Essay Rubric What is an essay? An essay is a piece of writing that methodically analyses and evaluates a topic or issue. Fundamentally‚ an essay is designed to get your academic opinion on a particular matter. Many students get confused about the word ’opinion’ in academic writing‚ and think that academic writing should just stick to reporting the facts and forget about opinion altogether. How to prepare an Essay 1. Choose a topic according to the subject. 2. Make an Hypothesis 3.
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Whether the UK constitution should remain uncodified is arguable. The UK has an uncodified constitution‚ therefore it is not found in one single written document‚ whereas in the USA you are able to buy a copy of the US constitution in nearly any bookshop found. If we did have a codified constitution‚ rules would be written down which increases us to understand and claim our rights and it will be done more frequently. However‚ with an uncodified constitution‚ it is adaptable and makes amendments easily
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The Constitution was adopted over 200 years ago and is still relevant today; it is widely debated whether the Constitution stands as a legal or living document. A living document is a document that evolves‚ changes over time‚ and adapts to new circumstances. The Constitution is a living document as it is open to constant change through the amendment process and is also undergoing interpretation by Congress; however‚ it is believed that the Constitution should be interpreted as it was originally written
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Indian Constitution Idea for a Constituent Assembly for drafting a constitution for India was first provided by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1895. The elections for the first Constituent Assembly were held in July 1946. Initially it had 389 members‚ but later the reformed Assembly had 324 members. The State of Hydrabad did not participate in elections to the Constituent Assembly. The first meeting of Constituent Assembly was held on December 9‚ 1946— its president was Dr Sacchidanand Sinha.
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Influences on the Constitution The Constitution was adopted on September 17‚ 1787‚ by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ and ratified by conventions in eleven States. It went into effect on March 4‚ 1789. The historical influences behind the constitution included Aristotle‚ the Magna Carta‚ the writings of John Locke‚ and the English Bill of Rights from 1689. The Magna Carta was written in 1215. It was the first document to challenge the authority of the king‚
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Law of the Constitution Formative assessment A constitution can be defined as “a body of rules which regulates the system of government within a state. It establishes the bodies and institutions which form part of that system‚ it provides for the powers which they are to exercise‚ it determines how they are to interact and co-exist with one another and perhaps most importantly
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1. What is government? • It refers to the particular group of people which is the administrative bureaucracy of a society at a given time. Each successive government is composed of a specialized and privileged body of individuals‚ who monopolize political decision – making and are separated by status and organization from the population as a whole. Their function is to enforce existing laws‚ make new ones‚ and arbitrate conflicts via their monopoly on violence. In some societies‚ this group is often
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A constitution is the fundamental principles of government in a nation‚ either implied in its laws‚ institutions‚ and customs‚ or embodied in one fundamental document. The U.S. Constitution was completed on September 17‚ 1789 and has served as a model for the constitutions of many other nations. The constitution of the United States of America is the oldest written national constitution in use and consists of twenty-seven amendments. The state of Texas has had six constitutions. The constitution
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States have the most prevailing constitution considering that it has been around for over two centuries. Such a constitution is looked upon for the foundation of other foreign countries constitutional ideas; this is due to the fact that the American constitution is a mixed constitution. Aristotle stated that for a mixed constitution to work‚ the middle class citizens must be stronger in forms of government than to the rich and the poor. The best mixed constitution would be one of oligarchy and democracy
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1 What is a Constitution? 2 Explain the difference between a Codified and an Uncodified Constitution 3 State the Advantages of an Uncodified Constitution 1.)A constitution is what sets the guidelines for a country. It lays out who has power‚ what peoples rights are‚ and generally what sort of system the country will be run under. The basic concept of the modern constitution which is used today was originally based on the idea of John Locke that the country should be governed under rules and guidelines
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