1) The document summarizes key events leading up to the American Revolution, including the Stamp Act of 1765 and writings from the Stamp Act Congress, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," and the Declaration of Independence.
2) It outlines the colonists' growing opposition to British taxation and control over the colonies through documents like the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress and Thomas Paine's arguments for independence.
3) The document concludes by presenting the Declaration of Independence, which formally announced the separation of the 13 colonies from Britain and established the United States as an independent nation.
The Declaration of Independence, elaborating upon the following topics relevant and related topics:
-Purpose
-Committee that drafted the document
-Structure of the document
-Jefferson's influences
-Themes of the document
-Free State Theory
-Misconceptions
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Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of ManDan Ewert
The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man. For use in discussion of the influence of Locke and Rousseau on the respective declarations, the differences in the declarations, and what they say about the character and priorities of their respective peoples and how subsequent history developed.
The Declaration of Independence, elaborating upon the following topics relevant and related topics:
-Purpose
-Committee that drafted the document
-Structure of the document
-Jefferson's influences
-Themes of the document
-Free State Theory
-Misconceptions
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Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of ManDan Ewert
The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man. For use in discussion of the influence of Locke and Rousseau on the respective declarations, the differences in the declarations, and what they say about the character and priorities of their respective peoples and how subsequent history developed.
Private case analysis questions and requirements1. Answer the f.docxsleeperharwell
Private case analysis questions and requirements:
1. Answer the following questions after you read the case:
a. Discuss the source of Jackson’s wealth and determine the personality matrix. Provide justifications.
b. Discuss (using narrative statement) return objective for the Jackson portfolio; and then
calculate the return objective.
c. Evaluate Jackson’s risk objective, including both willingness and ability to take risk.
Justify with at least two reasons.
d. Discuss five constraints for the Jackson portfolio. Justify each constraint with at least two reasons.
2. Requirements:
a. Do this individually or as a team (if work as a team, the maximum team member is 5).
b. On the cover page, clearly write down your name or your team members' names.
c. Consider this as a “reflection report”, which means you need to provide detailed and comprehensive discussions.
d. You must type using WORD; no handwriting is allowed.
e. No requirement on the minimum words or pages; but you need to clearly answer my questions and meet my requirements.
f. Due date: 3/9, Thursday class
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation.
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Lesson 1, Part 1: Foundations of American Government
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
-George Washington
· The Declaration of Independence
· The U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights
· The Enlightenment and Political Philosophy
Expected Outcomes
To understand the philosophical principles behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and how these principles influence the structure and process of government.
Overview
The United States, as a nation, was born of the American Revolution of 1776. This revolution cut the political ties between England and its American colonies. Many "Americans" living in the colonies had complained about harsh British rule. King George of England had ruled over the colonies with a heavy hand, increasing taxes with the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act, for example. These abuses began to divide the "patriots" in favor of independence and the "loyalists" in favor of the English Crown.
Tensions between the American colonials and British soldiers boiled over in the Boston Massacre, when a mob harassed British soldiers, who then fired their muskets into the crowd, killing three, mortally wounding two others, and injuring six.
Another famous incident which helped inspire the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party of 1773, launched as a protest to the British Tea Act. This Act gave the British East India Company a tea monopoly, shutting out American traders. Bostonians disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, then boarded the British ships and dumped all 342 containers of tea into the harbor.
Two years later, in 1775, there were more serious conflicts between colonials and British troops: the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the prelude for a full conflict. The American Revolutionary War was long, bloody and ended with the French-assisted victory of the American Continental Army in Yorktown in 1781.
An understanding of American government and politics should consider two documents related to this war and its aftermath. The first is the Declaration of Independence, which launched the American Revolutionary War; and the second is the U.S. Constitution, which replaced the post-war Articles of Confederation and which remains the highest law of the land.
This lesson analyzes these documents, noting how they were part of a trans-Atlantic Enlightenment movement with emphasis on reason, freethinking, natural law, popular sovereignty, and human equality. Many of these ideas are visible in the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson. These ideas provided the ideological and philosophical framework for the American Revolution.
After the expulsion of the English monarchy, the Articles of Confederation - in effect from 1776 to 1787 - turned the former colonies into largely autonomous states with a weak federal government. However, many people thought that this decentralized system did not solve the problem of providing for a common defense or for ...
