Founding of The National BankAlexander Hamilton formally served as military aide to Washington during the Revolution. Washington later appointed Hamilton as his secretary of treasury. Congress called on Hamilton to prepare a report on the nations finances. Hamilton had many enemies, but he was a gre...

Concern of the Health Care System Throughout the United States there has been an overwhelming concern asto the status of the present health care system. Approximately 100,000people lose their health insurance each month. Unfortunately the presentsystem does little to nothing to aid these people....

A Wise Delay Governor Ryan's decision to suspend the death penalty is already starting to have a valuable impact on the rest of nation. Other states are starting to aid in Governor Ryan's quest to improve death penalty systems. Last week, a representative from the state of Wisconsin, requested tha...

What are the qualities of presidential leadership? What makes a president a great leader? The presidents were great leaders because they knew how to guide and to inspire the American People. The great presidents had leadership qualities such as possessing persistence like Lincoln, having resilience ...

How to Use the Budget Surplus to Stop the Recession In the last decade the United States Government has been fortunate to have numerous years of budget surplus. The surplus has been an issue with the recent Presidential election. The left over billion or trillion dollars is of great interest ...

Ulysses Simpson Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant was born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio to a very patriotic family who boasted American roots for generations. In 1839 Grant's father enrolled him in the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. Grant was quoted later to saying, "A military ...

Jimmy Carter\'s Foreign Policy Jimmy Carter became the thirty-ninth President of the United States of America on January 20, 1977. During his Presidency, he fulfilled campaign promises to develop a national energy program, protect the nation\'s natural resources, and aid education. The Egypt-Israel...

Had Richard M. Nixon not resigned as President of the United States on August 9th, 1974, he would have been impeached and removed from office. In June of 1972, a group of men hired by Nixon\'s reelection committee was caught breaking into the offices of the Democratic national headquarters in the W...

When the Great Depression began in 1929, millions of Americans soon became unemployed and poverty-stricken. The Stock market crash, caused by over-speculation, cost many Americans all their money and savings and soon even those not involved in the Stock market began to suffer. Not long after, the Du...

Concern of the Health Care System Throughout the United States there has been an overwhelming concern as to the status of the present health care system. Approximately 100,000 people lose their health insurance each month. Unfortunately the present system does little to nothing to aid these people...

At its inception, the United States was built on principles of freedom, justice, and liberty. A reaction to tyranny and oppression, its creation sought to bring change to centuries of inequity under the British monarchy. But no change is sudden; the growth and evolution of the United States has ta...

Richard E. Neustadt, the author of Presidential Power, addresses the politics of leadership and how the citizens of the United States rate the performance of the president's term. We measure his leadership by saying that he is either "weak or "strong" and Neustadt argues that we have the right to d...

The complaints of Native Americans, western farmers, and African Americans in the later 19th century are the result of too little government action. When problems began to arise in the West, only then did the American Government hastily find even more disputable solutions. The government did no...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in the year 1917, in Brookline Massachusetts. In 1946, at the age of 29, Kennedy became a congressman for Massachusetts. When in Congress, Kennedy was known for voting his own ideas, not just those of his party. He openly criticized ...

The Final Debate The third and last debate was held on Wednesday, October 13, 2004. The debate, between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry, was a debate on domestic issues. Overall, I believe George Bush won the debate because he enforced equality among Americans, assured seniors about t...

Presidential success arises from many different areas. These areas include his proposals on foreign and domestic policies, the different stages in the president's term, the amount of support he receives from Congress, the amount of support he receives from the public, the quality and reliabi...

Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. He was clearly an important icon in the action of the United States entering World War I. He also played a major role in the US participating in more world affairs during his presidency. He came to be known as the "proph...

The election of 1986 is considered as one of the most important in the nation\'s history since it marked a sea change in the evolution of the modern presidency. Though the status of this election was unclear, it is frequently considered as a realigning election that stands for a serious difference...

Liberalism is the attitude portrayed by those who are fairly satisfied with their way of life yet they believe they can improve it without betraying its ideals or wrecking its institutions. A liberal tries to adopt a balanced view of the social process and is usually known to choose change over sta...

Andrew Jackson and his policies strengthened the new American nationalism. Through his actions during his presidency, he changed the nation into a more nationalistic country. Jackson was a man of the people, and he strongly felt that the common man was the power behind government. There were many di...

President Andrew Jackson was a man of the people, and he strongly felt that the common man was the true power behind the government. There were many different aspects that mirrored Jackson and American nationalism. Many factors, including his personality, his policies, his actions, and the way he mi...

Since the beginning of the glorious post-World War II days to the dawn of the revolutionary 1960's, the United States had been led by an uninspiring, "ordinary" farmer who had led the country into yet another war. Additionally, despite the continuing economic boom, the obsequious societal tension p...

The United States role in the world is to protect U.S global Interest. We live in a dangerously unstable world. By choosing to protect U.S interests as our overall foreign policy will mean that, we must strive for order So that it lets the world know that know that we should focus on keeping our Int...

Congressional Power Congress has several powers awarded by the Constitution and several others that it has obtained with time. They have the power to regulate trade (tariff adjustments, export controls, and economic sanctions), declare war (although problematic at times because there is no clear ...

In 1788 the Americans established a system of government under the Constitution. This government was new and unusual. It contained an executive branch, a judicial branch, and a legislative branch. The government started weak and bankrupt. The states and the nation were in dept from the war. The...