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    conciliation with the thirteen colonies resulted in a fight for their liberty. After their victory, the thirteen colonies built their own nation, and eventually created two constitutions - one ultimately standing today. In an effort to prevent corruption within the majority – which would always defeat the minority – the Framers of the Constitution ensured that power remained within the people. Their efforts were propelled with the intent to prevent a monarchy, while simultaneously preserving the rights of the

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    Change is Good Since the year of 1787, the United States Constitution has persisted as the highest law in our land. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates were determined to set the Articles of Confederation aside and devise a fresh concept. To ensure that we would have a government with rights and freedoms, the delegates created what was called the separation of powers. The reasoning behind the division of government was to ensure that no one branch could vanquish the other. As a

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    of Test The Georgia Constitution has many differences then you think, from the US Constitution. The differences are determined by the time of creation of both the Georgia and United States constitutions. With that being said, the United States Constitution throws down the fundamental aspects of the Constitution like the legal, political and economic system. Then there is the Georgia Constitution, this constitution extends the first Amendment of the United States Constitution and provides us with

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    The Constitution of the United States is considered to be the supreme law of the land. While this is an accepted truth by most American citizens, the United States government employs a system of dual federalism in which individual states have their own constitutions. While both the individual state constitutions and the United States Constitution are similar in some aspects, they differ sharply other parts. Likely the most striking distinction between the two is when comparing the length of both

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    The United States constitution was written in 1787 by the founding fathers of this country. Now it might be appropriate to question why a document that is the basis of the government for one of the most culturally and racially diverse countries in the world, was written by a group of heterosexual, cisgender, rich, white men. Some might think that a constitution written well over 200 years ago would be outdated and irrelevant to the American society of today but with some research, it is quite the

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    The United States Constitution is filled to the brim with ambiguous language that people continue to debate the meaning of. There is one thing, however, the document makes very clear: the legislature legislates and the executive executes. Claims that President Obama has abused his power by passing DACA and DAPA completely ignore this fact. In reality, the president, as head of the executive branch, absolutely has the power to use prosecutorial discretion in how he or she executes the laws. The

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    The Constitution of the United States divide powers between both Congress and President in a way to prevent tyranny. The legislative and executive branches have major roles in America’s form of government. Each have significant roles but would overlay within each other especially when it comes to foreign policy. In the process of foreign policy, both sides tend to collide whether it may be Congress against the executive branch or vice versa. It becomes something contradictory in which Political Scientist

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    from the newly founded thirteen states of the United States of America met in Pennsylvania to amend the ineffective Articles of Confederation. In doing so, they drafted a Constitution that would serve as the law of land for that thirteen states and any others that would join the Union. The Framers designed the Constitution for the purpose that it could be amended in the future. This is because they would not be able to foresee all the circumstances that the state would face in the future, therefore

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    of the United States Constitution The role of the constitution plays an important part of the everyday life in the United States. It is a part of every person’s life even if they do not realize it. It usually has impacted your life in the past or even at every moment in someone’s life. “Although the Constitution created a new federal government, it took a courageous, brilliant, and farseeing Supreme Court chief justice to help realize the framers’ vision.” (Microsoft, 2007) The Constitution itself

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    Adopted on September 17, 1787, the Constitution changed both American and world governments forever. "The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation” (Milestones

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