Republicanism

A never ending battle against monarchy was the foundation of the history of antebellum United States. The idolization of republicanism by the American people especially in the Era of Good Feelings succeeding the War of 1812 was fuel for the intense fear of emotional and political hegemony. In the early 1800s, monarchy was extremely common, specifically in the superpowers of Europe. These superpowers included the Spanish and Portuguese Empires that ruled over various Latin American colonies.…

Editorial articles are common way for writers to relay arguments pertaining to a specific subject and few subjects have incited more arguments as of late than presidential candidate Donald Trump. One of the most hotly contested aspects of Donald Trump is whether or not his political platform constitutes fascism. Two articles that explore this topic of Donald Trump’s status as a fascist are The Red Phoenix’s Donald Trump and the Rise of Neo-Fascism and Tim Stanley’s Donald Trump is Not a Fascist…

Behind each war, there is a cause. A reason that people finally decide to stand up and fight for what it is they deserve, and this is the same with every revolution. For the Americans in 1780-1800, it was the high taxation pushed upon them by the British, the same people who were unfairly awarded more natural rights than the Americans, and ravished through the streets of their homeland, killing 5, in what is now known as the Boston Massacre. Of course the Americans were outraged by all of this,…

Making him strongly in favor of republicanism “The Republican form of government is the highest form of government...”() and he often vocalized his disdain for the concept of monarchy “Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”() So although Spencer was…

The process of globalization is so uniquely displayed as Timothy Brooks uses Johannes Vermeer’s painting to illustrate the important events in the seventieth and eighteenth centuries, as well as shed light on the world, causing readers to think in a different manner. He shows that globalization was not simply because of one person, or one group of people, but many different cultures, thoughts, and ideas. Through the use of Vermeer’s paintings, Timothy Brooks discusses the rise of the global…

Modern Paganisms such as Wicca serve primarily to fulfil the spiritual needs of believers in a manner supporting their pre-existing ideological convictions; as is shown by the diversity of opinion regarding the sacred within this spectrum of New Religious Movements. There are a multitude of sects within Modern Paganism, all claiming roots in the primordial past. In reaction to the growth of secularism throughout the 20th Century, various groups self-organized based upon a revived ‘natural…

Since the Irish parliament was dissolved in 1801 and Ireland was enveloped in the new United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) under the Act of Union, many Irishmen and women have at one point or another planned and carried out insurrections against the tyranny of the English. Although the insurrectionists of the Easter Rising of 1916 share the failure of their predecessors, they achieved a lasting impact on the history of Ireland in a way that those that came before never did. On that…

Some art goes slightly glanced at, seen at the surface level as just art rather than what it is and why it’s like that. Most art even finds itself largely taken for granted, being a large part of our lives. We live in a world made up of and by art, for instance, all around us we see paintings, architecture, sculpture, fashion, and even technology. However what is art really? How did it become such a big part of our lives? And what would our lives be without it? This research is to find out…

Until the end of their reign, both monarchs attempted to maintain their power but lost to the revolutionaries wanting a reformed government. At the end of both revolutions, the political landscape changed for each country. After a decade of Republicanism instituted by Oliver Cromwell, England returned to having a monarch but with limited powers. The Glorious Revolution led to the formation of a constitutional monarchy in England. Similarly in France, after a tumultuous decade of their own with…

individuals. For example, John Adams graduated as a lawyer from Harvard. Similarly, Samuel Adams was also a Harvard graduate, and in addition he also worked as a tax collector before joining the Continental Congress. Not to mention, he too promoted republicanism, “A social philosophy that embraced representative institutions (as opposed to monarchy), a citizenry attuned to civic values above private interests, and a virtuous community in which individuals work to promote the public good” (Roark…