... of our "founding father's", the ones who established our governemnt and function. I am reminded of why they came over here. I think of the Constitution as the mission statement for the American government. America's set of standards. It gaurantees that we cannot stray from the vision of what we stand for. The constitution to me stands basically, for freedom of rights for ... of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." - Alexander Hamilton Case study: in October of 2001...

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AP American Government From Confederation to the Constitution Constitution - a framework for settling political disputes. It "involves a set of fundamental rules and customary procedures designed to resolve political differences and make political decisions ... need for a bill of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 84) was that if the Constitution contained a list of specific individual rights and liberties that the natio...

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