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(1) Please explain how the Constitution provides for a system of separation of powers and checks and balances. Provide a fully developed essay of at least 500 words, and cite sources used
(2) Describe how a bill becomes a law at the national level, in a fully developed essay of at least 500 words
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WEEK 1: FEDERALISM
Part 1: Foundations of American Government
Lesson 1, Part 1: Foundations of American Government
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
-George Washington
· The Declaration of Independence
· The U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights
· The Enlightenment and Political Philosophy
Expected Outcomes
To understand the philosophical principles behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and how these principles influence the structure and process of government.
Overview
The United States, as a nation, was born of the American Revolution of 1776. This revolution cut the political ties between England and its American colonies. Many "Americans" living in the colonies had complained about harsh British rule. King George of England had ruled over the colonies with a heavy hand, increasing taxes with the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act, for example. These abuses began to divide the "patriots" in favor of independence and the "loyalists" in favor of the English Crown.
Tensions between the American colonials and British soldiers boiled over in the Boston Massacre, when a mob harassed British soldiers, who then fired their muskets into the crowd, killing three, mortally wounding two others, and injuring six.
Another famous incident which helped inspire the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party of 1773, launched as a protest to the British Tea Act. This Act gave the British East India Company a tea monopoly, shutting out American traders. Bostonians disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, then boarded the British ships and dumped all 342 containers of tea into the harbor.
Two years later, in 1775, there were more serious conflicts between colonials and British troops: the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the prelude for a full conflict. The American Revolutionary War was long, bloody and ended with the French-assisted victory of the American Continental Army in Yorktown in 1781.
An understanding of American government and politics should consider two documents related to this war and its aftermath. The first is the Declaration of Independence, which launched the American Revolutionary War; and the second is the U.S. Constitution, which replaced the post-war Articles of Confederation and which remains the highest law of the land.
This lesson analyzes these documents, noting how they were part of a trans-Atlantic Enlightenment movement with emphasis on reason, freethinking, natural law, popular sovereignty, and human ...
This is the -declare-txt-- In Congress- July 4- 1776 The unanimous De.docxAustinIKkNorthy
This is the "declare.txt":
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness h.
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Letter to JamesMadisonTO JAMES MADISON.Paris, December 20, 1.docxSHIVA101531
Letter to James
Madison
TO JAMES MADISON.
Paris, December 20, 1787.
Dear Sir,—My last to you was of October the 8th, by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July the
18th, September the 6th and October the 24th, were successively received, yesterday, the day
before, and three or four days before that. I have only had time to read the letters; the printed
papers communicated with them, however interesting, being obliged to lie over till I finish my
despatches for the packet, which despatches must go from hence the day after to-morrow. I have
much to thank you for; first and most for the cyphered paragraph respecting myself. These little
informations are very material towards forming my own decisions. I would be glad even to
know, when any individual member thinks I have gone wrong in any instance. If I know myself,
it would not excite ill blood in me, while it would assist to guide my conduct, perhaps to justify
it, and to keep me to my duty, alert. I must thank you, too, for the information in Thomas Burke’s
case; though you will have found by a subsequent letter, that I have asked of you a further
investigation of that matter. It is to gratify the lady who is at the head of the convent wherein my
daughters are, and who, by her attachment and attention to them, lays me under great obligations.
I shall hope, therefore, still to receive from you the result of all the further inquiries my second
letter had asked. The parcel of rice which you informed me had miscarried, accompanied my
letter to the Delegates of South Carolina. Mr. Bourgoin was to be the bearer of both, and both
were delivered together into the hands of his relation here, who introduced him to me, and
who, at a subsequent moment, undertook to convey them to Mr. Bourgoin. This person was an
engraver, particularly recommended to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Hopkinson. Perhaps he may have
mislaid the little parcel of rice among his baggage. I am much pleased that the sale of western
lands is so successful. I hope they will absorb all the certificates of our domestic debt speedily, in
the first place, and that then, offered for cash, they will do the same by our foreign ones.
The season admitting only of operations in the cabinet, and these being in a great measure secret,
I have little to fill a letter. I will, therefore, make up the deficiency, by adding a few words on the
Constitution proposed by our convention.
