Much of America talks about this idea of government conspiracy in regards to invasion of privacy, but it has been proven that this is no longer a conspiracy, but a reality. ... The NSA invades the privacy of Americans and holds the power to do whatever it wishes with that information. ... This act allows the government to bend the rules of the 4th Amendment to ensure the safety of citizens; giving power to the government that can be abused. ... This shows how much power the government holds over American citizens and companies. They have no choice but to give into government power because if t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These debts were enormous and under the Articles of Confederation the national government could not collect taxes, this power granted to the states. ... Therefore, members of Congress began asking that this power be granted to them. ... Also when the new constitution was passed it gave Congress more power and they were able to put tariffs on imported goods from foreign countries. ... People that held power under the Articles of Confederation, such as state officials, were not likely willing to give up this power and were therefore against the ratification of a document that would put restr...

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The constitution gave our government a limited, an enumerated and a delegated right to act, dispensing power between three balanced branches. ... We saw it in everything from the suspected "conspiracy" that killed a president to the mercenary politics that waged political wars We saw it in the in the 1970s as big government regulated our economy into a recession of unemployment and inflation. ... Government, over the span of our sententious history has taken on more and more of one thing: power. Lord Acton summed it up best when he stated, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate