The ten percent
The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War. By this point in the war (nearly three years in), the Union Army had pushed the Confederate Army out of several regions of the South, and some rebellious states were ready to have their governments rebuilt. Lincoln's plan established a process through which this postwar reconstruction could come about.[1]
D John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government inspired the principle of natural rights, which colonists used to substantiate their belief that the British government was tyrannous.
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson identified three natural rights "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Which were influenced by the writings of John Locke
The constitution fixes the problem of the articles of confederation by providing for checks and balances and separation of powers.
The separation of powers consists in the assignment of government functions to different bodies. These bodies are classified into Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Republic opposes tyrannical, despotic, autocratic and absolutist forms of government. In this sense, at first, the monarchy in the weak sense is not opposed to the republic in the strong sense. Republicanism is a theory about the strong sense of the republic.
