During the 1700's, people from many different countries began to swarm to America, causing societies to form and new ideas and opportunities to come about. In The Autobiography of Ben Franklin and John Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer, different ideas of American ideals are ex...

In struggling to determine whether or not the American political system is pluralistic, elitist, or a representative democracy one must first understand what these systems are. A pluralistic system of government focuses upon interest groups to convey the interests and views of public opinion. A...

Drafting of the Constitution "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers...". This is the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Je...

The definition of a patriot is one who loves and defends his or her country. On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act Bill into law. This bill passed 98-1 in the United States Senate and 356-66 in the United States House of Representatives. The act is 342 pages long and c...

Executive Branch vs. Legislative BranchIn principle, the U.S. is a democratic republic, they govern themselves by choosing their leaders by secret ballot, and these leaders in turn make the rules. Americans started "governing themselves" as a nation on July 4th, 1776, when the Declaration of Indepen...