|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 791 - 800 of 1316 matching essays
- 791: Julias Caesar
- ... again. By the following year all Optimate forces had been defeated and the Mediterranean world pacified. The basic prop for Caesar's continuation in power was the dictatorship for life. According to the traditional Republican constitution, this office was only to be held for six months during a dire emergency. That rule, however, had been broken before. Sulla had ruled as dictator for several years, and Caesar now followed suit. In ...
- 792: John Locke 2
- ... but with the people, and that the state is supreme, but only if it is bound by civil and what Locke referred to a natural law. Many of these thoughts were later embodied in the constitution. Some of these ideas, such as those relating to natural rights, property rights, the duty of the government to protect these rights and the rule of the majority are used in many places to this ...
- 793: John Locke
- ... political thinkers of the western world was John Locke. John Locke, the man who initiated what is now known as British Empiricism, is also considered highly influential in establishing grounds, theoretically at least, for the constitution of the United States of America. The basis for understanding Locke is that he sees all people as having natural God given rights. As God s creations, this denotes a certain equality, at least in ...
- 794: John Harlan
- ... the wearing of arm bands was legitimate, and therefor the Tinkers did not have a legitimate complaint. Harlan seems to have been a justice that wasn't afraid to sway. If he felt that the Constitution protected a right, he had no problem voting in favor of it. Nor did he have any trouble voting against something if he felt it to be unconstitutional. There were many times that Harlan was ...
- 795: John Dalton
- ... attraction. As a chemistry tutor, John taught from Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry. After six years John resigned to conduct private research supported by tutoring. In 1802, in his essay entitled "Experimental Essays on the Constitution of Mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam or Vapor from water and other liquids in different temperatures, both in a Torricellian vacuum and in air; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gasses by ...
- 796: Jackson, Andrew
- ... that though all branches of the government were equal, the president came first before anyone else. He also didn't like the thought that the Supreme Court was the final say on issues concerning the Constitution. He believed he had the last word. Jackson's personality made many enemies. Henry Clay was one of Jackson's greatest enemies. The Whig party was founded on the basis of going against Jackson. They ...
- 797: Influences Of Virginia Woolf
- ... die of a terminal illness, Virginia wrote: The waiting in intolerable the worst of it is he is so tired and worn out, and wants to die I shall do my best to ruin my constitution before I get to this age, so as to die quicker I can not bear to become the wretch my father became when he reached my stage of life. (Bond 62). Virginia had great difficulties ...
- 798: Harriet Stowe
- ... of our free states are emerging the poor, shattered, broken remnants of families,--men and women, escaped, by miraculous providences, from the surges of slavery,--feeble in knowledge, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from a system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christianity and morality. They come to seek a refuge among you; they come to seek education, knowledge, Christianity. What do you owe to these poor ...
- 799: Fidel Castro 2
- ... cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for ...
- 800: Fredrick Douglass
- ... country. As described by Douglass in his autobiography Life and Times, Garrison made sweeping attacks on organized religion because the churches refused to take a stand against slavery. He also believed that the U.S. Constitution upheld slavery. Garrison said that abolitionists should refuse to vote or run for political office because our government was so ill founded. He also called for the Union to be dissolved, demanding that it be ...
Search results 791 - 800 of 1316 matching essays
|
