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- 371: Building And Keeping A
- ... America we were well on our way to developing a continental empire. This trust in America was secured by actions. Our government kept making the people happy by writing a bill of rights and a constitution that gave Americans the freedom that they had wanted when they went to war with Britain. The people wanted rights that they felt were fair and necessary to their existence. The government outlined these rights in the Bill of Rights. The people agreed with them. The constitution outlined rules to form a more perfect Union. Americans excepted the contents of the Constitution and began to build their lives around it. With this a continental empire was developed, now all they had to do was keep it running. America had built a continental empire when it broke ...
- 372: "Restore the Emperor Expel the Barbarians": The Causes of the Showa Restoration
- ... up its industrial base. It retooled, basing itself on the western model. The Japanese government sent out investigators to learn the ways of European and American industries.Footnote11 In 1889, the Japanese government adopted a constitution based on the British and German models of parliamentary democracy. During this same period, railroads were constructed, a banking system was started and the samurai system was disbanded.Footnote12 Indeed, it seemed as if Japan ... Restoration Samurais were stripped of their positions and even prohibited from wearing the Samurai Sword in 1869. Footnote13 Frank K, Upham Law and Social Change in Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987) 49. The Japanese constitution was adopted in 1889. It set up a British type parliament. The constitution did not provide the parliamentary government with power over the military branch. Footnote14 Karel van Wolferen The Enigma of Japanese Power (New York: Random House, 1990) 38. At the turn of the century Japan ...
- 373: Restore the Emperor Expel the Barbarians: The Causes of the Showa Restoration
- ... up its industrial base. It retooled, basing itself on the western model. The Japanese government sent out investigators to learn the ways of European and American industries.Footnote11 In 1889, the Japanese government adopted a constitution based on the British and German models of parliamentary democracy. During this same period, railroads were constructed, a banking system was started and the samurai system was disbanded.Footnote12 Indeed, it seemed as if Japan ... Restoration Samurais were stripped of their positions and even prohibited from wearing the Samurai Sword in 1869. Footnote13 Frank K, Upham Law and Social Change in Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987) 49. The Japanese constitution was adopted in 1889. It set up a British type parliament. The constitution did not provide the parliamentary government with power over the military branch. Footnote14 Karel van Wolferen The Enigma of Japanese Power (New York: Random House, 1990) 38. At the turn of the century Japan ...
- 374: French Revolution
- ... XVI. He called the Estates General into session to raise taxes to pay debts incurred due to the American Revolution. Once in session, the Third Estate, the commoners, demanded a representative National Assembly and a Constitution. When Louis XVI denied their request, they sat on the tennis court and swore not to leave until their demands were met. This is known as the "Tennis Court Oath." This stalemate was broken by ... July 14, 1789. Louis XVI agreed to their demands. This revolution resulted in the end of the old paradigm and the beginning of the Enlightenment paradigm. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Constitution of 1791 were written. Some of these changes include freedom of speech , due process under law, equality under law. It also enabled the creation of a laissez-fairre economic policy, with a free market and free trade. I believe that this revolution was inevitable due to the conditions that the majority of the population was living under. It will also have a lasting impact because the Constitution will protect these rights.
- 375: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... women workers from abuse and unsafe conditions. In 1923, Alice Paul, the leader of the National Women's Party, took the next apparent step. She drafted an Equal Right's Amendment for the United States Constitution. Such a federal law it was argued, would ensure that men and women have equal rights throughout the United States. A constitutional amendment would apply, disregarding where a person lived. Birth Control Movement The second ... with her prediction that the movement should anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule. Opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, organized by Phyllis Schalfly, feared that a statement like the ERA in the Constitution would give the government too much control over women's personal lives. Just like with suffrage, there were still very few women in state legislatures to vote their support, so male legislatures once again had ... their power to decide if women should have equal rights. In 1982, the deadline for ratification came and ERA was just three states short of the thirty-eight needed to write it into the US constitution. Seventy-five percent of the women legislatures in those three pivotal states supported the ERA, but only forty-six percent of the men voted to ratify. Polls were constantly showing a large majority of ...
- 376: Why Puritans Came to America: Freedom
- ... American people's civil liberties. When the Bill of Rights was adopted, political motivations superceded libertarian views. James Madison claimed that this "nauseous project of amendments" would "kill the opposition[for the ratification of the constitution] everywhere..." In the beginning, the Bill of Rights was first drafted up to appease the Anti-Federalists and coax them into ratifying the constitution. For without the Bill of Rights the constitution may have never been ratified. After its ratification, the Bill of Rights evolved into more realistic terms. The Federalists began to notice the importance of the Bill of Rights as much as the AntiΔ ...
- 377: The Watergate Scandal
- ... people who supported the civil rights, anti-war, and environmental movements of the 1960s. McGovern had fought to make the nomination process more open and democratic. Congress had also passed the 26th amendment to the Constitution allowing eighteen-year-Olds to vote. As a result, the 1972 Democratic Convention was the first to include large numbers of woman, minorities, and young people among the delegates. McGovern's campaign ran into trouble ... uncover very important secrets. Nixon would not appear at the congressional committee, complaining that if he were to testify it would violate the separation of powers. Even thought that idea doesn't appear in the constitution at all. It was a developing tradition to protect the president. This made people feel that Nixon was abusing executive privileges just to cover-up his crimes. When Nixon had no possible way of protecting ... Committee voted to bring impeachment charges in July against Nixon. The first one said that the president knowingly covered-up the crimes of Watergate. The second said that he used Government Agencies to violate the Constitution of the U.S.. The third asserted that he would be impeached because of the withholding of evidence from Congress. Shortly after the house committee voted to impeach the President, the case want to ...
- 378: The Sedition Act of 1798
- ... of support for the government. Those who spoke against the Sedition bill were accused of being in league with the Jacobeans. Edward Livingston, in opposing the bill said, "If we are ready to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that our measures are forging for them, if they did not resist." The Federalist accused Livingston ... the Executive Order of Feb.19, 1942 that led to War Relocation these actions were taken when fear controlled the public and an agenda controlled the people in authority. Thankfully, the American people have the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to bring them back from the edge, and to force those in positions of responsibility to accountability. The responsibility of government lies with the governed. If the American people react ... collective American consciousness. The abdication of personal responsibility erodes liberty, creating an atmosphere of dependency, that leads to bigger government and its pseudo security. Edward Livingston's statement, "If we are ready to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that our measures are forging for them, if they did not resist," serves as a ...
- 379: Effects of World War II on Japan
- ... totally changed after World War II, Japan changed totally its politics and established a different government, ran by the different points of view of the people, that sought more freedom in their society. "The Japanese Constitution of 1946, pledge to uphold the high ideals of peace and democratic order with the international society and also the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for all" (The Japan of Today, 15). This citation shows the change in the Japanese after World War II. In this constitution the Japanese created a more democratic country and also a very opened minded constitution because before World War II, the Japanese were very close minded and that led them to have problems with other countries that had different views of things that the Japanese. . There are other aspects ...
- 380: Lincoln's Legacy
- ... must treat all men as our brothers in order to keep the American society united. Lincoln also stated that a great civil war is something that is very difficult for a nation to endure. The Constitution states that we must create and maintain a more perfect union. That is impossible when we are fighting against ourselves. Lincoln said that "A house divided against itself can not stand." This is what James Madison, "the father of the constitution," meant in the constitution. We must compromise to solve our disagreements and keep our country together. The idea that many men had died for our country and that we should not forget them was strongly emphasized in he ...
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