confusing features of the judiciary in the United States is the dual court system; that is, each level of government (state and national) has its own set of courts”. (IIP Digital, 2013) Prior to the adoption of the Constitution, the United States was governed by the Articles of Confederation. The dual-court system divided the court systems into two separate divisions. The two systems are the state court system and the federal court system. Under this new idea of two separate systems, this developed
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slavery. The south used federalism ideology to protect the institution of slavery. Although they used a few states right’s arguments such as the Kansas Nebraska act, the ultimate power was at a federal level (moving from the Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution, the states authority was trumped by the federal government) making federalism the dominant ideology. The south supported the national fugitive slave law, the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, and wanted a national slave code. In the
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Political power is the ability to influence others, bring about meaningful change, win the support of the public, and have a lasting impact on people's lives. At the beginning of the creation of the constitution, our Founding Father's objectives were to establish a federal government, and to outline an equal distribution of powers within our government. This was implemented by creating three branches of government that had to coincide with each other in order to function. Although each branch has
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address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. Most of the delegates at the constitutional convention had already risked being hanged as traitors by the British. There was no surprise that they worried about their states' reactions to their decision to abandon the articles of confederation and create a whole new document. Persuading the states to accept the Constitution was just as difficult as the delegated had predicted. It took two years for all
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Montesquieu said then the states would have to be split into small republics which would not help anyone because this would cause a lot of confusion and fighting in the country. With the Articles of Confederation, each state is pretty much their own republic as is and with the Articles of Confederation we have obviously seen that system does not work. But instead, the United States government need one large republic like Hamilton proposed. Like what Hamilton wrote he compared the nation and the states
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Jefferson played an integral role in the creation and signing of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution in 1783. Some of his beliefs rubbed off on his protégé, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president and the writer of the Declaration of Independence, was born on in 1743, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson was born into a very distinguished family of Virginia's planter elite. Jefferson was a proponent of the idea that westward expansion
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The Constitution of the United States of America was written at a convention held in Philadelphia in 1787. At this convention fifty-five delegates were chosen to amend the articles of confederation. The two major conflicts of the Philadelphia Convention were how each state was to be represented in congress, and how slaves were to be counted towards representation in the House of Representatives. The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan both presented very different ways of representation. The Virginia
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presidential office, making it 6 year instead of 4, which they believed to be effective against corruption and personal-benefits. Also, provision had been made where the head of department could speak for themselves and administration unlike old constitution, where the secretary of treasury had no opportunity like this. Another feature of the new
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within itself rather than in the hands of its adversaries, our founding fathers emphasized the significance of a consolidation of power between a government and its people. In order to accomplish this mission, America's forebear's assembled the constitution along with the Bill of Rights in order to not only protect the masses from despotism, but also to protect the government from insurrection. And yet, what becomes of a nation in the event that its leaders threaten the common good and safety of its
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but in reality, they would not stay that way. As time progressed, American leaders noticed that there had to be a more centralized government to run the people, much like that of England’s government. After the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, there were many problems that arose in the government. In a letter written
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