Illinois Constitution

1787, our states met to form the new constitution at the Constitutional Convention. The constitution is suppost to be strong but not too strong, nor too weak. Which is off to the states for radifacation. The reason for meeting was to revise the Articles of Confederation, our old consititution. The Articles of Confederation was too weak. They knew that we needed a stronger constitution but not to be too strong, like Britian`s government. The constitution has to protect our rights as…

Pennsylvania. They were meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation, America’s first national because tyranny was becoming a big problem. The delegates knew they needed to design a constitution that was strong enough to hold the nation together with a strong central government but just as importantly a constitution that would guard against allowing any one person, or group of people, get too much power. Great care and thought were taken to form a framework of government with laws that…

needed . The Constitution is a living document and can be changed through amendments, but it takes time to be processed and approved. ( Living Document, 2017) The actual intent of the Constitution is to be “ drafted and ratified”.( Original Intent, 2017) However, currently the Constitution is being used based off its original intent. Actually, enforcing the Constitution as a living document would be beneficial to the people politically, economically, socially . While the Constitution is a…

The biggest problem when the Founders wrote the Constitution was tyranny from the king of England. In order to prevent tyranny, the founders used the philosopher Montesquieu’s idea for a separated government. This resulted in a country with three separate branches of government that are called The Separation of Powers. The three branches are the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive. The Separation of Powers is used to prevent the abuse of power from the president of the nation which would make…

that was an extremely big deal to them. So, the Constitution was written with that in mind. The framers had no intention of giving the presidential office an authority to act without the consent of Congress. The expansion presidential authority began with Jefferson because he acted with a total disregard for the Constitution and the will of Congress. On one hand, he campaigned for a limited Federal government and a strict adherence to the Constitution, but once in office he decided that a…

over representation in Congress, slavery, and the new executive branch. The purpose of this convention was to create a better government, and word has it that they have concluded the convention with the agreement of establishing a United States Constitution. The people who attended the convention were the educated and wealthy elite. 55 delegates from various states, who were either wealthy landowners or lawyers, attended the convention. This might have shaped the decision making process…

The US constitution is an example of natural law. The Constitution invokes the laws of nature and nature’s God giving people unalienable rights accorded by God. There is no doubt that the delegates who adopted the Constitution believed that it was based on natural law (Golove, 2010). That is, God created the universe and incorporated a body of law into human nature to which all people are subject. As a natural law, the US Constitution focuses on protecting the unalienable rights given to people.…

about the empty bottle, the purpose and consequence, the constitution as the living document, and the decision on the problem. In my opinion, the activist is more liberal because the constitution depends on the nowadays situation. However, the originalist is more conservative since it wants to keep the point that was written by the author. On the purpose and the consequence, Scalia argued that all of the tools should be used in the constitution, and the purpose and consequences needed to be…

Many americans don't really know the significance of the US constitution or the reason why it exists. I am going to talk about how and why the US constitution exists. What the United States Constitution is, is one of the most important documents that exists in America and, it is a system of basic laws and principles that defines the rights of American citizens and sets limits on what the government can and cannot do. The US Constitution, separates the powers of government into three…

States we have the Constitution. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, “The Constitution is the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it.” In the video, Liberty! The American Revolution 6/6: Are We To Be A Nation?, we learned that Noah Webster wrote a spelling book to help create the English language which is now the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The constitution is…