When an institution has existed for several generations we can make the presumption that it has passed a kind of test of its worth. ... Burke is a supporter to the unequal distribution of property, status, authority, and power. ... It is just that they have a respect for the past and also for continuity, because their wealth is old wealth passed down from generation to generation. ... Burke argues that the attempt to create a new constitution in France and change institutions such as property and religion will lead to violence and confusion. In his mind, the aim of the French Revolu...

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The only function of government according to this doctrine is to protect life, liberty, and property." ... Francois Babeuf, the first modern communist, created a Society of Equals dedicated to the abolition of private property and the destruction of all those who held property. ... Soon a progressive income tax was passed, prices on grain were fixed, and the death penalty given out to those who refused to sell at the government's prices. ... The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another...

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Some of them had their property destroyed in the fighting, some others had contracts with the Continental Congress. ... Foreclosures on the land and property of the farmers began and the county courts started to close on the properties. ... In result of this, Massachusetts received the message: to pass measures that accounted for the fact that there will not be any higher direct taxes on the farmers, and also agreed to have a less vigorous attack of debt against the farmers. ...

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But this idea conflicted with the English principle of "virtual representation," according to which each member of Parliament represented the interests of the whole country, even the empire, despite the fact that his electoral base consisted of only a tiny minority of property owners from a given district. The rest of the community was seen to be "represented" on the ground that all inhabitants shared the same interests as the property owners who elected members of Parliament. ... After that, Britain again passed yet another act. ... They also passed a Quartering Act, in order to house soldier...

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He also organized the Committees of Correspondence, whose chief functions were to spread propaganda, and pass information between the colonies in order to keep a constant opposition to the British. ... Using his level headed thinking, Jefferson explained to the English the reasons for which Independence was being declared, and he also ensured every American of simple, unalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and property. ... This was mostly payback for the destruction of English property, chests of tea thrown in Boston harbor. ...

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The treaty also contained a clause stating that Americans would pay debts owned to British merchants and loyalists claim for property. ... At the urging of President Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807, prohibiting virtually all U.S. ships from sailing to foreign ports. ...

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In the national government that the Articles of Confederation maps out, there was no executive branch to help enforce any of the acts passed by Congress. ... With only one house of Congress, each state was only allowed one vote, to add amendments to the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote among all the states and other laws required a 9/13 majority to pass. Especially with minds of different men from different areas of the nation, this made it difficult to pass new laws and amendments. Accounted from a letter from John Jay to George Washington, "will be led by the insecurity of...

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On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. ... Some have been tarred and feathered, others had their property burned and destroyed by the populace. ...

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After the stamp act was passed many more taxes were imposed including the townshend act, imposing taxes on imported goods and the sugar act, imposing taxes on sugar. ... John Locke, an English philosopher from the Enlightenment era, stated that all citizens were entitled at birth to life, liberty and property. ...

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Consequently, in 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, providing for the transplanting of all Indian tribes then east of the Mississippi River, to what is present day Oklahoma. ... The European ways included Christianizing, English language literacy, abandoning their semi-nomadic way of life, adopted a system of settled agriculture, and developed a notion of private property. ...

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After being elected into office in 1789, one of George Washington's priorities as President of the United States was to select a cabinet. Washington waited to make his selections as Congress created the departments of Treasury, War, and State. His choices were based on talent and experience, not o...

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