Aristotle also felt that walls and other such defensive protections should guard the town itself. The defenders of the town must always seek additional means of defense by the aid of scientific inquiry. ... The town should be organized in a quincunx (the same pattern used to plant vines), and make sure that the whole city is not laid out in geometric intervals. ... Aristotle later added the need of water to preserve proper health when he declared that "air and water, being just those things we make most frequent and constant use of, have the greatest effect on our bodily condition."" ...

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The micro level refers to districts, towns, counties and other small areas. ... This type of representation is tied very closely to place and space and focuses mainly on small areas such as districts, towns and boroughs. ... The geography of elections has defintiely had its changes throughout our history. ... They have been able to make changes necessary to make our government meet our needs and to make our nation a better place to live and participate in politics....

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Today we really do not have to worry about overthrowing our tyrannical government. ... A representative or a town official could hold out for a while, but the more they do so the less secure their job becomes in the next election. ... Since America is the most powerful nation in the world, no one could block our ports and prevent our trade. Taxes are one of the main reasons early patriots decided to cut all ties with the British, how could anybody, without our will, impose an unjust tax on us without our consent. Today we get fussy when the government tells us of a new tax headed our way...

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After two hundred and twenty seven years, many families nationwide seek to ban the second most important amendment in our country's constitution; an amendment that was adopted by our Founding Fathers and the men who made this country the great nation that it is today. ... Although there are no foreign soldiers breaking into our homes, stealing our wives or children, or threatening us with weapons, there are still life-threatening dangers in this world that we need to be protected from. Imagine if you are in an unsafe part of town and someone approaches you, demanding money or your car key...

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This book gives a clear historical road map that charts how we have arrived at our current impasse over weapons. ... In a Boston town meeting, he requested that British citizens have the right to bear arms for their own self-defense. ... After Philadelphia's convention, the new constitution was discussed in all town squares, and a report came from Philadelphia because it had made a bustle in the city. ...

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Self-government is a town meeting; a band club vote on what to sell and the fair; an employees vote whether to Jon a union. ... Our patriotism focuses on that and sees no further, missing glaring contradictions. ... Our government has three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. ... We all know that we are not perfect, but if we have in our mind that we are something then we are. ... Our founding father where the great minds America has ever known. ...

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Some experts even believe that in the short time the act has been in effect, it has already prevented further terrorist attacks on the U.S. by broadening our defenses against conventional weapons and biological warfare ("President"), and questioning the intelligence of law officials ("Terrorist"). ... Joe Welke of Bozeman writes, "Insofar I see the Patriot Act as doing away with many of our most precious liberties, I regard it with suspicion and doubt. ... I cannot accept any abridgment of our Constitutional rights as fair exchange for what is wistfully called "greater security"" (A4). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Our hearts bleed and our wallets open at the slightest provocation to help others all over the world to live a better life. ... Meanwhile, we shuffle our homeless from place to place; we illegally deprive them of property and liberty for committing unavoidable minor infractions; and they face dehumanizing discrimination both on the streets that they call home and within our justice system. ... Indeed, our Founding Fathers built our Constitution largely upon certain substantive rights, otherwise known as natural, God-given, or inalienable rights. ... The reluctance of our government to official...

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On July 10, 1832, in his veto message, he stated, "I sincerely regret that in the act before me, I can perceive none of those modifications of the bank charter which are necessary, in my opinion, to make it compatible with justice, with sound policy, or with the Constitution of our country" (Doc B). ... I had seen every man in the towns an independent citizen; every man in the country a landowner" (Doc D). On this short visit, she had seen independent citizens and landowners in countries and towns. ...

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Marshall was our nations fourth chief justice and is accredited with helping to establish the power of the United States Supreme Court and strongly enforcing constitutional law throughout the nation. ... At the age of ten John's father moved his family 30 miles to the town of Blue Ridge Mountains. ... It is through the great mind of john Marshall that the laws that govern our land through the Constitution have withheld the test of time. ...

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No other person was more involved in our nation's birth. ... Meanwhile, Franklin raised volunteer colonial armies to defend frontier towns and supervised construction of a fort in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. ... During the era of 1775 until his death, he became important and essential to making our country what it is today by dealing with affairs between foreign countries and America and drafting important documents clarifying Americans" rights and duties. ...

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• Grade Level: High School