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French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy

This essay pertains to original source documents from the period that are used to discuss the debate surrounding the Civil Constit...

The American System of Government

of the amount of power the states would hold. Today, many are used to hearing about the Constitutional rights of others. This eme...

Wrongful Imprisonment in Colorado

under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

Habermas on Nations, States and a European Constitution

the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...

Who is American?

is the institution of slavery expressly forbidden. A great many scholars have argued that it is the fact that the nation was found...

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 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...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

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...

Declaration of Independence/Constitution & Law

are ruled directly the people. In a republic, the government is run by the peoples elected representatives. Samuel Adams, a signer...

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...

Should Washington D.C. Become a State?

feel that they have enough representation as they live in districts with specific representatives who are numerous and carry elect...

The First Amendment

Klan can exist in the same nation and put out their own particular beliefs. People can agree or not agree with the government and ...

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 ...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

Constitutional Guarantees

the majority rule. Other nations which are considered incredibly different, and which further illustrate the complexity of constit...

Rights under the 6th Amendment

In a paper of five pages, the author provides the seven different rights under the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, including ...

Drafting the Constitution

the Articles, the US was not a nation, but as the state were referred to vaguely as being united by "a firm league of friendship" ...

Progressivism and the Arizona State Constitution

Part I Arizona Statehood Prior to the onslaught of people of European origin into Arizona, the region...

Historic Events/U.S. Constitution

regards to the location chosen to establish the Plymouth colony (Mayflower, 2011). The precise influence of the Mayflower Compact ...

The Branches of Government and Principles of the Constitution

government that has endured and survived countless conflicts and obstacles. The effectiveness of the checks and balances pl...

James Madison Human Nature and Political Factions

Our founding fathers conception of human nature varied somewhat. Some believed that humans were inherently...

Comparing Constitutions of the U.S. and California

activities are done in a "reasonable time, place and manner," as the instructions point out. The freedom of speech, as stated in t...

The Origins of Western Law

But surprisingly, even after the Protestant Reformation and native languages began supplanting Latin in speech and literature, "a ...

The Right to Private Property in the Constitution

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

Texas and Illinois Governmental Differences

even to this day (Ginsberg et al, 2001). There really is no "common political culture," and this is a state of huge economic diver...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

Constitution of Cameroon

country until the late 1800s (Countries of the World, 2003). Because of Cameroons coastal borders, European slave trade often cam...

Supreme Court Decision Making and the U.S. Constitution

did not take the same stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require ...