THE CONSTITUTION It provides the main rules, the function and the framework for the government. It also delineates the individual liberties and rights. The US was drafted in 1787 and it is the oldest still existing written constitution. George Washington said: “I do not expect the Constitution to last more than twenty years” but yet it survived because it is short, vague and flexible, and so it is a “living document”. There are no clear details, people is free to interpret, is constantly re-reading
throughout, created, drafted, and adopted the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Representing will and determination, both documents serve as a testament of freedom and the pursuit to obtain liberty and justice for all citizens. Both documents address the “people” but neither of them elaborates the meaning of the word “people” based upon gender. Men protected their freedoms with both the U.S. Constitution and The Declaration of Independence, while simultaneously using them to suppress
My Creation of Evolution Keith A. Weigant POL303: The American Constitution Rebecca Nieman June 6, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen; The Government states the Establishment clause prevents government buildings like our public school from choosing a preferred Religion or belief. Private schools can teach whatever they want based on whatever belief they were founded on. My proposition is to allow Creationism in the schools based on an electoral
Influences on the Constitution Table Documents: Magna Carta- During the Middle Ages under the ruling of King John in England the Magna Carta created and established “due process.” It has 61 clauses but the 39th, which was “due process” implies that a man cannot be imprisoned without knowing the cause, which became one foundation for modern American justice system. Today when placed under arrest in the United States the Miranda Rights are read and the reason the arrest is taking place.
clearly a transforming event. In 1776, the colonists revolted against their mother country, Great Britain, after years of discontent due to unequal representation in Parliament and in the colonists’ eyes, unfair taxes. They were not only fighting for independence, but also for a new type of government, a republic rather than a tyranny. Indubitably, America experienced extreme political changes; even so the colonists experienced unexpected, radical social change as well. The American Revolution transformed
Scandinavia also. This period is also famous for changes in political system. The two documents (The Bill of Rights and Declaration of The Rights of Man and the Citizen) have a lot of similarities and differences. The biggest similarities are, mainly, that they effected the period of the enlightenment and American declaration of Independence. The Bill of Rights was a declaration of law who was firstly signed by William III of England on 13. February 1689. The Bill of Rights states that the king has
Declaration of Independence vs. Declaration of Sentiments As we read over two of the most important documents in the US history, we have the opportunity to compare and contrast the differences and similarities presented. When the Declaration of Independence was written, it paved the way for our freedom. However, even after America’s democratic ideas were determined and written down; freedom was still not granted to all citizens. This lead to women, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, bringing about
American vs. French Revolution The American Revolution and the French Revolution are similar and different at the same time. The are different in the way that the French wanted bloodshed and violence right away but the Americans wanted none of that. Also the outcome of the American revolution was them becoming their own country independent from others, but the French ended up living under a dictatorship for many more years. The Similarities are that they wanted to escape bad leadership, they had
First Estate, the clergy, and the Second Estate, the nobility/aristocracy. 23. Reforms were begun immediately, yet could not be sustained. 24. The French Revolution would lead to a state-controlled church as a result of the “Civil Constitution of the Clergy”; power and influence would be taken away from the French Roman Catholic Church. 25. March of the Parisian women to Versailles to take the king and queen prisoner, arrest them and march them back to the French capital
the United States issued a Declaration of Independence and claimed their independence from the Great Britain. In the following 15 years, the United States had suffered from their establishment of a weak confederal government system. Until 1791, the United States Constitution was ratified by all 13 states and became the United States highest law. In order to protect the rights of citizens, the Bill of Rights which contains 10 amendments had compromised to the Constitution to guarantee the fundamental