Ancient Greece is usually credited with pioneering democracy. All cities of Greece had a set of rules in which they were required to obey. Along with this Greece had a written constitution just like the United States of America, although theirs was called The Constitution of the Athenians. This created a standard in which the people should have behaved and followed. Just like the United States constitution, theirs laid out the governments structure and how the checks and balances of power within it relate to one another. The united states voting system also has similarities to the Athens, citizens were elected to organize, judge, and make decisions. Every citizen had the ability to speak their mind.
Many maintain that the primary cause of the war was the Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery. Others minimize slavery and point to other factors, such as taxation or the principle of States' Rights. Two major themes emerge in these documents: slavery and states' rights.
Well Angie, <span>The first government of the United States was under the Articles of Confederation. It created a loose confederation of quasi-independent states in which almost all power was reserved to the states. The sovereignty of the states over the central government was its most important aspect.</span>
As a war leader, Lincoln employed the style that had served him as a politician—a description of himself, incidentally, that he was not ashamed to accept. He preferred to react to problems and to the circumstances that others had created rather than to originate policies and lay out long-range designs.
With the election of Abraham Lincoln (the first Republican president) in 1860, the Party's success in guiding the Union to victory in the American Civil War, and the Party's role in the abolition of slavery, the Republican Party largely dominated the national political scene until 1932.
