... and limit the government. The British political authorities have never in modern times faced a crisis that forced them to think the constitution through to first principles and to set these down, therefore the British constitution was never invented or designed but just grew, so that political facts became constitutional rules. This absence of a written constitution in a single document has led to ... Constitution in 1885 have occasionally been consulted for guidance on the British constitution. Due to this large number of different primary sources the British constitution has no extrao...

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... creating a small republic. James Madison, a Federalist and a fierce proponent of the Constitution, responded to their concerns in the Federalist Papers, reassuring the Anti-Federalists that the form of government laid down by the Constitution was not only the best, but the only way to preserve the rights of the people. It is evident that although the intention of both the Anti ... ...

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... thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is a precedent for the next twenty. Whereas Benjamin Franklin wrote primarily about the model American, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine concerned themselves with the construct and design of America as a whole. Franklin's hard working, self sacrificing lifestyle in the pursuit of the ... ...

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