Founding Fathers of the United States

The Continental Congress says that the Founding Fathers are responsible for the progression of our nation. The Founding Father included, Samuel Adams who was born on September 27, 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts. Adams helped formulate resistance to the Stamp Act and played a vital role in organizing the Boston Tea Party. He was a second cousin of U.S. President John Adams, with whom he urged a final break from Great Britain, and a signee of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Adams died on…

regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(US Const. amend. II) The meaning of this amendment to the United States Constitution has been heavily debated topic for decades. For me, the meaning of the Second Amendment was never controversial because I grew up in a household where my family held in high regard the rights granted to us by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. However, I…

preamble. 230 years ago on September 17th, 1787, United States delegates from our Constitutional Convention signed their name on the revision to the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution is the world’s oldest surviving constitution and it still reigns as the supreme law of our land. I believe the constitution has endured all this time because it functions similar to effective operating system. Our founding fathers developed and established sets of rules,…

the pillar of our founding fathers for building a new society. Popular sovereignty is a form of power in which a government has over its people. This was an idea that the government was created and sustained by the consent of its people, where the political power was mainly derived from. popular sovereignty is a type of political power in which people are able to organize their government. While most countries around the world use the same language, religion and race United States uses the…

revolutionary to the world, not only did he inspire the government system of several other countries, but he also inspired the United States government. Now that you have perspective on how the system is supposed to work, do you ever wonder why it was so important to our founding fathers in early America? Well, the reason this system of government was so important to our founding fathers was because, they had seen their previous government become over-ran by tyrants, and they saw how it was…

is inevitable, and when it comes to whether or not The United states was founded as a Christian nation, the founding fathers didn’t have a straight answer. Although some of the founders put emphasis on the importance of Christianity, the nation as a whole cannot be classified as being founded as such. The constitution, the government, and the people all support the idea that United states was not founded as a Christian nation. The United States Constitution has not established Christianity as…

has the subject at hand been a smash hip-hop Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about a lesser-known founding father obsessed with his financial system. Dubbed Hamilton after its main character, said show deserves the praise it garners; in a larger scope, it is beneficial to the nation its namesake helped found. It not only facilitates the educational lecturing of the American Founding Fathers, but also provides ample representation of people of color (POC) in the media and even helps to…

Since John F. Kennedy’s speech, the United States is no longer seriously fighting against communism. Today, the United States is seriously fighting against terrorist groups like ISIS. One thing that has stayed the same since John F. Kennedy’s speech is the United States’ passion to fight for liberty across the globe. In Kennedy’s time, the United States was fighting for people’s liberties in communist countries, and now the United States is fighting for people’s liberties in Syria. Since Gianna…

students are taught that America is the pinnacle of freedom to the rest of the world. No other country in the world could ever be the democracy that America is. Despite this, there are many who would argue against the limits of how democratic the Unites States actually is. Public polls indicate that many Americans are unsatisfied with the American government. Specifically, Americans are unsatisfied with how the government operates. Stanford Levinson argues in his article, “The Ratification…

defined as one in which the legislators are divided into two separate assemblies, chambers or houses. This system is what we Americans use in order to create balance between the powers of its citizens, and it’s government. The Framers being our founding fathers, believed that we needed this system to help America not return to the same overpowering form of government that they left behind when they departed from the British. The Framers of the Constitution created a bicameral legislature as part…