Essays on American Constitution

The Documents

The Declaration of Independence Among the founding documents of the American republic the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States share primacy. First in time was the Declaration of Independence. Prepared by the Continental Congress over a year after the American Revolution had started with the battles at Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, the Declaration was silent on the question of religious freedom. In Jefferson’s words, which still ring down across almost two and a half centuries, the Declaration is firmly based on the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and, of ...

Question 1 Response: Creating a new Constitution was vital to the unity of the United States of America since the Articles of Confederation weren’t sufficient for good government. If there was any evidence of this, it was that the United States was clearly bankrupt and now needed to be organized in such a manner that both the States and the Federal government had to share power in such a manner that everyone’s interests were kept in mind. A centralized approach was key to putting the country back on track. Hence, a meeting was held in the Pennsylvania ...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law that restricts freedom of expression or of the press. Such wording restricts state power as a greater and a lesser degree compared to what it could do in this regard if the wording used in the literal sense. The said formulation limits the power of the state to a greater extent in the sense that it applies not only to Congress but to all branches of the federal government, all branches of state governments and local authorities. The wording in question, limit state power to ...

Introduction

There are numerous debates about the death penalty in the United States. America continues to allow states to decide whether to apply the death penalty or not. There are 32 states in America that have the death penalty as opposed to 18 states that have abolished the practice. The United States of America continues to act as the leader of the free world. American exceptionalism is premised on the fact that America is a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberties. America has led the process of exporting liberal democracies around the world and many nations ...

Abstract

The purpose of writing this research paper is to evaluate the legislative standing of abortion. Throughout history abortion has been a controversial issue, and still is. The US Courts have given their rulings on many cases involving abortions that have transformed over the time. Abortion is a controversial issue and has given rise to many questions in the context of political science and law. Several abortion related matters have been discussed in this work such as the brief historical account of abortion rulings in the court of the US, and the impact it had on the cases; how successfully ...

Introduction

Democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The essence of the American Revolution was to create such a government that would allow Americans to gain liberty, equality and freedom. This was to be based on fair representation of the people and the Separation of Powers between three arms of government. For practical purposes though, it is necessary for governance to be exercised by a group of people in the arms of government. This has been abused over the years and the people of America supposed to collectively determine affairs of government in ...

Section 1

I live in the state of Texas and I have come to understand the way the local government operates. Just like all the other states in the US, Texas has its own constitution, which defines the various legal aspects of daily life among its citizens. The state of Texas has established and fully functional governments at the county and municipal levels. Five commissioners; four of whom are elected from single-member districts and a county judge who is elected at-large, run the county governments. The county governments provide public safety and manage the jails where lawbreakers are housed for rehabilitation. ...

Abstract

This book review examines the book Criminals in the Bible by Professor Mark Jones. It examines the bases and features of criminal justice and the criminalizing process across different timelines and eras. The review examines the constitutional elements of different criminal justice systems and generations and how it relates to specific aspects of society. The book review assesses and evaluates some of the elements of society including chapter analysis and how serious crimes occur. The main discovery of this book review is that crime and criminalizing is done within the context and framework of dominant constitutional processes and generally ...

Identifying the problem

This paper addresses the issue of abortion as a societal concern. Evidently, abortion remains both an ethical and social policy issue not only in the United States but also the world society in general. Defined as the act of terminating a human pregnancy in deliberate terms, many people argue that the woman’s decision to abort is their right (Guttmacher Institute, 2016). However, being a social issue, other members of the society, specifically religious leaders, argue against abortion. For those against abortion, they say that it is only ethical not to terminate the child’s life as that may ...

The presidential powers have considerably extended since the time when the Founding fathers framed the Constitution of the United States. At that time, the thirteen colonies that formed a newly established state were afraid of a strong executive leadership. They feared that if a president were entitled by the Constitution to have extended powers, he would have misused or abused these powers, governed by self-interests, rather than the interests of the nation. This skepticism toward strong leadership resulted from the experience that the founders had when dealing with the English monarch (The Declaration of Independence, 1776). In order to ...

In American politics, the association between Congress and the President has been, as one would expect where there is a division of powers, challenging. The Founding Fathers developed a system of checks and balances as the foundation on which the States ratified the American Constitution. As a result, and with one branch of the government writing laws and determining budgets that another branch has to execute and spend respectively, an inherent tension has defined the American government. Now, every President seeks to influence policies. After elections, a country’s President is at liberty to bring his or her goals ...

