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    Mao, Hua was not a particularly outstanding figure in Chinese politics and the only reason he became the next General Secretary of the CPC was because Mao designated him as his official successor. Hsu also wrote that Jiang Qing, the leader of the powerful Gang of Four in the CPC, attempted to seize power by changing documents to depict Mao as having left her in charge. Mao’s presence even prevailed in the ensuing propaganda battle between Hua and Jiang, with Hua quoting Mao’s famous “political…

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    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 certain information, using his “Executive Privilege” confidentiality power, make them entirely immune from judicial review. The United States filed the case to the Federal Circuit Court. The Federal Circuit Court said yes that the issue of the…

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    as part of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. From the colonial era to the establishment of the United States Constitution in September 17, 1787, Philadelphia. The implementation of the United States Supreme Court in 1789; under the Judiciary Act of 1789. The many challenges surrounding the notion that “Every man 's home is his castle” The Constitution of the United States: Fourth Amendment Rights During the colonial era the "writs of assistance” was the only method of…

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    terrorists conducted by officials of the Central Intelligence Committee (CIA) and members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In his article, Levin attempts to defend the individuals and agencies through the use of pathos and other such rhetoric devices, but he has failed to discuss the legality of the act nor did he discuss the hypocritical nature of the scandal. For millennia before the United States of America was…

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    Key Phrases and Sentences: for each of the numbered phrases and sentences respond to the questions. It’s best to do this as you read. (Skip 1 and 2) Mark Twain is an author we will read soon -- he’s hilarious and this quote is supposed to be funny. What does it mean? Is he literally talking about church? Or something else? Mark Twain's quote means that a bad person can not be fixed because he is in the presence of something righteous. If a sinner goes to church for only 20 minutes of the…

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    Ten Amendments

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    On September 17th of 1787, a group of men to whom we call “The Founding Fathers,” wrote one of the most famous documents; The United States Constitution. The goal when writing the constitution was to help better American lives by creating a set of Ten Amendments that grant basic rights to all citizens. The Founding Fathers essentially took pieces out of other famous documents like those of The Magna Carta (1215), The English Bill of Rights (1689), and The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom…

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    for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.” Jackson believed that this would stop the corrupt bureaucracy. He feared of “a father to son succession” in the office; therefore, more than twenty percent of people in office were removed. On the other side, however, Jackson’s supporters pleased by the patronage system in which he appointed his friends in office. In Document six, Jackson passed a letter concerning office about governments…

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    No American document has had a greater global impact than the Declaration of Independence. It has been fundamental to American history longer than any other text because it was the first to use the name “the United States of America”: in this sense, the Declaration was the birth certificate of the American nation. The document contains a list of twenty-seven grievances that state why the United States was choosing to become independent. The King was a Tyrant, who burned the colonist’s towns,…

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    the longest of all the constitutions of the United States (Hooks: 2011). In fact it has the fourth highest number of amendments behind Alabama, California and South Carolina. The reason is that amending the state’s constitution is easy because of Texas low bar. Another reason…

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    with Mexico? The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because, America invaded mexico ,American were stealing land from Mexico, and the American were disobeying Mexico rules when they were in Texas. During the year 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain. Before America took mexico’s land, it was about the size of the United States itself. Mexico stretched from Guatemala to Oregon . Texas tried two time to apply for annexation to the United States, both times…

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