Illinois Constitution

Our history has become like a game of telephone, people pick and choose key facts when discussing controversial topics without looking at all the facts. The United States Constitution created a representative democracy that has last for 200 years. However, that does not mean 18th century logic should rule over the 21st century. The Second Amendment was written in 1791, when the country’s government was still forming, the revolutionary war was just fought, people still had to hunt for their food,…

National Constitution Center. The National Constitution Center prides itself as the first and only nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to the United States Constitution. On September 16, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Constitution Heritage Act of 1988 which established the Center. According to the Act it established: “the National Constitution Center within or in close proximity to the Independence National Historical Park to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution…

Our Constitution: Does it need to be reformed? Anybody who has ever run knows you can’t just randomly go out a run five miles without pain or taking breaks. It takes time, dedication, and patience to get into shape for running so that you are able to run those five miles painless and efficiently. Take that into consideration for a national state convention, you can’t just call for one and expect everything to run smoothly. It takes small steps in order to pursue great things. If the states were…

conflicts in the United States since its inception. The nation’s Founding Fathers were all ultimately skeptical of government, but in very different ways. While the Federalists favored a stronger, more structured Federal level governed by a central Constitution, the Anti-Federalists feared centralized power and Constitutional control over the states – who in their minds were more responsive to their citizenry and more accurately reflected the desires and wishes of their respective populations.…

were precise and symbolic. Upon examination of the list of King George III’s grievances committed against the American colonies appears the term “our constitution.” The reference to “our constitution” is not to a singular written constitution as it may be understood today; it is much more complex. The Continental Congress’ reference to “our constitution” denotes the American interpretation of an assemblage of principles, customs, laws, both common and natural, and precedents blending ideas…

creation story, and they each had a sort of government that included a constitution. Between the two groups there are distinct comparisons and contrasts within the creation stories of the Indians, “The Sky Tree”, and “How the World was Made”, and the creation story of the bible in the book of “Genesis” as well as comparisons and contrasts between the two civic documents, The Iroquois Constitution, and The articles of the constitution of the…

the constitution federalism was a way to minimize conformity costs. they knew they couldn’t come up with an exact list of everything the government could and could not being that there will be time where it might has to be some add on to the list. So they add the elastic language to the Article I. where congress will have the power to make any laws which will be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. Hamilton’s view was national supremacy because Constitution…

Madison’s Federalist 51 argued for separation of powers and checks and balances, both within national government and between the national and state governments. Madison’s suggestions are seen in the Constitution in Articles 1, 2, and 3. These Articles in the Constitution, describe the roles of each branch of government. Through our three branches of government, they have the ability to check on each other in order to prevent any branch from gaining too much power. The president can…

“A More Perfect Union” by Dr. Ben Carson, analyzes The Constitution and informs readers of their civil liberties while discussing the intent behind different components of the document. Dr. Carson also takes the information and uses it to offer solutions for modern day issues, such as the national debt and an overly-powerful federal government. Carson has a knack for writing in such a way that even someone with the most basic understanding of U.S. government can learn and draw conclusions. After…

The first approach is called “judicial restraint approach” which states that the federal courts should look into a policy and “decide cases strictly on the basis of the language of the laws and the Constitution.” However there is a second approach called “activist approach” in which the courts should look at the situation specifically and decide on that case in particular to decide whether it is constitutional or not. Some people (including myself) question…