Crawford v. Washington

The big change in the United States government really happened during the Great Depression when the New Deal was introduced by Franklin Roosevelt. After World War 2 the Federal Government stayed with New Deal ideas and kept expanding its size, with social programs and military power. Democrats felt as the government could be used for good and that social programs such as welfare, were the government’s job. Republicans felt as though it wasn’t the government’s job to provide social programs for…

Federal Versus State Many different aspects of governments go through power struggles, but sometimes it is which government itself is more powerful. The struggle between Federal Government and the state has existed since colonization. Both often feel that one should have more power than the other, but also are unsure which one does in fact have more power. Several events and documents have changed these standings over time in many different ways. One of the first documents created that gave…

problems in my family. I put that dream aside until I discovered the Literary London program with the English department, which I think I’m a perfect fit for. I’m a senior at the University of Washington completing an English major with a minor in History. This is my second year at the University of Washington, I came in as a first year junior transfer student last year. My expected date of graduation is the summer of 2016, which makes the spring in London program my last chance to participate…

Introduction One of the many ways by which the federal government of the United States offers transparency to taxpayers is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Established in 1967, this Act was designed to “keep citizens in the know about their government.” (United States Department of Justice, “What is FOIA?”, n.d.) Sadly, many American citizens are unaware that they can request any information from a federal agency as long as such disclosure does not fall under the nine exempted…

Did you know that the United States is technically classified as a Republic, not a Democracy? The Electoral College is what separates the United States from being a Democracy and keeps the country in a state of a Republic. It is a voting system in which popular vote is not used to elect presidents, but instead uses votes from representatives of the state. The popular vote may be overruled by the Electoral College votes. The Electoral College system was established in the constitution in order to…

The two speeches I decided to compare and contrast are, Republican President, Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Creation of the Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday and Democratic President Bill Clinton’s 1995 address on Race Relations. In Reagan’s speech he addressed the King family, the members of Congress and honored guests, about Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a national holiday and how racism still remains in the United States, however every Martin Luther King Day we as Americans…

A few years after the United States was founded, the Constitutional Convention met to decide how the nation would be governed. They decided that they needed a leader to govern the nation. Based on experiences, the delegates knew that they needed find someone who was not a tyrant and did not abuse their power. The delegates did not believe that the president should be chosen by popular vote. They did not contemplate that voters would be perspicacious enough to make a worthy choice in choosing the…

In the United States, the government is based off of the Constitution, which was drafted in the formation of the United States. The Constitution has many different facets that are basically requirements that eh United States government has to follow in order to give all the citizens their rights. Within the constitution, there is a system called the Electoral College, which assists in electing a President and Vice President (Patterson, 2013). The Electoral College can be disadvantageous,…

In Henry Clay’s American System, the southern states were to serve as subsides for the internal improvements in the urban areas in the northern states. Without the South, Lincoln only had the Border States, and the New England states left. The Border States were “shaky” in whose side they were going to be on, especially lukewarm, Maryland because of its diverse population. When Lincoln called for arms after the attack on Fort Sumter, Maryland revealed its conflicted soul. It had both…

I would like to share to Abraham Lincoln about pancakes because they are the best things to ever eat during morning breakfasts. Why I pick Abraham Lincoln as my person? Well he has shown a lot a democracy to the people in the northern part of the United States, for there he was a great leader of all of the people in that time era. Furthermore, I want to show Abraham this type of food because I like to eat pancakes during the morning wherever we go to eat, so showing this type of food to him…