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The criminal justice system in the United States provides Constitutional guarantees for all who are subject to the laws of the land. The three most controversial aspects of this system today are Search and Seizure, arrest, and interrogations. While these three aspects are the foundation of police action throughout the nation, there are several unresolved problems in how each of these processes is in use today. The presence of the law is not always the same as upholding it. The cases which made the case for the citizens are moving into obscurity with modern variations of the problems making ...

The following primary documents include two antifederalist essays and three federalist essays that were published in newspapers three to six months following the Constitutional Convention. The antifederalists aimed to convince the states that the new constitution would not work while the federalists hoped to gain support and ratification of the new constitution. In 1787 and 1788, when the essays were written, the new country was struggling. The Articles of Confederation were not sufficient, and the fears that resulted in the Revolutionary War were still very fresh in the minds of everyone.

SUMMARY OF THE ESSAYS

THE ANTIFEDERALIST NO. 18-20 WHAT DOES HISTORY TEACH? ( ...

The United States had two constitutions to regulate and establish the rights and state orders. Articles of Confederation came into force in 1781, when Maryland ratified it and it was the first Constitution of the United States (Fritz C. G., 2008, p.131). The Constitution came to replace the Articles of Confederation when it was ratified by New Hampshire in 1788. These two documents have much in common. However, there are quite significant differences between them. By comparing them it is possible to see what the drafters considered important in 1781, and that they changed their minds in 1788. Articles ...

In the USA the federal government has three branches of power: Executive – The President, Legislative- the Senate and Judicial – The Supreme Court. Members of Executive and Legislative branches are elected by people, while “members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate” (the Whitehouse). The Supreme Court is a real power in the USA and it is very important in the public policy arena. According to the Article 3 of the USA Constitution, “the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the ...

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The Fourth Amendment Act was set in place in the US constitution to ensure and assure privacy for the citizens. The Act and its application have been subject to scrutiny as to whether it is a broken promise or not. Terrorist activities have interfered with security globally and in the US particularly since the 9/11 attacks that claimed the lives of many Americans not to mention other victims. War on terrorism has been beefed up globally for the purpose of combating the crime. However, the said war on terror has been used as an excuse for the intrusion to ...

Slavery was a controversial issue for the Founding Fathers of the USA. For the sake of building an independent country, they preferred to ignore the problems of inequality and injustice that slavery brought into the American society. Moreover, the majority of the Founders owned slaves themselves. There were only 7 Founding Fathers that were not slave owners: Roger Sherman, Thomas Paine, Robert Treat Paine, Alexander Hamilton, Oliver Ellsworth, Samuel Adams and John Adams (Laccarino). They came from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York or Pennsylvania and had to take into account conservative attitudes of the other Founding Fathers some of whom ...

Against the background of the degradation of the political elites who are supporters of the dying hegemony, nowadays, there is the growing disillusionment between the average Americans about today's domestic and foreign policy and liberal values ​​in general. The protest of American society and dissatisfaction with the course of globalist elites has reached a qualitatively new level. The epitome of this phenomenon is a figure of Donald Trump - US presidential candidate, who showed excellent results in the course of the race. All in all, each American president has used a system of power in order to govern the ...

The Constitution of the United States of American offers a wide range of guarantees and rights to the people of the nation. The motive behind the Bill of Rights is to protect the American people from anarchical and tyrannical regimes. The reason for the US Supreme Court’s blunder in the verdict supporting corporate funding for election campaigns is due to comprehension (Cornell University Law School, 2011). They did not interpret the First Amendment of the US Constitution in the proper context. The enactment of laws and the subsequent consequences should be in line with the context of why ...

In ancient societies, people believed that the hierarchy of human society was based on the divine right of certain people to lead and the divine permission to keep others as lower class members of society. This shamed the parameters of social order until the Age of Enlightenment and Reformation in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The American and French Revolutions laid the foundation for the creation of a system of civil liberties and human rights which required some basic rights to be accorded to all human beings without exception. Human rights is defined as “a set of freedoms guaranteed ...

At the foundations of the American Revolutionary War, of between 1775 and 1783, were calls for independence among the Patriots residing in Britain’s Thirteen Colonies in North America. The Americans emerged victoriously and as a result, the English Monarch lost its claims over the vast territories. Now, the understanding of freedom in the thirteen regions revolved around the eradication of tyranny to pave the way for democracy and for that reason alone, the United States abhorred monarchies and promoted a government based on a democratic system. To that end, it is no wonder that concerns over the central ...

