... obviously precocious. He took advantage of this intelligence, with his ambition driving him from a very young age he was the owner of a print shop (a fast evolving trade at this point, in America) by twenty-four, soon using this to publish the Pennsylvania Gazette, which Franklin also edited. He used his own example ( A good example is the best sermon' ) to encourage others to ... a humble and dutiful address [to] be presented to his majesty, begging leave to lay before him, as chief magistrate of the British empire, the united complaints of his majesty's subjects in America' . These co...

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... political systems, the two constitutions and political systems are extremely different. Britain has a unitary, un-codified and flexible constitution, whereas America has a federal, codified and inflexible constitution. The significance of these differences are firstly, America's federal constitution disperses government power both between the states and the national government, and between the different branches of government, with the ... President, Congress and the Supreme Court all sharing power. In contrast to this Britain's unitary constitution centralises power both in the Westmin...

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... understand how the structure of the proposed government makes liberty possible. Each branch should be, for the most part, in Madison's opinion, independent. To assure such independence, no one branch should have too much power in selecting members of the other two branches. In his Second Treatise of Civil Government, John Locke stated that "it is not without reason the [man] seeks out ... and is willing to join in society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the general name - prop...

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... majority would never be able to form and therefore, unpopular views would be heard and the minority would be protected. Additionally, a menagerie of wide-ranging opinions in a large republic would result in the government making much more moderate decisions for the public good as opposed to extreme and biased decisions. Madison described how within these majorities and minorities, existed factions ... people united by a common interest that was counter to the public good. Acknowledging that people are factious by nature and will inevitably disagree when it comes to their interests in al...

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