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What revolutions were caused by a reaction to absolute authority?

Russian revolution was a cause of the Czar ignoring the needs of the people.


What political system provides the best example of tyranny?

An emperor imprisons all citizens who oppose him, ignoring laws meant to protect speech.


How has the court exceeded its role as interpreter of the law and extended its authority into legislation?

Judges are not ignoring laws and introducing their own biases. This process inadvertently allows judges to exceed their authority in the court of law.


What plan did William Paterson propose?

William Paterson's plan was called the New Jersey or Paterson plan and it countered the Virginia plan and it proposed a national legislature that, ignoring differences in size and population, gave equal voice to all the states.


If Florida's state legislature calls for a constitutional convention must the voters approve of calling the convention?

Yes and No. A Constitutional Convention, as defined by Article V of the U.S. Constitution, involves the legislatures of two thirds of the states calling for the Convention, as representatives of the people. The Convention maintains a republican-federalist quality, not direct democracy involving the sovereign.However, one of the grievous defects of the constitution is the functional impossibility of amending the Constitution with regard to anything truly significant. Interestingly, Sanford Levinson argues that "the strictures (and structures) of Article V are limits on the agents of the people rather than on the general citizenry itself (or ourselves)." We should assert the sovereignty announced in the Preamble to "ordain and establish" a constitution -- which would be a "Yes" to your question.Note the precedence from the framers ignoring Rhode Island and Article XIII, and establishing that a new convention could legitimately "declare that its handiwork would be binding if ratified in a national referendum where each voter had equal power."Good Constitutional critiques include, Sanford Levinson's Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It) (2008) and Robert Dahl's How Democratic is the American Constitution (2003).Go Vermont! Freedom & Unity!