... out against the government they could be jailed or killed for treason (Beard 73). People could also be arrested for expressing radical viewpoints in newspapers or pamphlets (78). This is why they guaranteed the right to freedom of press. Also, under British rule the people were forced to practice the country's official religion and if they practiced another they would be ... laws were banned. The right of habeas corpus was protected. Moreover, Article 3, Section 1 protected the right of trial by jury in criminal cases. Since the Constitution already protected these rights, why shouldn't...

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There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South ... 1860. Within that period of 50 years, the number of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad. Southerners compared it with the wage-slave system of the North. They said that the slaves were better cared for then the free ... cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." Becaus...

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There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South ... 1860. Within that period of 50 years, the number of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad. Southerners compared it with the wage-slave system of the North. They said that the slaves were better cared for then the free ... cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." Becaus...

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... rights are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions of colorable pretext to claim more than they were granted. For why declare that things shall be done for which there is no power to do"(The Constitution that Delicate Balance page 13). Nevertheless if every state has different rights then if ... ...

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... the President as well -. It has a major responsibility over the country's future and the decisions made about such future. Congress is a major part of why the government is broken because of its actions in recent years. But Congress is just one side of the spectrum. On the other side, there are the ... that is how it used to be when the nation cared for politics. In a society where the great majority of people do not know who runs Congress, it is no wonder why the government is broken. There has been a great decline from how people used to be engaged in politics. According to Gallup, a ....

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... American lady were to marry a Filipino man she would lose all her rights to be a citizen in America. Does this sound like the America that you and I know today? Maybe it does. Has the question "who is an American?" really gone away? Am I an American just because I happened to be born in the United ... America? Well yes that is why I am a citizen but did I do anything to deserve that honor? People who want to become Americans have to know this countries law inside out and upside down. Do most Americans know all of the bill of rights or what the constitution says? I know I don't know this...

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... soldiers pants were tan and brown and not green and brown as usual. As I grew up, many more complex thoughts began overloading my brain about war. I wondered why we killed, and what was being accomplished by killing. My generation alone has witnessed so many historical events. I have grown up with the Persian Gulf War, the Oklahoma City bombing, ... American government standings even more than he did with the Canadian government. The first question I asked Ratajzack was "Do you think America is the most powerful country in the world, why/why not?." Ratajzack immediately replied "Yes, m...

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... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" (Declaration of Independence). If all men a created Equal why is their the need for "Affirmative Action"? Why is there a need to have kids send mile from home just for a good education? We are not equal, some have a smother ride ... the people wanted Gore. Among our bundle of exaggerations pleasant to believe, none more alluring or deceptive than that we have "Freedom of Speech". We all know where it comes from. The U.S. Constitution states, "Congress Shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or the press-...

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... every internet service provider such as: Microsoft; Facebook; Google; and Yahoo. Having accessed ISP's databases and mainframe systems the NSA can know you better than the closest members of your family. The NSA can infiltrate any secure network by creating backdoor encryption algorithms. In other words ... of linguistics arbitrarily negates the American constitution. Without knowing which civil liberties were being broken one could not make an argument as to why we need to do something about our government's recent atrocities against the American peoples' civil liberties and privacy. Ar...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... government, the government will soon become chaotic because anytime a court case came through, or someone Congress decided they didn't like a law and convinced everyone else why. What is to say that they can't? A recent example of the living constitution was in the Clinton administration when Clinton stepped in a decided to do whatever ... then to wait for the Supreme Court and take no other ruling, even though the case was supposedly irreversible. This is a very good example of why our living constitution is what is tearing apart our government. What is to say if our president has a frie...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Grade Level: High School

... taxes, they most likely trust that their hard-earned dollars are going to programs considered to be necessary. What the average American might not know is that $100,000 of their taxes are going to the "Weed It Now!" project to rid harmful shrubbery from the beautiful Berkshire ... Mountains in Western Massachusetts (Carney 45-6). Perhaps some other citizens would be interested to know that an unknown representative tagged $393,000 for "sustainable agricultural research" in which no one from Congress has been able to explain what ... leads to an array of mind-boggling questions like how...

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... what can be done to fix the "useless- government. He praises the minority and the dissentient such as himself. "Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them ... ? Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?- (Thoreau 119). He calls on other abolitionists to ... one can combat injustice much better after experiencing it himself. He then changes tones for the third and...

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... nations government without punishment. The right to petition was put into the Declaration of Independence. It was a statement telling everybody in the world why we were rebelling against King George III. We repeatedly sent petitions to the king, but they were ignored. These repeated petitions have only ... amendment freedoms include various areas like freedom of information, government access and citizens right to know and right to privacy. According to James Russell Wiggins (former editor for the Washington Post); the 'right to know' consists of five separate pieces. The five pieces are ...

