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...

Since 9/11 politicians have been forced to pass legislation that could very well be ruled unconstitutional. One of these, passed in the heat of the anti-terrorism fear within the U.S. is called "The Patriot Act." "The civil liberties of ordinary Americans have taken a tremendous bl...

The book, The George W.Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment, edited by Fred. I Greenstein is a compilation of essays written by over a dozen political experts. Experts who, under the organization of Fred. I Greenstein, met at Princeton University to present their view points on G.W Bush's pres...

Since 1979, the United States' international relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been shadowed by bitter contempt and dismay. In a world growing through globalization and increased international law, foreign policy with the State Departments list of "rogue" states i...

On September 11, 2001 terrorists savagely attacked the United States. The immediate devastation included the destruction of The World Trade Center, a section of the Pentagon, and the death of thousands of innocent people. Since then, the United States Congress along with the Bush Adminis...

With advancements in technology such as the Internet and wireless capabilities, the act of storing photos, documents, and other personal information in the cloud has increased as well. In the past, we stored all of this data in physical form in our homes or offices or, at most, data was stored loca...

The American Monarchy: Analysis of President Bush's Use of the Executive Order "Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda Cool." Paul Begala, former counselor to President Bill Clinton, put it best when he was quoted in regards to President Clinton's increased use of execut...

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd president of the United States. He was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. He was the oldest of three kids of John Anderson and Martha Ellen Young Truman. There is something interesting about the "S" in Truman's name. His family did not...

The term executive privilege is defined by the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (2001) as the "exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congre...

"A little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard." So said Congressman Abraham Lincoln about Alexander Hamilton Stephens.1 Stephens was born near Crawfordsville, Georgia on February 11, 1812. His mother died shortly a...

In 1978, only twenty-six years ago, there were merely sixteen women serving in the House of Representatives and only three female Senators in the United States Congress ("Women in Congress"). Currently, there are sixty-two women in the House and fourteen in the Senate, which is a record nu...

A comparison of leadership styles among the 2008 US presidential candidates and which styles have been most successful in business and politics in the past: The 2008 elections in the United States are considered to be one of the most important elections in the recent history of the US. This assessm...

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 the second of five children of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. His mother Dorothy was the daughter of a wealthy investor, and his father Prescott was an investment banker and US Senator from Connecticut. As...

Beginning with the disputed presidential election of 1824, political dominance by the Revolutionary generation came to an end. The American people passed the torch to a generation of Americans who either experienced the Revolution as children or were born in the first years of independence. Moreove...

Article 1 of the United States Constitution created a bicameral legislative branch known as the Congress. In this passage of the Constitution, two houses were created with seventeen enumerated rights including taxing, coining money, etc. The Constitution says the Congress is supposed to be set up ...