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The Preamble's reference to the "United States of America" has been interpreted over the years to explain the nature of the governmental entity that the Constitution created (i.e., the federal government). In contemporary international law, the world consists of sovereign states (or "sovereign nations" in modern equivalent). A state is said to ...
[212] [220] Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that the US Constitution is the most difficult in the world to amend, and that this helps explain why the US still has so many undemocratic institutions that most or all other democracies have reformed, directly allowing significant democratic backsliding in the United States. [221]
Beginning in 1777, the substantial powers assumed by Congress "made the league of states as cohesive and strong as any similar sort of republican confederation in history". [1] The process created the United States "by the people in collectivity, rather than by the individual states", because only four states had constitutions at the time of ...
Shallus's engrossed presentation of the constitution's preamble. Jacob Shallus or Shalus (1750–April 18, 1796) [1] was the engrosser or penman of the original copy of the United States Constitution. The handwritten document that Shallus engrossed is on display in the Rotunda of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives Building in ...
President Obama only has a few months left in office as November approaches, but let's take a look at some of the things we'll remember him for.
The American experience of fundamental law with amendments and judicial review has motivated foreign constitutionalists to reconsider possibilities for their own future. [4] This view informed Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War , [ a ] his contemporary and ally Benito Juarez of Mexico, [ b ] and the second generation of 19th century ...
Black America was plunged into a state of mourning, as if a close and dearly beloved relative suddenly died. I later read all the books, sermons and other writings Dr. King produced.
This Day the Congress has passed the most important Resolution, that ever was taken in America. —John Adams, May 15, 1776 [ 38 ] As was the custom, Congress appointed a committee to draft a preamble to explain the purpose of the resolution.