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The earliest republican sente was one of the majors institutions. The concilium plebius or council plebs, Comitia Centuriata, and the Comita Tributa or the tribal. They had the interested on only the wealthy. Only the wealthy could preticepate.
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The Ancient Greeks were the first ones to create a democratic government. in the 5th and 3rd bc. Democracy is the idea that the citizens of a country should take an active role in the government of their country and manage it directly or through elected representatives, like a house or a group. Some of The institutions were the Ekklesia, The Boule, and the Dikasteria.
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The Ekklesia was, the sovereign governing body that wrote laws and dictated foreign policy; The Boule was, the council of representatives from the ten Athenian tribes, and The Dikasteria, was the popular court.
In the Athenian democracy, Any male over 18 would join the democracy.
ekklesia - males were allowed to join, or serve in the army or navy to be there.
Boule - was a council of 500 hundred, 50 from each athain tribe, who served for one year. -
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Our founding fathers agreed with Thomas’ principle’s around having unalianable rights, the social compact limited government. They disagreed however, from Hobbes who believe that the government had absolute power. -
When the police courts can’t or won’t take care of things, people have the rights to take care of it in their own hands. When it acted against the interests of citizens. This lead to our unalienable rights that are included in our constitution. -
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Baron de Montesquieu, explained that the king is the one who en forces the laws, a representative in parliment is in charge of making laws, and judges of the english courts were to interpret the laws. He bought this same format to the US, which is how we get our three branches of the government. -
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Blackstone outlined rights of individuals against the government including the free press and once stated “The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state”. We see this protection in the first amendment. -
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he sees the political parties as a enemy to the USA. and They lead to depostisam which hurts everybody. Which causes the minds of men to seek security and in absolute power. And then sooner or later a leader of some faction is able or unfortunate and his competitors, turn to a deposition, which elevates its own power in the ruins of the public liberty. -
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Thomas Jefferson Belived that the rual society was better then an urban society. Thomas Jefferson was agrarian or someone who cultivated land. Jefferson believed that the government should support farmers. When he was president, he signed the Louisana Purchase which kicked Native Americans off of their land and did not protect them. -
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Madison wrote the bill of rights, which was a set of 10 amendments to the constitution. The bill of power to the federal government but it also protected the rights for people at the state level too. The bill of rights was a compromise that allowed for both sides to support the constitution. -
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The purpose of the preamble is that it states that we are a sovereignty union, which stand by its flag under one nation. The most important phrase in the preamble is that which we are free under one union and state. Because with out the knowingly knowing that we have rights to free and such, we would truly not grasp the concept of freedom.
Governor Morris was convinced that people would not read -
We are a free country and the first amendment gives us the freedom we need. I think the freedom of religion is most important because I am free to believe in God and to live that way. Anyone else can believe what they want to believe.