They encouraged giving as much power to the states as possible and having a confederacy containing all the states. ... Any less time would not give representatives enough time to actually learn their position. ... " God did not give power to a single person, but instead spread the power to a group of people. ... The Antifederalists opposed any part of the Constitution that failed to give people such respect. ... They fought to make the power more widespread, giving most of the power to the states. ...

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It consists of seven articles that give attention to legislative power, executive power, judicial power, power of states, amendments, federal power and ratification. ... This is why the Elastic Clause is included- to give Congress the right to make all "necessary and proper" laws that it needs to fill its function (pg.48). ... " The Constitution limits the influence of people by giving only indirect ways to impact the government. ... " This gives the people freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. This sets limitations on what the government can prosecute ...

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This also created a mass amount of jobs within the executive department giving it more power then previously designed within the Constitution. ... This gave the judicial branch a large increase of influence by giving them more jurisdiction by way of creating the first district courts as well as creating the Attorney General's Office, whose job was to represent the US in supreme court cases. ... The spoils system is when high-level officials in governments such as the President, Speaker of the House, or Secretary of State give out bureaucratic positions to his friends or close acquaintanc...

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This gives him the mandate to determine, influence and affect the policy process in the state. ... Moreover, the President has the power to give an account on the state of the nation in parliament as a way of giving updates on the administration he is a leader of. ... This gives him the power over the control of the finance of the nation (article 179:1). ...

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The Electoral College gives bias towards both the very large and very small states. ... They would rather seek out supporters in Texas over supporters in Rhode Island, because a victory in Texas will give them more chance of winning in the Electoral College. The particularly small states receive bias on the sheer fact that it is impossible to have less than three electors, meaning that in Alaska, one person's vote is worth many more times one person's vote in California, giving Alaska much more voting power in the Electoral College than its actual population warrants. ... Most imp...

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(Thomas and Pika 20) The second power is the President as Chief Administrator, which gives the President the power of appointment, but by the advice and consent of the Senate. ... This section gives the President the power of the veto, as well. ... (Thomas and Pika 444) Roosevelt was the first to really expand the role of the office and use the office to give assistance to American citizens. ... Changes outside the office are another reason they give to explain the evolution of the office. ...

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Not only did the Supreme Court clearly state that the Fourteenth Amendment gives the right to personal privacy, but it also gives the right for a woman to make her own decisions about getting an abortion. ". . . and that "[t]his right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy" (Justia 1). ... Giving the fetuses the same rights as born humans abolishes the mother's right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ... While most states allow practice of abortions, they are helping the lives of many women by giving t...

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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. ... While this country and its people are on high alert in regards to the influx of violence, the government is using that fear as a way to make people believe they need to give into government control and release some of their rights, such as, the right to bear arms. ... They have no choice but to give into government power because if they don't comply, they will be forced to give up their privacy. ... Because people accept these term...

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The term limit thus would give the interest-groups less time to convey the representatives into promoting their interests instead of the people. ... They also argued that the lack of term limit allowed a greater degree of democracy in the country by giving the votes the freedom to choose whoever they have the most confidence (Kamber, Hyde, and Gephardt 74). ... Term limit would also give people a more diverse choice when voting for public officials. ... But with the term limit, more people would have the ability to participate actively in politics and people would be able to say: "Give me a be...

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The United States Department of Justice announced that it would seek legislation that would give powers to state authorities to protect the homeland from such activities and attacks in the future. The proposed legislation was to give federal authorities the ability to monitor internet use, intercept emails and phone calls as well as wiretapping conversion between citizens and non-citizens. ... This provision gives authority to the security agencies to use a single court order to wiretap all the electronic devices of one individual. ... This will give the agencies access to very personal inform...

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The term limit thus would give the interest-groups less time to convey the representatives into promoting their interests instead of the people. ... They also argued that the lack of term limit allowed a greater degree of democracy in the country by giving the votes the freedom to choose whoever they have the most confidence (Kamber, Hyde, and Gephardt 74). ... Term limit would also give people a more diverse choice when voting for public officials. ... But with the term limit, more people would have the ability to participate actively in politics and people would be able to say: "Give me a be...

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The act of lobbying gives large companies the power to manipulate our education system and force us to learn what they want us to learn so that we might be better suited to work at their companies. ... Most involve giving responsibility for education back to the only entity with Constitutional power on the issue- the states- and abolishing the department of education" (John S.). ... So in other words, the federal government collects money from the citizens of a state, they then give it to the Department of Education, who then gives it back to the states, who is spending it on educating its c...

