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U.S. Constitution and Historical Controversy

In five pages the historical controversy considering the U.S. Constitution ratification and the debate between Anti Federalists an...

Going from the Articles of Confederation to the U.S. Constitution

In five pages this argumentative essay favors the Constitution's granting of federal government powers to regulate states over the...

U.S. Constitution and Personal Property

In six pages 'The New Property' by Charles Reich and The Guardian of Every Other Right by James W. Ely Jr. are examined in a consi...

2 Books on the Constitution of the United States Reviewed

The books Democracy Under Pressure by Cummings and Wise and Burkhart, Krislov, and Lee's The Clash of Issues are examined in six p...

An Analysis of Our Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms

In this six page paper the author explores one of the most controversial topics of today, the right granted by the Second Amendmen...

Freedom and Rock Star Marilyn Manson

In eight pages this paper examines the freedoms guaranteed in the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in a consideration of how...

Is Health Care A Right Or Privilege

pain, our pursuit of happiness is certainly limited. In effect, we are deprived of the most fundamental of all fundamental rights ...

Branches of the U.S. Government

advised the leaders of several states, in regards to establishing their state constitutions, to consider the threat of tyranny and...

Censoring Television Content is Wrong

to violence and to increase such adverse societal phenomenon as drug use and drinking. Those that support censorship of American ...

The Right to Symbolic Speech

our right to freedom of symbolic expression have been based on the actions of students. It might be posited that as a group stude...

Amendments V and VI of the U.S. Constitution and the Magna Carta

such a system was ripe for bribery, corruption and extortion, and complaints such as these had been made before King John took the...

The American Presidency

of both the despotism that can be imposed by a monarch, as well as the "tyranny of a fixed popular majority" (Foner and Garraty). ...

The Historical Path to the US Constitution 1215 to 1787

has played a part in shaping numerous other documents relating to constitutional law. One of the documents that the Magna...

Revolutionary Thought and the Shaping of the US Constitution

The American Revolution occurred because of a long series of British wrongs. In essence, the colonists had four major...

The Election Process: US Presidency

This paper pertains to the election process, as stipulated by the Constitution, for U.S. President, and issues associated with rec...

The US Constitution and Decision in Philadelphia

This 3 page paper gives an explanation about slavery and the US Constitution by way of the book Decision in Philadelphia. This pap...

The Positive and Negative elements Within the US Government

This 6 page paper gives an overview of a few aspects of the US Government. This paper includes the pros and cons of The Constituti...

The Right to Bear Arms

The U.S. Constitution has an amendment that addresses this issue. Numerous Supreme Court cases have been filed regarding the Secon...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

The Eleventh Amendment

the Revolution" (Orth, 1987, p. 7). The case that started the furor, as mentioned, was Chisholm v. Georgia, which was heard by th...

The Right to Privacy: A Constitutional Provision?

presented above. Obviously, the most important source that must be used in discussing our so-called Constitutional Rights is the ...

The Role of the U.S. Constitution in Business Regulation

attempted to do via court action (Lester, 2008). Before it opened the club, Barnett "filed a civil rights lawsuit in U.S. Distri...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Individual Rights and Liberties Evolution in England, the English Colonies, and States Confederation

Suddenly, natural rights were introduced into the constitutional equation, which suggested that man had certain inalienable rights...

An Examination of the Articles of Confederation

with Great Britain. English merchants were giving liberal credit to their old customers in the US, encouraging the former colonies...

U.S. Constitution and Benjamin Franklin

years before, a clause in a bill brought into Parliament by the ministry had proposd to make the kings instructions laws in the co...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

The Emergence Of The Modern Congress And Presidency

and every bureau" (Sundquist, 1981, p. 38) every year. Prior to that Act, each department and bureau had to submit their own progr...

Madison's Auxiliary Precautions" - Still Serving Mankind Today?

warn of the socially inequitable practice of utilitarianism. The extent to which the majority of a given society typically holds ...

Better to Live in the US than Mexico

Constitution. There are also financial advantages to living in the US. In American culture, owning your own home or business is ...