Introduction

Homeland Security is of prime importance in the United States of America. On 23 January, 2002, during the second session of the one hundred seventh congress of America, an act to establish the Department of Homeland security was held. Valuing Homeland Security by all citizens is due process rights and in direct observation of the American constitution and the preamble. Over the past few years, various public and private bodies, advisory panels and other think tanks have addressed myriad solutions on how to best secure the American homeland. However, some groups have classified homeland security as a combination of ...

Arrogance and ignorance may be called the twin causes of the American Revolution. Trace and discuss the ways in which the British lost their American colonies. Why were the British unable to retain the colonists’ loyalty in the period leading up to the Revolutionary War? The rapid economic growth of the colonies encouraged them to free themselves from the constraints posed by England in the fields of trade, industry and land use. Colonies wanted to get rid of the taxes imposed by the British government. Despite all this, in the 60’s of the 18th century colonial oppression increased. ...

When Federalists and Anti-Federalists were debating about the new U.S. Constitution, one of the most controversial issues was the balance of power between the national and state governments. In order give more power to the national government, Federalists had to take into account Anti-Federalists’ views and introduce three branches of power that would be empowered to control each other. James Madison, one of America’s founding fathers, wrote in The Federalist Papers that “power is of an encroaching natureit ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” (Cited in The Federalist Papers Project 19). It ...

Federalism in the United States may be defined as relationship between state 

governments and the federal government of the US with a progress shifting of power from the states towards the national government (Beck, 2011). Federalism was a political answer and solution for the situation with the Articles of Confederation (the first US constitution replaced by the current US Constitution in 1788) that gave the federal government very little practical authority. The Articles contained the direction on the ways to direct the American Revolutionary War, conduct diplomatic relations with Europe and deal with different territorial issues and Native American relations. Although, this document also became the weakness of the government, which ...

The US Constitution was born amidst the uncertainty and the instability that the Articles of Confederation could not correct. In crafting the set of “institutional arrangements of government” (Lowi et al 2015, p. 40), which was believed to result in the strengthening the union of the various states that the Articles were not able to do, the framers had to tread a delicate balance between state independence and federal government power. Their deliberation of the document was largely underpinned by lessons from past historic experiences that underscored the weaknesses of the Articles. In crafting the Constitution, there were several ...

Introduction

The United States Constitution can be described as the highest law of the land. During court proceedings, the constitution is the supreme law that is applicable in determining the outcome of criminal litigation, but other laws arise from the Amendments to the Constitution. The United States Constitution often guides how the government should function, the jurisdiction of the presidency, American Congress, and the Supreme Court. It is, however, paramount to note that all American states have their own Constitutions that they enact and follow, but the federal constitution is considered the highest law that overrides other state laws in ...

The American political system as it was formulated by the Founding Fathers and written down in the Constitution was based on a particularly eighteenth century vision of liberal government based on Enlightenment ideals. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a document is a great example of what the priorities and values of the Framers of the Constitution were. The values of the Framers which they fought a war against Great Britain over basically centered around the belief in limited government, the decentralization of power and the separation of powers combined with a system of checks and balances. ...

The Key Constitutional Concepts is a film that focuses the creation of the American Constitution during the historic Constitutional Convention (Key Constitutional Concepts). It has three segments that examine the creation of the American Constitution and two constitutional conflicts that were landmark cases of the Supreme Court. The cases include Youngstown V. Sawyer and Gideon V. Wainwright and Youngstown v. Sawyer. Specifically, the first section of the three-part documentary examines the creation of American Constitution (Key Constitutional Concepts). In 1787, the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall brought together the Founding Fathers who faced the daunting task ...

The right of Americans to individual privacy has increasingly become an issue of national significance. Partly due to leaks of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program by government contractor, Edward Snowden, American citizens’ basic right to privacy has become a subject of national debate. Not only is privacy a Constitutional Right, the right to privacy is a fundamental human right that no government should violate. Through these lenses, federal surveillance for national security purposes, invasive laws that affect our bodies, and telecommunications monitoring should be called into question, and rescinded. The US Constitution’s Bill of Rights ...

