George Washington George Washington is best known as the "Father of our Country." He cared for this country much like a parent would care for a child. During his presidency, he solved many noteworthy prob...

The first administration of the United States was led by the first president of the United States, George Washington. The administration had to set a precedent for the next administrations of the United States. The administration faced many problems internally and externally. The administration d...

Throughout the history of blacks in America, there have been periods that could be called "civil rights movements." Though brief, these spurts offered guidance and a good background for crafting techniques and strategies to the leaders and organizers of America's modern Civil Rights Movement in the ...

US Presidents In the long history of the United States of America, there have been several amounted president in charge of our great nation. 43 Presidents to be exact. Each a very likely and very different individual, but all interesting. We've had from the most interesting, controversial a...

A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, assembly, the right to vote, freedom from involuntary servitude, and the right to equality in public places. Discriminati...

Gun Control Government 2301 02 November 1996 A Well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed. Amendment II, Bill of Rights ...

Gun Control Government 2301 02 November 1996 A Well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed. Amendment II, Bill of R...

Although racist equality was rarley enforced by the United States gorvenment in the past, Andrew Jackson reformulated the unwritten guidelines of Indian relations. For one of the first times in the short American history, the intolerance for Indian "savages" became apparent. The authority of the Pe...

Jeremy Vronko Ethics 3-7-01 School Prayer and Religion Must Religion Be Completely Excluded From Schools? Yes according to the Supreme Court ruling of Lemon vs. Kurtzman, religion must be excluded from the nation's public schools. On June 28, 1973, the Supreme Court mandated that all educati...

Stepped up efforts to change the educational system. In the fall of 1950 members of the Topeka, Kansas, Chapter of National Association for the Advancement of colored people agreed to again challenge the "separate but equal" doctrine governing public education. The NAACP was eager to assis...

Thomas Jefferson, the American icon, is best remembered as the author of our Declaration of Independence and as a great president. Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell plantation in western Virginia. He later went on to excel in school and graduated at William and Mary College in Virg...

Introduction It is common knowledge amongst Americans that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. But what many people don't know about is the conspiracy surrounding it. The uncovering of this conspiracy led to the first execution of a woman in the United States. The resulting execut...

Gun Control: Protecting Rights or Protecting People Whether writing the Articles of Confederation in 1776 or watching the Columbine Shootings in 1999, the right to bear arms has been a public and political debate since the beginning of our nation. Who should have the right to bear arms? What laws...

As the government was newly establishing its stronghold on the nation, forging its way to a powerful republic and instituting precedents for the future, a struggle to preserve the foundations of American society instituted by Washington and John Adams existed as Thomas Jefferson took office. In an a...

Desecration of Stars and Stripes INTRODUCTION Is it more important to protect the icons of our country, or to ensure the right to extremely offensive expressions? The issue of flag burning asks America just that question: Should America tolerate, or condemn? Flag burning does seem to be the ...

As the government was newly establishing its stronghold on the nation, forging its way to a powerful republic and instituting precedents for the future, a struggle to preserve the foundations of American Society instituted by Washington and John Adams existed as Thomas Jefferson took office. In ...

McCulloch v. Maryland The case of McCulloch v. Maryland was brought to the United States Supreme Court in 1819. The decisions of Chief Justice John Marshall in this case would set precedence for all future cases involving the expansion of federal power and any impediment on federal power...

This year's State Of The Union speech was a very unique one in many ways. First off, it was extremely ambitious considering this is President Clinton's eighth and final year as President of the United States. The sheer amount of propositions brought up were mind boggling, especially fo...

Religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared...

Affirmative Action First I would like to make a few statements of what Affirmative Action does: Affirmative action requires (or permits) racial and/or gender quotas to be used in place of merit selection. Affirmative action requires selection of unqualified persons for jobs, schools and commerc...

The president "shall be removed from office for, and on conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Was Nixon responsible for committing any of these impeachable crimes? Yes, He knew himself that he was going to be impeached, so he decided to resign. He was res...

John Ross's Response to Jackson's Message to Congress In my nearly forty years as a Cherokee and an American, my eyes have seen much. I witnessed much brutality in the early years of the American frontier, as constant raids raged between the American Armies and Cherokees. I have had the ...

Trunble low-security prison, located in a backwater of Florida, is home to a trio of former lawyers. The self-styled Brethren, comprising a Federal Judge, a Justice of the Peace and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, arbitrate on behalf of the jail's inmates. Their daily meetings in the law libra...

The Ten Most Wanted This past presidential election was one the most historic events that our young country has ever seen. There have been disputed elections before but none have been brought to the State Supreme Courts or the Federal Supreme Courts. So much controversy surrounding an el...

1. Attention Step Endangered species are taking priority over land and property development throughout the entire world, costing private enterprises millions and sometimes billions of dollars; there needs to be a common sense approach to protect endangered species and still let landowner...