Congress of Vienna

Citizens United (Dunbar). This ruling basically gave the go-ahead to giant unions and corporations to fund, whichever politician will benefit their specific cause the most. The unlimited ability to spend is corrupting politicians, and creating a congress that works in the best interests of the lobbyist’s that fund certain political movements. In a democracy, it is the people that vote for officials…

Georgia, and the Providence Plantations. However, the Constitution was written for every state that was within or would become part of the Union. The Continental Congress agreed on the Articles of Confederation on November 15, 1777, and it was later ratified March 1, 1781. The Constitution of the United States was written by the Philadelphia Congress to replace the Articles of Confederation on September 17, 1787, and later ratified June 21, 1788. The Articles and the United States Constitution…

made up of three branches; which are Legislative (congress) branch, Executive (presidential) branch and Judicial (Supreme Court) branch. However, it’s difficult because checks and balance must occur. For instants the president can pardon whoever they want, and may veto in other words block laws that is passed by Congress. But Congress can still pass laws if and when a vote of two-thirds of both houses succeeds. The Supreme Court can check Congress by stating that a law unconstitutional. The…

“I don’t like to catalogue our achievements….There is nothing tangible about such things. I would say our greatest achievement is to have survived as a free and democratic nation” (Indira Gandhi1). This statement was made by Indira Gandhi, a former prime minister of India. During her time as prime minister, she made a lot of strides toward political and economic independence. Gandhi had an exciting childhood, personal life, and four term political career. On November 19, 1917, Indira…

The Articles of Confederation were drafted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777 and ratified over three years later. Motivated by concerns of mimicking the system in England that had drove many of the colonists to the United States in the first place, the colonists created a weak centralized system and focused the power on the individual states. They soon found that the Articles of Confederation provided a system that was fatally flawed and incapable of supporting the young nation.…

sure that the peoples’ rights are protected and the government is functional. The House and Senate make up the legislative branch and together they make up the Congress. The legislative branch creates all laws, controls foreign commerce and interstate, taxing and spending policies, and declares war. The Office of Compliance, Library of Congress, and the U.S. Senate are a few of the legislative branch organizations. The executive branch is made up of the President and his advisors along with…

Of all of the presidential candidates running for president, Ted Cruz has the plan that will save America. America is in a state of turmoil with economic downturn and job loss to illegal immigrants, a broken tax system, and the threat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Barack Obama promised change in 2008, but no economic recovery has been evident, jobs have been continuously lost, and he has dismissed the threat of ISIS and saying that the U.S. “is making significant progress defeating them” (Riley 1)…

government discriminated against Blacks South Africans using social laws, unfair economic policy. Nelson Mandela fought for apartheid in South Africa. This means segregation! Whites were separated from black and other minorities. The African National Congress (ANC) was a group that fought for…

Citizens United is a political organization that aims in maintaining and restoring the ideals of the Founding Fathers. That is, they believe in containing a limited government, in which federal, state, and local governments do not rule their territories in an authoritarian way. The goal is to have a democracy in the United States that would continue to value and protect the views, beliefs, and voice of most American citizens. They represent many Americans by representing their voices. In the…

states that the power not delegated to the United States are reserved to the states, and to the people. There are both state and a national legislature in order to create equal balance throughout the entire U.S. government. At the national level congress has the unique power to raise and support armies. They are in charge of putting a strong defence together as well as potentially enabling a draft to strengthen the U.S. military. On the local level legislatures in each of the fifty states are…