United States Declaration of Independence

segregationist laws, where they settled in communities with similar races. These minority communities are underdeveloped from an educational and socioeconomic standpoint causing minorities to live in impoverished areas facing racial prejudice. The United States government is not providing financial relief to these minority communities, and in turn results in poor segregated communities, who are urged to affiliate with similar races to survive. Instead of local city councils financially…

The French Revolution began in 1789 and it ended in the late 1790’s. During the Revolution period, The revolution precipitated a series of European wars, which forced the United States to create a policy of neutrality to avoid European conflict. For centuries, Europe had been determined by the status that a family held. The “status” could not be earned, because it had to be determined by the family to which someone was born into. If you were born to a poor family, your life would be one of…

philosophers and the people began to demand change in their society’s. Citizens started to demand rights and during all three of the revolutions social contracts were produced. The Americans produced the US Bill of Rights, the French adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the English created the English Bill of Rights. All three social contracts were an agreement between the government and society and gave the people their rights to life, liberty, and property. Additionally, The…

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence” -Mahatma Gandhi. Just like Gandhi Patrick Henry also protested Britain's rule over his land. They also thought that it was better to fight the British when it got to a breaking point versus pretending like the problems didn’t exist. Tensions between Britain and the American colonies were escalating after the blockade of Boston Harbor in retaliation of the Boston tea party.…

The Autobiography starts with greeting to Ben Franklin child, William Franklin who at the time was the royal governor of New Jersey. Franklin says that since his child may wish to think about his life, he is taking his one week excursion in the English field to data his past. Franklin says that he has made the most of his life and might want to rehash it, in spite of the fact that he might want to amend some little blunders if the open door emerged. Be that as it may, since Franklin can't rehash…

There is a start for everything. Whether it was a negative or positive way it was always a start. When Elizabeth Cady first wrote the Declaration of Sentiment it gave people a whole new understanding of the disadvantages women were having. When Franklin D. Roosevelt made the Pearl Harbour Speech, it gave those who were oblivious an insight of the tragedy. These speeches were made to declare information and or statements that need to be said to help the cause that they were currently stuck in.…

In Common Sense, Thomas Paine says that “...in America, LAW IS KING”(34). He brings this up in a paragraph talking about monarchy, the role of real kings in absolute governments, how free governments have to have a King and the law plays that role. What Paine means when he says that “LAW IS KING” is that most countries at this time had kings and queens that rules them, but the law takes place of these kings and queens in America. Thomas Paine says that “LAW IS KING” because it gives Americans…

conversation.” Ben Franklin was an amazing politician, one obvious reason would be his following of this virtue, silence. He spoke to benefit his society when it was most needed. Ben Franklin was amongst those who signed their names on the Declaration of Independence, knowing full-well that it may mean their death, but they did it anyway to benefit the colonists. But when an approach that is so bold is unnecessary, that is when silence comes in to play, he never said anything without purpose.…

without Brittan and that we owe them allegiance since they are out parent country. He refutes this argument by pointing out that America was made by those who were persecuted by Britain and other European countries. In his Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs he says this “This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of…

knew that many of them had come to the colonies for the very reason that he was bringing up and he knew that if anything would convince them to break away from Britain it would be that. Paine said “ … government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” He felt that governments were bad and not necessary unless the lives of people would be made better with a…