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Rome inspired many features of our own Constitution, including its checks and balances, bicameral legislature, term limits, and age requirements. Roman citizens took their civic duties seriously which helped the Republic remain strong and stable for a very long time.
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The Greek idea of democracy was different from present-day democracy because, in Athens, all adult citizens were required to take an active part in government. Athenian democracy would survive for only two centuries, its invention by Cleisthenes, “The Father of Democracy,” was one of ancient Greece’s most enduring contributions to the modern world.
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There are three reasons conflicts appear in Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature: competitiveness, difference, and glory. These characteristics lead people to fight one another for material gains, safety, and reputation. Ultimately, people need to create a government to protect themselves from one another. Locke and the founding fathers rejected Hobbes’ argument that the government had absolute power over its subjects.
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According to Locke, in societies where governments are formed by means of social contracts, individuals freely give up all of their rights. In the state of nature, according to Locke, each person has the right to punish anyone who violates his or her rights. The idea of the social contract influenced the Founding Fathers. And this is the idea of a voluntary relationship between the people and the government. And the government has the responsibility to protect natural rights. -
1-Appointing Judges was a challenge was Washington; #2-Ceremonial purposes was when George was the main attraction of the entire government; #3-Chief foreign diplomat; #4-Choosing a cabinet was when it was his decision alone to make; #5-Commander in chief of military was when the US had no standing army; #6-Mr. President and nothing more was when a famous squabble broke out; #7-No lifetime appointment was when Washington would step away from his power. -
He helped author The Federalist and the Bill of Rights. Many states felt that the Constitution gave the federal government too much power. The supporters of the Constitution were called the Federalists, and the opposers were called the anti-federalists. Jefferson and Madison found themselves disagreeing with the Federalists dealing with federal debt and power. Madison helped write the Declaration of independence.
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The executive branch enforces the laws and consists of the president and people who report to the president, the Legislative branch makes the laws and takes the form of the United States Congress, and the Judicial branch evaluates laws and includes the Supreme Court and other courts. The U.S. Constitution distributed the power of the federal government among these three branches and built a system of checks and balances to ensure that no one branch could become too powerful. -
The law not only regards life and members, and protects every man in the enjoyment of them, but also furnishes him with every thing necessary for their support. “For there is no man so indigent or wretched, but he may demand a supply sufficient for all the necessities of life from the more opulent part of the community, by means of the several statutes enacted for the relief of the poor, of which in their proper places.” https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1286/william-blackstone -
The Constitution had three branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and judicial. The separation of powers ensured that power would not be concentrated in one particular branch. articles of Confederation had no executive branch or judicial branch, and the legislative body was a single body appointed by the state legislatures. The Constitution gave the federal government more power over taxes and money. The Articles of Confederation granted the central government no power to tax -
The purpose of the Preamble is to establish different things. They established a Union, domestic tranquillity, and to secure the blessings of ourselves. The most important line from the Preamble is “We the People.” This phrase means that the people get to vote on how everything works.
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I think the Freedom of religion is the most important. No one should flee from religious persecution or anything like that. The U.S. should be able to declare any national religion. We should not persecute someone just because of their religious beliefs.
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