A workaholic, America's new chief executive set an ambitious agenda with four major goals: cut tariffs, reestablish an independent U.S. Treasury, secure the Oregon Territory and acquire the territories of California and New Mexico from Mexico. Polk eventually achieved all his goals.
The answer is reason.
Philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that answer can be found
through reasoning. There were two types
of reasoning during that time. You have
rationalism that relies on deduction and Empiricism which deals with
experience. It took root due to the liberal atmosphere at the time.
The United States Constitution. The United States Constitution defines the structure of the national government and dictates the scope and limitation of its powers. ... State constitutions focus more on limiting rather than granting power since its general authority has already been established.
