Benedictine Confederation

Does reasonable arguments further human understanding? If people seize having arguments based in reason our culture and society will stop growing. This is due to the fact that progress is built on new ideas. When introducing new ideas, there is often pushback that must be overcome with logic and reason. We can look back at the American revolution and the following decades to see how differing arguments lead to radical new ideas. One idea that was reintroduced was democracy, the founding…

Group Dynamics: Early American Colonies Group dynamics played a large role in the move towards independence of the American colonies. Since the first ships landed on the shores of the newly found land, settlements emerged. Each with their own social structure, strengths, and weaknesses. These settlements would have to come together and work as group in order to obtain, maintain, and protect the freedom and independence they desired. In order to obtain independence, the colonies would need…

decisions on how exactly the country should be run with their newfound independence. The founding fathers faced this adversity with the creation of the Articles of Confederation, and in it was everything the states ever wanted with the states retaining a considerable amount of power. Nevertheless, although the Articles of Confederation appeased the states’ wishes, economic deficiency , foreign disputes, and interstate disunity demonstrated America’s inability to improve itself, deeming its…

Stemming from the idea that humans are inherently fallible is the idea that mankind requires some guide to define morality and control its wills. When a government is established within a community, that entity becomes the lawmaker and the law enforcer, and this system is upheld as long as it maintains the safety and prosperity of its people. So one must then wonder: in order to maintain order, must a government be centralized and authoritative, or can the success of a civilization solely rely…

The Great Law of Peace Vs the Constitution Introduction The Great Law of Peace served as the constitution of the Iroquois Republic. The Republic was comprised of 5 Indian tribes, namely, Seneca, Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas and Onondagas (Minahan 20). Later on, the Republic was joined by another tribe, Tuscarora to become the League of 6 Nations. The purpose for establishing the Iroquois Republic was based on the need to foster peace among the Indian community as the groups had engaged in bloody…

The Summer of 1787 The Summer of 1787 is written by David O. Stewart, who not only graduated from Yale College and Law school, but also worked on the New York legislature. He is a lawyer turned author, who used his experience as a law clerk as well as a lawyer to help him write The Summer of 1787 as well as many other books, such as, The Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America, and the Lincoln Deception. Stewart’s novel, The Summer of 1787,…

FEDERALIST/ANTI-FEDERALIST Political Viewpoint: ANTI-FEDERALIST 1. What fears does your side have about the future of the North American colonies? The Anti-Federalists feared that the Republican form of government formulated by the principles of the monarchy would be dominated by the features of aristocracy that allowed unwarranted stretch of power over the liberty, life and property of all its citizens. The federal government imposed secret deliberations and hasty plans for ratification which…

The Judiciary Act of 1789, formally titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was set apart into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. Article III of the Constitution set up a Supreme Court, be that as it may, left to Congress the ability to make lower government courts as required. For the most part composed by Senator Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, the Judiciary Act of 1789 set up the structure and ward of the administration court system and…

Virginia Edmund Randolph presented the plan at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. During the Convention, Edmund Randolph argued, "that governments lack the power to defend itself from the intrusion of other state’s rights under the Article of Confederation.” (Levy). However revising the article into The Virginia Plan will create a stronger government among the establishment of the three legislative branches. The plan will have two houses and would be allocated based on state’s population, as…

1) Andrew Jackson was a brave military leader/hero. Andrew Jackson had been a brave leader and hero to many other people during his lifetime. When Jackson was just 13 years old, he went off to war with his two older brothers to fight against the British, Jackson was the only brother to come back home alive. Jackson had always loved to fight and when he did, he always gave everything in him to win, even if it was his own body. During those fights Jackson had no amounts of Military training, but…