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What did our Founding Fathers try to avoid when they were creating a new government?
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Why did the writers of the constitution fear strong central government?
The founding fathers did not fear strong central government, if anything they supported it. The British rule was very strong in government and America did not want too much power to come to one or a group of people. So the Articles of Confederation were set up as a weak form of central government to avoid becoming like the British rule.
How did the United states and many European countries initially respond to the decrease in tax revenue caused by the great depression?
Cutting government spending to avoid going into debt
Why the branches of government share power?
so that no one person or persons rule the government ; to avoid anarchy
Why was freedom of religion so important to the founders?
You might be looking for a more idealistic answer, but practically speaking, the founders were trying to form a union that included states with different religious populations. They needed to avoid federalizing religion.
Why did the government lie about the Darwin bombings?
It kept the full facts from public knowledge to avoid public panic in the rest of Australia, to avoid harming morale and the war effort.
Who thought the system checks and balances was needed to run the government?
The founding fathers were concerned about a system of government with a monarch as the head. They came up with a system of checks and balances in order to avoid power being concentrated on any one entity.
Why did the writers of the constitution fear strong central government?
The founding fathers did not fear strong central government, if anything they supported it. The British rule was very strong in government and America did not want too much power to come to one or a group of people. So the Articles of Confederation were set up as a weak form of central government to avoid becoming like the British rule.
Where did the US get the idea of representative government?
The Founding Fathers borrowed the idea of a representative government from the philosophies of John Locke, and also from the government they recently broke away from, Britain's monarchial parliamentary system. Initially, many of the patriots wanted to declare George Washington king, but the Founding Fathers knew they had to try something different from Britain's government style if they wished to avoid a similar revolution as that which occurred against the British. Thus, they devised a completely experimental form of government today known as a federal presidential constitutional republic. They borrowed Locke's ideas of the government being ruled by the people, and looked at the flaws of Britain's then-parliamentary government. Once such studied flaw was the excessive power and authority of the head of state, or the king, and the contrasting limited power of the representative body, the parliament. The Founding Fathers concluded that they needed to somehow switch those roles, intending to make the representative body (Congress) more powerful than the head of state (the President). To balance Congress's overwhelming authority, they made the President the head of government as well, with safety nets that allowed both to check one another.
Why did the founding fathers create the two house legislature?
They wanted the state to have representation as well as the people. Therefore the Senate is to represent the states, and the House of Representatives to represent districts of people. Also, to avoid the concentration of power.
What are some great Fathers Day gifts that are inexpensive or free and unique. We want to avoid the stereotypical tie or things like that.?
Some great Fathers Day gifts that are inexpensive or free are creating works of art such as paintings or sculptures to give as gifts. Also you could cook breakfast or dinner as a special fathers day gift.
Why do politicians often avoid answering questions?
Because the government has been planning to enslave every man woman and child in America for hundreds of years, they are intent on fulfilling our founding fathers idea of a new world order, and its only a matter of time until the love of money (greed) destroys any and all hopes of having freedom in the near future.
What is the Democrats' position on business regulation?
In general democrats think that businesses should be regulated more. For republicans this is considered creating a bigger government and they want to avoid this.
What was Montesquieu's spirit of laws?
Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws" was a political treatise published in 1748. In it, he proposed the idea of the separation of powers to avoid despotism and protect individual liberties. Montesquieu's work had a significant influence on the founding fathers of the United States and the development of the US Constitution.
Why was the right to practice religion part of the US Constitution?
Many of the Founding Fathers were Christian, but they were varying denominations of Christian. Some were devout, some were skeptics, some were Deists. But they had all seen first-hand in England the harm that having one established (official) church did, especially to those who were not members of it or those who belonged to minority religious traditions. Mindful of that, the Founding Fathers decided to avoid having one official religion, and they also believed the government should not tell people how (or when) to worship. The First Amendment, an essential part of the Bill of Rights, enshrined the right of people to practice whatever religion they wished (or to practice no religion), and it said the government should neither encourage one religion over another, nor prevent people from following the faith tradition of their choice.
Why was it so difficult to devise a system of government for the United States?
It took the Founding Fathers so long to create a new government, because it was hard to agree on the same set of rules. For example, there was two plan the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan. The Virginia plan stated that big states should get morer represenatives while the New Jersey plan stated that all the states should have the same representation thus creating congress.
Where are political parties found in the constitution?
No, it does not. There is no mention of political parties in the constitution, it is just how politics develops.
How can you avoid creating a hot spot when baking?
place pans in different spots
