Constitution

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land a groundbreaking piece of human innovation and the blueprint for how our government functions on a daily basis. How could one document serve such a colossal purpose in our government? The Constitution, created and accepted by the people, is divided into six big ideas that help us to analyze how the U. S. Constitution reflects the principles of limited government, republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, and popular…

and legislative and was helped by the writing of the Constitution by James Madison. Even with these practices established, many Presidents and the government have decided and shaped United States politics by how they interpret and analyze the Constitution. Over the course of United States history all of the different political parties that arise read the Constitution in different ways and believe the meaning to certain parts of the Constitution are different. These conflicts have also caused…

A demonstration is needed to describe the following correlation between Aristotle's mixed state and the Constitution of 1787(of America.) More precisely, how the Constitution of 1787 can be seen as a implementation of Aristotle’s mixed state. Three examples will be shown to demonstrate three elements of the mixed state. These three elements are the monarchist component, the aristocratic component, and the democratic component. Monarchy starts off as our first component to the mixed state.…

differences between the Australian Constitution and Magna Carta? Funny you ask that because that is what I am going to tell you about in this essay. I will discuss my points for this essay, they include the similarities and differences between the two documents. I will also include how they shaped today’s society and how the public first reacted to them. There are several key similarities and differences between the Magna Carta and the Australian Constitution, I shall state them below. There…

. Here in the states, the topic as of late is the constitution; whether ratification of the document should happen, or whether it should not be ratified. The year is 1788 and the debate about the ratification of the U.S constitution is quite the topic among everyone including everyday citizens, in which everyone has an opinion on the topic, myself included. The U.S has the articles of confederation in place however, state delegates believed that the articles where weak, and something needed to…

wrote, “God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.” Roughly sixty-one years after the ratification of the US constitution, President Fillmore believed the document legally guarded the institution of slavery. Historian David Waldstreicher, in his book Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification, concurred with Fillmore’s assessment, “In growing their government, the framers and their…

The United States Constitution is a document that was established in 1787 and symbolizes the laws and principles by which the United States is governed. This document provided Americans with an abundance of freedom when the “Bill of Rights” were added as the first ten amendments to the Constitution in 1791. Such freedoms include the freedom of religion, speech, the right to bear arms, and protection from unreasonable search and seizures. Part of the first amendment enforces the freedom…

Jefferson, am a firm believer in the Constitution and not borrowing money from others. But now I am in a predicament where I may have to violate my morals. I am able to obtain an immense tract of land for a comparatively cheap price of $15 million. The only thing is I do not have permission to buy land, declare the people living there citizens, nor do I have $15 million lying around. So to obtain this land I would have to borrow money from the British and defy the Constitution. Now back to my…

1. Explain how Article III of the U.S. Constitution, '[t]he judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish' was a compromise between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Article III in the U.S. Constitution states that “the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish”…

The U.S. Constitution, which was ratified by the states in 1788, serves two purposes; firstly, to protect individual rights, and secondly, to create three branches of government that keep checks and balances of each other (Goldman & Cheeseman, 2014). The Constitution is made up of 27 amendments, each of which are used to safeguard certain rights of the people. The first 10 amendments are referred to as the Bill of Rights, and they protect the basic individual rights of American citizens. Such…