1st United States Congress

proven to be dependent upon the partisan lens in which the public views their legislative decisions. The public tends to have higher approval ratings when Congress approves legislation that aligns with their political views and lower approval ratings when congress approves legislation that does not. However, in “How Partisan Conflict in Congress Affects Public Opinion: Strategies, Outcomes, and Issue Differences” Flynn and Harbridge examine how approval ratings are affected when congressional…

otherwise known as Operation Cyclone, is a movie telling the incredible story of secret CIA operation that changed history. In 1979, the Soviet Union started a war that devastated the people as well as the land of Afghanistan. During the war, the United States would not oppose the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.…

Our society would not be where it is today if not for the civil disobedience of the minority groups within our society. The laws of probability dictate that the advances would have happened eventually but if not for the actions of civil disobedience some of them could have taken significantly longer or could have even taken conflicts to resolve just like slavery did. The struggle for Women’s suffrage one such prolonged that contained numerous acts of civil disobedience. The fight to gain voting…

article The authors purpose is to prove that the reason the bill hasn't been passed is because states don't feel like it's a major issue and that free college isn't a national advantage. The article is directed towards general public specifically college students which can be seen when the author states “...Excelsior Scholarship, which will allow students whose families earn less than $125,000 a year to attend state public colleges and universities tuition-free.” (Newsweek). This quote hints the…

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elected member of Congress replace more moderate members of Congress, yet, members who serve over decades slowly move more toward an ideological pole and away from the median (Theriault 2008), and schedule procedural votes to discredit position the opposition party (Jessee and Theriault 2010). This could be due, in part, to institutional rules change to promote majoritarian party control and party discipline in Congress (Aldrich and Rohde 2001). Since party control of Congress and political…

Jeffrey St. John’s third book in the trilogy, Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty: A Correspondent 's Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress, and the Bill of Rights, was written to show the in-depth view of how integral the three years from 1788 to 1790 were in the long-lasting development of a once weak and divided nation into one of the modern day great-powers of the world. In this novel the story is told from the first-person view of a Philadelphian newspaper…

book readable. John Schwartz utilizes word pictures, honest, personal experience, communicating, and verbs throughout his book which made it readable. John Schwartz uses honesty and trust in pages 9-11 of his book, which made it readable for us. He states, “Pleading for light-up shoes with pink accents and rhinestone. We hesitate; would people give us trouble about putting our toddler in pink light-up shoes?” (Schwartz, 9). In this passage, he is honest because he cares about what people will…

The United States Congress is often described with two words: unproductive and unpopular. As Congress’s approval ratings continue to plummet it has become evident that gridlock plays a major role in voter’s feelings towards congressional productivity. Many voters are beginning to worry that Congress is more broken than ever due to the fact that it seems as if it is unable to make even the smallest bipartisan decisions anymore (NBC News). Congress is appearing to seem dysfunctional to the…

black neighborhoods were being ignored. The leaders tried to quiet Chisholm by placing her on the board of directors and when she continued to speak out, they removed her from the post. The group managed to elect a black man, Thomas R. Jones, to state assembly in 1962 and, when in 1964 he decided to run for a judgeship, the community replaced him with Chisholm. During the time that she served in the assembly Chisholm sponsored fifty bills, but only eight of them passed. One of the successful…