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- 441: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Attacking Federalist policies, he opposed a strong centralized Government and championed the rights of states. As a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, Jefferson came within three votes of election. Through a flaw in the Constitution, he became Vice President, although an opponent of President Adams. In 1800 the defect caused a more serious problem. Republican electors, attempting to name both a President and a Vice President from their own party ... so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean. Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. During Jefferson's second term, he ...
- 442: Thomas Jefferson
- ... world. However, Thomas Jefferson was publicly criticized for buying what some called worthless land (internet). Jefferson believed that the annexation and government of so vast a territory was unconstitutional. He wanted an amendment to the Constitution to ratify it (Rayner, p.110). The sale included over six hundred acres at a cost of less than three cents an acre (internet). For Jefferson, this was a diplomatic and political achievement. The extensive ... the colonists were ill tempered with Jefferson because of their lack of knowledge pertaining to the Louisiana Territory. However, I do believe Jefferson was in the wrong for purchasing territory before the ratification of the Constitution allowed him to do so. I also have no doubt that Thomas Jefferson displayed more concern toward his colonists than that of himself. He presents an unmaterialistic attitude by risking impeachment to justify his beliefs ...
- 443: Modern Japan Since 1945
- ... force to expand. Also Japan has to pick four important islands and give the rest to their rightful owner. On 1946 the leader of the Allies, Douglas MacArthur and his advisers draft a new Japanese constitution which the government accept without thinking about it. So on 1947 Japan democratic constitution went into effect. In 1950 the Japan manufacture return to prewar level. Instead of taking a lot of time Japan created machinery to help the worker manufacture. In 1952 the Allies had no longer occupied ...
- 444: Birth Control Or Legal Murder
- ... legal abortion too; maternal death rates for first trimester abortions are 61 per 100,000 cases (Factbot). Abortion is clearly the taking of a human life, an action that is wrong under the United States constitution. Women must stop being denied the facts and start being told the truth. The people of the US must start standing up for the rights of all people, born and unborn. "Abortion concerns not only ... how laws are changed. American laws hold sacred the value of human rights....but when do a woman's end, and a child's begin? The saving grace, and ultimately, the great flaw of the Constitution is it's variability. Our founding fathers created it as an open door, to allow future generations to correct their mistakes, but also to make them, and to contradict themselves ethically and morally, on the ...
- 445: Venezuela
- ... roughly 10% are blacks and 2% are Native America, the rest of the population are white or mestizo. About half of the population are under 19. Venezuela is a federal rebuplic, still governed by the constitution. Venezuela's current constitution was adopted in 1961. All citizens 18 years or older is allowed to vote. The people vote for their president, deputies and senators evry five years. In America we vote for president every four years ...
- 446: Early Colonies
- ... freemen could be in these two houses, but there was more representation due to higher numbers of representatives. This was much like New Haven, which had a bicameral government as well. New Haven had a Constitution called the "Fundamental Orders." It stated that the 7 officials, solely from the church, were only to meet twice a year. Although the meeting times became even more drastically spaced apart, all free men could ... break away from theocracy and move closer to democracy. The furthest developed government, in theory, was that of the Carolinas. A man named Berkeley obtained the land as a proprietor from King Charles. The Fundamental Constitution was set up as a balance between aristocracy and democracy. When the King gave the land to the proprietors, a bicameral government was set up. The governor was the head of the government. Directly below ...
- 447: Teenage Sex
- ... having sex is that some people feel that the teenager should have the right to choose what to do with their own bodies. They, as people of the United States, are loyal abiders of the Constitution as well as adults. The Constitution states that we have the freedoms of speech, religion, the press and assembly. Freedom of choice is in there, too. Teenagers might listen to the advice of adults and peers, but they have to be ...
- 448: Evolution Of Canada
- ... elections of 1976 on a secessionist platform, but in 1980 Quebec voters rejected a referendum on separate status. In 1979 Trudeau announced plans to repatriate the British North America Act, which functions as the Canadian constitution, but is amendable only by act of the British parliament. The provincial premiers were at first opposed to the move, but a compromise reached in 1981 was rejected only by Quebec and was signed into effect by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982. In 1987 Quebec signed the Canadian constitution, which had been altered to include a provision for Quebec to be recognized as a "distinct society." In 1988 a free-trade agreement was signed between Canada and the US; its supporters expected it tostimulate ...
- 449: Early Resistance To British Na
- ... in London, but the conferences failed to help them, and upon Gandhi's return to India, he and the other leaders of the INC were jailed. While in jail, they found out that the new constitution would discriminate against the "untouchable" caste by placing them in a different electorate. Gandhi immediately started fasting for change. The government knew they had to change this portion of the constitution quickly, for if Gandhi were to die, revolution would be imminent. Gandhi resigned as president of the INC in 1934 and left the organization entirely to pursue a plan to educate "From the bottom up ...
- 450: Native American Genocide
- ... as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day. That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s ... tragic fabrication since many Indian governmental forms were highly evolved and democratic. Some of them, especially the Iroquois, apparently had considerable effect on concepts later incorporated into the U.S. Articles of Confederation and the Constitution (of 1787). The systems of checks and balances, popular participation in decision making, direct representation, states' rights, and bicameral legislatures were all part of the Iroquois Confederacy, dating back to the 1400s. The Native Americans ...
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