The Constitution has three main functions. 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 three branches. Second, it divides power between the federal government and the states.
The foundation of our American Government, its purpose, form and structure are found in the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution, written in 1787, is the "supreme law of the land" because no law may be passed that contradicts its principles. No person or government is exempt from following it.
The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot. It is a republic because the Government derives its power from the people.
The purpose of our Federal Government, as found in the Preamble of the Constitution, is to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity." In order to achieve this purpose the Founding Fathers established three main principles on which our Government is based:
Inherent rights: Rights that anyone living in America has; Self Government: Government by the people; and Separation of Powers: Branches of government with different powers.
They were able to come up with laws and policies that aim and develop the national interest of the US. Some of the policy makers like Canadian Prime Minister <span>Wilfrid Laurier had used such policy in order to protect the Canadian territory. The said doctrine was also used during the Cuban Revolution and the Kerry Doctrine</span>
Slash and burn agriculture would have been practiced most prominently in the river valleys of Egypt, since this is were lots of plant life existed, which needed to be eliminated to make room for fields.
Domestication of plants and animals brought total change in the agrarian society. Most people lived nomadic life.Fruits,roots and animal meat was their food. Until the time they learned domestication of plants and animals and they settled in a place and they formed a society
