I. II. ARTICLE 2 OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION SECTION 1:THE RIGHTS‚ QUALIFICATIONS‚ AND ROLES OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT A. Vesting clause. 1. President of the U.S has executive power. a) The president a strong mandate to enforce the country’s laws and administer the country’s public policies. 2. The president and vice president will hold their office for 2‚ four year terms. B. Electoral college. 1. Each state gets a number of electoral votes equal to its number of Senators plus its number
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Book Review Of How Democratic Is the American Constitution By Robert A. Dahl Context The American Constitution‚ seen by Americans as guiding light and bedrock of civil rights and democracy is as Robert A. Dahl argues not so democratic and does not guard the rights of individuals. P.18 Dahl places his work asking fundamental questions as to the use and application of the constitution in the modern world‚ not as an attack as Gordon S. Wood from New York Review of Books clearly states on the
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The constitution is one of the only things that affects everyone and everything in the United States. It’s important to the people because it makes the United States different from other countries. The U.S. Constitution has been around for two hundred and thirty years since it was written on the 17 of September‚ 1787. Since the constitution is over two hundred years old‚ is it still relevant to the people of the US today? Although the constitution is way older than the people living in the United
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The Iroquois Constitution forms the first democratic republic and example of sovereign governance by the consent of a people in North American history. The confederacy of the League of Five Nations‚ who constructed the Iroquois Constitution‚ preceded the European colonization. Historical records and references provide evidence of the strong influence the Iroquois legislative process and constitution had on shaping the ideas and words of the US Constitution. Specific and distinct similarities unquestionably
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how power should be divided between local and national governments‚ common laws or the protection of the unalienable individual rights. Their first attempt at solving this issue was the Articles of Confederation‚ which was a failure for the most part‚ but not completely as it formed a template for a new document. After the failure of the articles‚ the state delegates tried to revise the articles‚ but instead‚ constructed the Constitution. One of many distinction between the Articles of Confederation
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United States Constitution is something that dates back to well over 200 years ago which was written by our founding fathers. The Constitution lays out all the laws that we have in this country today. It guides the United States government systems and keeps them running smoothly knowing that they are following the laws that they need to be. Our government system of the United States would never be as dominant as it is now if he did not have the Constitution put in place. The Constitution does everything
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place. The Articles of Confederation led to the Constitution of the United States. Although similar in some aspects‚ very different in others. The articles had many weaknesses that were changed in the Constitution. There were many compromises made between the states in order to effectively draft the Constitution. Roger Sherman’s Plan kept the Constitutional Convention together which was later known as the Great Compromise. The fight for the Constitution had just begun and the ratification processes
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The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution are two contrasting documents written by the Founding Fathers. The documents are very different from one another yet they share a few rare similarities. The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation prompted Congress to scrap them and begin again with the Constitution. Not all problems were solved by the Constitution‚ but they were significantly reduced. In any case‚ the Constitution‚ the foundation of America‚ has stood for centuries with very
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The U.S. Constitution The United States constitution was adopted in 1787 as a written plan of government for the United States. It contains a Preamble‚ or an introduction. The Preamble outlines the purpose of the document. The purposes include: to form a new and better country‚ establish justice‚ establish a government to provide order‚ protect the citizens and their freedom. The U.S. constitution has 7 Key Principles. Limited Government If men were angels‚ no government would be necessary
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Tim Nelson 10/05/01 Honors English Period 2 Compare & Contrast: Iroquois Constitution & U.S. Constitution The Constitutions of both the Iroquois and the United States have similarities and differences between them. The Iroquois constitution came earlier in history than the U.S one did. Some of the same ideas that were in the Iroquois’ constitution were carried over to some of the ideas that we use in our government today. In this paper I will compare and contrast these ideas as they
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