Although the federal government was created with a vision of expressed and enumerated powers, it is a sovereign entity. ... But the fact that it is a sovereign government, goes to the point it must use the tools it deems necessary to carry out it duties. As a sovereign government that will carry out foreign relations and commerce with other sovereign governments around the world, it only stands to reason that a bank of the United States would have needed to be established in order to properly execute transactions of commerce. Even more interesting with regard to the sovereignty issue is t...

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The foundations on which the United States was built on radically switched the role of sovereignty in the 18th century. Instead of a single man or a single government being the sovereigns, it was the government that is meant to serve the sovereign people. ... The United States has been a mirror of democracy and republicanism for many nations since it declared its independence over 200 years ago. The list of despot crimes and the declaration that the colonies are free and independent from the King, eventually leads to the modern United States of today as well as the expansion of similar gove...

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The "separation between church and state" has been an ongoing debate for a long time in American history. ... The saying "separation between church and state" was first introduced in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association where writes "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which ...

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There were a series of factors that led to the rise of enduring political parties in the United States. ... Since there seemed to be no way of protecting the constitution from the Federalists, Madison and Jefferson turned to the state governments. They asked the states to determine whether federal legislature was constitutional or not. ... The other states declined to support Virginia and Kentucky. This brought about the question whether or not state government or national government was sovereign. ...

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It's also known as one of the most overlooked wars in United States history, often bookended by the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. ... It became necessary for the United States to once again uphold the principles stated in the Declaration of Independence and revolt against unfair British practices. ... " In June of 1812, President James Madison and the United States Congress declared war on Great Britain. ... It became an emblem of the War of 1812 and later the official National Anthem of the United States. ... The United States, which traded with both countries, got caught in the m...

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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. ... It states, "All powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people" (Jefferson, p.272). ... He also stated that the Constitution did not give Congress the power to regulate internal commerce of States, only external. ... The erection of a National Bank was neither denied to the federal government nor given to the states by the Constitution. For Jefferson...

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The Rousseau society only exists by its "collective moral body, a kind of depressed self which, in its wholeness, is the sovereign power the sovereign and subjects are simply the same people in different respects." ... In one sense, much of the notion that the establishment of a constitution would be on behalf of a united people was myth. ... Tom Pain's Common Sense (1776) delivered the first bold argument for independence in words any fairly literate person could understand: "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil". ... Jeff...

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I settled down in Oklahoma which is known to be one of the religious states in the "Bible Belt". ... As mentioned earlier, The United States is a highly religious country. ... In the state of Virginia alone, religion was an incendiary subject. ... Those who supported the separation of Church and State agreed that if the State supported preachers in any way, "those whom the State employs in its service may [be] judge[ed] and [the State shall] determine who shall preach, when they shall preach, and what they must preach." ... This shared sentiment meant "it becomes the duty of each to endeavor ...

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John Dewey states that "government exists to serve its community, and that this purpose cannot be achieved unless the community shares in selecting it governors and determining their policies" (445). ... Instead of lessening the protection of these individuals, it is important that the state find ways to strengthen them from the corporate world. ... In the "Promise of American Life," Croly states that the "only way to secure individual liberty is consequently to organize a state in which the sovereign power is deprived of any rational excuse or legal opportunity of violatin...

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When he wrote the constitution, congress didn't really dislike a sovereign power from across the ocean, but rather, congress opposed the fact that King George was oppressing the people of the United States. Freedom, to Jefferson, also means that people must have a say on what goes on in the government. For example, Jefferson states in his document, "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature". When Jefferson states "He", it is directed at King George. An example of when King George abuses his power as king and ruler of the country i...

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Government, education, legal systems, social events, clothing, and home decor were all governed by the regulations of Puritanism. ... (American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. In his 1690 pamphlet, Two Treatises of Government, Locke stated that political sovereignty does not reside in the state, but in the people. He continued saying that the state has power only if governed by true and "natural" law. ... The movement was "marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than...

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The laws of an independent and sovereign nation would likewise have ill effect. ... The United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides an impressive list that literally dwarfs the triad proposed by Jefferson, and certainly encompasses rights that never would have been conceived in the eighteenth century. ... Such rights consequently do not depend on governments for their existence; however, they do depend on governments for their enforcement. ... According to the Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz, in 1996 only 32% of 18-24 year olds voted as opposed to 50% in 1972. ...

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