Although current political culture strives for the same guarantees, the framers" motives were drastically different. ... The Framers of the Constitution were more concerned with equal representation than they were about economic equality. ... People want to know whom to blame when there is a problem in America. ... Both the Framers of the Constitution and contemporary society place a huge mistrust in the government. ... To the Framers, equality did not have anything to do with glass ceilings or civil rights, representation was the key. ...

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As important as those powers are, that is a stretch from what the "Framers" had mind. ... Now, suppose Company A is having financial problems and decides to fire a tenth of its employees, The employees and their lawyers think its unfair and complain to the Federal Government. ... This interpretation is not what the "Framers" of the Constitution had in mind. ... Nevertheless, they did adopt a resolution pointing out the severity of the situation facing the States and proposed a convention in Philadelphia in 1787 to consider the problem. ... Although, if a case presented to the Court legitimatel...

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It took about three years to frame the Constitution. ... Both the Constitutions were framed in different backgrounds. The problems which America faced after its revolution were few and simple and were different from which India faced. ... In 1947 India had to deal with problems like poverty, industrialization, language issue, territories and law and order. ... Our constitution had to be framed by keeping all these requirements into check. ...

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They favored a less extreme approach, one that would work to improve the existing system of government framed in the Articles of Confederation. ... They sought to frame a nation in which the people declared their ultimate sovereignty and power and closely delegated this power to a selected few to administer the confederacy. ... The execution of the laws in a free government must rest on this confidence, and this must be founded on the good opinion they entertain of the framers of the laws. ... Unlike Madison ad Hamilton the Anti-federalist believed that problems with the present government ...

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To include an amendment to the Original Bill of rights that was ratified in 1992, two hundred and three years after the original Bill Of Rights was framed. ... This article was creating many problems, so in 1787 these problems led to a convention to draft a new charter for the national government, the Constitution of the United States would be born. On June 21st 1788 the constitution was put into effect, with the understanding that an amendment would be framed to include individual Rights. ... Constitution, a constitution that took four months to frame, a constitution that would be called "T...

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The framers of the U.S. ... What the framers of the U.S. ... The framers solved the second problem by creating a safety valve called the Electoral College. ... Another problem the framers faced regarding the office of the presidency was the issue of terms of office. ... In regards to the powers of the president, the framers deliberately outlined them in broad terms. ...

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The problem then becomes this: where do parents send their children when they need to work but cannot afford the childcare to take care of the children? There have been many organizations that try to help with this problem, and there is no easy solution. ... Because of the lack of affordability of child care, another problem is raised. ... This effects employers because most families are unable to find affordable childcare that they would be willing to send their children too; therefore, many (especially mothers) are more then twice as likely to quit their jobs (Framing Child Care as Economi...

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He was a president who liked to follow the old traditional teachings of the framers, since he thought that they were smart in the creation of our country. ... Although at the time there were more people who could have received the teachings of God from the Evangelicals in the United States, communism was still a major problem in Reagan's eyes. ... While this freedom of religion is something that our founding fathers wanted, a conservative attitude should still be active, because it represents the traditional values that they sacrificed so much for when framing our country. Reagan was also...

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The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. ... This prevents the problem of power in a country. ... Any one of those Americans has a say in the country and can do something about any problem they have in the country. ... Basically black Americans had a problem and did something about it In conclusion, the thing that prevents what's happening in Hong Kong in America is the U.S. ...

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This tie between the church and the state would ultimately cause some problems in the community. When you have stringent requirements for those holding office, the power ended up in the hands of families and groups causing a problem that James Madison would later address. ... When the Framers looked at Democracy they saw simple majority rule without checks and balances. ... The Democracy we speak of is this type of representative democracy that the Framers wanted to set up. ... The ground work that the Puritans and Framers laid allows us the freedom that we have today. ...

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The U.S. did not receive word of the Treaty for nearly two months and in that time frame, the Battle took place. ... The Treaty had both sides agree to disagree and resolve their problems at a later time. ...

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Early in the year 1787, the framers of the constitution convened in Philadelphia to discuss the problems of governing the new nation. Among the problems debated that existed with the states was the incorporation of western territories and whether they would be slave states or "free states." These problems would steady the course and discourse of this nation for another 32 years, when in 1819 a new territory Missouri petitioned to join the union as a slave state and started the debate that would literally and figuratively divide the south. ... The Missouri Compromise was lead by Congressman H...

