Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, evaluate this statement. ... Because the government was so weak, a man by the name of Daniel Shays led farmers in rebellion against the government to correct the chaos in America. ... G), Jay addresses his fear of the failure of the Confederation and the various outbreaks of rebellion and unrest. ... Unable to control foreign affairs, financial problems, and rebellions, the Congress decided to revise the Confederations. ... So as for the statement "From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effec...

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Joseph Mallonee FRE Essay #2 Dr. Reeves AP U.S. History The American Revolution represented a radical alteration in American political ideas and institutions. American thinkers and political leaders came up with new ideas about what democracy should look like. They also created new institution...

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Additional rebel troops took advantage of the rioting in the capital and quickly seized several other cities, including Gao and Bamako, which have never fallen in any rebellions (New York Times). ... However, many analysts question the credibility of Captain Sanogo's statements, partly because the 1992 Constitution would require President Toure to be reinstated. ...

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Attorney General John Ashcroft's statement declaring that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, irrespective of any ties to a state militia, has raised a debate over the Founding Fathers" true intentions for the Second Amendment. Opponents to Ashcroft's policy statement argue that this decision reverses years of legal precedent and contradicts the true meaning of the right to bear arms. ... Samuel Adams best sums up this idea in his statement, "the constitution shall never be constructed to authorize Congress to infringe to prevent the people...

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I disagree with the statement "The under achievement Era remains to be one of the most harsh and undemocratic times in American history." ... President Andrew Johnson once said, "Rebellion is treason, and treason is a hanging crime." ...

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To the first point Madison makes these statements; " The federal and State governments are is fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers, and designed for different purposes The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone ... not ... on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments (concerning) whether (both or one) will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other ... every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common c...

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The National Rifle Association was conceived in 1871, since then they"re mission statement has dramatically changed from "the scientific study of firearms," ,"to youth programs" immersing the youth in hunting and therefore killing. ... What he meant by the last statement is unclear, what is clear is that the NRA does not fully understand the Second Amendment. ... A state of anarchy which if it followed the NRA and Locke's extreme state of nature philosophy during the Shay's Rebellion in1786, would have caused detrimental effects upon the new and still unformed govern...

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After a Shaye's rebellion federalists opposed to the fact that people should have all the power. ... And to support this statement, Document number 8 gives us a chart with things delegate did for living. ... And of course delegate's educational background which has a distribution of 31 College graduates and 24 not, supports the previous statement of a constitution being a real compromise for all kind of people from different groups with different interests. ...

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Many were afraid that the army would be used against them as it had during the Whiskey Rebellion. ... The Federalist accused Livingston of sedition because of his implied threat of popular rebellion; a practice seen in future debates when unlawful power was to be enforced. ...

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