen by Congress ...

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Machiavelli's Discourses Throughout his discourses, Machiavelli gives a political and philosophical interpretation of the first ten books of Livy's History. ... Not only was religion important in maintaining order and liberty throughout the empire, but law as well in the form of a mixed constitution was used to allow liberty to endure and Rome to expand her boundaries. ... Skinner goes onto say: "They all perceived that the three "pure" constitutional forms- monarchy, aristocracy, democracy- are inherently unstable, and tend to generate a cycle of corruption and decay; and they ...

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During the first four years of demcratic rule in Germany, the new Weimar Republic faced many problems and opposition, as the people of Germany were beginning to come to terms with one of the greatest political changes in their history. When the constitution for the new Weimar Government first became effective in August 1919, there were already critics of it's content. This caused immediate problems for the Republic - not only did the criticism highlight flaws in their constitution, but primarily signalled a relationship with some of the public that was poor from the start. ...

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In Morocco, Algeria and Jordan, heads of state have stayed in power but responded to social pressures through a variety of measures, including parliamentary elections, reshuffling the cabinet, changing the constitution or lifting decades-long states of emergency. ...

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As demanded by Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Mexico is an existing state, it holds free and contested elections, and its leaders rule as democratically as they are demanded to by the Mexican Constitution. ... (Freedom house) This classification corresponds reasonably well to the general scholarly consensus on how the Mexican regime should be labelled throughout recent history. ... The Mexican Constitution outlines the structure of a democratic government for Mexico, but, unfortunately, what is stated on paper is not executed in reality. ... Throughout all social classes Mexico's weak of ru...

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Throughout history there have been many great philosophers. ... Essentially, the ideas of Locke are the same as the whole idea of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. ... Locke was basically putting his life on the line when he wrote his book because it was written at a tumultuous time in European history when monarchy was prevalent. ...

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It's the citizens job to locate the problem and take actions towards the government making it clear to them that the rights of the constitution are at risk. ... " His ideas that were arranged in the 18th century are now key parts in today's constitution. ... The course of history has taught us that governments lead by one man have ended in disaster. ...

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This does not necessarily constitute that his views was a departure from the Constitution. ... First part of speech is presented with the history of progressivism. ... America has a history of government confronting the problems of the country that individuals has caused the government in FDR's eyes is a "privilege". ... They also argued that political rights are founded on history and traditions. ...

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Social justice and democracy are two of the most discussed and argued concepts of political science, sociology, and philosophy. Democracy as we know of it today was not completely established until the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment. During this time the Declaration of Indep...

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Although he never saw a presidency, King, Jr. did lead one of the strongest movements in American history which helped shape today's society. ... In America, it was written in the US Constitution that only white men obtained the right to vote. If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ...

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