Religion in the United States

Portugal culture and United States culture are both very similar and different. An obvious difference I am interested in observing is everything being smaller in Europe compared to the United States and Europeans, specifically Portuguese not being as loud as American citizens. Portugal is the 79th largest country in the world with a population of 10,329,506 compared to the United States 325.7 million population in 2017” (Worldometers). Two ways in which Portugal is similar to United States culture are both

Standards The United States is a unique country. It is part of a few other countries that allows its citizens to be free to express themselves. Like other countries, the United States has set a standard or a social requirement for its citizens. There seem to be a social requirement to only speak english, have english name, wear certain clothes or practice a certain religion, Christianity. To some foreigners, this seems to be the the American standard, however, there can never be one standard for

governments and contrasting the religions, that Rome has had on America. Ancient Rome’s balanced government is fully illustrated in modern day America through the balanced government that is used by them. Ancient Rome created a balanced government designed to give equal power to and represent the two, the few, the many, by creating the two consuls, the senate, and the tribal assembly.

their state to represent them in the government. The Steven Grosby, who is the author of the book Nationalism A Very Short Introduction, says that democracy is the belief in the equality of the member of the nation (Grosby 57). I believe a democracy is a mixture of both definitions because I think democracy is a for government that people vote in the representative that they believe will represent them in front the nation. The United States is a republic not a democracy however the United States

The United States of America has drastically grown in diversity of religion, culture and ethnicity over time. Religion is a part of many lives in the U.S. due to the wide variety of Christians, Muslims, Jews and many other religious groups, not to mention non-religious individuals. There has been much debate on whether the United States has been doing the right thing by keeping church and state separate rather than keeping them entwined as had been the standard for years prior to the country’s founding

The First Amendment was created to protect Americans’ basic human rights. It states that the government has no right to make laws or prohibit the freedom of religion, speech, and press. However, with the First Amendment stating that there is freedom of religion, why are children and teachers not allowed to participate in religion during school or on school property? The creation of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause is the reason why. Curiously, there is no other right in the First

“God is not one and neither are the religions…” This has been the statement of the modern American Jesus Stephen Prothero, and this statement clearly explains the concept of religious pluralism. According to Prothero, religious pluralism related to the diversity of religion in the society and it exists in the society all over the world. According to Prothero, the world keeps changing and newer era takes place in the world, and the religious aspects face diversity in the form of religious claims,

control of the area and forced others to submit to their rule. The evolutionary Rule basically said that the states would develop naturally out of family clans, tribes, ect. The divine right theory said that the state was created by God and God gave people of royal birth the “divine right to rule”. The social contract theory was created by Thomas Hobbes and he believed that before the state people were British. People lived poorly and to improve their lives people could enter into a social contract

The bill of rights is the ten amendments to the United States Constitution, approved on December 15, 1791, and written by James Madison as a response to calls from several States for greater constitutional protection for Individual freedoms, such as freedom of Speech. It creates many legal principles that have had a crucial effect on law and society. The bill of right was added to the Constitution of the United States to assurance the protection of the people from the government. It was served to

Separation of Church and State The United States of America has its history written in religion. Religion and government are important topics in almost every citizen’s daily life. The act of extrication religion and politics has been a complicated topic for many years. Because the United States of America has so many roots in religion, many political figures prey on the religious beliefs in their civil duties as a public servant. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, “Throughout