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AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

I agree with both historians because as we can see, in Baylin´s interpretation names the power that God has given to them to protect themselves and that principles such as liberty and freedom are both civil and religious. T he Declaration of Independence was written because the Founding Fathers thought England would break liberty in America.   In the Declaration of Independence, we can find these evidences when they say that: "all men are created equal (as it is written literally in the Bible), they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". As John Locke said, the natural state of men was liberty; the liberty of humans came from their birth. So as a summary the principal ideas which claim Bailyn are that the Declaration of Independence is all based in divine and relligious beliefs of the colonists. In the case of Zinn, it saws the clear ideas of high classes to persuade lower classe...

LA GUERRA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA

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1. ¿Qué supuso el tratado de Fontaine Bleau? Francia y España acordaron su ocupación y desmembramiento, por lo que el ejército francés pudo penetrar en España camino de Portugal. Supuso la invasión francesa en España y toda la Península Ibérica y la posterior Guerra de Independencia, la crisis de la monarquía y la invasión franco-española de Portugal.  En España se negoció sobre que Napoleón cruzara desde Francia por España, para conquistar Portugal al que le interesaba sus colonias y bloqueo naval.  2. ¿Qué bandos se enfrentaron el la Guerra de Independencia? España, Reino Unido y Portugal contra Francia. Patriotas frente a invasores. 3. ¿Qué dos grupos integraron el bando patriota y qué los caracteriza? Lo integraban los absolutistas y los liberales. Los absolutistas querían tener una monarquía absoluta y expulsar a los franceses. Los liberales querían acabar con la monarquía absolutista.  Dentro de estos estaban los afrancesados que ...

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LA AMISTAD MOVIE

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1. What is the movie about? Summarize the plot of the film mentioning the main characters.                The movie is about the real slave ship called "La Amistad" which travelled from Cuba to the Unites States in 1839 . Cinqué , a black man from the ship and the protagonist of the film, took over the ship with other slaves. The navigators sailed into Unites States territories where the American Navy captured them. The Africans find themselves in a legal battle there without knowing nothing of that lenguage.                 Holabird brings charges of piracy and murder, Forsyth , represents the claim of Queen Isabella II of Spain that the Africans are slaves and are property of Spain based on a treaty. A lawyer named Roger Sherman Baldwin , hired by the abolitionist Lewis Tappan and his black associate Theodore Joadson , decides to defend the Africans.   Baldwin proves through documents fo...

SPAIN´S CONSTITUTIONS

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a) Form of government and head of the state. In the constitution of 1931   The President of the Republic was the head of the state. The President of the Council and the Ministers constitute the government.   The President of the Republic was a representative figure almost without any effective power. The President of the Council of Ministers needed the double confidence of the President of the Republic and of the Courts in order to govern. It was appointed by the President of the Republic written and explained in article 75 of this same constitution, it was to obtain the approval of the courts. The President of the Republic "is the head of the state and embodies the nation" . "He shall be jointly elected by the courts and a number of Commissioners equal to that of deputies"  In the constitution of 1978 the King is the head of state, symbol of his unity and permanence, arbitrates and moderates the regular functioning of the institutions, assume...

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ANIMAL FARM

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