Republicanism in the United States

Niccolò Machiavelli held a strong belief in republicanism, a system that Americans consider effective and take pride in. In the current republican government of the United States, partisanship plays a large role in the legislature as well as the accompanying branches of government. Many people believe that this partisanship corrupts government by limiting ideas, while the counter argument is that partisanship simplifies the process and makes government more effective. The purpose of this…

into motion after being ratified in each of the thirteen states. The document…

In Creating Colonial Williamsburg: The Restoration of Virginia’s Eighteenth-Century Capital, Anders Greenspan provides a brief contextual history of the nearly one-hundred year history of the site’s many changes, challenges, and criticisms. Greenspan explores both the internal and external struggle for Colonial Williamsburg to serve as a national education resource and a useful platform for social history, while at the same time succeeding as a tourist attraction with vibrant ticket sales so it…

Thought," "Popular Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought," "Courts, Conventions, and Constitutionalism: The Politics of the Public Sphere," (Part One), "The Emergence of a Loyal Opposition," "Anti-Federalist Voices within Democratic-Republicanism," "The Limits of Dissenting Constitutionalism," (Part Two), "The Founding Dialogue and the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation," "Democratic-Republican Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere," and "The Dissenting Tradition, from…

Revolutionary spirit was still alive and well into the 1780s as the 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…

the Founding Fathers but the state representatives. The virtue of men and women were different, women supposedly more domestic and privet, men were sophisticated and public. One of the biggest arguments between the Founding Fathers, how to run the government; a Republic supporting a French radical republicanism…

encouraged the mothers to hold responsibility of her family’s well-being; in charge of preparing, supporting, and educating kids Wives were also considered the moral compass of their husbands How did raising children change in post-revolutionary United States? (p.262-264) Instead of giving all inheritance to the oldest, Americans divided their properties equally amongst their children or to give them all to their favorite…

expansion of the United States. The name “manifest destiny” was brought up by an editor from the Democratic Review, John L. O’Sullivan. He wrote, “Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence…” Manifest destiny also had the chance to spread Anglo-American culture and the idea of racial superiority. The “inferior” peoples living the far west of the United States—Native Americans and Mexicans— had to be subjected to the American ideals and to be taught republicanism…

on American society until the atomic bomb” thereby setting the country on the road that would lead to oil shocks, drive-in movie theaters, and even rock 'n ' roll. Not only did the novel focus on Henry Ford’s invention changing the face of the United States, but also on the Wright brothers and their invention of the airplane. Their dauntless proof to the world of the capability to break scientific boundaries with what they called their machine. The Wright Brothers publicly demonstrated (tragedy…

Population Growth Population growth rate on Earth is increasing exponentially; in fact, it is believed that the population will increase to more than 9 billion people by the middle of the century (United States Census Bureau, 2016). This is an unimaginable increase from the two and a half billion souls Earth had just in 1950 alone (Population Institute, 2016). The impact has raised serious concerns for the planet and it sustainability. The population increases in both developed countries and…