Liberty
Essays

¶ … preamble to the U.S. Constitution: Setting the tone for American democracy

This is an argument paper that details the reasons that tobacco products (specifically cigarettes) should be required to have graphic warning labels. The dangers of smoking are presented and compared to the dangers of other consumer activities, and the principles of liberty and public health are examined. Graphic warnings are warranted.

The Evolution of Lincoln's Thought in His Speeches

The sad irony of the continuing high incidence of child abuse in the United States today is the fact that the nation has historically prided itself on recognizing the individual rights of every citizen.

Starting with the words "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," the Gettysburg…

The Indian National Congress was probably the oldest and the biggest democratic organization in the world (Indian National Congress 2004). It was the initiative of Allan Octavian Hume, which he shared during the 1884…

In the mid-nineteenth century, Italy had faced a great number of obstacles that would have impeded a united Italy, but for the movement of the leaders and the fighters who banded together under the same ideal.

Both Mark Twain and his character Huck Finn are truly the embodiment of what it is to be American. They represent freedom of speech, liberty, equal opportunity, and an undeniable individualism that has been at the core of American ideology since the very inception of this nation. The devotion to these principles is what makes this work, and its author, so American.

Edmund Burke's speech urges Parliament to adopt a more sensible approach to the Colonies to ensure not only peace but political and economic obeisance. At times Burke's address borders on being Machiavellian in tone:…

I am so tired of the feuding between the rebel Colonists and the King's soldiers! Must we all be forced to choose a side? There stands the soldier of my King, head of my country and the one to whom I have owed…