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Hiding Behind Lincoln, Jonathan Fenster
Hiding Behind Lincoln, Jonathan Fenster
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
Abraham Lincoln’s ascent to power was surprising, but after a deep analysis it is clear that it was not at all unique. Just like Queen Esther, Lincoln was able to overcome extreme odds through patience and faith.
Author information: Jonathan Fenster is a Straus Center Scholar at Yeshiva University located in Washington Heights, New York. Jonathan plans on attending law school after he completes his biology major, and hopes to cultivate and develop a deeper understanding of the synthesis between modern law and ancient philosophy.
Alexander Hamilton’S Vision Of An American Monarchy, Madeline Clarke
Alexander Hamilton’S Vision Of An American Monarchy, Madeline Clarke
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
Alexander Hamilton’s underlying arguments in The Federalist Papers and the Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794 expand the power of the presidency and display Hamilton’s desire for a king-like president of the United States, much like Great Britain’s monarch.
Author information: Madeline Clarke is an honors student from Ashland, Missouri, at the University of Missouri-Columbia studying political science and geography with a minor in American Constitutional Democracy. She is currently a Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Undergraduate Fellow in addition to serving as president of Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honor Society, an executive board member of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor …
Justice, Ideology, And Struggle, Megan Murray
Justice, Ideology, And Struggle, Megan Murray
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
Marx’s approach to questions of justice and morality are captured by this metaphilosophical position, whereby Marx rejects an understanding of philosophical inquiry as the pursuit of foundations and universality. Philosophical justifications are, in the last instance, products of a particular form of society and production. Rather than abandoning the basic idea of human moral equality, the radical historicist approach allows the philosopher to make the Marxist progression from merely understanding the world toward changing it and moving it closer toward a moral horizon.
Author information: Megan graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2018 started a PhD in political theory at …
The American Torture Problem, Chase Sievers
The American Torture Problem, Chase Sievers
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
This essay offers a brief account and (partial) critique of the Central Intelligence Agency’s enhanced interrogation program which was utilized during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author information: Chase Sievers is an undergraduate student at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He enjoys writing about and studying politics and culture.
Defining Criminality: Confronting Racist And Classist Narratives Of The Criminal, Sophia Meacham
Defining Criminality: Confronting Racist And Classist Narratives Of The Criminal, Sophia Meacham
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
Defining someone as a criminal carries serious consequences for the individual in terms of a denial of resources, increased surveillance, incarceration, and dehumanization, and also for society as a whole.
Author information: Sophia Meacham is now at the Columbia College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University where she is pursuing a Masters degree in Media and Strategic Communications. This research was conducted as an independent study by the author as an undergraduate at Smith College.
Locke’S Questionable Use Of The Bible In Establishing His Theory Of Property, Amy Al-Salaita
Locke’S Questionable Use Of The Bible In Establishing His Theory Of Property, Amy Al-Salaita
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
Locke’s philosophy is not only wrongly founded in the Old Testament, continually relying on the creation story of Genesis in order to justify capitalist theory, but it also selectively uses the Bible in order to excuse wealth disparity and social inequality.
Author information: Amy Al-Salaita is graduate of Loyola University Chicago (Class of 2020), where she studied Political Science and Global and International Studies, with a minor in Arabic.