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Joseph Willis 9/4/15 POL-110 Professor Herman Congressional Ethics Congressman Charles Ranger was one of the most powerful members of congress. That was until in 2010 when he was found guilt of eleven counts of ethics violations. One of the ethics violations that he was convicted of was failing to disclose over $600,000 in assets. He stated that an apartment in New York was being used as his campaign office but in fact he was using it as residential apartment. The issue here is that he did…

On July 17, 1972, following Richard Nixon’s election members of his staff were caught stealing from the Democratic National Committee office located in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C.. This case went to court because the prosecutor wanted to prove that Nixon knew about the scandal and was covering up the incident. They hoped to gain the tapes and documents from the Oval Office. The question the United States Supreme Court was tasked with answering was if the President’s right to safeguard…

said the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It also demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning. It seems like that speech set the tone for the fall campaign. As a president Lyndon had a lot of great things go on during his one term presidency. Like the great society. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. This also consisted of making new major spending programs that…

President Roosevelt focused on the unemployment crisis. The Depression changed the priorities of social reform with unemployment insurance as the leading priority rather than old-age and medical benefits. The Committee on Economic Security (CES) was formed and tasked to devise recommendations that would promote greater economic security. The CES developed the blueprint for the Social Security Act but the fear of the inclusion of health insurance, which was opposed…

A good example of how the Democratic Party’s industrial/agricultural ties can blow their free trade agenda off course comes from the trade policy of Harry Truman. Truman’s key achievement in this area is undoubtedly the signing of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1949. Recall that the GATT was negotiated directly after the Second World War, which is supposedly a period in which liberal trade politics were considered integral to a new peaceful and prosperous world order. Additionally…

all about term limits, there should be a little background to term limits,and that is what you will get. The original idea has been around for hundreds of years, since the creation of the constitution. The founding fathers went back and forth on congressional term limits. Eventually, though they decided to not give term limits.…

companies had transferred $233,000 in Liberty Bonds to Fall’s son-in-law, and that Sinclair had also contributed substantially to the Republican Party. By now the members of the investigation committee believed that crimes had taken place. Fall refused to testify so the head of the Senate investigating committee, Senator Walsh, introduced a resolution stating that it appeared that the leases were made “under circumstances indicating fraud and corruption.” He called on President Coolidge to bring…

In the 2008 Presidential election Ohio voted for Barrack Obama the democratic Candidate (The Almanac of American Politics 2016). Ohio voted for Barrack Obama again in the 2012 Presidential election (The Almanac of American Politics 2016). Since Ohio become a two party system in 1856 there have been 40 presidential elections…

how they forecast and plan for the future. What is interesting about nonprofits is that they show up anywhere and everywhere. In the case of this paper, nonprofits are involved in the political atmosphere, helping particular candidates fund their campaigns for presidency. As of fairly recently, they have played an extremely important role in our society. The American population may not know it, but nonprofits have some deep involvement when it comes to determining who the next President is in…

Martin Luther King Jr. played a tremendous role in the civil rights movements. Dr. King orchestrated many peaceful acts to gain equality for African Americans. He led the bus boycott in 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus. King was also known for his powerful acts in having taught nonviolent methods. In 1964, he earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. was also very widely known for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech…