Name:August Robertson Date:jan. 19, 16 Founding Parents of America ● Answer these four essential questions: ● Choose one of two presentations: ○ What they did that made them so important? ○ When they did what they were so important for? ○ How what they did helps us today? ○ If they did not do what they did how would it affect us today? ○ Write a biographical essay (7001000 words) ○ Create a skit about your founding parent (cover two or three main points of their life) ● Both options
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation was written by Joseph J. Ellis and published by Vintage Books in February 2002. According to josephellishistorian.com and mtholyoke.edu, Joseph J. Ellis is a very accomplished historian, author, and professor, currently teaching in the Leadership Studies Program at Williams College. He studied at Yale University (Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A.) and College of William and Mary (B.A.). Specializing in the history of the American Revolution, Presidents and the roots
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loses the people’s consent, the people have a right to abolish it. Because of the king of Great Britain’s “history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states,” the Founding Fathers were justified in declaring independence. The King passed many acts, especially the Intolerable Acts, which enriched England, but left the colonists unable to enter into trade on their own. As a protest to the Tea Act, the colonists dumped
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Founding father Alexander Hamilton worked in the George Washington administration. He publicly advocated the ratification of the constitution and, in attempt to promote it, he co-wrote the Federalist papers, a collection of 85 articles written by different founding fathers that attempted to promote . In particular, he wrote numbers 16 and 17 which described his thoughts on the constitution and emerging government. Through these articles he highlighted the importance of a ratified “law of the land”
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The Founding Fathers were justified in rebelling against the British government due to the fact that they could not represent themselves properly and were being governed by individuals that were an ocean away from them. The taxes being imposed on them were outrageous and hitting the colonists hard. British soldiers stationed in the colonies intruded in their homes and private lives without them being able to say anything. There were many things they could have done instead of outright rebellion of
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John P. Roche is a political scientist who argues that our founding fathers were democratic statesmen in which created a constitution that supports not only our nation but as well as the people. He says that the Philadelphia Convention where a nationalist reform caucus that created a compromise that was acceptable to the people and helped increase national interest. He also notes that under the articles of confederation the founding fathers where able to get every state to appoint delegates to Philadelphia
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Glut €nterpriSe$ Glut €nterpriSe$ Australia’s Health Revival- The founding of a new low calorie fast food chain Prepared by Karen Leigh For Ms. Janet Bradley 1 Madeup Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia 7th February 2014 * Executive Summary The establishment of a low calorie fast food chain in Australia requires an in-depth analysis of the food industry. Fast food industries internal and external environments require comprehensive research to ascertain the viability
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Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins with the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth - co-written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I'm going to specifically
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‘Transformed beyond recognition from the vision of the Founding Fathers.’ Discuss this view of the modern US constitution. In many ways, the US constitution has changed and shifted since its creation in 1787. It has changed, with power being put into the hands of bodies not specified in the constitution and certain constraints on power no longer existing. All in all, however, the constitution has maintained the very thing it was created for- to limit the power of the government and protect the
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Prompt: Were the Founding Fathers (Sons of Liberty) patriots or traitors? Patriotism has always been a truly ambiguous term. The media portrays it with glory, while others describe it as “rebel” or “red-neck.” In addition, the fine line between patriot and traitor has always existed, as decisions and acts that have been made for the sake of so-called “patriotism” are called into question. The case of the Founding Fathers is also controversial. Before the Revolutionary War, the Sons of Liberty were
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