Simply put, as Ryan Barnes wrote, "GDP is the godfather of the indicator world" (Barnes. ... He later wrote, "as long as markets were free and competitive, the actions of private individuals, motivated by self-interest, would work together for the greater good of society" (Beggs. ... And while Adam Smith did not have a direct hand on framing the Constitution, he certainly had a strong indirect play with his work and many economic theories (Beggs. ... Gross Domestic Product has its playing hand in nearly all aspects of the economy, and with this comes importance of recogniti...

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The plaintiffs in the suits argued that "a monopoly in New Orleans on the butchering of livestock violated the rights of butchers elsewhere. " And, "the monopoly, created by the state legislature, violated their right to pursue a legal occupation, supposedly protected by the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. " (Kommers, Finn, & Jacobsohn, 115) In the ruling, Justice Miller wrote that the Fourteenth Amendment recognized state and national citizenship as two different things, and that it overturned Dred Scott v Sanford. ... Justice Frankfurter wrote a concurring opini...

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A reporter, Cleveland Hall Jr. wrote an editorial about the advertisement in the Alabama Journal, misstatements and errors. ... Brennan wrote eight different drafts before finalizing it. ... Justice Brennan wrote that criticism of official conduct is constitutionally protected. Brennan also wrote of his concerns that critics of public conduct will fear to express their opinions. ... Justice Black and Justice Goldberg wrote concurring opinions, however, theirs did not support the actual malice standard. ...

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Today women are now seen equal to a man all because of the 19th amendment. Back then the traditional view of women was to stay at home mom, clean, raise children, and to help with the family farm. In the 1800s men were the one in power. In their homes, in the workplace, and everywhere else. After go...

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Once the Articles got put into play in the states, it became obvious there were many faults to it. ... In order to do this, the delegates completely threw away the Articles and wrote a new form of government. ... The delegates completely threw out the Articles and wrote a new government. ...

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Hamilton supported that idea when he stated "I go no further," he wrote in The Federalist, "and affirm that bill of rights are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. ... The Bill of Rights plays a significant role in determining court cases. ... The Bill of Rights however wrote ten amendments that established and protected the people's right. ...

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If following the original warrior way is suicide, then why should the judgment of citizens strictly on what those soldiers and scholars wrote explicitly in the constitution be any different. ... This also brings in the argument of legal morality, which plays no part of the constitution, being that morality is a human characteristic not a property of a document. ...

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He wrote as much as he possibly could and became famous for doing many things. ... He also wrote and published Poor Richard's Almanac from 1733 until1758. ... Above all, he would be honored for the role he played in helping America win its freedom and then in writing the Constitution. ...

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"They wrote their first Constitution known as The Articles of Confederation. ... Madison explicated that maintaining autonomy and preventing dependence between the government's three different branches promoted checks and balances when he wrote, "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ... No single founder had a monopoly on America and each one played a role in the nation and the Constitution's early succes...

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The Federalists tried to get the states to ratify their Constitution so they can get a strong centralized federal government into play. ... Madison and Hamilton wrote these in the newspapers to try to convince the colonies to ratify the Constitution. ...

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Justice Marshall wrote that the power to tax involves the power to destroy. ... The states play a key role in social welfare, public education, law enforcement, criminal justice, health and hospitals, roads and highways, and managing water supplies. ...

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Schlesinger, himself a liberal democrat, does give a very convincing argument that the Jacksonian liberals played a part in the quick economic recovery from the Great Depression. ... Hammond, in the excerpts provided, wrote a commentary on another historians work, although, Hammond's work does not deserve to be discredited as a conservative backlash to a liberal movement. ...

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Smith wrote the book in hopes of supplementing urban politics, intergovernmental relations, urban studies, state and local government, and state administration classes. ... The book specifically delves into how the Reagan administrations new federalism played out in intergovernmental relations by ending programs and seeking control of some agencies. ...

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In fact, William Penn, in the Frame of 1682 of Pennsylvania, wrote that all believers in God, "shall in no ways be molested or prejudiced for their religious Persuasion or Practice in Matters of Faith and Worship.... Although William Penn was unsuccessful in his opposition to slavery, his belief in equality was later demonstrated by the Quakers in playing a major role in the abolition movement. ...

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James Madison wrote in Federalist Papers #10, "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." ... The XYZ affair played right into the hands of the Federalist Party. ... The Federalist needed the Sedition bill to shut down the Republican presses and Bache played right into their hands with his publication of Tallyrand's conciliatory letter to the ...

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Kraftenmaker a professor of Constitutional law at Georgetown University Law Center wrote, "When I think of great American lawyers I think of Thurgood Marshall, Abe Lincoln and Daniel Webster". ... Today most Afro Americans don't realize how important a role Thurgood played in shaping the legal precedents for school segregation. ...

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America the Bully As a child, my first remembrance of war is the Gulf War. I was sitting in front of the television watching the soldiers land from the helicopters to the sandy desert plains of Iraq. Forty-two days later, my mother told me that the war was over and that everything was going to be okay. Of course, I had no fear or worries. I had little understanding of exactly what was happening in a place that was so far away. ...

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Introduction: "We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we ass...

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Immigrants to the United States have played an important role in the implementation of laws and the overall reshaping of our government. ... The Court wrote in regards to educational opportunities that, "[s]uch an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms " (Brown v. ...

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The Interstate Commerce Clause: How the Supreme Court Interpreted It Over The Past 200 Years 1 Interstate Commerce Clause: How the Supreme Court Interpreted It Over the Past 200 Years The Clean Water Act, the Violence Against Women Act, and the Endanger Species Act are all good leg...

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Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in galvanizing American thought, with his revolutionary pamphlet, Common Sense, which spoke of such radical ideas as natural rights and independence. ... As I mentioned earlier Libertarians believe in a society where government plays a limited role in the everyday lives of its citizens; they see government solely as an institution responsible for protecting the rights of its citizens as well as safeguarding them from those that might use force against those rights as established by the Declaration of Independence "to secure these rights governments are insti...

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