The Role Of The Public Sphere In The 18th Century

The public sphere is a place where individuals gather around together to freely discuss and identify social problems in the society, and the conversation influences political action to take place. In colonial towns and cities, there was an expansion of the public sphere in the eighteenth century. This relates to the reception of the Stamp Act in British North America because in 1765 this act was imposed on the American colonies by the British government. The cause of the riot was the Stamp Act because it was a British tax that many colonists felt violated their liberty. As a result, the Stamp Act crisis extended and defined liberty in America. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax of the British Parliament that required American colonists
The Declaration of Independence described the British as separate and apart from those people who inhabited the newly declared United States of America because it states the separation between British and Americans and discusses human rights and national sovereignty. The Declaration of Independence contains the complaints which the American colonist had against the actions of the British government. It declares that the thirteen British colonies on the east coast of North America Independent on July 4, 1776. It is the right of the people to change and institute new government. Also, it states that all men are created equal with life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The declaration talks about the changes in the former systems of government and history of the present King of Great Britain of repeated injuries and usurpations. The declaration shows the need of creating new laws for naturalization of foreigners and new land. There were repeated petitions and injury where the rule of warfare was destruction. Thus, the representatives of the United States in Congress appealed to the Supreme Judge that the 13 colonies should be considered as free and independent states. In addition, the 13 states were granted rights to conclude peace within their community, where all the states absolved from allegiance to the British
The anti-Federalists opposed the creation of a republic because the American colonist did not receive their own liberty where they wanted to have their own right and duty. They were opponents of ratification because they felt that the Constitution shifted the balance between liberty and power. They opposed to the Constitution due to the amount of power it granted to the national government and lack of safety of the citizens rights. The voices of the colonist were not taken in account to the government. The anti-Federalist claimed that popular self government flourish best in small communities where there was interaction between the rulers and the ruled. The main concern of the anti-Federalist stated that the Constitution lacked Bill of Rights where there was unprotected rights which included trial by jury and freedom of the press. The anti-Federalist opposed to the Constitution where they considered national power of the government as a problem to the society. The national government could cut of trade and impose tax without consent to the colonist which can build an expensive army that can take away the rights of the Americans. James Madison states that a republic is a government in which the scheme of representation takes place and democracy is a society with citizen who administer and assemble the government in person. Madison states that every state without a monarchy is called a republic. The constitution of the Roman Republic, the senate plays an important role in