•republic •Articles of Confederation •Northwest Ordinance of 1787 •Shays’s Rebellion •James Madison •federalism •checks and balances •ratification •Federalists •Antifederalists •Bill of Rights American leaders created the Constitution as a blueprint of government for the United States. More than 200 years after its creation, the Constitution remains the nation’s guiding document for a working g...

This article presents an agent-based computational model of civil violence. Two variants of the civil violence model are presented. In the first a central authority seeks to suppress decentralized rebellion. In the second a central authority seeks to suppress communal violence between two warring ethnic groups.

in the classification and structural analysis of shahnameh, the authors of the article consider the conflict between good and evil (from now on c.g.e.) as the main motif of this great epic. this motif has spread all over the epic. the number of the stories being influenced by the myth of c.g.e. is at least twice as many as every other motif in the epic. considering the antiquity of the myth and...