2008 Republican National Convention

In the United States, every legal citizen has the guaranteed rights including religious freedom, freedom of the press, and trial by jury. The ten amendments in the Bill of Rights has a freedom that many in other countries don’t know of and can only wish for. In the Constitution, whoever is born on American soil is automatically an American citizen. However, the citizen of present-day colonies/ territories like American Samoa and Guam don’t get the same right as American citizens, even though…

her beauteous prestige for committing literary theft? Melania Trump, a naturalized American who is now the current First Lady of the United States, is known to commit such an act for saying her speech at the 2016 Republican National. It was a speech to convince others that her Republican husband is a worthy leader of becoming the new President of the…

For the United States, it all began in the year of 1787 when the Constitutional Convention had a meeting with delegates from the states, in Philadelphia. Their goal was to discuss revising the Articles of Confederation. During that year, our founding fathers wrote the constitution. The document consists of many obligations. The constitution…

others, and even social media. For those without Internet, television and radio shows are available to listen to the speeches and debates of presidential candidates. In the recent Republican presidential candidate debate, on September 16, 2015, approximately 21.3 million viewers, when the previous number was 8.3 million in 2008 (Stelter, "23 million watched GOP debate, a record for CNN"). This is a serious increase, especially considering it is over a year before Americans will vote. The…

Citizens of a Federal Republic share the privilege to voice their political views through their state. This provides the foundation for political parties that provide suggestions for reform that will better the government in favor of the people. Political parties are formed by citizens who want change and want to speak on behalf of their fellow citizens. Different political methods determine which political parties best suit the people's needs. The most public methods are elections, these allow…

questions towards Trump about his tax returns, Iraq War, and more in the first Presidential Debate; however, Clinton was not asked about her emails or the Clinton Foundation. The author questions Holt’s partisan to the Republican party. Hillary Clinton believes that the financial crisis of 2008-09 was because the tax slashed on the wealthy, but does not want to talk about the financial crisis in the US. In the vice-president debate, Pence didn’t defend Trump but criticized the Obama-Clinton…

Empire, author Wendy Brown describes the meaning of French citizenship. She says, "citizenship in republican France was not a formal category extended to an individual with rights, but, rather, involved membership in the republic, identification with the state, and participation in French national culture…" (Brown 53). French citizenship’s detailed definition which includes "participation in French national culture" reveals an element of the double edged sword mentioned previously. This social…

english, can we right this sinking incredible old ship, with 50 staterooms, and 318 million souls? I don’t know. See, some see no sinking at all, they saw sinking in 2008 and 2012, and today…

Parties were destined to play a central role in American politics ever since the introduction of representative democracy in the United States after the establishment of the US constitution in 1788. The founding fathers of American agreed that direct democracy would be detrimental to US society. James Madison wrote in the the Federalist papers 10 that direct democracy would create the tyranny of the majority, whereby political decisions would favor the majority and disregard the interests of the…

• Question 7 By law, PACs can give no more than __________ to any candidate. • Question 8 Which of the following is true of interest-group activity? • Question 9 To say that "the pressure system has an upper-class bias" is to • Question 10 The Americans who are most likely to join interest organizations are • Question 1 Usually, if a candidate for president wins the most votes in a state, how many electoral votes does he or she…