United States Constitution

for all participants. If this definition was valid, the government created by the Constitution of the United States is not just. The constitution created a republican government with three branches and two houses. By doing this it tried to divide power and represent people. It did manage to do the dividing power part, but it failed miserably in representing people which is what makes it unjust. Although the constitution tried to ensure fairness by…

today’s world every countries constitution is a result of an event, and mostly emerged from an independence, revolution, or a change in regime, Kuwait wrote its first constitution after its independence 1961, India’s constitution was created after its independence in 1947, and Thailand enacted a constitution in 1932 after toppling the absolute monarchy.In this regard Afghanistan is not an exception, looking at the history of constitution making in Afghanistan, constitutions were almost linked…

DID THE CONSTITUTION GUARD AGAINST TYRANNY The Constitution was written 1787 in Philadelphia, based on the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution is the final rule book that protects the guard against the government with too much power. So how did the rule book protect the guard against the government with too much power? The Constitution guarded against tyranny in several ways which were Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Big States VS. Small States.…

individual rights just like the federalist wanted to this system to be. The United States is a big country and has many states, so it needs a big government to control all of the states and give all people their rights. In 1787, the federalist wanted a stronger central government and to give the center the government supreme power and make it more powerful than power of states rather than Anti- federalist who wanted the power of states to be stronger than the central government. When the U.S 13…

The United States of America; land of the free and home of the brave. Over the past two hundred and forty years of being a nation, we have continually prevented groups of people from voting in our democratic republic. From African Americans to women, we have withheld the right to vote; it is time again to restrict voting, but this time for those sixty-five years of age and older, the elderly. The U.S. has an increasing number of elderly people that have continually growing radically conservative…

What would it be like to enter presidency while tensions are rapidly growing between the United States and two other countries? James Madison was practically forced to declare war on Britain in 1812, shortly after his inauguration. Great Britain had hoped to be a great ally to the United States. Instead, American ships were frequently seized by British forces. Both the vessels and their crewmembers were put to use in the service of Great Britain. Despite many efforts to contain the situation,…

It is known that the United States of America is the first country to ratify a constitution, but what lead to the ratification of the Constitution? It was due the rising tension between the colonies and the British. Some say the return of England after Salutary Neglect may have been the foundation of rising animosities between Great Britain and the colonies. However because of political thinkers, the Articles of confederation and the Constitution of the United States show the progress of Radical…

Marriage Must Stay Whether or not to legalize same-sex marriage has been a highly controversial and debated topic in the United States for many decades. In the 1970s, the first civil suits seeking marriage rights of same-sex couples were brought to U.S courts but did not prove successful. Not until 2004 did same-sex marriage see its first statewide legalization in the United States. Today, same-sex marriage is legal nationwide as of June 26, 2015. However, the ruling is still met with…

helped establish and ratify the U.S Constitution, were a series of documents written from 1787 to 1788 by some of the nation’s greatest historical figures. These archival documents written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison are known as the Federalist Papers. The Founding Fathers intended to write these 85 articles and essays with the sole purpose of influencing and urging citizens of the new great nation to agree and ratify the new U.S Constitution. They intended to achieve this…

and keep Louisiana. Jefferson had asked for an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless. Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” But, publicly, he supported the deal and urged the Senate to ratify the treaty, which it did on October 20, 1803, the House approving the payments on October 25. Jefferson signed the…