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    The constitution means a lot to people in a variation of different ways. It means a lot to me because it tells us the all of our rights. The founding fathers put all of these rights on that piece of paper so that anyone who tries to take away our rights cannot. The constitution also means a lot to me because the founding fathers carefully chose these rights for us like the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and the freedom of press. They made sure these rights could give us our freedom so

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    Us Constitution Dbq

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    Political Science 1 September 22nd, 2015 The Constitution is not a Democratic Document The U.S. Constitution revolutionized the American political system, and shaped world history by inspiring other states to imitate its protection of civil liberties in the later adopted Bill of Rights, checks and balances between branches within the federal government, and guarantees to state governments. For the purpose of this paper, it is essential to analyze the Constitution in its early form because it established

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    More Perfect Constitution

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    The U.S. Constitution is an ageless book of wisdom written by James Madison to establish a federal government and to balance the legislative, executive, and judicial powers. But now is a new time with new problems arising. In the book, A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country by Larry Sabato, he develops 23 proposals to bring our Constitution up to date. In order for this to happen, we would have to have another Constitutional Convention

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    Unlike many other countries, Britain operates under an unwritten constitution. However, the British constitution works is able to operate in a satisfactory manner, despite being abstract when compared to other countries. The British constitution is compromised of a number of laws that have changed over the history of Great Britain. One of the most distinguishable components of the British constitution is the Bill of Rights of 1689, which, which set the supremacy of Parliament over the Crown following

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    United States of America’s constitution and the constitution of Russia would not be very similar. Due to the fact that the two nations are around 5,000 miles apart or even the fact that the Unites States Constitution was ratified on September 17, 1787, and Russia’s Constitution was ratified on December 12, 1993, a 206 year difference. Despite these facts, if one were to dig deeper into the Russian’s constitution, the many resemblances within the United States constitution begin to surface. However

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    U.S. Constitution vs. Georgia Constitution Bill of Rights A Bill of Rights recognizes and lists the rights individuals have and protects those rights from governmental interference, unless of course there is a valid reason for government action to take place. While the Bill of Rights for the Georgia Constitution and the United States Constitution do just that, they do have some distinctive similarities and differences. For example, the major difference I see is the fact that the Georgia Bill of

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    Originalism is one of many methods of interpreting the Constitution. Originalism is a fundamentals of interpretation that tries to explore the original meaning of the Constitution. The Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It guarantees essential rights to the citizens. Originalism has many different strengths and weaknesses. Though there are many different methods of interpreting the Constitution, originalism is not the most effective approach. Originalism is the method

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    From numerous points of view, the U.S. Constitution and Texas Constitutions are very much alike. They both epitomize the standards of delegate equitable government, in which power shows from the general population. Both contain a bill of rights that shields common freedoms from government violation. Both accommodate a dual council with a House of Representatives and a Senate. Also, both look for an arrangement of balanced governance and partition of forces between administrative, official, and legal

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    INTRODUCTION The Constitution of the United States was signed on the 17th of September in 1787. The delegates who signed the document were the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The Convention was presided over by George Washington. It was the Constitution of the United States that established the national government and certain basic fundamental laws apart from guaranteeing some basic rights to the citizens of the United States. The first Constitution of the United States

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    By ratifying the Constitution, the system can drastically change for the better of the upcoming nation. The nation would be able to change for the better, by improving on old ideas, while simultaneously adding new ones. Dismissing this ratification, and keeping the Constitution as is, will result in plentiful complications that will reflect a different side of the nation that isn’t intended to be seen. Keeping the joined unions, conflict and lingering wars can be resolved more efficiently, rather

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