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Maryland were "to give a Carte Blanche to our federal rulers, and to obliterate the state governments, forever, from our political system," (Ellis, 124). ... Assuming then that people do count as commerce, the Commerce Clause in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution would give the federal government and their license the advantage over the state of New York's license. ... Is there one sentence in the Constitution which gives countenance to this rule?...

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B) Prisoners of war must NOT be: • Compelled to give any information other than their name, age rank and service number. ... The only justification given is that this is a "time of war" and if we give them that argument, The Geneva Convention and the Constitution should still play a solid role in this situation, neither negating the rights of the prisoners of war. ... Our justice system is a mockery and we do not abide by the Geneva Conventions either, giving the rest of the world a plainly put, slap in the face. ...

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The Committee on Unfinished Business which was tasked with outlining the executive branch issued their report on September 4 giving the final decision on the executive to the senate. ... Banning gives a very apathetic almost mechanical recount of the Convention, focusing the specific operations that transpired from May 25 until September 17. ... He often used direct quotes and summarized statements from delegates present to give a sterile and unbiased argument. Because of this Banning gives a very good summary of the Constitutional Convention and should be read by those who have only a basic...

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The New Jersey plan, however, gives the central government stronger powers but it would retain the Article's one state, one vote representation in the unicameral congress. Delegates from the smaller states feared that a government under the Virginia Plan would give the larger states much more power than the smaller, less populated states. ... Maryland, the courts under Marshall argued that the power granted to the federal government came from the people though the Constitution did not explicitly give Congress the power to create a bank, Congress could do so under the Necessary and Prope...

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This was instated to still give the states their power in ensuring the interests of their people whilst giving the federal government enough power to protect the liberty of the people through restraint. ... Republicanism survived when they separated the powers of the federal government to represent the people giving specific powers to each branch for organization which acted independently to ensure liberty. ...

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But there is also the point that because Madison didn't trust the people he believed that giving them this strong central government that the federalist wanted would be for there protection and therefore would be for the good of all the people in the country. If they were to the point where they didn't know what was good for themselves and these factions are going to overpower the whole entire country, then giving them this government in which the people would vote for these people who could act as fathers and take care of the people. There is also the point that if you give the coun...

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By giving foreign terrorists the right to be tried in the American court system, provides them the same robust constitutional rights as a US citizen and public enemies of the state have never been afforded the protections of the Bill of Rights (Dehn 1). ... By trying to protect America with the use of censorship, the judicial system has inadvertently made it nearly impossible to give the alleged terrorist defendant a fair trial while in a civilian court. ...

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Not only can this keep us safe, but we could give other allies the information we obtained to thwart threats abroad within the borders of our allies, which could foster the creation of a global intelligence community. ... It can be deducted from these statements that information "unless it is a threat or of detriment to the maintenance of our general welfare is not regarded or utilized in any way, which gives some validity to the NSA's aforementioned statement, which provisions that only those who have something to hide should have anything to fear. ... The Fourth Amendment further g...

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Much can be taken form the British system in terms of alternatives, in that the system gives the leader adequate freedom to lead with appropriate power and authority. ... Also, the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate foreign commerce. ... Contemporary trade legislation gives Congress a direct role in the negotiation process. ...

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As with the veto power, states also vary considerably in the power they give their governors to make appointments to positions in government. ... At the beginning of each legislative session, governors give a State of the State address (SOSA) to the legislature. ... State legislatures adopt state budgets during the regular legislative process each year, however states give their governors a variety of special institutional powers with respect to the budget that they do not have in regular lawmaking. ...

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It has eroded the central requirement of a democracy that those who are governed give not only their consent but their informed consent"(Ben Bagdikian, pg. 192). ... So basically the giants of the system give the little people a ray of hope that they will indeed make it in the system, even though eventually they will just be shut down or bought up by one of the giants. ... Media corporations are only interested in how much money is coming in from advertisers and how much help from the government they are going to receive after the candidates they have helped get into office will give them af...

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It gives the people the right to protect themselves, their families and their properties, as well as allowing citizens to arm themselves, so they can take part in a well-regulated militia. ... This book gives a clear historical road map that charts how we have arrived at our current impasse over weapons. ... They believed that the amendment would then give every citizen the right to bear arms. ...

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Individuals may feel it is irrelevant to voice their opinion on political issues and give various reasons as to why they cannot, or will not, actively participate (Loeb 175-185). ... This informality allows people to be apathetic if they wish, willingly giving up their input into the political process. ... "Special interests buy favors from congressmen and presidents through political action committees (PACs), devices by which groups like corporations, professional associations, trade unions, investment banking groups "can pool their money and give up to $10,000 per election to each House...

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