After the Articles of Confederation failed to work in the 13 colonies, the U.S. Constitution was created in 1787. When thinking about the different things from North America, a lot of things come to mind. The themes are as flows, codification, republicanism, popular sovereignty, federalism, and separation of laws. Those are just to…
political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French polity, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, suffered radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of republicanism, citizenship, and rights. These changes were accompanied by violent confusion, including executions and repression during the Reign of Terror, and warfare involving every other major European power. The Revolution was originally a…
The Radical Whig ideology is the basis of Republicanism; the reason people wanted representation is because the direct fear of an oppressive form of government. Political thinkers, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution leave a Radical Whig footprint in American History. Famous speeches…
Republicanism comes from philosopher Plato and his republic. A republic is a government in which elected representatives make the decisions. Republics also come from the ideas of Aristotle and Polybius. Constitutionalism focuses on the constitution. Constitutionalism…
Theoretically then when the covenant between the king and the colonies were broken the colonies became free and independent states. This returned the colonies to a state of nature. Unfortunately in a state of nature, natural rights aren’t secure from the invasion from others. The Founders thus had to draw upon history to design their republican structure. In theory, the correction of these ills was worked out through ancient tradition and customs. To solidify these English customs Americans…
How do the members of the democratic-republican society defend their right to form a society that comments on public affairs? It serves to start by noting that the backbone of Republicanism is that it advocates for liberty and inalienable rights as their foremost central value system. Involving themselves on public affairs, they try and project people as being sovereign and independent in how they do things, while vilifying corruption. Being able to lay their roots on early Roman, renaissance…
who sided with the South. This division involved the aristocracy and conservatives sympathizing with the Confederacy, and the liberal-minded middle class siding with the Union. The American conflict was important to Europeans because the fate of republicanism and democracy…
emancipation and built up after the general emancipation. “From the beginning of the emancipation era, various groups of whites attempted to limit free blacks’ access to political, social, and economic equality.” The main issue was that, in the ideals of republicanism during this time period, blacks were seen as slaves and only slaves in society. That was their role, their “livelihood” in the opinion of white people. As stated before, a lot of these slaves started working for white households…
Throughout history, there have been many ideas of individuals that have had significant influence on groups, nations, or regions. John Locke and Martin Luther are the two perfect examples of these ideas. The ideas of these two individuals changed the lives of people in United States and around the world. Back in days no one followed the rights that everyone is born with, which is called, “Natural Rights.” But with the help of these two individuals life of African Americans and other minorities…
discussed in the book, were included in the Constitution. Thomas Paine lived in New York from 1737 to 1809. At this time America was still a British colony and Paine wrote a book called Common Sense which discussed Representative Government and Republicanism, which was a show of open rebellion against the king. It one of the first books to openly suggest breaking free from Britain. And because it was written in a simpler style and was easily readable, it played a major role in persuading people…