Constitutionalism

We would not be the thriving nation that has come to be today if not for the quagmire the Thomas Jefferson found himself in 1803 contemplating the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France. ”At the time of purchase, Jefferson was concerned about the constitutionality of making a land acquisition without adding a covering amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The law of the land, however, did give the president treaty-making power, and the Louisiana Purchase was ratified into law as a treaty…

The Columbian Exchange was a work written by Dr. Alfred Crosby in 1972. He wrote it after studying the Western Hemisphere a century after Christopher Columbus came to the Caribbean. In the work Crosby pointed out that there was four changes between the Europeans and the Native Americans. Some of the exchanges where good which included the exchange plants and animals. There was also exchanges that were harmful to both the Europeans and the Native Americans these would have the exchange of…

would perfectly reflect a spirit of undifferentiated universal love (jen).” Kang Youwei agreed with the idea that there was a “fixed sequence” in human progress. With the presence of jen, he believed that “autocracy gradually leads to constitutionalism, and constitutionalism gradually leads to republicanism.” Therefore, in order for society to evolve, according to Kang Youwei, people would have to diminish and eventually…

George Mason was born on December 11, 1725 in Fairfax County Virginia. He had his mother Ann Stevens Thompson, and his father George Mason the Third. George Mason’s mother Ann Stevens Thompson is an at home mother basically raised her children. George Mason’s father George Mason the third was a politician and a farmer he owned a lot of land. George Mason the third died in a ferry accident on 5 March 1735 on the Potomac River. Sadly when George Mason was only ten years old. From there on he was…

SUMMARY OF: TWO SIDES OF COLORADO, AMPLIFIED THROUGH CONSTITUTIONAL REDISGN This is a great fast past interpretation of the Colorado Constitution. This chapter in the book “The Constitutionalism of America States,” is a good representation of how and why the Colorado constitution was formed. Dr. Vicki Bollenbacher, the author of this chapter “two Sides of Colorado, Amplified through Constitutional Redesign,” goes into some detail about the history as well as the ins…

The state of nature Human Conflict was a structure used in political philosophy by most of these philosophers, like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Human Conflict is a representation of the human being a part of the society or in a more current state. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, both had their own outlook on human conflict in political state. The state of nature is a concept used in moral and political philosophy, religion, social contract theories and international law to denote the…

The Gulen Movement, also known as Hizmet (which means ‘service’) in Turkish, is a faith-based, non-political, cultural and educational movement which is inspired by the universal principles of Islam and the ideas and activism of Fethullah Gulen. The Gulen Movement represents a modern, middle path of Turkish Islam, which is moderate, tolerant towards other religions, and affirms science. This essay gives an outline of the origin, purpose and history of the Gulen Movement. The life and philosophy…

The 1972 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is arguably one of the most notorious Supreme Court cases of all time. Not only because of the specific issue of abortion, but in the more broad perspective of state laws, versus federal law. This landmark Supreme court case, which was ruled 7-2, upheld the right to privacy under the 14th amendment and protected women in the right to have an abortion within the first three trimester of a women pregnancy. Prior to the Roe v. Wade case in 1973 there was…

How is the Constitution written to guarantee that the government will be, and forever remain, limited in power? The Constitution was written upon the six principles to ensure our government would forever be with limited power to protect the United States of America. A limited government is a political system that legalized force is restricted to enumerated powers. The idea of a limited government is related to political thinkers, who used a unique way of showing emphasis to prevent government…

The Supreme Court decision in the Lochner case ushered in what is often referred to as the Lochner Era, which occurred between the years 1905 and 1937. During this time period, the doctrine of laissez-faire constitutionalism reigned within the Supreme Court. While many justices came and went during this era, the ideology of the majority of the Court remained the same. Lochner is viewed by some as a symbol of a conservative judiciary 's resistance to change. Despite the fact that support by…