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Constitution of the United States
I would come down on the side of interpreting the Constitution of the United States on the grounds of elastic adaptation to modern problems. To understand this, we need to think about anachronism....
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Constitution of the United States
The Founding Fathers of the United States were deeply concerned about minority rights in the face of a potentially tyrannical majority, none more so than James Madison, who addressed the question...
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Constitution of the United States
I strongly believe the Constitution is still relevant and applicable to the world of today. The principles that undergird it continue to be valuable and in need of safeguarding. Freedom of speech...
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Constitution of the United States
The American two-party system has numerous advantages. When candidates are running for office, affiliation with a particular party provides voters with policy alternatives. The partisanship between...
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Constitution of the United States
Predicting the future is beyond the abilities of even the best historians, but it seems unlikely that a viable third party will ever develop in the United States. The US has always had a two-party...
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Constitution of the United States
Recognizing the end of the Civil War would bring changes to the United States, Congress began working towards amending the United States Constitution to protect the nearly four million freed...
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Constitution of the United States
The six principles of the Constitution are popular sovereignty, limited government, checks and balances, separation of powers, republicanism, and federalism. These six aspects of the Constitution...
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Constitution of the United States
Some of the powers delegated to the federal government by the United States Constitution include the following: the power to coin money regulate commerce with foreign nations regulate interstate...
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Constitution of the United States
The major theoretical foundation of the exclusionary rule is the idea that the Fourth Amendment would have no meaning in the absence of such a rule. In Weeks v. United States, the Supreme Court...
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Constitution of the United States
I tend to think that the Declaration of Independence asserted freedom while the Constitution had the unenviable task of figuring out how to actually mandate freedom in the new world. The reality...
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Constitution of the United States
The Founding Fathers limited democracy in a number of ways. Mostly, they did this by reducing the extent to which the people had influence over the government. They allowed the people to vote for...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution balances this conflict by giving the government a great deal of power but, at the same time, limiting what it can use that power for. The Constitution sets limits on what the...
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Constitution of the United States
There are several different ways that the Constitution strengthened the national government. Taxes The Constitution allowed for the introduction of a tax for the national government - these are...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution plays a number of roles in our society today. Let us look at two of the most important. First, the Constitution serves as the “rule book” for our government. It specifies what...
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Constitution of the United States
In terms of definitions, the difference is that the Constitution was ratified first and the Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments that were added to the Constitution. In terms of their...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States organizes the government by creating three branches of government. It created a system of separation of powers and checks and balances. According to plan laid...
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Constitution of the United States
This question seems most like an argumentative one with no definitive answer, so I will present to you both sides of the argument. One could certainly argue that the United States Constitution is...
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Constitution of the United States
Since Article I is the only Article with 9 sections, and since Article I, Section 9 does include some basic protections of civil liberties, I have edited your question to specify Article I. This...
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Constitution of the United States
The Great Compromise (also known as the Connecticut Compromise) was a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. At the Constitutional Convention, there was a controversy over...
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Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights is comprised of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. The original draft of the Constitution passed at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia,...
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Constitution of the United States
This clause is the powerful Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution, perhaps the most broadly construed and broadly applied of any provision of the Constitution itself. It allows Congress to...
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Constitution of the United States
The Framers of the Constitution did not include any other qualifications for membership in Congress because they wanted American politics and government to be as open as possible. The Framers...
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Constitution of the United States
In this context, delegated powers are the same thing as enumerated powers. These are the powers that are specifically and explicitly granted to the Congress. These powers are listed in Article I,...
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Constitution of the United States
The Framers included the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution because they believed that the national government needed to have more power than the state governments had. They felt that the state...
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Constitution of the United States
In the United States, the Constitution created a federal system of government. The federal system is a decentralized one. It divides the power of governance between a federal government and various...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution does this in two main ways. First, various parts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect specific liberties. The Constitution bans bills of attainder, for example, and...
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Constitution of the United States
The Antifederalists disliked the new Constitution because they feared that it was making a federal government that would have too much power. They felt this both because of what the Constitution...
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Constitution of the United States
In 1789, Ben Franklin referred to the "peculiar institution" as it was sometimes called as "an atrocious debasement of human nature. . . ." However, the beginnings of the abolitionist movement...
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Constitution of the United States
The Founding Fathers thought that it was necessary to have a constitution because they believed in the idea of limited government. The Founding Fathers believed that government should not be...
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Constitution of the United States
You are right to say that (for the most part) Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. However, in the case of the Constitution, there is no one author. The Constitution was...
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Constitution of the United States
The most important of the six basic principles of the Constitution is the principle of limited government. The other five principles of the Constitution are largely meant to ensure that government...
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Constitution of the United States
One of the primary concerns of the framers was controlling the balance of power. This concern led to the creation of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. It also led to...
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Constitution of the United States
There are a number of main points to the US Constitution. While different lists of such main points may include different things, the following five things are very important. Popular government....
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Constitution of the United States
The Sixth Amendment of the Constitution is important because it guarantees some crucial aspects of due process, that is, the legal procedures that the state must observe when bringing a criminal...
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Constitution of the United States
The Framers of the Constitution intended to achieve two things through the creation of federalism. First, they intended to create a system in which the federal government would have enough power...
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Constitution of the United States
When we talk about key characteristics of the Constitution, we are really talking about the characteristics of the government that it sets up. Some of the key characteristics of this government...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution reflects the time when it was written in a number of ways. Generally, these aspects of the Constitution show us how people at that time were worried about different issues than we...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution is still relevant today in two main ways. First of all, the Constitution does still lay out the basic set of rules that governs how our country is run. When the Supreme Court...
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Constitution of the United States
There are arguments to be made for calling this either a conservative or a liberal document, depending on which aspects of the document you want to look at and how you want to define “liberal” and...
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Constitution of the United States
These two documents are similar to one another mainly in the fact that both of them are concerned (at least in part) with creating a limited government. One of the major ideas of the founding...
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Constitution of the United States
The main issue that led to the Great Compromise was the issue of representation. The small states in the country thought that every state should have equal representation in the Congress. They...
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Constitution of the United States
The answer to this question can be found in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States. First, a person has to commit an act that fits the definition of treason that is given...
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Constitution of the United States
There are many things that the state governments may not do under the Constitution. The Constitution was written in part to limit the power of the state governments and give the federal government...
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Constitution of the United States
There are two main reasons for this. First, the Framers of the Constitution made it very hard to get amendments passed. An amendment must (in the most common procedure for amending the...
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Constitution of the United States
Ratified at the close of the year 1791, the Tenth Amendment was the final of the amendments that comprise what is referred to as the Bill of Rights, an addendum to the Constitution that was...
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Constitution of the United States
The differences of opinion sprang mainly from people's feelings about the exact way in which government was dangerous. Both sides felt that government was dangerous, but they felt that different...
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States, as originally written, says very little about the role of the vice president. The words “vice president” are actually only used eight times in the entire...
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Constitution of the United States
There were sixteen letters of Brutus written by Robert Yates. He used Brutus as a pseudonym because of the historical association of that name. Brutus was the Roman who had led the plot against...
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Constitution of the United States
The Congress is given many powers by the Constitution. The Framers of the Constitution meant for Congress to be the most powerful branch of government. For this reason, they gave it many powers...
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Constitution of the United States
The constitutional requirements for members of Congress are: Senators must be 30 years old, have been a citizen of the United States for nine years, and a resident of the state which they...