Introduction

American founding fathers were brave, noble and great as they pioneered the drafting of the America Constitution. America government has over the years suffered from a series of problems that proves the need for a new constitution. There is the urgent need for amending the constitution while maintaining its legal, ethical, and moral structure. Over 224 years since the ratification of the America Constitution, several amendments have emerged, and only 27 of these changes were approved and included in the constitution. Depending on the challenges faced in the 21st century ranging from corruption and poor leadership the constitution should ...

Affiliated Institution

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the features of the American electoral system features; how does it allow stability and change to occur simultaneously? How does it allow the participation for most of the citizens and it may also serve to filter the citizens` input? First of all, the fifteenth amendment to the United States Constitution states clearly that the right to vote is not to be “denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (US constitution, 1870). The term servitude may be a little vague, yet it was initially used to ...

Introduction

The law enforcement, as well as crime prevention, have essentially been revolutionized in this age of social media. In point of fact, the social network services have significantly increased the communication between the citizens and the law enforcement agencies. Besides, these services are more and more being utilized in criminal and legal investigations by the law enforcement agencies. The government agencies mine the social media websites for evidence (Murphy & Fontecilla 5). It is vital to note that the police departments in different parts of the world have significantly reduced crimes thanks to the use of social media. In essence, ...

The purpose of this paper is to compare the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Texas, find and analyze similarities and differences that exist between these two documents. While reading these two legal documents one cannot but notice the similarity of used vocabulary and style of writing. In the preambles of the both constitutions, there is an emphasis on the public will that established these documents. However, in the Texas Constitution, there also is a religious motive, as the people of Texas are “humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God” (The Preamble). Apart from ...

US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court is the highest court in the federal State of America. The court’s mission is to arbitrate and interpret the law in all constitutional and legal matters arising in the country and also to guide in the implementation of the supreme law of the country (Hansford, Thomas & Spriggs 2). In the criminal justice system, the organization is supposed to interpret laws pertaining to criminal law and apply the spirit and requirements of justice so as to achieve justice. The organization is headed by the office of the chief justice; the current officeholder is John G. ...

The gun control debate has been raging in the open parlance for quite sometimes, at least everybody in America feels the need to be safe, and the only controversy is how to be safe; by allowing more guns to civilians or by withdrawing or limiting the number of guns held by civilians? The Second Amendment to the American Constitution, which came into force in 15th December 1791, has provisions protecting civilians’ rights of keeping and bearing firearms (Klukowski 195). However, debates on gun controls have majorly questioned the role of the government in ensuring that it provides security services ...

At the termination of the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton firmly believed in a strong centralized government. He had worked as a major in the American army during this era of revolution, where he noted detrimental consequences of a weak federal authority. However, the majority of the Americans were skeptical and doubted the increased centralization of government due to various reasons. Hamilton’s structure did not consider democracy; instead, it held that the United States’ government should be modeled on the British method of governance where voters could not be given any power to take part in the decision-making process ...

People active in politics are elite in the sense that they play a larger role than most citizens. But there are also many American elections and so many places where political action can be blocked that no single elite can dominate. Business corporations, for example, are an importance interest group, but they only dominate client politics, and even then their influences can be overcome by entrepreneurial politics.

DO ELITES DOMINATE AMERICAN POLITICS?

Public opinion influences the making of U.S. policies through a number of channels. Elites in American business, education, communications, labor, and religion try to influence presidential decision making through several strategies. In ...

Part 1

The American Constitution is called a living document for the simple reason that it has existed for far too long than any other document ever drafted to govern any nation in the world. At the same time, it has continued to be the civic cornerstone upon which every other law has been developed, besides it acts as a model for any other emerging or existing democracy in the world (Scaros 17). Since it was penned down, the Constitution has been read and interpreted by many people, including presidents, judges, justices, Congress and even ordinary citizens. Everyone looks up to ...

1. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act is a federal law that governs the Indian Gaming in order to provide security for the industry and restrict involvement from State governments. The Act signed by President Ronald Regan, provides financial stability to American Indian Governments and sets up a regulatory standard for all tribes to follow in the interest of fairness. The Act comprises of three classes. Class I has minor games such as raffles and conducted only during local festivals or ceremonies. The prizes awarded are in any range since the State Government cannot have any ceiling. The State officials ...

