Synthesis Essay On Government

He also mentions that the government should not “take away and destroy the property of the people” (Locke ¶ 3). When listing the many faults of the king Thomas Jefferson states that the king “has burnt our [the colonists’] towns” (Declaration of Independence ¶ 26). In including this statement, Jefferson is trying to emphasize the point that the king has infringed the right to property and therefore must be overruled. To conclude, Thomas Jefferson has derived many inspirations from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government when drafting the Declaration of Independence. Locke’s treatises offered many reasons to explain the people’s right and obligation to overthrow the government, which the founding fathers used to prove their point on breaking away from the king’s rule.

Hence Federalists came up with the Bill of Rights as a way to get the Constitution ratified and for people to really see a needed change. The Bill Of Rights which lists specific prohibitions on governmental power, lead the Anti-Federalists to be less fearful of the new Constitution . This guaranteed that the people would still remain to have rights, but the strong central government that the country needed would have to be approved. The 1804 Map of the nation shows that even after the ratification of the United States Constitution there still continued to be “commotion” and dispute in the country.(Document 8) George Washington stated that the people should have a say in the nation and government and everything should not be left to the government to decide.(Document 3) Although George Washington was a Federalist many believed he showed a point of view that seemed to be Anti-Federalists. Many believed that The Bill of Rights needed to be changed and modified and a new document’s time to come into place.

When the Ku Klux Klan was formed, they tried to cease the African American from participation in the political process. “We would state that we have been law-abiding citizens, pay taxes, and in many parts of the state our people have been driven from the polls, refused the right to vote. Many have been slaughtered while attempting to vote.” [Doc. 3] Southern States deprived the right to vote from the former slaves because of their race and color. “Their (Mississippi, South Carolina, or Louisiana) framers intended and did disfranchise a majority of their citizenship [deprived them of the right to vote] because of “race and color” and “previous condition”..”

The creation of countries, end of segregation, women's suffrage, etc. can be credited to disobedience. America was created because we disobeyed England; we thought that taxation without representation was unfair. Our motive was freedom and justice; the outcome was American people with more rights. In the 50s and 60s, people of color and allies protested segregation with “sit ins”. They disobeyed the laws of segregation and sat in restaurants or other locations designated for white people.

The Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Laws guaranteed that African Americans were treated as second class citizens without the freedom and liberties promised by our nation’s constitution. Many segregation laws, called The Jim Crow Laws, were already in place throughout the South before the Supreme Court’s Decision in Plessy v Ferguson. Growing up as a Native American was kind of rough on people, they were separated from others. They were only allowed to use certain water fountains, certain bathrooms plus they had to wait for the Americans to get done before they could walk into a grouchy store.

According to Webster dictionary a democracy is “a government by the people”. This is the type government the United States has. The U.S government is built on maintaining and enforcing order and equality in a democratic format. With order and equality comes conflict and compromise among the people. John Locke once said “citizens have the right to rebel against a government that does not respect the rights of its citizens”.

Racism is a cultural bias pertaining to the belief that there is a distinct human race and that one race is superior to another. Developed by Europeans to justify their enslavement of the ‘Others’, they have maintained racial tendencies and attempts to dehumanize colored people as ‘savage’ and uncivilized to support their inflicted maltreatment of them. Racism is real. Though many strides have been made in efforts to exact the devastation imposed on colored peoples’ dignity and rights to liberty, communal relations remain stained. Just as we live in a world where even visas have varying values, discrimination has become an undeniable reality – hindrances to playful world traveling.

I believe that liberty and equality for all will always be important, but not just to the American society, but to all people. Every individual across the world deserves equality and liberty because they are basic human rights. I do believe that liberty and equality was more important in the past only because so many more people have been able to achieve it since then. If Abraham Lincoln hadn 't worked hard to present these ideals to the American culture, we would be living in a very different world. A world where women would be deprived of basic rights, and where children 's education would not mean as much as it does today.

Although the thirteenth amendment, abolished slavery, rights for black weren’t all of a sudden made equal. In the early twentieth century, African Americans in the South and in many parts of nearby border states were banned from associating with whites in a host of institutions and public accommodations such as school, hospitals, waiting rooms, railroad car, and more (Patterson par.1). Eventually facilities were desegregated. However, that does not mean life for all was fairly equal. People began to accepted having a blend of races where ever they go, but when it came to blending sexually, that turned some individuals’ stomachs upside down.

(Merriam-Webster) This is how the people react and cope with the government in the novel. The whole culture as a whole conforms to the government.” When thinking outside the box, thinking for yourself, can get you killed, one must think and act accordingly. However to be an individual one must be unique.

My paper is about southern race relations in the mid 1900s. People in the 1900s treated African-Americans with much less respect then they did to white people. Like in the book, which takes place in the mid 1900s, it shows how people did treat blacks; they had them in different areas of town, they had to go to different churches and school, and they also just disrespected blacks. Like in the book with Atticus, there was people who didn’t like the way people were treating blacks, and tried to change it (Martin Luther King Jr.). In 1619, People brought African-American people to the Americas, sold them as slaves, and so began race problems.