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to a national popular vote, every vote would be important.” According to US history, the closest the country has ever come to abolishing the system was in the 91st Congress (FairVote). “Emanuel Celler, chairman of the US House of Reps. Judiciary Committee, brought forth Joint Resolution 681. It was a new amendment to the Constitution that would have ended the Electoral College” (Riscalla). After tons of argument and controversy, it died with the end of the 91st Congress. With an amended system…

Black Americans were the only racial or ethnic group brought to America against their will. Africans came to be captured and sent to the Western Hemisphere as slaves (Sowell 184). They were submitted to forced labor and had no human rights. They were the property of their masters, an object that could be bought, sold, given or mortgaged according to their masters will (Maameri 125).Colonial America depended on agriculture and the near- decimation of the native Indians by warfare and diseases…

In 1830, after the collapse of Grand Colombia Venezuela along with Ecuador and Colombia were formed. Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America. It has an area of 352,144 square miles and is bordered by Guyana to the East, Brazil to the South, Colombia to the West, and the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea to the north. Venezuela is divided into four major environmental regions the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the plains, and the Guiana Highlands. The capital…

As radical progressives fought to change conservative America, a group of Protestant ministers organized the Social Gospel movement to instill religious ethics into the business world. 18. Congregational minister Washington Gladden started a ministry for working-class neighborhoods and favored sanctions to improve workers’ rights. 19. Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, proclaimed that Christians should endorse social reform to end poverty and labor abuse. 20. According to…

capitalist society is the Bourgeoisie, the rich class, the 1%, the owners and controller’s of the major means of production, the major means of communication, the military and when and where war occurs. They own the government, today, mainly through campaign contributions and lobbyists. The key interest of the rich class is to follow the first rule of capitalism, “expand or…