I believe the Constitution did a better job of protecting liberties, specifically in the areas of the federal court system, representation of the people, and the levy of taxes. Alexander Hamilton, statesman and economist, proclaimed "Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation”. The Articles of Confederation which gave rise to the Confederation government that took effect in March 1781, did not give the national government any means to enforce the federal laws. The states could, and often did, choose to interpret or enforce federal laws in any manner they saw fit. This led to disputes amongst the states that could not be readily settled, as it relied on each state’s court system which invariably chose to discount the ruling of the other states.
What exactly is imperialism? Imperialism happens when a stronger nation feels it is obligated to take over a weaker nation, or region, in order to control it politically, economically, and culturally. This practice also became important to growing nations to gain land, labor, and raw materials for the betterment and strengthening of the country. This type of foreign policy was mostly practiced by European nations and Japan, but the United States also began to join in imperialistic thoughts once it became a world power. Imperialism can also be known as colonialism.
With all other powers off limits to the federal government, they didn’t get too powerful. It was Theodore Roosevelt who became president in 1901 who had an immense impact in changing this outlook. He took a stand saying that the power not forbidden, as well as not granted to the federal government should be in their hands. With individuals such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B Johnson, Roosevelt spread his claim. From here the clash of the power struggle deepened.
Hamilton created his Federalist party to help promote his goals for the United States. Jefferson’s opposition party, the Republicans, “opposed Hamilton's urban, financial, industrial goals for the United States, and his promotion of extensive trade and friendly relations with Britain.” Their interpretation of the Constitution also was very different. Hamilton interpreted it very loosely and used the elastic clause to get what he wanted out of it, while Jefferson read and followed if very strictly. This is a reason Jefferson was against Hamilton’s plans. Thomas Jefferson didn’t like the idea of building a National Bank in the United States.
New Imperialism Between the years 1870 and 1920, European imperialism accelerated due to political, economic, and social forces. Imperialism is the domination over undeveloped countries using these forces. The Industrial Revolution helped advance the European nations through technology. Other nations were able to control over many other less-developed areas around the world. Imperialism began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s affecting many countries, for example, China, India, Africa, and South America were all affected by imperialism.
Great Britain, although officially neutral, had an elite opinion favouring the Confederacy and a public opinion favouring the United States. Concerned largely with Free Trade, diplomacy and the evasion of all-out war against America, Great Britain influenced and contributed to the outcome of the Civil War by utilising its powerful position to cleverly invest themselves in industrial aspects of the war, which proved beneficial to its relations with America as a whole. The reasons for the Civil War were copious and complex, but the motivation and direct cause of the secession revolved around the election of President Abraham Lincoln. With his inauguration came his policy to abolish slavery, which he
The main type of nationalism is ethnocentric nationalism, the idea that a certain nation is of higher rank over other nations and races. The development of Nationalism began in the 19th century and reached its climax in the 20th century, near the time of World War I. If ethnocentric nationalism is ever combined with other types of nationalism such as expansionist nationalism it can motivate war and genocide. Undoubtedly one of the most important causes of World War I was nationalism. Nationalism provoked revolutions and strong nationalist’s movements in the 19th century, where the unification of Germany, and Italy, and the independence of Belgium came about.
There are various factors that amplified the tensions in Europe from 1900 to 1914. A few of the major factors were International rivalry, the arms race, colonialism and the Crisis’s of Morocco and Bosnia. These factors, alongside numerous others contributed to fuelling the First World War. International rivalry was, debatably, the biggest factor that caused the First World War. As the European powers such as Britain, France and Russia had been competing with each other in might, prominence and colonial expansion.
Americans could not compete with English manufacturers in large-scale manufacturing. The system was based upon the accumulation of gold and silver, collecting natural or raw materials, denial of any colonial manufacturing, and restricting colonial trade with any other nation other than the mother country. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws which established a framework for this economic system between great Britain and her colonies. Most of these acts promoted the mercantilist policies and in addition restricted shipping policies. Many factors influences the American rebellion known as the American Revolution.
In both articles, Confessions of Faith and Manifesto for the Society for German Colonization, Cecil Rhodes and Carl Peters offer their arguments for national imperialism and colonization for their respective countries. Cecil Rhodes, Britain’s strongest promoter of the empire, outlined his views on British imperialism in his personal “confession” written in the 1870s. Rhodes argues for imperialism by saying that his race, the Anglo-Saxon race, is superior to all others and that it is their duty to spread their influence. He says, “It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best most human, most honourable race the world possesses.” The main reasons for imperialism for Cecil Rhodes are nationalism and ethnocentrism, while Carl Peters called for imperialism and colonization is to keep his country alive. His arguments are for survival because every year his country is losing people.