The U.S. Constitution is the framework of how the Federal Government is established and maintained. It is the oldest surviving written constitution in the world today. The overarching concern of the Framers was the need for a unifying governing body to represent all of the constituent states either with problems or issues arising among the […]
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“Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798. The above line comes from Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a tale about a seaman returning from a long adventure at sea who stops a man attending a wedding to
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In the year 400 BC, the city state of Athens levied taxes on grains and other products brought to them from other regions through the port of Piraeus. This constituted the first known usage of tariffs to raise revenues for a government. The Athenians went a step further and blocked all other entry points, requiring
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