US+constitution

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 * US Constitution
 * // Individual: //**
 * [[image:Virtue.jpg width="278" height="266" align="left"]]Cicero's ideas had duties for every individual to accomplish. He thought that one should make moral decisions instead of self-interest decisions. He stated the "man can be of the greatest service to men" when helping each other (Cicero, pg. 3). The constitution has three branches in the government that work together and help each other to make the greater good for the people. The three branches are legislative, executive, and judicial and they all work together to help make the government more united and successful. In relation to this, Cicero during his time was a quaestor and a consul in the government. He helped fame a new constitution after the Sulla's war, which included liberty. This benefited the people because it gave them liberty after so many wars. He also helped strengthen the political power and the social class changed but still helped each other to help unify the country. So both the constitution and the work of Cicero helped improve ones thoughts and improved the political aspect. The constitution states that "We the people of the United States... establish justice, insure domestic tranquility" which helps the government and the people keep peace. (Constitution, pg. 1).

Question:Do you really think that men can be the greatest help to men? **


 * // Government: //** [[image:Government_Tree.gif align="right"]]
 * The government also has duties to obtain for it to become a good government. The duties were also between virtue or egotistic ideas. Slavery was a self-interest idea during the writing of the constitution because the founding fathers didn't abolish it because they were slave owners. So if they took away the slaves they would lose money from their plantations, where the slaves worked at. Cicero stated that "we can elicit and call forth the good will of men for our benefit (Cicero, pg. 4)." The Citizens are "entitled to all Privileges" which wasn't applied for the slaves in the early centuries (Constitution, pg. 10). So the founding fathers weren't virtue about this situation which virtue is the main subject of Cicero. He thought that morals are important for one to have and this helped to choose choices. Cicero applied his philosophy in politics because he was in the government and wanted to improve this government.

//Amendments:// ** Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ** Amendment 13: Slavery Abolished ** 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Amendment 14: **Citizenship Rights ** 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. **Amendment 19:Women's Suffrage ** The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
 * Amendment 1: Freedom of Religion, Press **
 * Amendment 15: Race No Bar to Vote **