The Constitution<span> has </span>three<span> main </span>functions<span>. First it creates a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances among the </span>three<span> branches. Second, it divides power between the federal government and the states.</span>
The Continental Congress wrote the Articles of Confederation during the Revolutionary War.
Douglass drew on the custom of natural law in his argument
against slavery. The past of Western equality and political belief places a strong
importance on fairness and social development, which Douglass contended must
have successively prejudiced the general ideas of America’s founding documents.
According to Douglass, slavery also opposed the formation story of the
Christian Bible, which states God “hath made of one blood all lands of men for
to live on all the face of the earth.” According to Douglass, the Bible’s assertion
of worldwide brotherhood, produced it to become a natural law that would have
affected the framers' conscripting of the Constitution.
Endowed with intelligence, creative energy and a remarkably long life, Eleanor of Aquitaine played a major role in the 12th century, an impressive achievement given that medieval women were considered nothing more than chattel. Assets of brains and enterprise served her well in the chaos of the time—unrelenting hostilities between Plantagenets and Capets, crusades and struggle between church and state. They equipped her to advance civility in a ruthless era by promoting the songs of troubadours and the ideals of courtly love. Even in a century of imposing personalities—the likes of Thomas Becket, Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abélard—Eleanor took center stage
