Juan Carlos Roybal

Class-4

Articles of the constitution Summary

Article 1) The first Article of the constitution of the United States list how this new
representative democracy of the United States will work; it lists the powers, rights,
and responsibilities of our new Government. The government shall be divided into
three sections, the Judiciary branch which will be responsible for interpreting the
laws, the Executive Branch enforces the law (it also has the president of the United
States as the head), and the Legislative branch is responsible for making new laws.
Article 2) Explains how a President will be appointed to office as well as the powers
the president will have in office as well as his responsibilitys. The president of the
United States will have little absolute power over the people his main role as
president is either to help pass or prevent new laws from being passed and acting
as commander and chief of the USA armed forces
Article 3) Explains how the Judiciary branch will operate as well as their powers and
responsibilitys. There are three types of Courts, state courts which will handle
state level problems, the federal courts which will handle international as well as
local disagreements and the supreme which has the last say in any court decision
and (is supposed) makes decisions based off of the Constitution.
Article 4) This article explains states rights and the states responsibility. The
states are responsible for building and maintaining city and caring for what is inside
that border. It should be mentioned though the states have been losing power ever
since the USA were created, originally this country was supposed to have been sort
of a loose confederation of states (a lot like the European union) but slowly the
Federal government has been amassing more and more power rendering the state
powers obsolete
Article 5) This article ensures future representatives the opportunity to make
adjustments of the constitution if it is necessary.
Article 6) Ensures that the United states government shall respect any debt
accumulated before their new government had been established. The article also
ensures that the government shall uphold the constitution as the land of the law
(and as you can tell from the patriot act this went swimmingly)
Article 7) states that the ratification of the constitution will take place with
acceptance from the existing states.

Juan Carlos Roybal

Class-4

Thomas Hobbes is a philosopher who has written many works on philosophy

and government. On the spectrum of Democracy and Dictatorship Hobbes is
defiantly more on the side of Dictatorship then Democracy. His most famous view
would have to be that humans, regardless of how unfortunate it is are inherently
vicious and thus must be restrained from their viciousness. He has many reasons to
believe so, for example Jury nullification was used in the deep south after Lynching
mobs were brought to court and were found not guilty. When humans are left to
their own devices they can do some terrible and stupid things. His type of
philosophy has greatly influence our Constitution, for example we are not actually a
Democracy we are a representative Democracy which takes away a lot of influence
from citizens (our leader could be put into office with the vote of the minority of the
population), so instead of making our own rules we have people who we think will
represent us in government do it for us. This form of government has a lot of
upsides though regardless of how scary it sounds, just look at Singapore and china,
they claim to be a Democracy but their governments is run by a one party system
(not the same party) and this system has helped bring a higher standard of living to
their people.
Then there is Jean-Jacques Rousseau a firm supporter of freedom and
Democracy. He is a glorified hippy, which is not necessarily bad thing (but most of
the time that is a bad thing). Believing in non-land ownership as well as more
importantly natural rights. He believed that humans in their natural form (feeding
off the land with one hand and wiping with the other) were inherently better but
did not necessarily make morally right decisions (all the time). His philosophy at
first glance seems to contradict itself but he proposes that the complicated systems
that we have set in place for government, trade, and law (society) enforce another
set of problems just like living like savages would. For example the idea that
anyone can own land is absolutely preposterous, as well as the idea that someone is
not allowed to take advantage of the natural resources around them and use them
to our disposal. We mutually agree to constrain ourselves and in some ways it is a
good thing like for example not killing one another, but to think that someone
deserves to own a piece of land and take away the advantage of others to use the
natural land and plant natural plants to quench your natural hunger is simply silly.
Our civilized ways can lead to some horrid events to like WW2 or the many of the
mass killings that humans commit on the less fortunate and advanced can be seen
as a terrible outcome of our civilized.