Founding Fathers of the United States

Are the Founding Documents Still Relevant? Thomas Paine once said that, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again”. As one of the Founding Fathers of the nation, Paine advocated for independence from the British by writing a pamphlet know as “ Common Sense” to the thirteen colonies in 1776. Great Britain held power over the United States from 1607 until 1776 because of their powerful government and military. The commonly known document, “The Declaration of Independence” was an…

life a state affords its people to the ideals on which it was founded. After the first year of the Peloponnesian War, Pericles attempts to alleviate these concerns when eulogizing the dead. Similarly, after the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln speaks of the government for which the soldiers died. Both Lincoln and Pericles attempt to elevate the state to a level worthy of the ultimate sacrifice. However, their methods differ. Lincoln emphasizes the founding principles of the United States,…

government is actually obligated to provide. When our founding fathers created this country, they dreamed of a small-government that was not all involved in the details of the people’s lives. Thus, there aren’t many tasks the government is compelled to uphold. The first guaranteed function of government was a republican government in every state. Stemming from an uncompromising commitment to the core values of sovereignty our Founding Fathers adopted the core ideology of Republicanism as a…

There are currently two different types of processes of electing a president in the United States. The two systems are the Electoral College and Direct Election both of these systems where first established back when the founding fathers also created the U.S. Constitution. The systems are a way for the government to keep their presidential voting and other political related issues well organized. Both of these are very efficient for the county, but one of them has yet a better outcome. But one…

College is a system in which nominated electors initially represent a certain state to cast votes for the determination of the President and Vice-President during Presidential election years for the United States of America. The Electoral College electors, which is composed of five hundred and thirty-eight members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate, are usually nominated by political parties during state conventions. After the electors…

then new United States was trying to create a functioning Republic. The Founding Fathers had the monumental task of creating a new form of government in the aftermath of the revolution. One that had never been successfully pulled off as Ellis states “no republican government prior to the American Revolution, apart from a few Swiss cantons and Greek city-states, had ever survived for long and none had ever been tried over a land mass as large as the thirteenth colonies. “(Ellis 6). The founding…

The Civil War began because of the differences between the slave states and the free slave states to end slavery. The abolitionist movement began in the North, which caused the country to split into North and South. The North and the South fought over constitutional rights because liberty was not defined the same between the North and the South. People in the South supported slavery and not abolition, which led to the Civil War. The South fought for freedom and the North fought for ideals for…

Although Abraham Lincoln needs to honor the lives lost, his true purpose is to unite the people of the United States; therefore, he creates a path to a unity through ideas of equality in a fractured nation. Together, in harmony, one-to prove that these terms can be true of America Lincoln needs a powerful statement. This statement presents itself in the form of a tricolon, which Lincoln uses to unite the nation under a common theme, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people,…

The Electoral College is outdated and needs to be changed. In the United States our founding fathers devised a system, like none other, to elect the president. Through an indirect vote of the people. What this means is that people don’t actual vote for the president. They vote for electors that then vote for their pledged candidate. So for example, I vote for Trump in the election. I am not actually voting for Trump directly. I am actually voting for an elector that is pledged to vote for Trump…

people decide the chief executive. The Constitution authorizes each state several electors: the electors per state range from 3 to 54. The total number of electors is 538. Most states have a “winner-take-all’ system that gives all electors to the winning presidential candidate expect Nebraska and Maine, where votes can be split. A Presidential candidate needs a majority of 270 electoral votes to become president. The founding fathers wanted the President to be elected by the electoral college…