Repercussions Of Slavery

The first major subject that still impacts the United States presently, is the repercussions of slavery. Slavery in colonial America was nothing like the slavery in the early to mid-19th century. Although, slavery was officially ended with the Reconstruction Amendments, it just took on a new name called segregation., leading to even worse treatment of African Americans with Jim Crow laws and black codes. This issue of segregation became a major area of contention between America and other developed countries such as Britain who ended slavery in 1838, and France who ended it even earlier in1794. Even the Soviet Union would use the issue of segregation, in attacks upon the United States. Although segregation officially ended with the Civil Rights

It is hard to think of America without these knowledgeable men’s concept of government. Our founding fathers, most of them were college educated, in a time and country where that was extremely rare. Most were trained in the trivium; which is grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the quadrivium which is, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronomy. Most of the founding fathers could also translate into Latin, Hebrew, and Greek before even attending college. This education helped them formulate ideas on government, by studying ancient Greek philosophers especially Plato, who’s work, The Republic, influenced our government immensely. In Plato’s work, he denounces a pure democracy as “mob rule”. This is one of the reasons our founding fathers did not decide on a pure democracy, it would snuff out the minority. Another famous influence of philosophy is Thomas Jefferson’s quote life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, was originally life, liberty, and property, which comes from the British philosopher John Locke. Our founding fathers would further their education through debate in the Federalist Papers, sharpening their views on government. Today’s United States still use the ideas learned by our founding fathers, such as checks and balances, being a democratic republic instead a democracy, and their views on the unalienable rights every man is entitled

The Supreme Court of United States is considered the most powerful branch of the government, did not start off that way, while being formed in the Constitution Article 3 which states, “Judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court. Other than forming a Supreme Court, the Constitution does not really give the court any powers or responsibilities. This all changed in 1803 during the case of Marbury v. Madison, in this massively impactful case, Marshall the supreme court justice, granted the Supreme Court the power as the final authority on the interpretation on the U.S Constitution even today they still retain this power. The Supreme Court justices once appointed by the president and approved by the Senate, serve until death or retirement. Some of the most influential cases of the Supreme Court are; the Dredd Scott case, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, and the Obergefell decision. The Supreme Court affects us every day, and with a new president elect, who must fill a supreme court vacancy, the Supreme Court is going to continue to play a huge role in our