1. The Brown v. Board decision handed down by the US Supreme Court sped up, and catalyzed the incipient civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s (McBride). Thus, under the “equal protection” clause of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, desegregation was ruled constitutionally illegal (McBride). Since segregation of public schools along black and white color lines had been an acceptable aspect of southern Jim Crow laws, it was an acceptable practice to educate blacks and whites in separate but “equal” educational facilities (McBride). However, in Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court ruled with strong conviction, using ...

The relevance of the proposed changes in the legislation is caused primarily by the fact that currently there is a need for better legal regulation of relations connected with illegal violation of individual rights to privacy. From the fact of how perfect the constitutional and legal guarantees of these rights are in general and the right to privacy of the individual communications, in particular, in many respects, the effectiveness of implementation is defined. One of the main guarantees of the right to privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraph and other communications is the general constitutional duty of the ...

Introduction

Freedom and human rights have become major issues in the 21st Century. However, the interpretations and application of human rights regulations have different ends in different countries. The purpose of this paper is to compare the systems of freedom and human rights as they exist between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In doing this, this paper presents a hypothesis that freedom of speech and freedom of religion in both Saudi Arabia and the United States are the same and although they have different traditions, they all seek the same goals and ends. Basically, to understand ...

The bill of rights refers to the significant rights of the American citizens and plays a critical role in safeguarding the rights from infringement by the government. The original constitution was outlined in Philadelphia in 1787 and was ratified by the different states in America. The original constitution laid a base for the bill of rights. However, this constitution contained less number of individual rights guarantees and was focused on launching a system for an effective federal government. Persons such as Pinckney and Madison are perceived as the ‘architects’ of the bill of rights that is applied in America ...

The federal court system of the United States has been divided into 94 federal judicial districts in order to efficiently dispense federal justice. The physical extent of the powers of each judiciary is not necessarily bound by state borders or borders of any specific kind, but is decided by Congress (“Court Role and Structure”). For example, the District of Wyoming has jurisdiction over all of Yellowstone National Park, including the areas of the park that are located in Montana and Idaho. Another example is that of New Jersey, where the physical extent of the jurisdiction includes Camden, Newark, and ...

When Britain’s' thirteen colonies in North America took up arms against the mother country, the prospects of an independent nation demanded a new government for the free people. Notably, there was pressure to ensure that the new laws were democratic as opposed to the Monarchical rule exerted by the British on the colonists. Hence, in 1777, the Founding Fathers attempted a government based on the autonomy of the individual States by proposing the Articles of Confederation at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The Articles came into effect in 1781when the States ratified them but by 1789, the ...

Public debate on the Control of Firearms have lighted up after such horrific incidents as mass killing in the "Columbine" school in 1999 (15 victims), the mass skirmish at the school "Red Lake" in 2005 (ten victims) or the massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2007 (33 victims). The defenders of gun control immediately called for tighter restrictions or a complete ban on weapons, while supporters are beginning to cite the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, or to claim that the weapons will be given only through their corpse. It goes without saying that this dispute should be ...

The constitution emerged to create a structured society through the creation of a stable system of government and protection of individuals’ powers. It creates three branches of government with different responsibilities and mandates that complement each other in achieving the government objectives. The legislature has a responsibility of making laws, the executive implements the laws, while the judiciary undertakes their interpretation (Cox, 1987, p.42). The Constitution regulates the powers of these branches so that none is superior to the other, but rather work in harmony. It also outlines the powers of the federal government such as printing money, controlling ...

(A). Legislative [2]. The United States is a representative democracy as opposed to a direct democracy. Accordingly, we the people forfeit our right to be directly involved in most matters of the national government in return for trust that our representative will act on our behalf and in our best interests. Naturally, because we are not able to attend all the meetings on policy, meet the policy experts, and otherwise stay informed of all the necessary information needed to vote on a law, we the people trust that our representative is doing that for us. Consequently, a representative not ...

How the State and Its Institutions Perpetuate the Systemic Exclusion and Subsequent Punishment of Radicalized, Sexed, or Gendered Groups

According to Brown, institutional racism is common in the societies we live in today, and sadly the situation my not change soon because the practice is perpetuated by the state and its institutions (2009). In essence, the practice is getting worse, as the world embracing capitalism and moral decay is almost at its peak. The minority groups face loads of injustice from the state and in the communities; they live in (Brown 2009). These individuals also need protection, but instead, the society uses their vulnerability for the greater harm. These individuals often suffer in silence because they have no ...

