THE GUARD For a brief moment‚ while waiting for my instructor to check the plotter‚ I glanced out through the window of the gunnery storeroom at the surrounding Ambala countryside. It lay green and crisp beneath a crackling December sun. Winter was already tightening its cold embrace over North India. Behind me lay the boundary fence of the command Air Force base‚ the largest air force station north of Delhi. And beyond the Air Force station was the Grand Trunk Road‚ the life line connecting Srinagar
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about tyranny that almost tore our country apart? Tyranny has been a major cause in America leading up to the Constitutional Constitution. The problem with tyranny was that the three branches of government‚ legislative‚ executive‚ and judicial‚ took no effort to check each other‚ which led any one branch to having too much power‚ and the large states “bullying” small states‚ trying to control the small states. The question that Americans should be asking is: “How does the U.S. Constitution‚ the nation’s
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The Ratification of the Constitution There were many arguments for and against the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The people that wanted the Constitution to be ratified and people who opposed it were called federalists and anti-federalists. They would get into heated arguments whether or not the Constitution should be ratified. The worst thing about the Constitution is it has no Bill of Rights to protect the people’s rights. Though the Constitution doesn’t have a Bill of
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A constitution is a set of rules that establishes basic principles within the government and its internal institutions. These rules outline the powers and functions of the institutions along with regulating the relationships between these institutions‚ the state and individuals. Constitutions can be classified in various ways. Like the majority of countries‚ the USA adopts a codified constitution‚ a written constitution that has been formed into one single document. The USA’s Constitution and Bill
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The Constitution played a major role in causing the Civil War. One of its biggest impacts on America was creating a division between the states. This dissolution between the states is largely due to varying opinions on the legality and morality of slavery. It was impossible for the nation’s founders to know all of the major issues their nation would face in the future‚ so the Constitution‚ therefore‚ does not address certain topics that would lead to great dispute later on in the country such as
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During the course of the French Revolution‚ the revolutionaries wrote three constitutions which were all reactions to what was happening at the time in which they were written. The Constitution of 1791 set up a limited monarchy under Louis XVI because the revolutionaries were more conservative at this point and did not want to be rid of Louis‚ but rather to just control his power. The Constitution of 1793 set up a republic because the revolutionaries discovered Louis plotting counter revolutions
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to construct a constitution for a young and ever changing country. The Founding Fathers’ were influenced by the Romans‚ the English and many others along the way‚ hoping that they would be more successful at producing liberty‚ order‚ and justice. The result is the long standing Constitution that has guided America and the government through the founding to present day. Greco-Roman Tradition. The Roman constitution lacked a lot of the qualities that the Framers’ of the constitution we looking for
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promise them quiet and security." He was warning George Washington about all the bad things to come if the Constitution did not go into effect. John Jay was a strong Federalist and was going to fight for the people. Jay was an active supporter of the U.S. Constitution‚ and when he saw that the U.S. possessed a weak central government‚ he was determined to do something and that’s what he did. Jay was also chose for the governor of New york when he returned from England. John
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that he believed we needed the government in order to not be in war. Thomas Hobbes influenced the present world with his ideas. His ideas helped as an argument in favor of the Constitution. He said that "the government should serve and protect all the people in the society"‚ his influenced the United States Constitution and it
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The constitution was established by our founding fathers to ensure the people that they were heard. That peoples natural rights were protected. Two political parties were dedicated to upholding the constitution‚ which each party interpreted differently. With modernization of society‚ rights changed and evolved. Which focused on meeting people’s needs‚ because of that parties changed too. Traditional American Republicanism The constitution was made to uphold a republic and the republic is meant
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