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United States Constitution Summary
 

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Essay Grade: 92%
Transatlantic Constitutions: Comparing the US and the EU
5,345 words, approx. 18 pages
Provides an analysis and comparison of the US and EU constitutions. Summarizes a 30 page article (by Sergio Fabbrini), with a one page opinion part.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Legal Anaysis of the U.S. Constitution
2,006 words, approx. 7 pages
Provides an analysis of the legal influences upon the U.S. Constitution. Explains how political ideology affects one's interpretation of the Constitution.
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Essay Grade: 88%
U.S. Electoral College Controversies
1,866 words, approx. 6 pages
Whether the United States is a true democracy is subject for debate because the Electoral College system prevents simple majorities from automatically winning a presidential election. The history of Electoral College is examined as well as its role in close presidential elections, such as the 2000 contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Four Principles of the U.S. Constitution
1,551 words, approx. 5 pages
The United States Constitution is based upon four principals: separation of powers, division of powers, checks and balances, and individual's rights and liberties.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Founders of the Constitution
997 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay that discusses the founders of the Constitution.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Constitution's Contribution to the Civil War
899 words, approx. 3 pages
There is much evidence and opinion to support the idea that the Constitution was a source of sectional discord and tension, which ultimately contributed to the failure of the Union it had created.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Constitution
843 words, approx. 3 pages
Explores the history of the United States Constitution. Describes the preparations for the writing of the document and how the delegates at the Constitutional Convention sought solutions to many of their problems through compromise.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Constitution
838 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the creation of the American Constitution. Describes how the fouding fathers wrote the constitution to include slavery but prevented the word from appearing in the document.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Constitutional Rights
743 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses George Bush and the 5th, 6th and 22nd amendments of the United States Constitution. Imagines a future United States where Bush has decimated the Constitution.
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Essay Grade: 93%
Early Changes in the US government
709 words, approx. 2 pages
Describes the failure of the articles of confederation and the need for the writing of the constitution
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Essay Grade: 83%
Constitution Flexibility and Origins
694 words, approx. 2 pages
the American system of rule is one that is birthed of many influences. It borrows many of it's ideals from a number of succesful legislative predecessors. It can also be stated that the American Constitution was designed with the ability to change and transform into something mildly different as time passes, while still retaining it's framers desires to provide basic freedoms and rights to those who reside underneath it.
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Essay Grade: 75%
The Constitution
655 words, approx. 2 pages
The Constitution resulted from the need to address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and to establish compromise between a strong central government and a guarantee of rights to the states. The end result remains the nation's guiding document for a working government.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Formation of the U.S. Constitution
583 words, approx. 2 pages
Details the events leading up to the forming of the American constitution. Describes the contributions made by early American leaders.
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Essay Grade: 92%
U.S. Constitution
563 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay examines Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist arguments.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The United States Constitution: An Undemocratic Document
547 words, approx. 2 pages
The author's view the the U.S. Constitution is not representative of a democracy. The Constitution created a "natural aristocracy" that made the upper class the rulers of the government and did not allow for the direct election of representatives. The large majority of the population was not included in the Constitutional Convention.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Constitution Vs. Articles of Confederation
497 words, approx. 2 pages
In 1781 American colonists took hold to the Articles of Confederation, their first outline of democracy. The Articles set up a good base for government, but it was soon realized that it needed a lot of work. In Philadelphia a group of the most well educated and experienced men of America met to revise the Articles of Confederation. The result of this meeting was not a revised Articles of Confederation, but a new document that outlined the government we have today. This was the Constitution.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Influences on the Constitution
466 words, approx. 2 pages
The political and religious experiences of America's colonial and revolutionary periods strongly affected the basic principles of the Constitution. These experiences included the unjust political control by Britain over the American colonies and the role of religious tolerance in the colonies.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Philosophies of Government
444 words, approx. 2 pages
Examines the United States Constitution and describes the influences of John Locke, Baron De Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Concludes that it was John Locke's ideas that brought forth a successful America.
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Essay Grade: 75%
The Us Constitution
440 words, approx. 2 pages
The Constitution was written by tying together ideas that influential people came up with in documents such as the Mayflower Compact and the Magna Carta. These two documents along with the contract and compact schools of Jurisprudence helped create the foundation of our government and the writing of the Constitution.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Religion and the Constitution
364 words, approx. 1 pages
Many conflicts can occur between the state and the religion in regard to the first amendment of the Constitution. Because each individual has his/her own definition of religion, where does the government draw the line when religion is involved in an issue?
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Essay Grade: 92%
What Would Happen If There Was No Constitution
354 words, approx. 1 pages
Essay explaining what would have happened with no constitution.
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Essay Grade: 81%
The Constitution
313 words, approx. 1 pages
People wrote the Constitution in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, provide for common defense, and secure the blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our future.

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