...The Constitutional Convention is an important part of History that created an outline that we still use today. The Constitutional Convention was the 3 month time when the constitution was created. Charles Pinckney helped create the constitution at the convention. Pinckney is a U.S founding father, the governor of South Carolina and a signer of the constitution. Also, he served as chairman and shared possible ideas. Charles Pinckney was born October 26, 1757 in south carolina and was 29 during the convention. Pinckney's father was a rich lawyer and planter and Pinckney's second cousin Charles-Cotesworth Pinckney who was a fellow signer of the US constitution. He went on to marry Mary Eleanor Laurens, daughter of a wealthy and politically powerful...
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...James Madison holds the most significance out of all our founding fathers. Madison drafted the major points in our constitution, was one out of three contributing authors of the federalists papers, and advocated the Bill of Rights. He pushed for a system of checks and balances to ease the fears of those who worried that an executive would gain an unfair amount of power. The colonies declared independence from Britain in 1776 where the Articles of Confederation were created as the first constitution of the United States. In May 1787, delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia , where Madison was able to start his ideas for an effective government system in his “Virginia Plan,” which described a government with three branches known as legislative, executive, and judicial. Madison helped Virginia evolve their constitution, securing the Virginia Plan that served as the basis for the debate in the addition of the U.S. constitution. He argued firmly for a strong central government that would bring the country together. Playing a strong role in the ratification process, Madison...
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...take advantage of that desire and privilege regardless of who they are. Individuals are given rights which protect them from being mistreated from anyone, such as government officials, although most of the rights are given to keep people from being mistreated from the Justice System. The bill of rights was established to help protect the citizens of America. “The bill of rights is devoted to defending the rights of people who are accused of committing a crime. The rights that do that are the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth amendment’s. These rights give people the “right to due process of law, fair trial, and freedom from self-incrimination, cruel and unusual punishment and being charged twice for the same crime.” National Constitution center, (2008) Individual rights are our freedom to do what we want and to...
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...James Madison was born March 16, 1751. He was born in Virginia and grew up in a town of Montpelier. He was known as the Father of the Constitution. Madison made a major contribution to the ratification the Constitution by writing, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the Federalists essays. Then in 1787, he represented Virginia at the Constitution Convention. He expressed his ideas forming a three-part federal government, consisting of executive, legislative, and judicial branches. He thought it was important to have this new structure of government so they could have a system of checks and balances, in order to prevent the abuse of power by any one group. Madison’s ideas were included in the Constitution. He wrote many persuasive letters...
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...Does the United States present a Public Administrational model for the rest of the world for avoiding corruption? “Corruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effects on societies. It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violations of human rights, distorts markets, erodes the quality of human life, and allows organized crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to flourish. This evil phenomenon is found in all countries… but it is in the developing world that its effects are most destructive. Corruption hurts the poor disproportionately by diverting funds intended for development, undermining a Government’s ability to provide basic services, feeding inequality and injustice and discouraging foreign aid and investment. Corruption is a key element in economic under-performance and a major obstacle to poverty alleviation and development.” Koffi Anan, foreword, United Nations Convention against Corruption, 2003. When Democracy and central governance was formed in ancient Greece, it was for the very purpose of preventing the powerful few putting their needs above those of the masses they ruled – after all ‘Democracy’, stems from the Greek demos and kratia literally meaning the power of the people. For peoples familiar only with autocracies and hereditary monarchies, this was a radical notion. Why then, in some modern democracies, has the word government come to be almost synonymous with corruption? Corruption in government is...
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...James Madison, born in 1751 in Orange County, Virginia, was America’s fourth president, he served from 1809 - 1817. He wrote The Federalist Paper, with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. Many people referred to him as The Father of The Constitution because of his major contributions to the ratification of the Constitution. James Madison was the oldest of 12 children. In 1762 he was sent to a boarding school. When he returned home, his father got him a private tutor because he was concerned about his health. In 1769, He enrolled in the college of New Jersey (now known as princeton university). While attending he studied many such as latin, science and philosophy, along with other subjects. Although he officially graduated in 1771, he stayed to...
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...Abstract The journey of the thirteen former British Colonies toward a lasting union of Independent Sovereign States had officially begun with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty-six men, appointed by their fellow citizens of each Colony, meeting in Congress assembled, determined that the only logical course of action by which they could throw off the strong hold of tyranny was to declare the independence and sovereignty of the individual colonies, and join together in a partnership, for their common defense, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever. In so doing, these fifty-six men, on the authority of the good people of the colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence, mutually pledging to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. The youngest of those men was a man named Edward Rutledge from South Carolina. Edward Rutledge Edward Rutledge was born in 1749 at or near Charleston, S.C., he was the 5th and youngest, son of Doctor John Rutledge, who emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina, about the year 1735. His mother was Sarah Hert, a lady of respectable family, and large fortune. At the age of twenty-seven, she became a widow with seven children. Her eldest son was John Rutledge, distinguished for his patriotic zeal during the revolution. He was placed under...
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...president, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), stated, “The day that France takes possession of New Orleans…we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.” Livingston was ordered to negotiate with French minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838) for the purchase of New Orleans...
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...people ended up creating an entire new constitution for the United States of America. While there James Madison elected General George Washington to act as chair. When he accepted, the delegates achieves great morality to revise the Articles of Confederation. In the weeks during the constitution, Madison was the main leader of the federalist and the people who supported a strong central government. Madison Virginia plan was the blueprint for the constitution that would soon be created. Its features bicameral national legislature with the lower house elected by the people, an executive bran chosen by the legislature, and a judiciary branch consisting of the Supreme Court. Also Madison was the key note taker or recorder during the times they were revising the constitution and was known his leader role and shaping the new constitution. By the end of the constitution James Madison emerged as one of the most impressive and persuading people of the constitution, earning him the title as “Father of the Constitution.” When the document was published for the states him, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, published a series of papers called the Federalist Papers. Under the name, “ Publius”, Madison authored twenty-nine of the eighty-five essays that were written. He argued on the case of a strong central government to an extensive system of checks and balances. Some of the major and most important states did not support the new constitution, mainly because of the similarities between...
