The Republican

status. Their education began taking place due to the expectations for the New Republic’s citizenry as well as changing the social patterns; these new expectations for America’s citizens led to the idea of Republican motherhood. Republican motherhood is “the belief that women should pass on Republican values to the next generation”; this gave women more rights to education. Highly intelligent and pure citizens was a necessity to the success of the nation; this was the themes of intendance and…

American women in economics expanded from the four walls of their houses and edges of their families land, to positions in factories and public workplaces. Their presence in education shifted with the achievement of freedom through the values of “republican motherhood,” in which mothers were tasked with bringing up bright, educated and patriotic offspring (mainly their sons) that would determine and hold the future of the country. Socially, women carried the burden of maintaining…

The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes is a historical retelling about the struggle of two men, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, to put an end to slavery and the formation of their partnership that led to the ending of slavery. Both men came from vastly different backgrounds, but both strongly believed that slaves should be emancipated and given the benefits from their hard labor. However, in the beginning, their similarities ended there and they were not willing to be friends nor…

In some ways the Republican dominance today represents a replay of the era of Democratic Party dominance: "an emphasis on low investment in social services, favorable policies toward business, and strong resistance to the provision of social services” (UT, Political). With…

The neo-republican ideology focuses on domination as freedom. Philip Pettit provides three core ideas to achieve freedom from domination with this neo-republican ideology. In this essay, I will identify republicanism and the historical context, analyse and evaluate these three core ideas, and also compare freedom in republicanism to the two concepts of liberty. Republicanism originated in Ancient Greece, based on the thoughts of Plato, Aristotle, and Polybius. The three of them were consistently…

Both of the political parties, Federalist and Republicans, have many different opinions on how to run America. One of the differences is how each party views the Constitution. The Federalists interpret the Constitution loosely, while the Republicans interpreted it strictly. The Republicans view the Constitution very strictly, unlike the Democrats. Jefferson and Madison, the founders of the Republicans, believed in a strict interpretation. They thought the idea of a national bank wasn’t…

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…

Republican Parties today are so different from what they were in 1854. Most things are different now, then what it was before. Republican Parties in 1854 were allowed to let murders, robbers, were investigated, and the offenders were allowed to get unpunished. Now if you murder someone, or steal something, they will investigate until they know the whole story. They will also make sure the people are caught sooner, or later, and kept locked up until they do all their time. People in 1854 were not…

At the bottom left of the page, there is a hat and a shadow of a human. The hat belongs to snipers, and the shadow is the reflection of who is wearing it. The republican sniper was young, there was his bag, the symbol of a student on his shoulder. He should not have been forced to fight and look at human destructions all day. On the boy;s hand, there is a handcuff, one locked, and one open. The locked one is…

Book Review: The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes James Oakes, a historian and renowned professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is also the author of the book The Radical and the Republican. His book goes into details depicting the debates and the civil war, which took place in the mid-1800.These debates were focused on Fredericks Douglass’s attitude towards slavery and the emancipation of slaves, as well as the political attitude of Abraham Lincoln. Oakes…