Declaration of Independence In Congress, July 4, 1776 In the course of time there are many arguments. There should be no need to fight with one another. America is for freedom. There shouldn't be so many set backs to make things harder. People should have the choice to choose how the...

Religion in GovernmentReligion has always been apart of government, and always be. But it has become an argument since the constitution was written. More then 90 percent of Americans associate with some sort of religion and it has become a frenzied debut among Americans.Although religion has slowly ...

Average college students spend their weekends involved in some sort of social scene. Nine times out of ten these social activities will involve drinking. We do not see much wrong with so-called underage drinking because we can do so many other things at age eighteen that require much more responsi...

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...

The article that I have chosen to review discusses and explains the entire prohibition movement of the 1920s. It explains that the temperance movements began when there was an idea that the consumption of alcohol was hazardous to people\'s virtue. The early efforts of people to ban alcohol were onl...

Debates Over Slavery In 1787, delegates arrived in Philadelphia to begin work on revising the Articles of Confederation. Most states agreed that the Articles had not provided the country with the type of guidelines that it needed to run smoothly. There were many things missing, and many issues ...

Eventually, it was discovered that God did not want us to be the same. This was bad news for the governments of the world...Mankind must be made more uniformly if THE FUTURE was going to work out... It was about this time that someone came up with the idea of total criminalization, based on the prin...

Whether or not the Ten Commandments should be posted in public schools is not an argument about keeping God\'s word away from the children of public schools, nor turning our backs on God, but rather how and where the word of God should be presented and taught. The issue of posting the Ten Commandmen...

Don Tasin Period 3 AP U.S. History Mar. 18, 2003 The Prohibition Movement The article that I have chosen to review discusses and explains the entire prohibition movement of the 1920's. It explains that the temperance movements were began when there was an idea that the consumption o...

Good Morning Recently the United States Congress has been debating whether or not to declare that English is the national language of the United States and that all instruction in public schools is in English. There is no question what the language of this country is, it is irrefutably Englis...

The Origins, Perspectives and Conseqeunces of Reconstruction Laws The period following the American Civil War was plagued with racial violence, political and social turmoil as well as a great sense of divisiveness. The period of Congressional Reconstruction was an immensely significant ch...

The Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence is a historical document that stated the colonies wanted and would gain freedom from Britain. It eloquently expresses the reasons the colonies wanted freedom. It also blamed Britain for many abuses that King George forced and inflec...

I will substantiate that the federal enhanced sentencing guidelines as they presently exists present troubling Constitutional issues. Judges use to determine criminal sentences by considering the facts of each case, including the circumstances of the offense and the life history of the offender. A...

The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in May 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. Almost immediately, delegates unanimously agreed on replacing the Articles with a new document that created a stronger central government. However, the representatives could agree on little else af...

James Monroe was president during the "Era of Good Feelings". It was called that because there were few political battles and his Democratic-Republican party ruled almost unopposed. It was a transitional period in which the nations democratic institutions and capitalist economy were takin...

Attention Step I. Attention getting device Did any of you here ever have a problem with road rage? Did any of them ever drive aggressively against you, like cut you off, or project any ty...

After the American Revolution ended, life in America was different. States reduced the property holding requirement for voting and got rid of primogeniture. The aristocratic leadership was weakened. The Quakers founded the first antislavery society in 1775. Individual states could trade freely w...

Amendment II Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. 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. The Second Amendment has become one of the most debated Amendments ...

Constitution Review 1. Government in which two levels of government shared fundamental powers. State governments were supreme in some matters, while the national government was supreme in other matters. It was designed this way to prevent one of the governments from overpowering the other. 2. pa...

Lowering the Legal Drinking Age to 18The legal drinking age in the United States is set at twenty-one years of age. I believe that considering twenty-one as the legal age of maturity is ridiculous. Who is to say that just because an individual is twenty-one means that they are mature enough to con...

"Private school choice" or "voucher programs" allow parents to put tax dollars toward a private education - for example - in the form of a subsidy to chosen school. The dollar value of voucher is usually equal to, but may be less than, the stage average per pupil expenditure, and may cover the parti...

Coercive Prayer The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This amendment, commonly called the Establishment Clause, forms the foundation of the rig...

If you turn on the news, there is likely to be a story about music censorship. Or you can walk into a music store and see different ways in which music is being censored. Every CD that contains explicit language must be labeled with a sticker "Parental Advisory". The reason for this is because m...

Bureaucracy is defined as a set of complex hierarchical departments, agencies, commissions, and their staff that exists to help the president carry out his constitutionally mandated charge to enforce the laws of the nation. It is a wide spread phenomena throughout the US, in the Federal, State, Cou...

Killers in AmericaCrimes are being committed every second in America. Stealing, raping, kidnapping, and murdering are only some of the many crimes. There are several punishments for these criminals ranging from community service to death row. Death row is where murderers are placed and sooner or ...