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- 41: The Strategies The Meiji Government Used to Achieve Economic Development?
- The Strategies The Meiji Government Used to Achieve Economic Development? The Meiji government during the 1880's created both an institutional and constitution structure that allowed Japan in the coming decades to be a stabile and industrializing country. Two major policies and strategies that reinforced stability and economic modernization in Japan were the creation of a national public education system and the ratification of the Meiji constitution. Both these aided in stability and thus economic growth. The creation of a national education system aided in creating stability because it indoctrinated youth in the ideas of loyalty, patriotism, and obedience. Japan's education ... for Japan a reliable citizenry who respected the government and had the knowledge to act as "technically efficient clogs" in the new industries and administration that an industrializing state created. The ratification of the Meiji constitution drafted in the summer of 1887 and signed into law in 1889 helped create a stable constitutional order in Japan. The constitution was a gift of the emperor to the people and was made ...
- 42: Hong Kong Transferring Hands
- ... the governments of Hong Kong under the British and the new Special Administrative Region for China. The paper will also draw comparisons between the Basic Law, which will guide the Special Administrative Region, and the Constitution of the United States of America. I choose to compare the Basic law to these two governments, thinking that most people didn’t realize how similar the new and old system in Hong Kong really were. Also upon reading the Basic Law I was struck by the similarities with our own constitution. It is when you read further into the Basic law that you discover how different the system of governments in the United States of America and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong are. I ... of Hong Kong and put in place the concept of “One Country, Two Systems” to govern Hong Kong after the handover. The Joint Declaration also guarantees that the National People’s Congress will pass a constitution called “The Basic Law”. It will provide a framework for the new Hong Kong government. Finally China pledges that the Basic Law and the new Hong Kong system will remain in place for fifty ...
- 43: List Of Amendments
- ... than according to the rules of the common law. Amendment VIII (1791) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Amendment IX (1791) The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Amendment X (1791) The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Amendment XI (1798) The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any ... oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each ...
- 44: Federalism
- Federalism Federalism is a system of government that divides power between a national government and a regional government with the use of a constitution. Throughout the United States history, federalism has played a significant role in the constitution and the system of government adopted by the United States of America. Federalism has also changed throughout the course of America’s history to fit the constitution and the government. Montesquieu was a French philosopher who was very important in the American constitutional thought. He was a man who was referred to more that any other theoretical writer and wrote, "The ...
- 45: How The Great Wall Of China Ef
- ... the royal tennis court on the 20th June 1789, they declared a vow that was to be remembered as the ‘Tennis court oath.’ This vow was to never rest until they ‘provided France with a constitution,’ a basses that the Assembly could remodel France around. However, constitutions were new to this time in history and the constitutional writers needed time to discover the art of preparing such a document considering the lack of knowledge they had in the field. They may have been aided by information from the recent events in America and the benefits from studying their new American Constitution, but the Assembly still needed time to insure success, and this meant they needed a temporary base of principles to work from. The starting point in the history of the Assembly’s actions to change ... society of order, institutions like the provisional estates had been swept away to pave a path for a national, uniform system of administration. The August Decree had given the Assembly the chance to construct the constitution on fresh ground, but firstly they needed to devise a collection of principles on which the constitution could begin to be formed around. However, to come to a conclusion on what to include in ...
- 46: Amendments
- ... than according to the rules of the common law. Amendment VIII (1791) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Amendment IX (1791) The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Amendment X (1791) The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Amendment XI (1798) The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any ... oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each ...
- 47: The Republic
- ... relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half ... tends to be neither democracy nor oligarchy, but something in a mean between them, which is usually called a polity, and is composed of the heavy-armed soldiers. Now, if he intended to frame a constitution which would suit the greatest number of states, he was very likely right, but not if he meant to say that this constitutional form came nearest to his first or ideal state; for many would ... that is, by the three classes already mentioned, and those who were elected were to watch over the interests of the public, of strangers, and of orphans. These are the most striking points in the constitution of Hippodamus. The first of these proposals to which objection may be taken is the threefold division of the citizens. The artisans, and the husbandmen, and the warriors, all have a share in the ...
- 48: TLO vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?
- TLO vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid? In the case of New Jersey vs. TLO, I rule in favor of the petitioner, the state of New Jersey. In this case, I found no reason in the claims made by TLO and ... to be a lie. The school officials did no violate her 4th amendment, because they had a reasonable doubt. Finally, now TLO should be dealt her due punishment for her wrongs, and stop using the constitution to try and elude those punishments.
- 49: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... Tindall 452) Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" ,as it was called, would allow a state to be admitted into the Union if 10 percent of its voting population took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Union.(Tindall 452) Congress did not like Lincoln's plan so when Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana all completed the requirements for readmission into the Union, the Congress would not recognize them as states ... would be deducted from the Negros pay. In Alabama, blacks were also prohibited from any trade or business, except farming, without a license. In Florida, blacks who misbehaved could be whipped. South Carolina's new constitution read, "no person of color shall migrate into and reside in the state unless within twenty days after his arrival within the same he shall enter into a bond with two freeholders as security." After ... of unorganized territories subject to the will of Congress."(Tindall 458) The "forfeited rights theory" maintained that the states, by the acts of secession and war, had forfeited "all civil and political rights under the constitution."(Tindall 458) In 1866 Johnson began to lose what little support he still held in Congress.(Tindall 459) Johnson first challenged Congress when he vetoed a bill to extend the life of the Freedmen' ...
- 50: Censorship: Gradual Loss of Freedoms Promised In The Constitution
- Censorship: Gradual Loss of Freedoms Promised In The Constitution I object to the gradual loss of the freedoms promised in the Constitution. This last outrage, the loss of part of our Freedom of speech and assembly, contained within the telecomm act of 96 is just another step along the road to complete police state takeover. We are ...
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