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... nations government without punishment. The right to petition was put into the Declaration of Independence. It was a statement telling everybody in the world why we were rebelling against King George III. We repeatedly sent petitions to the king, but they were ignored. These repeated petitions have only ... amendment freedoms include various areas like freedom of information, government access and citizens right to know and right to privacy. According to James Russell Wiggins (former editor for the Washington Post); the 'right to know' consists of five separate pieces. The five pieces are ...

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... then that candidate would get 27 electoral votes because that is the ratio to how many votes California has total in the Congress. I don't understand why we have members of the House of Representatives elected relative to the population but the presidential election gives all the votes to one candidate or the other ... and if I knew of a specific way to make it run in a more efficient manner then I"m sure someone else who could make the change would know it too and do it. Our Federal system works to protect our Constitution which is our foundation in this great country and if we have to s...

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... solved simply by legalizing the drugs which are the base cause of our problem. Gore Vidal gives examples which he believes are the reasons why we should, and why we will not allow drugs to be legalized within the United States. One would think that legalization of drugs in the United States would ... curtailed by the fact that legalization of drugs would mean more pure forms of the narcotics in question, with less harmful additives. But overall, drugs as we know them are extremely unstable and have different effects with each case. Vidal also states that, in addition to labeling the res...

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... should have had a public trial in which something more could have come to light. Six men died because of the last tribunal. No one will ever know for sure if the people deserved to die but that is what can happen when a tribunal occurs. The defendants had their rights taken from them and ... . Many make the argument that since the tribunals only target non-U.S. citizens and the Constitution only applies to citizens of the U.S., they are okay. But why should non-citizens be punished by our laws if they cannot be protected by them? Eugene Fidell said it best, "it's an extraordinary step fo...

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... in the world views the greatest country in the world as the money hungry media monster that it really is? If this is the case then why are we as American's so blind to what we are when everyone else can see it? This paper will discuss how the American government uses their ... same information pumped into their heads. And the government approved all of these news stories before they could even be run on television or in newspapers. Why would the government want everyone in the country to be getting the same outlook on the same stories? It is easier to control the ways that ... about iss...

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... would soon learn that they set up a very weak and powerless government. Congress lacked the authority to enforce its own laws and did not know where to turn. They were powerless to levy or collect taxes due to the huge debt from the war and literately had to solicit the ... . Other states would not enforce criminal laws that Congress set and this allowed fugitives from one state to seek refuge by crossing state lines. But why did all of this go wrong? It's simple. They had come from under the unbearable ruling of the royal crown. New Englanders had come ... selected delegates from each...

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... the United States government to intern Japanese- Americans. The daily life of the interned, why this tragic event happened, how it happened and why it was wrong, are all things every American should know! Pearl Harbor was indeed a day that laid in infamy. However, what most people don't know is what happened to thousands of Americans after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. After the ... ...

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... enough or do we need more Gun Control laws to be created to make the policies concerning guns more strict and productive. There are legal and constitutional issues contributing to why gun control has become such a problem. In the month of January in the year of 2010 there were gun traffickers along the United States borders. These group of traffickers who ... to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Most people are not a part of a militia neither they know what a militia is. A militia is an army based emergency group. Even ...

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... protest towards the benefits of the American citizens, he was wiretapped by the FBI for several years of his life. The FBI was able to know every single movement he said or made because they intercepted every type of communication he had. (McKenna and Feingold, 379) They started a campaign ... . Headers in different newspapers are titled "President Uses Congress' budget for his nephew's political campaign", it is still unacceptable, and that is why they never develop, but that will be forgotten the next day. In this case, we are talking about one of the superpowers of the world, ... dev...

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... will raise the achievement levels of the students across America. They also aim at getting students college and career ready by making clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know and be able to do in math and English language arts from kindergarten through 12th Grade. These standards were drafted by teachers and experts from all over the country that ... Grassley strongly supports the restoration and protection of state authority and flexibility in establishing and defining challenging student academic standards and assessments. This is just one of the many reasons w...

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... for hundreds of years, much to the surprise of the general public. Indeed, as inquisitive creature, it is in our nature to want to know what other people do or say, especially if it can potentially cease or cause harm to a large portion of the population. The National Security Agency ... rights. Given the gravity of these rights to the Framers who established the government and laid theoretical and legislative groundwork for the government as we know it, these sentiments should be regarded in all sectors of government, which does not exclude the National Security Agency, a federal entit...

• Word Count: 1991
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... Island letter also reveals a distrust in the appointed officers of Congress and a disinclination to surrender any power to Congress. These attitudes were common to each of the states, and explain why much proposed Congressional legislation was never enacted. Further, Congress did not have the power to tax the individual states, as indicated in the letter from Virginian Joseph Jones to George ... , to have complete control of the government. They were afraid that another "king " would take the place of the king they had removed through the revolution. This, in part, explains why the state...

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