The long-standing Republican filibuster was finally broken when Carte Goodwin, who succeeded West Virginia's Robert Byrd, was sworn in and allowed for the 60-40 vote that passed the extension (Wendel). ... Because the new legislation was just recently passed, passing an executive order would create a severe conflict over separation of powers (Hoffer). 99ers have very few options left. ...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The confederate government of the south found it self in a dilemma when they heard the news, either to start the war or allow the rebellion to collapse, they chose to start the war by attacking Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, which left Fort Sumter on a blaze of fire and collapsed. ... General Robert Lee of the confederate army surrendered his army in Virginia on April 9 1856 at Appomattox Courthouse; positively this surrender ended the war witch reunited the north and the south under one nation one more time but different and better than before, this time slavery was demolished by the Great Ema...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In an article found in The Washington Times, writer Robert Knight states, Article 1, Section 8 gives congress the power to regulate commerce and levy taxes. ... During the years spanning 1776 and 1787 the states were left to govern on their own, meaning left to tax separately, issue currency separately and provide independent militia. ...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Roosevelt was Taft's predecessor, who had left the Republican party to form the new progressive party. ... Luis Brandeis began advising Wilson after Robert La Follette lost the nomination to Taft. ...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Once he left home he was a simple shopkeeper and manual laborer cutting wood until his first political position in 1834 after losing in his 1832 campaign when he was elected to the House of Representative for Illinois as a member of the whig party. ... This left Lincoln an unpopular figure unlike and defied by many including his cabinet many who were rival politicians, congress, and the citizens of the Union. ...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate