I am strongly sided with the Federalists. A strong central government has been very beneficial to our country, as it has been proven. They wanted to see a change, whereas the Anti-Federalists wanted to keep the monarchy government. The federalists wanted to see a change for the better in our country. The Anti-federalists wanted to keep our government as is, wish would mean that we would basically be a monarchy. Doing this would cause hostility toward the government. The Federalists believed in
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During the 18th century Europeans began to question the traditional way of livelihood and the knowing. These people were called philosophes and they explored for new ways in order to understand and improve the society in which they lived in. These philosophes held on to the idea that natural laws were the best educator and was the answer to understanding human activities some of which are economics and government, through the study of societies natural patterns. This revolution in thinking and the
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A constitution is a set of principles, which may be codified or uncodified, that establishes the distribution of power within, that establishes the distribution of power within, a political institution. They limit government jurisdiction the rights of citizens and the method of amending the constitution itself. The UK Constitution is uncodified which means the UK constitution is not organised into singular document, but written in alternative ways for example a Convention. I will talk about the following
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Assess the strengths of the UK constitution [25 marks] A constitution is a set of principles, that may be uncodified (unwritten) or codified (written), that relates to how power is distributed within a political system, and establishes how a state is to be organised and governed. Constitutions seek to establish duties, powers and functions of various institutions of government and contribute to defining the relationship between the state and the individuals, for example, defining the extent
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England’s Royal Power Strengthened and Centralized? Looking at the Kings of England from about 1066 to 1215 A.D., there were many ingenious new laws and processes that were implemented in the Kingdom to strengthen and centralized the royal power. These laws and processes also allowed the Kingdom to overcome rebellions that would have arisen if they were not kept in check. An early document in this period was the “Doomsday Book”, in which William the Conqueror ordered it to be written in 1086 A
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Sir John A. Macdonald was a man who had many different responsibilities and jobs over the course of his life. He was a businessman, a lawyer and a politician who eventually became the first Prime Minister of Canada. He started his responsibilities at the very young age of fifteen, when he was fifteen he was a excellent lawyer in the city of Kingston. Just two years later he was the manager of a legal branch in Napanee. At 19 he opened a legal office in Kingston, he had many different responsibility
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We, Your Majesty’s loyal subjects, desire to take part in more of the prosperity of our Mother and Your Majesty. To ensure the prosperity of both our gracious and generous sovereigns, violence must not come, but peace must. To ensure peace, there requires more understanding of both sides of the dispute, Great Britain and her children, the colonies. For peace between Mother and her children, we propose to repealing the acts and duties placed upon us. And if we are given representation, we, your
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How much did absolutism and/or constitutionalism impact their states? Throughout Europe new methods of government were being used to try to centralize governments. There is evidence to suggest that Absolutism did prove to be a successful system of governing a state. Absolutism is a system in which sovereignty is ascribed solely to a king, rather than shared rule with an assembly. The monarch was limited in their actual power, but developed state bureaucracies and standing armies to work for them
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Have you ever wondered are we ruled by a king? The answer is no if we were we would have tyranny and that's what the founding fathers sought to prevent. In 1775 we won the war against Britain, the founding father looked for a better future that didn’t have tyranny so in 1787 they had a Constitution convention and in the end, they had made a constitution which hopefully would prevent tyranny. Now what is Tyranny? Tyranny is when one person rules over everyone, like home. The Constitution guards us
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The medieval Parliament was complete when it represented all the states in the realm: nobles, clergy, peasants and craftsmen but it was not a popular institution mainly because it meant taxation. Only by the strongest pressure of the Crown were Parliaments maintained during the first century of their existence and the best proof of this assertion lies in the fact that in those countries where the Crown was weak, Parliament ceased to exist. The notion that parliaments were the result of a democratic
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