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Essay / Analysis of American Creation by Joesph J. Ellis - 537
Joseph J. Ellis, the author of American Creation which turned out to be a national bestseller who wrote other books such as His Excellency, founding brother, American Sphinx, Passionate sage, after the revolution, and school of soldiers. What the author does that makes this a very unique book is that he gives us a brief glimpse of America coming to life after multiple attempts at establishing a government. He tells us how we use very different cultures to build our government, deciding whether or not we should have a dictatorship like England, but have a democracy like the Romans. Joseph makes important arguments that could not be resolved when we were drafting the Constitution, about how we should handle a long-term debate over the state-federal question and the power of the judiciary. Which gave rise to the three branches of government we have today in our modern country. This allowed government to evolve and allowed others, like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. to be the founders of the peace and freedom that we, as Americans, decided to have. 'to be what we wanted to be....