Following the English precedent of two houses of the legislature, a House of Commons and a House of Lords, the Founders created two separate houses, a House of Representatives and a Senate.The Founders believed that the Congress would be the first and most powerful branch of government.The Founders believed that the Senate would balance the interests and numerical superiority of common citizens with the property interests of the less numerous landowners, bankers, and merchants. They expected them to be sent to the senate by the state legislatures.
Article I of the Constitution created and defined the United States Congress, granting to the two houses of the legislative branch such powers as the ability to collect taxes, coin money, raise and support an army, declare war, establish post offices, create patent laws, and establish a federal judicial system. Now were going to look into a couple of these items i am writting about.
All house members were elected every two years, but the senate members were elected for a six year term. This was designed to protect senators from temporary movements. The 17th Amendment was put into place in 1913 that is when the senators were elected by the people. in the third clause of the 17th addmendment states "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen." I find that to be very interesting being that it seems that they were tring to make it that someone would not live extremely long past the time they served.
The president is “Commander-in-Chief” of the armed forces, but only Congress can “declare war.” The president appoints and receives ambassadors and “makes treaties,” but the Senate must confirm appointments and provide “advice and consent” to treaties. Historically presidents have led the nation in matters of war and peace. The constitutional power of the U.S. Senate to reject or ratify (by a two-thirds vote) treaties made by the president.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
My Thoughts of Today in Class
I think it is very important that we have laws,however I also think that some of the laws we have are very ignorant. I'm glad that we are able to get involved with the legislator if we choose to do so. We the people need to have a voice and to be heard, it's important.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Preamble to the Constitution
We the people of the United States,in order to form a more perfect Union,establish justice,insure domestic Tranquility,provide for the common defence,promote the general Welfare,and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
1.What are the purposes of government? (The purpose of the government is to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,provide for the common defence, promote general Welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty.)
2.how does the government establish justice and insure domestic tranquility? (Government establishes justice and domestic tranquility by passing laws.)
3.What is a social contract? ( A social contract is a contract between the government and the people to protect the people.)
4. How does the government provide for the common defence? ( The government provides defence through the millitery.)
5.How does the government promote the general Welfare? ( The government uses the department of publication to promote general Welfare.)
6. Rights versus Entitlements what is the difference between a right and entitlement?( Rights can be acted on by individuals without the assistance of government and without forcibly interfering with other individuals. Entitlements, on the other hand, cannot be fulfilled except through specific government actions which require forcible interference with others. Protecting rights is thus compatible with limited government.)
7. How does the government secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity?(to pass down the fact that it is a free country generation after generation . It means to show that is a free country to your future generation, by passing it down to each one,)
1.What are the purposes of government? (The purpose of the government is to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,provide for the common defence, promote general Welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty.)
2.how does the government establish justice and insure domestic tranquility? (Government establishes justice and domestic tranquility by passing laws.)
3.What is a social contract? ( A social contract is a contract between the government and the people to protect the people.)
4. How does the government provide for the common defence? ( The government provides defence through the millitery.)
5.How does the government promote the general Welfare? ( The government uses the department of publication to promote general Welfare.)
6. Rights versus Entitlements what is the difference between a right and entitlement?( Rights can be acted on by individuals without the assistance of government and without forcibly interfering with other individuals. Entitlements, on the other hand, cannot be fulfilled except through specific government actions which require forcible interference with others. Protecting rights is thus compatible with limited government.)
7. How does the government secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity?(to pass down the fact that it is a free country generation after generation . It means to show that is a free country to your future generation, by passing it down to each one,)
Friday, January 11, 2013
The Declaration of Independence
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.
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 Brittish 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.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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1. List 2+ people/groups the authors of the Decloration of Independence probably expected would read their decloration. Who is the audiance they wrote for?( They were writting for the colonies becouse they wanted to be free from Britan.)
2. Accoeding to the Decloration of Independence, in what sence are "all men are created equal"?
(They are all created with the equal right to have the unalienable rights wich are: life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness. They did not have the idea of equality based on physical features of humans.)
3.During the 1700s many kings believed in "divine right", and claimed they got their power in rule from God. According to the Decloration of Independence, who grants kings/governments the right to rule?( For the people of the people.)
4.when should people revolt? Should they do so often?( When they start to get treated unfairly and they shouldnt do it often or they go into a great depression like in the 1930s.)
5.What did the colonist do to try to avoid declaring independence? ( They tried to avoid declaring idependence by petitions.)
6.Based on the language in this section did the decloration of Independence create a new country or 13 new states?(Thirteen new states, It says the United States of America, and then it says establish acts and things wich independent states may of right do and the last example is act like free and independent states to have full power to levy war and conclude peace contracts with alliances.
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 his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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 Brittish 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.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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1. List 2+ people/groups the authors of the Decloration of Independence probably expected would read their decloration. Who is the audiance they wrote for?( They were writting for the colonies becouse they wanted to be free from Britan.)
2. Accoeding to the Decloration of Independence, in what sence are "all men are created equal"?
(They are all created with the equal right to have the unalienable rights wich are: life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness. They did not have the idea of equality based on physical features of humans.)
3.During the 1700s many kings believed in "divine right", and claimed they got their power in rule from God. According to the Decloration of Independence, who grants kings/governments the right to rule?( For the people of the people.)
4.when should people revolt? Should they do so often?( When they start to get treated unfairly and they shouldnt do it often or they go into a great depression like in the 1930s.)
5.What did the colonist do to try to avoid declaring independence? ( They tried to avoid declaring idependence by petitions.)
6.Based on the language in this section did the decloration of Independence create a new country or 13 new states?(Thirteen new states, It says the United States of America, and then it says establish acts and things wich independent states may of right do and the last example is act like free and independent states to have full power to levy war and conclude peace contracts with alliances.
What I know about the Constitution
The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. It went to effect on March 4, 1789. The Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of the United States of America. The Constitution can never be changed,only amendments can be added to it to alter its effect. The Constitution guides the American law.
All about me
My name is Tara Pavese. I was born on October 1,1975 so that would make me 37. I live in Lehi with my husband and our 8 children. My husband is in the Navy so we move around a lot but we have lived here in Utah since Aug of last year. I am currently a student at the Art Institute of Salt Lake City I am getting my Bachlors in Photography.
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