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    The founding fathers may have been smart but they were lacking of important human qualities. Compared to some of the world leaders we have today, that's no question. Despite being that smart, you would think they would try not to be hypocritical, when writing one of the most important document in the history of the United States. The constitution's preamble is hypocritical, it was then and it is now, but more so in 1789. The Preamble was hypocritical in 1789 because of the voting system that the

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    In our society today, we have a government that was made the founding fathers of the constitution. The founding fathers created the way, our government is by making the constitution. As a society, individuals give up rights in order to feel safe and not have one branch of government to control our government. This is why the framers created the bill of rights, so that individuals would have their rights protected. Did the bill of rights always protect the rights given to the people? During times

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    Madison. Once he reached eighteen, Madison attended the College of New Jersey, more commonly known today as Princeton (“James Madison’s Biography”). During this time period, it was strange for a man to go beyond the colony for his education (“The Founding Fathers: Virginia”). However, Madison went against the social norm, which ultimately gave him an advantage by broadening his understandings of all the different opinions and views between the colonies (Wills, Schlesinger 57-119). After graduation in

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    Un-Official Founding Fathers of Psychology Sarah Psy/310 2/13/2012 Un-Official Founding Fathers of Psychology These four men that we are about to talk about are some of the, if not the most important people in psychology. One developed psychology as a school of thought and published the first book on the subject which opened the door for another to develop his theories. Years after the book came out another thinker was inspired to look into the human mind and this time with a more scientifically

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    for our future. It’s also the day where society host festivals, fireworks, and bring hope to all. This is just the highlights to cover the struggles that the founding fathers have created to bring resolution to our nations. To understand and appreciate how electing begain we would have to go back in the late 1700s were the founding fathers created the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president

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    In the book Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton, she explores not only the initial formation of the American colonies, but also how it related to the family unit, which was quite important to both English society and the one forming in the colonies. This text, which explores the time period from 1620 to 1670 is written in three parts, each centered on a family or individual who defied the traditional societal norms as well as analyzing

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    The founding fathers of science: Auguste Comte, Ferdinand Toennies, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber, made an important examination of religion in modern European and American societies. These men saw religion as an important feature of social life and wanted to get a better understanding of why that was. They found changes in religion to be due to social changes made by the industrial revolution. The founding fathers may have agreed on the idea that the practice of religion is important

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    these individuals relied on each other in order to thrive in the New World. However, as the country expanded in population and economically, communities began to become less dependent on each other’s contributions and became more independent. The Founding Fathers wove values into the fabric of the United States that would allow its citizens to possess inalienable rights, that could not be taken away, and gave birth to a nation governed under a radical new system of government. As the North American Colonies

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    Every law, whether its unreasonable or not, establishes morality. While drafting the Constitution our Founding Fathers did so based off their challenging belief system of what was right and wrong. In today’s society many citizens still challenge this question and the stances of their morality. In my personal opinion I believe that it’s very important that citizens hold firm to their moral beliefs but in doing so they must truly understand it from a political perspective. Growing up in Georgia one

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    My Founding Father

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    Flunkerflock, talk about the importance of our founding fathers. I thought, not about what my teacher was saying but the class itself. I thought how I actually hated history, but I was good at it, I was good at any subject really. I always tried to do my absolute best. To obtain any information that I possible could so that my parents could be proud of me, especially my dad. I always feared that my dad would never be proud of me like the way that his father was proud of him. I am filled with pressure

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