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...Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell Virginia on April 13, 1743. He was the third child out of six sisters and one brother. He did have two other brothers but they both died in infancy . His father was Peter Jefferson and died when he was only fourteen. His mother was Jane Randolph Jefferson. After his father died, he became the head of the household and inherited 2,500 acres of land and at least twenty enslaved African Americans. Even though Thomas inherited all of this his, guardian John harvie managed the estate until Thomas was twenty-one. Thomas began his studies under a tutor because the colony of Virginia had no public schools. When he was nine he went to live with a scottish clergyman who taught him Latin, Greek, and french. After the death of his father , he entered the school of James Maury near Charlottesville. In 1760 he entered the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg. After leaving college in 1762 he studied with George Wythe. In 1767 he was admitted to the bar. Thomas married in 1772 to Martha Wayles Skelton. They had one son and five daughters but only two lived to maturity. Martha died in 1782 leaving Thomas a widow. Thomas never remarried. Writers like John Locke, Algemon Sidney, Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home, and Lord Kames had an enourmous influence on thomas's political philosphy. thomas had been raised in the Anglican Church but he developed a dirstrust of organized religon. thomas had intrest othe thatn politics such as archeology...
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...At the time, Madison was interested in the quivering relationship between America and Britain (“James Madison” C). When the Revolutionary War commenced, Madison was appointed as a colonel for the Orange County Militia in Virginia (“James Madison” C). However, he was not a very athletic person and soon withdrew from the army only to gain a more political position (“James Madison” C). In 1776, he became a politician at the Virginia Constitution Convention because of his talent in politics and managed to help the Virginian government create a more ideal state constitution. This was also the place where hefirst met Jefferson, who would before long become his lifelong friend (“James Madison”...
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...100,000 white inhabitants were natives of the South, who, as they settled in the eastern timberlands and south central plains, had built a life as similar as possible to that experienced in their home states. Their economy, dependent on agriculture, was concentrated first on subsistence farming and herding and then on production of cotton as a cash crop. This meant the introduction of what southerners called their "Peculiar Institution"-slavery.qv In 1846 Texas had more than 30,000 black slaves and produced an even larger number of bales of cotton (see COTTON CULTURE). Political institutions were also characteristically Southern. The Constitution of 1845,qv written by a convention in which natives of Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia alone constituted a majority, depended heavily on Louisiana's fundamental law as well as on the existing Constitution of the Republic of Texas.qv As befitted an agricultural state led...
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...The Constitution of the United States by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and 35 others With a Side-by-Side Translation in Simple English by ELizabeth Claire, MA TESOL Editor, Easy English NEWS The Constitution in Simple English ©2010 Elizabeth Claire, Inc. 1 A Note from Elizabeth Claire Thank you for your interest in the Constitution. It is the foundation for the government of the United States. The Constitution was written in 1787. This was four years after the U.S. signed a peace treaty with Great Britain. This peace treaty gave the thirteen British colonies their independence. They formed a new country, the United States of America. The men who wrote the Constitution are called our “Founding Fathers.” Some of them were: George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Gouveneur Morris, and Benjamin Franklin. The Founding Fathers took ideas from many places. They took parts from their state constitutions. They took parts of Britain’s Magna Carta. They studied the governments of ancient Greece and Rome. They got ideas from philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu and Thomas Paine. They used some ideas from Iroquois Indians union of tribes. Cover painting; “The Signing of the Constitution” by Chandler Howard Christie hangs in the House of representatives...Courtesy TeachingAmericanHistory.com 2 The Constitution in Simple English ©2010 Elizabeth Claire, Inc Fifty-five delegates...
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...following timeline shows there were many other factors involved as well. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter, America’s journey for equality and unity was a hard one, leaving in its wake destruction, discord, and civil unrest. ____________________________________________________________ ____________ 1776: Declaration of Independence • Was written by Thomas Jefferson • Was signed on July 4th, severing all ties to Britain 1787: Northwest Ordinance • Was passed on July 13th establishing the intent to expand into the West adding new states to the Union. Constitutional Convention • Held their final meeting on September 17th signing into effect the Constitution of the United States. 1794: The Cotton Gin • Was patented by Eli Whitney, increasing the production of clean cotton • The value of and need for slaves increased within the cotton states. 1820: The Missouri Compromise • Was established to...
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...ABOUT THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to redistricting reform, from access to the courts to presidential power in the fight against terrorism. A singular institution – part think tank, part public interest law firm, part advocacy group – the Brennan Center combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communications to win meaningful, measurable change in the public sector. ABOUT THE BRENNAN CENTER’S LIBERTY AND NATIONAL SECURITY PROJECT The Brennan Center initiated its Liberty and National Security project two years ago to foster better public understanding of the importance of accountability, transparency, and checks-and-balances in the formulation and implementation of national security policy. We have since been at the forefront of advocating for sound, rights-respecting policy prescriptions based on broad public participation and informed discussion. Our staff engages in a spectrum of public education, legislative advocacy, litigation and scholarly activity. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonathan Hafetz is Litigation Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center. He is actively involved in post-9/11 litigation involving detainee rights and other national security issues, and is lead counsel in several leading detention...
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