... I call by the general name - property." It was by these basic principles that laid the essential framework for our constitution. Based upon the fundamental ideals described by Locke and Madison, Charles Beard, in his essay Framing the Constitution, asserts that the framers of our Constitution were anxious, above everything else, to protect the rights of private property against any leveling tendencies ... ...

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... would be the ruin of any man who used his profits in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to ... own blood sweat and tears into the establishing and maintenance of their own livelihood, a major aspect of Franklin's American vision. His most famous credence under this title early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise' is still used today. This utteranc...

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... came the "launch of a grand revolutionary experiment in popular democracy" (Miroff, Seidelman & Swanstrom 1998, 17) and with it the birth of Republicanism. Following the brief spell under the Articles of Confederation, which failed, the Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia in 1787. The constitution that emerged from the negotiations and debates at Philadelphia was a compromise between politicians ... both the concentration and dilution of government power. Its authors had vivid memories of unchecked Executive power exercised from London and experience of the vacuum of Exec...

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... acknowledge that in a large republic it would be harder for representatives to be acquainted with local politics and common issues of the people, and therefore, local interests would be placed under the control of the state legislatures. At the same time, if all control was at the state level, it would be extremely difficult for the state legislature to make decisions ... , each branch would be independent of the others, including issues regarding their payment, so that no one branch would be able to acquire greater power. Madison continued to explain that under the Constitution, each br...

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