"The American President" is a romantic comedy that was released in 1995. In this movie, widowed U.S. President Andrew Shepherd's first presidential term is coming to an end and everyone in the White House is working hard to gain public support in order to guarantee Shepherd's re-election. But when ...
One of the things voters look at when they are choosing a president is how their family life is, what their family values are, and their family as an overall whole. ... Overall, I would have to say this movie didn't do too great of a job trying to depict how the American government is today. ...
Overall, the Senate also keeps a very close eye on the executive branch, and the powers and agenda of the President. ... Overall, members of Congress are mainly just more knowledgeable on domestic issues rather then what it going on in foreign affairs. ...
The Quebec Conference At the Quebec Conference on October tenth, 1864, the delegates agreed on seventy-two resolutions that set out which powers each level of government would have. Their decision was based on the desire to have a strong federal government with limited power for the provincial go...
The role of media plays too great a part in the political process. As far as I"m concerned the media pries too deeply into the private lives of people in the public eye that it makes it almost impossible for them to live a normal life. It has come to the point where even the children of these poli...
The Articles of confederation was the first rough draft of the present constituition of the United States of America. The Articles had many weaknesses, but they still possessed some strengths. Many people say that the Articles of Confederation were important because they were a model of what a con...
By definition the word democracy deals with a form of government where the majority rules, a government in which the ultimate power lies in the masses. Between 1820 and 1840 Jackson's economic policies and the events that coincided with the great migration westward aided this change in power from th...
For many years, sociologists have studied that certain Governments use criminal punishment as a way for social control for certain ethnic groups in particularly lower-class communities. Justice itself is not present in certain areas, and crime is sometimes wholly justified on a person's upbringing. ...
First of all, what is an economist? What is their contribution in the country? Does one must graduate in economics just to be called an economist? According to the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary and Thesaurus, an economist is a person who studies or has a special knowledge of economics. The ...
There were many different things that challenged the new government between 1789 and 1800. Different things such as Foreign Affairs and new rules that were established such as the Alien and Sedition Acts. All of these things some how changed the government and the views of the citizens of the ...
" Stated in an article from the New York Post, the average completion rate at CUNY's six Community Colleges in New York City is "Overall, just 4.1 percent of first-time enrollees, about 16 percent graduate in three years, and 23.5 percent in four years, similar to peers nationwide. ...
America, Is it As the Founding Fathers Envisioned? As I take a look at the incredibly large and complex organization that is our government, I realize how different the government has become since the days it was created. There is no way that the founding fathers could have predicted how our gove...
The debate began on 13th October 2015. It was aired on CNN. The moderator was Anderson Cooper. There were five nominees for President by the Democrats. Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley, Webb and Chafee. There was a big debate on who won. CNN and BBC viewed Clinton as the winner while The Washington Post, ...
Commerce and its Doctrines Commerce has always been one of the most debated topics before the Supreme Court. Although it seems clearly defined in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the authority of regulating commerce is continually challenged. The stream of commerce doctrine, the opini...
Plan Columbia and the War on Drugs In 1999 President Clinton launched the largest and most elaborate attack on drugs since the War on Drugs began with President Nixon in 1971. In response to drug abuse and addiction in the United States, the government is trying to restrict the supply from ...
A utopian government althought idealistic is utterly impossible. If there was to be one the following are what I would like. First I would address citizen involvment in the government and society around it. Second I would like to adress the leadership in this country. Third is the division of p...
The Rising Tide of Women's Leadership Within the past few years, America has seen an increase in women's leadership positions. This article discusses how women are climbing the ranks of leadership in both the civilian and military world. Not only is it more common to have a woman run for office,...
When President Carter emerged from the shadows of Watergate as the nations 38th president, the American people believed that this peanut farmer from Georgia would restore the proper role of the presidency and solve the nations foreign and domestic problems. On the domestic front, Carter emphasized...
William Clinton and George Bush were both great leaders of our country. Bill Clinton, the 42nd leader and George Bush the 43rd have both done their best for our country. They have been brought up differently but their way of guiding our nation through the tough times are similar. President Cli...
In November of 2014, President Obama made a presidential address passing a bill without the consent from Congress to reform the immigration system. He had decided that if an illegal immigrant had been living in the United States, since 2010 or earlier, and had a child who had been born in America, t...
Reconstruction is the period after the United States Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union in 1865-1877. Reconstruction is probably the most controversial period in U.S. history. The South needed to be rebuilt socially, economically, politically, and ph...
The 1960s was a time in United States history unlike any other. It was a time before there was a Bush in the White House or sexual scandal in the Oval Office. A time before we sent a man to the moon. A time when Cuba and its missiles were more of a nuisance then an actual crisis. A time when Blacks ...
Regardless of your political party, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you can not refute the fact that former President Bill Clinton was an incredible orator. Whether it is the State of the Union address or linking relationships between the Israelis and Palestinians, he always came across ...
In the essay, "Woodrow Wilson: Egocentric Crusader," by Walter McDougall, McDougall illustrates the type of presidency Wilson led for the United States. McDougall describes how Wilson loved power as he says, "he loved, craved, and in a sense glorified power. That may seem anomalous in a pious Progre...
