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    The Great Compromise: The 3/5ths Compromise‚ and Tax The Great Compromise‚ the 3/5ths Compromise‚ and The Bill Of Rights justify that the making of the Constitution was a "bundle of compromises". The Great Compromise is the Constitutional Convention’s agreement to establish a two-house national legislature‚ with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house. To satisfy the smaller states‚ each state

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    ways were protected slave’s right. We know today’s constitution is changed many times‚ so some way is different with the original constitution. In the original constitution some ways did address slavery but some aspects not mentioned. “Three Fifth compromises” is a clause about the slavery. This clause made slave counted to three fifth human when the voting. This clause let slaves

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    maintain balance. However‚ this compromise also states that any state north of the Mason-Dixon line‚ “contemplated by this act‚ slavery and involuntary servitude‚ otherwise than in the punishment of crimes‚ whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted‚ shall be‚ and is hereby‚ forever prohibited.” It effectively divided the country by geography‚ and it indirectly splits people into a demographic. The Compromise of 1850 eventually overturned the Missouri Compromise‚ when Texas applies for statehood

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    Missouri V. Smith Analysis

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    The Argument and Conclusion of Mr. Smith’s Sanity Questioning a person’s sanity after the commitment of an inhumanely gruesome crime is completely natural‚ but it is something that we must do. It is hard to believe that someone sound of mind could murder‚ dismember‚ and hide the corpse of a loved man- but this is exactly what has happened in the case of Missouri v. Smith. In summary‚ here is the case: Mr. Johnson has been murdered by Mr. Smith. The murder was premeditated‚ meaning Smith planned

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    Part 1 1 Wife of Bath sees marriage as a means for her to have sex and she has a strong sexual appetite.  She feels that God gave women sexual desires and that it can’t be wrong to give in to those desires because they are God-given.  Furthermore‚ she says that she knows men also have strong sexual desires so she uses sex‚ or the lack of it‚ to control her husbands The Wife of Bath begins the Prologue to her tale by establishing herself as an authority on marriage‚ due to her extensive personal

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    The Compromise of 1850 was an effort to pacify the rising tensions between the north and the south. The issue of slavery was becoming a problem that none could overlook. This bitter rivalry was heating up even more so after the Mexican-American war. America won substantial amount of land‚ which stretched all the way to Mexico City. This land would give the south a grand portion of political power‚ surpassing the North. Henry Clay‚ supported by President Fillmore‚ created a compromise with the purpose

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    Constitution DBQ (rewrite) Prompt: Various concerns lead to the demise of the Articles of Confederation and the adoption of the United States Constitution. Discuss these concerns and the compromises that were made to arrive at the Constitution that is still in place today in the United States. The Articles of Confederation established the first governmental structure unifying the thirteen colonies and went into effect on March 1‚ 1781. Its purpose was to create a confederation of states where

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    The Missouri Compromise Sectional tension between the slave south and free north arose over the control of the vast western lands‚ in 1819. During that year‚ Missouri‚ the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River and carved from the Louisiana Purchase‚ wanted admission from the Congress to be recognized as a slave state. The territory contained a sufficient population to become a state‚ yet the House of Representatives withheld passing Missouri as a state. At the moment‚ the Tallmadge

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    Philadelphia and discussed how they can approve on the Confederation. Eventually they came up with the Constitution of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Before the Constitution was created there was a lot of arguing and compromising done. Without compromise it would be impossible to create the Constitution. The first problem that had to be solved to create the new government was to have a federal army. The larger problem with that was the federal government had no power and the states had all the

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    The Mormon Extermination in Missouri Some people search their whole lives looking for something to fulfill them‚ to give meaning‚ and to find purpose. Some go to their graves never finding it‚ but for others‚ they find that meaning and yearn to share it with others. In 1830‚ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was established by a man named Joseph Smith in New York. The members of this church soon received the nickname “Mormons” because of their adherence and belief to The Book of Mormon

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