I like much the general idea of framing a government, which should go on of itself, peaceably,
without needing continual recurrence to the State legislatures. I like the organization of the
government into legislative, judiciary and executive. I like the power given the legislature to
levy taxes, and for that reason solely, I approve of the greater House being chosen by the people
directly. For though I think a House so chosen, will be very far inferior to the present Congress,
will be very illy qualified to legislate for the Union, for foreign nations, etc., yet this evil does
not weig ...
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Read and print out this webpage about the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/seneca.html
New Study Guide Questions1. How does this Declaration compare with the Declaration of Independence? What points is it makingby imitating some aspects of the earlier declaration? What points does it echo? Does it ever critiquethe earlier declaration?
2. Where and how does the 1848 Declaration differ from the 1776 declaration? What do“sentiments” mean in 1848? (You can research this online—you must cite sources!) Cite specificlines and passages. If King George III is the villain in 1776, how would you understand theopponent in 1848?
3. Read this paragraph about the origins of The Declaration of Sentiments:
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two American activists in the movement to abolish slavery called
together the first conference to address Women's rights and issues in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Part of the
reason for doing so had been that Mott had been refused permission to speak at the world anti-slavery convention in
London, even though she had been an official delegate. Applying the analysis of human freedom developed in the
Abolitionist movement, Stanton and others began the public career of modern feminist analysis.”(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp)Given that Abolitionists in England and America were often women, in what ways can you see theseearly feminists drawing upon their greater understanding of slavery to give themselves more power?Reading the The Declaration of Sentiments with this frame of reference in mind, how does it changeyour understanding of their ideals? Cite specific lines and passages.
4. Consider the resolutions before the declaration; how would you paraphrase each of these into ourcontemporary American English? Which of the 1848 concerns still serious issues for women andmen today? Cite specific lines and passages.
5. Consider the logic and reasoning used in the resolutions of 1848; how do they parallel use of logicand reason in the 1776 declaration? Consider the emotions in the two declarations; how are theyparallel or not parallel? Where does the 1848 declaration diverge from the 1776 declaration? Arethere parts that seem to be no longer valid or no longer relevant? What parts are the most relevanttoday? Cite specific lines and passages.
Read the “Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's RightsSeptember 1848," which fills five html pages. You have to click through the document.http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/ecswoman1.html
6. Stanton in her opening explains why only a woman can speak for women. What are her reasons,and do you think they are valid even today? What is the reason that she brings up other cultures? How do women fare in her time? What is the meaning of the little quote from a Byron poem in herlecture? What famous and powerful women does she refer to, and what point is she making bybringing up their names? Cite specific lines and passages.
...
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10. Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress(October 1765) 1st. That His Majesty's subjects in these colonies owe the same allegiance to the crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm… 2d. That His Majesty's liege subjects in these colonies are entitled to all the inherent rights and privileges of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain. 3d. That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted rights of Englishmen, that no taxes should be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives. 5th. That the only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein, by themselves; and that no taxes ever have been or can be constitutionally imposed on them but by their respective legislatures. 7th. That trial by jury is the inherent and invaluable right of every British subject in these colonies. 12th. That the increase, prosperity, and happiness of these colonies depend on the full and free enjoyment of their rights and liberties, and an intercourse, with Great Britain, mutually affectionate and advantageous. 13th. That it is the right of the British subjects in these colonies to petition the king or either house of Parliament.
11. Thomas Paine, Common Sense(January 1776) I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation to show a single advantage that this continent can reap by being connected with Great Britain… renounce the alliance: because, any submission to, or dependence on, Great Britain, tends directly to involve this Continent in European wars and quarrels, and set us at variance with nations who would otherwise seek our friendship… Even the distance at which the Almighty hath placed England and America is a strong and natural proof that the authority of the one over the other was never the design of Heaven. Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe, America to itself. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; … let the crown … be demolished… A government of our own is our natural right: And when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.
12. Declaration of Independence(July 4, 1776) When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
13. (continued) He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. … He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. … In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. ….
Editor's Notes
Compare the Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress with the Declaration of Independence. How has the colonists’ understanding of their relationship with the crown changed during the 10 years between 1765 and 1776? How did they define themselves? Where did they see their rights coming from? Why was that shift necessary, politically or socially?