America the land of freedom, the land where US citizens themselves choose which leaders will represent their diverse community. The leaders are chosen through elections held for positions in office. Each election depending on which party, and which candidate was chosen determine the outcome of the...

Article 1 createes the first of the 3 branches of the government. Section 1 createes the name of the Legislature to be The Congress is a two-part body. Section 2 explains the House of Representatives. It createes a the minimum requirements, like 25yrs old limit, and says that the people themselves...

The line-item veto allows the president, like most state governors, to kill individual or line items out of spending bills without killing the entire bill. Until this year, the president had to accept or reject bills in their entirety, a fairly drastic course of action to get at a handful of items...

Governmental power and functions in the United States rest in three branches of government: the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive. In this system of a "separation of powers" each branch operates independently of the others. However, there are built in checks and balances to prevent overbearing ...

Dually, the way Congress and the executive branch is formed affects public policy we have as well as the quality of democracy and its insulation from the public. The Congress' purpose, when it was created, was to, quite simply, make laws. The executive branch's purpose was to execute the...

In 1798, there was a young Republican publicist named Benjamin Franklin Bache, the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, who was known as "Lightning Rod, Junior" because he was the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and was known for his shocking phraseology. Impetuous, harsh, narrow-minded and d...

The reconstruction process beginning in 1865 brought on new race relations in America that would change the lives of every American. After the Civil War, newly freed slaves faced many challenges. Whites, especially in the South regarded blacks as inferior more than ever. While blacks were trying to ...

During a March 2000 address at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vice President Al Gore said that campaign finance reform is "one of the most important steps we can take to return government to the people." His father (Al Gore Sr.), Gore asserted, lost a Senate seat in 1970 ...

A bicameral system is a legislative system in which the power of law making is vested in two houses, or chambers, both of which must approve a bill before it becomes law. There are a few general guidelines by which most bicameral systems, including the United States, operate. The upper house, The...

After the Great Depression happened many people in the United States thought that the Stock Market crash had caused the depression but in actuality it didn't start it but it indeed help it. What were some other causes of The Great Depression then the Stock Market Crash, and what us as in people...

How A Bill becomes A LAW? Have you ever had an idea that you thought should become a law? Ideas for laws come in many ways. Members of Congress present ideas for new laws. Ordinary citizens may call their senator or representative with an idea. Special interest groups send delegates to talk to our ...

There was nothing 'civil' about the Civil War. Neighbor fought neighbor and brother fought brother in a painful division between family and friends that mirrored the one between the North and the South. The Civil War started when between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern s...

Introduction In December 1982, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWIRC) concluded that the evacuation and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II were the result of "racism, war hysteria, and a failure of the nation's le...

Introduction: The original version of the Privacy Act of 1974 (S. 3418 Public Law 93-579) according to the Department of Justice (www.usdoj.gov/oip/1974intro.htm) was actually singed into law on September 27, 1975. It was called an "omnibus" (meaning that it packaged together several piece...

While some people may argue that OSHA's regulations are burdensome and overly bureaucratic, they have helped reduce workplace accidents and therefore reducing absenteeism and insurance payouts. Manufacturers and businesses, large and small, benefit. In fact, there is proof that OSHA oversight ...

When BankBoston developed its strategy for lending to telecommunications companies in 1999, it was responding to several changes in the telecommunications regulatory environment. The first of those changes was not a regulation per se but a ruling by federal judge Harold Green in `984. T...

Is Government Dominated by Business Special interest groups have dominated government since the advent of America's political system. Special interest groups or lobbies are collections of individuals who join together to pursue common interests and to influence the decisions on public poli...

The Constitution gives the President three discrete functions following bicameral adoption of a bill in Congress. First, he may elect to sign it. Second, he may veto the bill and return it with a statement of his objections to the house of Congress in which the bill originated. Finally, he may do no...

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...

Introduction The legislative process in the United States Congress shows us an interesting drama in which a bill becomes a law through compromises made by diverse and sometimes conflictinginterests in this country. There have been many controversial bills passed by Congress, but among all, I have...

The Drinking Age The drinking age is twenty one because all the people making the laws are over twenty one. So they take a biased way of thinking. When we are eighteen we can smoke, vote, and be drafted into the army, yet we aren't capable ...

During the 1930's, America witnessed a breakdown of the Democratic and free enterprise system as the United States fell into the worst Depression in history. The effects of the depression were being felt everywhere in the United States. In 1933, sixteen million people were unemployed. Americ...

The framers of the Constitution had a vision for a new nation, and a new government to regulate it. They saw the conditions in which England existed under the monarchy, and decided to construct a different kind of government in which no one faction could hold too much power. Thus, they developed...

The Power Of the American Presidency The office of the American President is unquestionably a democratically ruled position. The checks and balances of the Legislative and Judicial branches, known as Separation of Powers, keep the presidency one of the most important duties in the world, but a...

Free speech or Not Free speech- that is the Question "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the gover...