Mexican general election

1. Why did Congress try to impeach President Johnson? The impeachment of President Johnson seemed to be more of a political and dispute matter as opposed to Johnson conducting a high crime or misdemeanor. Although he narrowly escaped removal from office, it was very clear from the start that his policies and plans or opposition for reconstruction were unpopular with radical republicans and congress. Before we get into the legal reasoning for his impeachment, we have to understand his conflicts…

On December 29, 1984, Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde of Karnataka tendered the resignation of his Janta Party ministry, taking moral responsibility for his party’s failure to win more than 4 of the state’s 28 parliamentary seats in the national elections. If it was Mrs. Gandhi’s regime, the normal course would have been to engineer defections of some Janta legislators to the Congress (I) to have enabled them to have formed a government or to have imposed the President’s rule. The Assembly was…

In the 2000 election there was voter fraud which called for a recount in Florida if this was a populist vote it would call for country wide recount, but “The Electoral College reduces the possibility of a recount since popular vote totals are often much closer than the…

and murder were only a few of the allegations thrown around by both sides. Andrew Jackson’s supporters even accused Adams and Henry Clay of collusion when Henry Clay was named Secretary of State. A painting by George Bingham in 1851, The County Election, captured the essence of negative voting practices during this transitional period of history. Bingham would have most certainly been labeled an opponent of the Jacksonian Age, based on the depictions in the painting. The painting shows…

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were two prominent figures in American politics in the 1850’s. Douglas, a spokesperson for the Democratic party, was looking to be reelected for his third term in the United States Senate. Lincoln, a representative for the Republican party, was running for the Senate in the very seat that Douglas currently held. These two men engaged in a series of seven debates, that would garner national attention and speak to various issues regarding the political…

The Stanford College of Humanities defines a democracy as “... a system of government with four key elements: a political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections, the active participation of the people in politics and civic life, the protection of the human rights of all citizens, and a rule of law and procedures that apply equally to all citizens” (What is Democracy). In lure of this definition, Libertarian philosophy, as interpreted by David Boaz, is…

of concern and with the presidential elections outcome, some people believe identity politics affected voting patterns and the result. In the articles “The End of Identity Politics” by Mark Lilla and “The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class” by Derek Thompson, the authors talk about what identity politics is and the greater impact that it has on us. One being a self-declared liberal and the other a journalist disappointed by the election results, both authors openly…

In the America, a tyranny of power has been allowed to occur. In the book “THE TYRANNY OF DEAD IDEAS,” Matt Miller writes about how thousands of American residents have been done wrong by politician powers without having any say so to stop it. Some of his point of view led to an argument about how a modern economy should operate. According to Miller,”……………………our politician says the people” (888).Our leaders have a character that allows them to live with lies. For instance, I will lose my health…

Politicians usually use directives and commissives in their political speeches. Perhaps, the commissives are even present to a greater extent than directives because the main characteristic of commissives is to express what the speaker intends to do. They are used by politicians to commit themselves to some future action. Like other politicians, Donald Trump also uses commissives in his political speeches. To restrict illegal immigration, President Trump has promised to build a wall on the…

Fighting Voter Suppression Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising the right to vote. As states keep passing voter suppression laws, our voting rights remain being attacked. Many states, California for example, make their citizens believe that after any contact with the criminal justice system means they have lost their right to vote. The whole reason for making people believe this is so people of color will…