on the Law-givers). It is the Supreme Law of the United States. The constitution consists of seven articles and has been amended twenty-seven times. The Constitution was signed by many delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention‚ one of them being Benjamin Franklin. Franklin played an important role in the founding of the Constitution and in the creation of our country as we see it today. Article III‚ Section 2‚ paragraph one says that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction only in cases
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Michael Kammen’s modern portrait of the Framers made the most sense. They wanted to maintain their rights‚ liberty‚ and self-government. Kammen’s interpretation of the constitution makes the most sense because we can look at the Bill of Rights‚ the Articles of Confederation‚ Federalist No.51‚ the Virginia Plan‚ the Declaration of Independence‚ and even Montesquieu’s view of the government. James Madison believed that the people were the source of authority for the state. The Bill of Rights was seen
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4/23/2012‚ Vol. 88‚ Issue 10 Jill Lepore’s Battleground America addresses in precise detail gun violence in The Unites States of America. The author uses actual occurrences as well as referrals to documents of the United States Constitution and Articles of Confederation. Lepore uses organization‚ expression and contrasting to address her concern for gun violence in America. Statistics‚ contrast and comparison are techniques Lepore skillfully uses to create an essay that will strike the readers attention
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Also‚ it depends on what my life is like in 1787; am I doing well under the Articles of Confederation or am I struggling. If I am doing well‚ I am more than likely not going to want to change; change is scary for someone in a good position. However‚ if my life is a struggle‚ I am more than likely going to be up for a change because
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stating “we must realize that they have called into life a being the development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters. It was enough for them to realize or to hope that they had created an organism;”16 Article 40.3 has allowed for many more unspecified rights to be added over the years such as a right to communicate 17 and a right to marry and found a family 18. Judicial review in Ireland has thus allowed the Constitution to grow and develop into a fairer
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During the Revolutionary War‚ the thirteen colonies’ reason for fighting the war shifted from reconciliation from Great Britain‚ to the want of independence mainly due to Thomas Paine’s pamphlet of Common Sense‚ which shunned British rule and reminded everyone what they were fighting the war for. State governments needed to be recreated in order for them to have any effect on the nation at war‚ and to embody the heart of the change in stances. In order for this to happen‚ each state needed to write
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state governments. There are many problems with the articles of confederation‚ including the weaknesses and the lack of support it gave us.The topics i will be discussing are‚ focus on the federal government ‚ the focus on the state government and finally what does the constitution say about the federal and the states. So again There are many weaknesses and some strengths of the articles of the confederation.The weaknesses of the article of confederation are one there is no national court system
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Found at the very end of Article I‚ Section 8‚ the Elastic Clause provides the government with an immense power and responsibility‚ “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers‚ and all other Powers vested by this Constitution
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authority to enforce laws deemed necessary for the survival of a sound country. Our country cannot be a successful or authoritative government with the Articles of Confederation in place. So we need to make the conspicuous decision of ratifying the Constitution. The Constitution will fill the holes in our government that is created by the Articles of Confederation. It will establish the Executive Branch; which main purpose is enforcing the laws. Another important reason to ratify the constitution
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The U.S. has just won its independence from Britain. A new form of government needs to be instituted. Out came the Articles of Confederation. Under the articles the federal government had very little power. It was quite clear the articles would not last for long. The next form of government would be under the Constitution. Now the federal government would have considerably more power‚ but now the problem of forcing the nation to respect that new found power became more prominent. By nature when a
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