Bernie Bartolome October 22, 2012 A New Nation After much consideration and evaluation between the British and the Colonists, I remain my stance that the Colonists have the more reasonable and convincing position during the intolerable acts of tyranny from the British. With this, I have five arguments to support my opinion. My arguments follow: the Colonists had no representative in Parliament, they had not been under the English influence for generations, they wanted control over the affairs that the Colonists started, and the British enforced irrational taxes upon them. Through this justification, I understand the Colonists’ dispute toward the British through the American Revolution. Each of my arguments revolves around the idea that the British were unfair towards their treatment of the colonists, which compels me to justify the Colonists quarrel against the British.
Americans felt that since they had no representation in Parliament, and that there were decisions being made for them without proper representation, that they were slaves to the forceful word of the British crown. Even some countrymen in Great Britain felt that the Americans were being treated unfairly. Lord Camden believed that Americans were not being given their natural born rights as men. “My position is this – I repeat it – I will maintain it to my last hour, - taxation and representation are inseparable: - this position is founded on the laws of nature,” (pg.95, Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, Brown). It seems there was a miscommunication, because Britain was treating the Americans different from other British and also wanted to keep major control in anyway, like restricting trade from any other country (like France and Spain).
By the time it was 1763 most of the white colonies would say that they are loyal British subjects. However after 1763, mostly between the time periods 1775-76, these years saw the send of the relationship with Britain. The British should take some of this blame as they did introduce some rigorous polices after 1763. This was an unwanted change for the American Colonies, As Britain left them alone for so long but now are starting to change things. But there are other courses of the break out of the armed conflict not just polices of the British Government that are the colonies as not all of the polices where unreasonable.
The Articles of Confederation was American colonies first attempt to become unified under a single governmental entity. Designed to be weak, the Articles banded the 13 colonies in an attempt deal with problems such as foreign policy. At the time of the Articles of Confederation, the colonies were much divided and there were constantly opposing views on every action taken. The Articles of Confederation, on the positive note, was able to unify the American colonies in their fight against Britain and solve the land issues of Western lands. In a way we could see the Articles of Confederation as a stepping stone to something greater, the United States Constitution.
Introduction Author Baruti re-evaluates what the world has taught African-Americans about our earliest beginnings and how they force us to forget, and eliminate from our mines what actually happened and what our ancestors actually went through. He states that people feel as though that not looking back to these brutal events, makes the situation seem as though they never happened. People of today know that looking back at these horrible activities makes African Americans upset, and in sight of revenge. Knowing that the pain and torture African-Americans went through was wrong, the process of elimination is the best route. Some African-Americans have been fed the lies of our past being non-existent so many times that they begin to convince themselves that what they’ve been told is a lie as well.
If they do not succeed, England could be seen as an “implacable enemy”, which will lead to complete loss of the colonies and a degradation of the splendor that is Great Britain. Lord North, however, finishes the debate by stating that the current policy will show that England means business, and will aim to punish, but will readily forgive so as to maintain a relationship with the colonies. The first battle described in 1776 is Washington’s siege of Boston and the resulting retreat of the British army. Here, the British find themselves in an indefensible area because of a bottleneck created by Dorchester Peninsula, where the American military is stationed. As soon as the British evacuate, Washington moves to the defense of New York.
Thomas Paine: Common Sense (excerpt) In his book ‘Common Sense’ Thomas Paine introduces the contrast between a society and a government and uses deductive reasoning to explain the malfunctioning of the British government. The above excerpt was chosen because it provided a clear understanding of how society and political systems develop in colonies by using an illusory situation. The text explains that as the population in a colony increases and the colony begins to develop, the political systems such as legislatures and representative bodies also begin to develop since all the members of the colony cannot be active participants in the decision-making process. Equality and accommodation of interests also comes into the picture where the
Each piece represented a colony, but had not listed all 13. What this cartoon meant to show is that if the colonies worked together, they’d be much stronger, and would have much more power working with one another. But since the colonies are broken apart in the cartoon, they are much weaker. Document 3 is an engraving of the First Continental Congress, which has representatives from every colony except Georgia, showing that the group was gathered in Philadelphia to discuss problems with the British government. This was one action taken by almost all of the colonies to get rid of it, and was the first example of unity.
They are merely taking advantage of us. Finally, Locke establishes that “the power the every individual gave the society when he entered into it can never revert to the individuals again.” Even though Locke’s writing supports the dissolution of the British government, Samuel Johnson does not agree. For example, Johnson explains that in a very large part of every community the people only care for themselves, and by only caring for themselves, it can blind them of seeing what is actually in the “nearest good.” Johnson is stating that being connected to the British government is America’s “nearest good”, and by disconnecting from their rule, the community will be disconnecting from what is actually good for them. This however is not true because the control of the British on us is getting out of hand and we must rebel. In agreement with Samuel Johnson, Samuel Seabury also states that getting away from the British will not be beneficial to us.
Racis Speach Responce paper Any time the goverment banns anything especaly speach it is a dangerous propazistion and should not be taken lightly. The essay wretten by Charles R Lawrence III intilded On Racist Speech makes a good point reguarding this idea saying "Freedom of speach is the life blood of our democratic system"(Lawrence,57). Freedom of speach has been one thing that has defined America over the years. Though it may pain people up holding freedom of speach should be priorety for all Americans It is not a matter of racist speach being outlawing all togeather, but a matter of restriction. The goverment has already restricted racest speach, Lawernce explans this when he writes "but the regulation of otherwise protected speech has been permitted when the speach invades the privacy of the unwilling listeners home or when the unwilling listener cannot avoid the speach"(Lawrence,57).