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Had the reforms of the late 1800s and 1900s remained unchanged, various luxuries we experience today would not exist. While a considerable amount of the U.S population was for reforms, those in high statuses in either government or wealth did not see the need to create changes that could disturb their lives. Or make changes that they did not see significant because those with wealth did not experience all the struggles that were faced by the rest of the population. Major reform efforts of the…

was unfair to the people because to get anything past you had to have a 9 out of 13 states to pass that particular law. Also under the Articles of Confederation there was no stable judiciary system, there was no National Court System, they only had Congress…

Power in the Court John Marshall was one of the most prominent members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall is known for producing one of the most influential decisions in Supreme Court history after his ruling in the well-known case of Marbury v. Madison. During the time he served as Chief Justice, Marshall managed to bring more power to the judicial branch. He did so by working his way up to the highest position in the court, strengthening the unity of the justices, and establishing judicial…

(3) The Federalist Papers were written by three of our founding fathers' named John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and James Jay. They are a collection of 85 newspaper articles which were written in a period between 1787 and 1788 to promote the constitution of the United States. Adams, Hamilton, and Jay were trying to alleviate the fears of anti-federalists by arguing the need for the states to give the federal government more power and to replace the Articles of the Confederation with the…

The debate over the ratification of the U.S. Constitution took place by and large between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. Prominent Federalist figures included Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams while the prominent Anti-Federalist figures included Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and John Adams. The Federalist supporters consisted of large farmers, merchants and artisans while the Anti-Federalist supporters consisted of small farmers, mainly…

Question 1: What were the founders' original goals for Congress? The founders’ original goals for Congress was to create a branch that was powerful enough to govern and to check the power of the president, but not powerful enough to practice tyrannical rule. They created the House, so the population had an opinion, and the Senate, so the state had an opinion. They wanted Congress to embody republican principles, and even with their central policy-making that they would be responsive to the needs…

I am responding to Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 78. In this essay, he discusses aspects of what would later make up the United States government’s judicial branch. One of the arguments he makes is that Congress asserts the right to shoot down legislation from Congress that conflicts with the Constitution. I think Hamilton is right in his position on whether the Supreme Court can exercise judicial review without it being in the Constitution. One of the reasons I agree with him is because…

York) were being infringed by Thomas Gibbons, who obtained a license from the federal government. It was a suit over whether New York could grant a monopoly to a ferry operating on interstate waters. The ruling of the Marshall Court reasserted that Congress had the sole power to regulate interstate commerce as soon as a state’s boundary line had been crossed. In the majority opinion, John Marshall explained that navigation should be considered part of commerce so the same reasoning could be…

Adopted July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. Following the principles outlined by Thomas Jefferson in the Ordinance of 1784, the authors of the Northwest Ordinance spelled out a plan that was subsequently used as the country expanded to the Pacific Us congress passed a ordinance law. Louisiana…

that the legislative branch and the executive branch are fairly equal with one another when it comes to their war powers. There have been several occurrences throughout history where Congress and the President have worked together and used their war powers to come to an agreed solution. The excerpt, “That the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary…