Al Gore Won Florida November 7, 2000. Over a hundred million people turned out to vote for our nation's president. The election was decided by 537. Twenty-five controversial electoral votes were given to George Bush, and thus giving him the presidency. I am here to inform that there is ...

The Electorial College has caused a lot of controversy over the past several years. For example, our most recent presidential election which put Vice President Al Gore up against the Governor of Texas, George W. Bush. This election went down to the wire....

The Election that Turned on the Lightbulb in America The election process has finally ended, and out from the dust, a new president comes forward. Like an old Western movie, the battle between two foes has prompted a new method of handling the town's affairs. As a result of the electio...

Discrimination Throughout the years of US history there have been countless acts of discrimination, of all sorts, and there have been an immense amount of cases filed in regards to these acts. Although it is commonly believed that discrimination is always illegal, the courts have repeatedly upheld...

Scott Colson Chris O'Connell To Kill A Mockingbird March 5, 2000 GOMILLION ET AL. v. LIGHTFOOT, MAYOR OF TUSKEGEE, ET AL. The unprecedented Gomillion v. Lightfoot came to the Supreme Court because the borders of Tuskegee, Alabama were redrawn. They went from a square shape to an irregular...

The Gore versus Bush post-election was infinitely more exciting and significant than the actual contest. Who would have thought that such a boring and manipulated competition would culminate in an American style, Supreme Court-certified coup d'etat. It was seriously a coup. Som...

Considered perhaps the most important concerns in any presidential candidate's political platform is that which addresses economic policy; and, this is certainly the case with regard to the current stance between George W. Bush and Al Gore's candidacies. With Bush successfully appeasing...

Bush Vs. Gore "My plans help real Americans at every stage of their lives. From birth through the retirement years, I have a plan to improve education, lower taxes, strengthen Social Security, and provide healthcare," said Bush. In the 2000 presidential election, George Bush and Al Go...

The Constitution guarantees a federalist government by stating in the tenth amendment that ,"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or the people." The framers did this to ...

Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale No. 99-699 Argued April 26, 200- Decided June 28, 2000 In order to explain this court case and why it is so important, it is necessary to look at the history behind it. In July of 1990 James Dale an assistant scoutmaster, and Boy Scout since age eight, was i...

OUR NEW PRESIDENT The election is to close to call who would be our new president. The presidential election was one of the wildest and closest in U.S. history. On November 7, all of America was expecting a new president. It turns out that Florida had to do another recount because there had s...

Response to "Words Worth Fighting For" In the article observed, Pete Hamill writes about one of the "old-fashioned Americans" named Barry Goldwater. The author makes it clear that he and Goldwater share completely different political views but also makes it clear that he has ...

Our nation is currently suffering from social, economical, as well as political injustice and its greatly impacting Americans of every social class. From the lower to the upper class and from the white to the blacks, we are all greatly affected by it. Many people can agree that injustice is unfair a...

February 24, 2000 Michael J. Petrides 623 My Journal of Thurgood Marshall Day 1, Today I was born, I was the second son of William Marshall, my dad. I was born on July 2, 1908, in West Baltimore, Maryland. My father worked as a dining car waiter for the Baltimore and Ohio R...

QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND EQUALITY BY : MR_JoNES^ Very few of the presidents of the United States have been responsive to the African American quest for freedom and equality. Some of them in fact, have been rather hostile. An example would be when President Andrew Jackson vetoed civil rights legisla...

Difference between Judicial activism and Judicial restraint Our American judiciary branch of the federal government has contributed and molded our American beliefs in this great nation. This branch of government is respected because of the code of conduct that the judges, no matter how conservat...

America as a whole has definitely come face to face with some pretty drastic changes since President Bush took office on January 20, 2001. The question is however, what is in store for the future of America, and how much change can American's cope with at one time? Obviously some American's can'...

Financing elections is one of the major and disputable problems that American politics face presently. Analysts became worried that the rising costs of campaigns distort elections in the interests who have the money. Also another problem that worried people and analysts was that the politics seeme...

Affirmative Action: Reverse Discrimination? Affirmative Action is a hot issue in the United States, with wide differences of opinion over the correct way to expand opportunity for people who have historically been discriminated against. With the philosophical difference behind the legal and pol...

In the 2000 presidential election, the public looked at each of the candidates' personal traits and their issues in order for them to decide, who they thought would be the best person to be the President of the United States of America. Most voters said that they were most concerned with the candi...