The federal government's Bureaucracy is made up of the following organizations; presidential commissions, cabinet departments, government corporations, independent regulatory agencies and independent executive agencies. It is large since it is made up of about 2.6 million employees in the United States. All these departments work together for one common good, which is administering the law. The executive branch of the government has more power than the judiciary and the legislative branches of the United States federal government. The executive branch comes up with programs which are then implemented through the chain in the executive branch. It is the responsibility ...

Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967) Privacy issues remain one of the key issues in criminal law and entire legal justice system. Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967) is one of the famous cases that highlights the nature of the right to privacy and provides legal definition of a legal search. The court’s ruling refined the former definition of the legal search and legal seizure clauses of the Fourth Amendment to consider infringement with any kind of communication technology as a search (Brandon Garrett, The right to privacy (Rosen Pub. Group) (2001) (Garrett, 2001). ...

Implications of Equal Protection under the Law

Introduction Ability grouping is a common educational practice that is now commonly utilized in the US. The practice is used in order to enable the use of different instruction methods in schools. This is done with the intention of meeting the educational needs of different students (McCarter, 2014). The presence of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution raises the question of whether ability grouping of K-12 students is legal or illegal. The purpose of this essay is to delve into the effects of equal protection under the law in relation to ability group ...

The 1700s through the 1800s saw the two political philosophies battle it out and define what the American constitution is today. It is observed that these two opposing philosophies steered the development of the modern American Constitution and gave it a gentle push towards the right direction. Americas best political minds set out to find common ground in the Philadelphia Convention regarding the government structure. These two parties both had issues on which they agreed and at the same time disagreed on other fronts; eventually both were to make considerable compromises and unite. Led by James Wilson, the Federalists’ ...

The National Archives Experience was a creation of the National Archives Records and Archives Administration that partners with the Foundation of the National Archives. It is under the National Archives, located in Washington DC, which is mandated with the responsibility of safeguarding all the records of the Federal government ( “National Archives: Dictionary of American History”, 2003). The archive is a simple revelation of the American past, which forms part of the nation’s future (The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, n.d). It was reestablished in 2003 with the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom being one of the ...

The US Constitution was ratified in 1788, and to this day, it remains one of the nation’s most preeminent accomplishments. The US is the first country in modern history with a written national constitution that is both stable and durable. Delegates from the thirteen original colonies drafted the Constitution. The Constitution explains the divisions of power, and protects the inalienable rights of people. This paper will demonstrate the history of the US Constitution and will examine how it has developed and adapted to the modern needs of society. Furthermore, the paper will provide reflections on the continued effectiveness ...

Martin Luther King was a prominent social activist and Baptist Minister who led the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century America from the 1950s to the 1960s. He is also known for his oratory skills that came out clearly in his famous speech, “I Have a Dream” which he gave at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. For his role in combating racial inequality in the US, King was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest person to have ever received the coveted prize. His parents were Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. ...

The main sources on the formation of American statehood are the Declaration of Independence, "Articles of Confederation", the US Constitution of 1787, and the Bill of Rights. Also, referring to the origins of the formation of the statehood, the Mayflower Compact is surely an important document. The British political heritage has had a tremendous influence on the formation of the state system of America. English settlers brought with them the political ideas that developed in England for centuries. English Bill of Rights of 1689 was very important for the American colonists – it differentiated the rights and obligations of the ...

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Introduction American democracy is perceived either positively or negatively by political philosophers. The political philosopher, Hannah Arendt expresses her admiration towards the American model of democracy commending it for its ideals on republicanism, separation of power and federalism (Arendt 267). There are, however, serious flaws with Arendt’s perception of American democracy, which can be summed up in three areas. First, Arendt failed to look deeper into the how the American democracy emerged, which makes her analysis out of context. Secondly, Arendt failed to analyze the impact of slavery towards the American democratic ideals, specifically the impact ...

Capital punishment is the punishment by death authorized by the government, and it can be used to punish capital crimes such as treason. In 2015, Nebraska banned capital punishment and replaced it with a life imprisonment sentence like 18 other states, but capital punishment still remains legal in 31 states of the United States of America (Bosman, 2015). The controversy regarding the morality and constitutionality of capital punishment is probably going to persist for a long time, especially because capital punishment is both constitutional and unconstitutional in the United States of America. It is possible to argue that capital ...