... town in Alabama is hot; therefore, life does proceed at a very slow pace. Most of Maycomb is poor, so there is no financial means of improving the town. It is almost as if the town has turned in on itself, there were no concerns, and no real awareness of the outside world. The community is made up of "fine folks-, these are people who would never consider about breaking ... the law, and they may be poor but live a happy life. There is some class distinction ... between the rich and the poor. For example, the Finch family are quite "well-off- as Atticus Finch is a lawyer ... ...

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... . 97) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argues that the framers of the Constitution unconsciously laid the foundation for today's "presidency on steroids" (pg. 1) by granting the chief executive a broad mandate to direct warfare and to conduct foreign policy. Schlesinger also believes that the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union after World War II, "led to congress surrendering much of its oversight of military and diplomatic matters" (pg ... ;insisted upon proceeding along constitutional lines" (pg. 224) and at one point told a reported that his fundamental concept of the Presidency is that...

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