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There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem." ... The Texas statute is in place to deny someone in Johnson's frame of mind from this type of "symbolic speech." ...

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In order to remedy the problems that existed in the Articles of confederation, the Virginia Plan was proposed and modified. ... As stated in the United States" Constitution, the framers of our government sought to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". ... The framers designed this in order to limit the national government by creating another layer of government to share the power. ...

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During his presidency he had to deal with a Civil War that could have never been foreseen by the Framers of the Constitution. ... New problems like these had to be handled with new solutions. ... Terrorist attacks were also something that the Framers of the Constitution did not expect to happen. ...

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He took it for granted that the original intent of the framers was relevant in determining the meaning of the Constitution. ... In discussing the problem of habeas corpus suspension, as we have seen, Lincoln referred to the "letter & spirit" of the constitutional clause authorizing irregular arrests under certain conditions. Even though it would be difficult to establish an agreed upon meaning for the "spirit of the Constitution, Lincoln was probably correct in using the term to refer generally to the purposes and intentions of the framers as expressed in the Constitution itself (Burgess,99). ...

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Is violence the answers to all our problems? ... Some of these include the inventions of the spinning jenny, the water frame, and spinning mule. ... It is everyone's responsibility and problem. ...

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A decade had passed after operating under the articles of the Confederation when the framers of the Constitution realize that the states had too much power over their citizens, as a result they created a form of government that balances the powers of the states and the central government, with the central government in charge of the important decisions. ... Later on, in 1933 Roosevelt became president of the country and promised a "New Deal" under which the government would intervene to reduce the problems caused by this economic phenomenon.  ... This amend is useful to avoid probl...

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The Framers of the U.S. Constitution worked to create a system of government that would be familiar to Americans but could remedy many problems experienced under the Articles of Confederation. ... So in designing the new federal system of government, the Framers knew they could not define precisely how all relations between national government and individual states would work. ... He set into motion deregulation of the banking industry which caused major problems because federally chartered savings and loans that had earlier been required to place their loans in home mortgages, (a safe invest...

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Another reason for the difference between the two constitutions lies in the different philosophical approaches the framers of the constitutions had about the role of government. ... There are three generally agreed-upon problems with the Texas Constitutions today. ... One idea that has been discussed to resolve this problem is rewriting the Texas Constitution (Gomez). ... Also, disallowing amendments would not solve the problem as completely as just rewriting the constitution. ... Having another Constitutional Convention to address problems with the current Texas Constitution has been discusse...

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This document linked together thirteen states for joint action dealing with common problems, to include foreign affairs. ... The Constitution of the United States of America was established to reflect the desires that the framers had to create a more perfect government that would be just, protect its citizens from internal strife and outside attacks. ...

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"By the 1850's the Constitution, originally framed as an instrument of national unity, had become a source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it had created". ... If the issues of secession and slavery were discussed in the Constitution, then many of the problems that the United States ran into regarding these issues could have been solved without having the Union fail. ...

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In his book, Bernard Lewis argues that after the Afghan-USSR war, problems in the Middle East were compounded by the introduction of two western ideologies. ... With the Bush Administration framing the attacks as thus, they had set the grounds for attacking Afghanistan and Iraq. ... The Anglo-American-Israeli politicians who seek to define the Middle East for the rest of the world have simplistically framed this trajectory of violence as a straightforward war against terror that was triggered by the odious crime of 9/11....

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Based on the facts from documents 1-17, however, it appears that that negative changes far outweigh the positive results within the post World War II time-frame. ... This was a problem for the US because the base was 90 mi. away from Florida. ... According to J.F.K. humankind's problem is " within himself in his mind, in his heart, and in his soul" (Doc.1).There are places such as China that has implemented restraints on the amount of children you can have. There has also been an alarming long-term negative environmental problem, which resulted from the war. According to Rachel Carson, ...

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For Madison, the problem of governing could be solved by having many smaller states as the governing political units. ... Madison says that there are two ways to solve the problem of factions, either to break them or solve their causes. ... While this proposal suggested making all key offices elective, the framers of the federation recognized the complexities of making certain offices elective. ... That solution formed another problem, the possibility of the tyranny of the majority. Madison solved all these key problems with formal institutions and considering the sociological structure of th...

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