Distinction between a written and unwritten constitution is not real. There is no constitution which is either wholly written or entirely unwritten. All written constitutions grow and expand if they are to endure and serve their purpose. The real constitution is a living body of general prescriptions carried into effect by living persons. No constitution can ever be a strait-jacket. Nor can it be ever in the mind of the constitutional fathers to work out in all details a complete and final
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A constitution is a set of fundamental and fortified rules‚ which govern the conduct of a nation‚ by establishing its approach and system. A constitution can be either codified or un-codified‚ it defines the principles that society should conform to. The constitution controls the government by limiting functions of different departments‚ while the word constitution has a variety of meanings. Bolingbroke stated in 1733 that: “By constitution‚ we mean‚ whenever we speak with propriety and exactness
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United States history from 1800 to 1859 was demonstrating national greatness and national unity. Yet‚ by 1860 North and South were so polarized that the lower South seceded immediately upon Lincoln’s election. In the decades leading up to the civil war there were division within divisions at work that led Southerners to believe that they had no other recourse but to secede from the Union. This paper will assess the reasons why compromise seemed impossible in 1860. By providing an assessment of
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Was Reconstruction a failure? As the bloody Civil War drew to a close‚ the period of reconstruction began to take shape across the states. There were many questions aroused following the war regarding the physical re-building of the nation‚ demobilisation and most importantly what was to replace the pre-war norm of slavery? America’s position on the latter‚ was of course both vague‚ with differing opinions from the North to the South‚ these differences which should have been settled with the outcome
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The First Amendment of the United States Constitution is primarily supported by the government in America‚ however‚ are the rights stated in this amendment promised in other countries? The words of the amendment emphasize the importance of the right to petition the government; the ability of American citizens to request changes in the government. Although the amendment provides Americans with a sense of awareness on the happenings of the world‚ other countries‚ such as Ukraine‚ do not endorse the
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northerners to join the cause. By the 19th century‚ the institution in the north was almost gone‚ but remained strong in the south because they depended on slave labor. As numbers of members grew in the north‚ it slowly disappeared in the south. “Southern state legislatures banned antislavery material.” “By the late 1830s‚ there were no known abolitionists in the south‚ and northern abolitionists were seen committing acts of violence against the south.” An abolitionist called John Brown wanted to purchase
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the U.S. Constitution reflect the political atmosphere of the United States in the late eighteenth century? What domestic and international concerns prompted the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Explain how these concerns were addressed by the debates of the framers‚ and what extent did the final document successfully meet the political challenges of the period? Before the U.S. Constitution the political atmosphere during the late eighteenth century was very turbulent. The Constitution is a direct
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Jared Varley Dr. Morgan HST 390 24 September 2012 Abraham Lincoln’s Political and Moral Slavery Dilemma The sixteenth President of the United States of America‚ the Great Emancipator‚ Abraham Lincoln casts quite a historical shadow over any other competing figure. Lincoln was brought into the world on February 12th‚ 1809 to an incredibly modest upbringing in which he would mold himself into a successful lawyer and later a politician. Abraham received little formal education during his childhood
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President Abraham Lincoln thought of slavery as an evil and inhumane act. In the 1850’s‚ he stated that slavery was “an unqualified evil to the negro‚ the white man‚ and the State” (History.com 2009). Although he initially never planned to interfere with slavery in the states where it existed when he first took presidency‚ the course of the war convinced him that abolition was the best decision militarily and morally. If it were not for Lincoln‚ slavery would likely have continued to exist for decades
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Revolution introduced great changes in the industrial and technological development. Both the North and the South created many advances in railroad and water transportation. The Union‚ however‚ was far more advanced technologically than the Confederate states . Consequently‚ the North made greater and more effective use of progress in weapons‚ communication‚ transportation and medicine than South . Although the industrial development made the nation very widely known‚ both the south and the north were
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