Congress of Vienna

government. This makes it where there is not one man or woman with complete power over the country. There are many responsibilities for each branch of the government. To begin with the legislative branches responsible for making laws and is led by congress. Congress is separated into two houses which are called the senate and the House of Representatives. The senate is based off of equal representation so each state gets two representatives. The vice president is considered…

Society without laws would be absolutely chaos. Everyone would run wild with no control from anyone. This is where the Legislative Branch of the United States government comes in. The power to make laws is given to the congress, which also represents the legislative branch of government. There are a few ways that the legislative branch checks on the other two branches of government. The best example of this is how the legislative branch has the power and authority to investigate national…

Judicial branch is responsible for ruling if cases are constitutional or unconstitutional and is the head of the U.S. justice system. States are represented through the Legislative branch, which is divided between the House of Representative and Congress. These representatives are charged with the job of creating laws and bills, all of which are proposed, adjusted, and passed or failed by popular vote of…

Government Interference in American Diets If the government decided to interfere with the daily life of the American citizen, what would the reaction be? Would the citizen allow their right to privacy to be invaded? When Americans were asked if the government had a right to be involved in the everyday diets that were consumed, the people were split three ways. The food industry controls the advertisement market by dropping an obscene amounts of money on just advertising. The government is…

How America Won Her Independence From the British Empire Today when one thinks of the American Revolution, it is almost ingrained in the American psyche to think of the Fourth of July, and with out fail every summer on that date the Revolution story is told. However the story of Americas Revolution did not begin in the sweltering summer heat of Philadelphia in 1776, instead the winter of 1773 in the frigid waters of Boston Harbor. That December night American protested the Tea Act passed…

Nelson Mandela was a strong leader who never gave up on what he believed to be right, even when the task seemed impossible. He led the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) to fight the Apartheid laws in South Africa. Many people looked up to Mandela as a great leader and their hope for equal rights. Even though he spent a total of 27 years in prison. Nelson Mandela led his people by example, doing everything he could to fight apartheid and standing strong. After many long hard years,…

This means that Congress and the federal government can regulate interstate commerce, but when it comes to intrastate commerce, federal government has no role. That means that the 10thAmendment comes into effect, which declares that any area where the federal government…

Gordon S. Wood and Howard Zinn are both brilliant professors whom are great and entertaining writers. Beside the facts that they see the origins of the American Revolution with different views. One argues that the true origins of the American War were a social revolution while the other argues that it was a war used by colonial elites for their own personal gains for power and status. And I felt Howard Zinn and his arguments were better presented due to the fact that he gave a different…

First, the land belonged to the Native Americans even though the States had claimed it. Congress made “treaties” with the natives allowing the Americans to take the land and the natives could not do anything about it since they had obtained the land from the British who no longer were in control of the colonies. Some of the smaller states that…

For over 50 years South Africa suffered brutal repression coming from the Afrikaner Empire with the objective to own the land and all its resources. Racism was the main problem during 1948 until 1991, where African black people were abused and separated from their land due to a legislation named Apartheid imposed by the National Party (government party) in Africa. Afrikaners were Dutch decedents that arrived to Africa between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. From 1877 to 1878 the last…