More than any other political figure, the President of the United States attracts the scrutiny and passion of the American people. As their elected Head of State, he represents the presence of the masses and is seen as the figurehead of the nation in times of national crisis and grief. The last few ...

George W. "The Present and the Future" After four years in office our current President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, is up for re-election. One candidate running against him is Ralph Nader. He is from the Green Party and probably has no hope of being elected. The othe...

This essy explores 3 Bush quotes about the Middle East to analyze, from a layperson's perspective: 1) what is he saying (or trying to say)? 2) are his administrations policies consistent with the statement? Quote A: "There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's th...

John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens was born on April 10, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois to Ernest and Elizabeth Stevens. John, who is the youngest of three brothers, and his family lived across from the University of Chicago. There, John attended high school in the university's...

Is it Wrong to Abort a Pregnancy? Always? Sometimes? Never? In the upcoming 2004 presidential election there are many heated issues being discussed but none are nearly as important as abortion. President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry have two very different stances on the controversi...

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...

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...

Franco Caliendo Shadow Watergate has shaped the modern presidency. The novel, Shadow, by Bob Woodward, describes how the administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton were forever distorted. In great explanation, Bob Woodward, takes a look at ...

Women's struggle for equal rights is a thread that runs through the fabric of U.S history. More than a hundred years ago, American women did not have the right to own property, keep the money they earned, vote, get an education, or get custody of their children. The road to equality has been arduou...

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...

Within the last decade, the Office of the President of the United States Federal Government, part of the triad of the Executive, Legislative (US Congress) and Judicial (the Supreme Court) branches, has come under fire, due to the views of some Americans who consider the Executive branch to be far le...

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....

Inaugural address of President George W. Bush During this course, we have learned many things. Amidst the things that we have learned is the American Creed which include liberty, self government, equality, individualism, diversity and unity. All these things are the core value system for the peo...

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...

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 ...

We are a nation under attack. No, I am not confused. I am not mixing us up with Iraq, which is systematically being attacked by the U.S. government. I mean we, a nation of American citizens who are systematically being attacked by the U.S. government. No bombs have been dropped yet but the sold...

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...

President George W. Bush has announced a 6-point agenda for stimulating the US economy that he plans to implement, if re-elected. The plan would help businesses as follows: • The cornerstone of President Bush's economic plan is his proposal for eliminating doubl...

Conservatism (1980's Style)- the principles and practices of the Conservative party in United Kingdom. Irangate- a big scandal that was compared to Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, but it raised more troubling issues. It was significant, because it left the role of the president unex...

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 ...

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...

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...

1 August 2002 With many Americans believing that the President supports corrupt corporate practices, President George Bush had to convince the public that he did not. His July 9th speech on corporate reform proposals didn't go over so well with the American public, according to a recent Gallup O...

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...

The First Amendment: Our Guarantee of Individual Rights In 1777, the Continental Congress adopted a set of rules known as the Articles of Confederation. From these meager beginnings sprang thirteen states and a promise of a representational government. Twelve years later congress ratified ...