Official documents of the United States

is now making waves both in the United States and across the pond. Documents brought to light in American court cases have European officials investigating the truth of Monsanto’s safety claims, further entangling the company in its misdeeds ahead of government decisions on the safety of glyphosate, the weed killer’s main ingredient. Glyphosate has been linked to the development non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Court cases alleging the connection unsealed documents showing collusion between…

The Declaration of Independence is an important document that helped shape how the United States has become what it is today.The Declaration is an important document because without it we may have never gained freedom from Britain. We may have never distinguished set in stone official rights for those living in the 13 colonies at that time and in the states today. Even back then when the education was unmatched to today’s, they knew better than to push the separation of the 13 Colonies. They…

accomplished by the leaders of the United States and by the average Americans. Both sides completed a specific task in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was mainly accomplished by average Americans because they did the actual actions to make change. Average Americans performed many tasks to rebel against racial inequality. Most of these actions took place in the South, where racial tensions were higher. Americans from all over the United States worked together to fight…

Name: Date: Document Analysis Worksheet 1. Title of the document: Answer: Senator Joseph McCarthy Describes the Internal Communist Menace, 1950 2. Date(s) the document was originally produced: Answer: This document was originally produced around 1950. 3. Author of this document: Answer: Actually this was a speech which was delivered by Joseph McCarthy; so author of this document is Joseph McCarthy. 4. Type of document: Answer: It is a speech which was given by Joseph McCarthy. 5. Is this…

The soul purpose of the United States dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to intimidate the Soviet Union during World War two. Due to the fact that if the Soviet Union had joined the war with Japan they would have stayed and made themselves feel at home which was what the United States did not want to happen. So by showing the Soviet Union that the United States has fire weapons that can kill thousands of men, women, and children with in the matter of seconds and are not…

should be setting the example of transparency” (Snowden, qtd in Pope). Edward Snowden made this statement following his leak of thousands of classified documents to the press. The contents of these documents shed light on the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance system. However, this system was not only being used against the United States’s enemies – U.S. citizens themselves were being monitored. This practice, a gross violation of the fourth amendment, was ruled…

appointed civil servants must swear in as executive officials. Following being completely swore-in, the new officials will take an oath that states the official will follow, and protect, the rights and laws the United States Constitution and its amendments contain along with their other duties ("The Oaths of Office"). This means that the current president and his advisers swore against violating any law stated in the documents. Those documents include an extensive variety of America’s laws. A…

their own powers. In document 1 it has showed a graph of the checks and balances. This graph shows that the system of checks and balances is a limited form of government. Some examples are, in the graph it shows each branch has their own set of powers and not one branch has too many, or rules over the other branches. Each branch can check over the other branches, due to the Legislative branch being able to veto…

Founding Documents Still Relevant? Thomas Paine once said that, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again”. As one of the Founding Fathers of the nation, Paine advocated for independence from the British by writing a pamphlet know as “ Common Sense” to the thirteen colonies in 1776. Great Britain held power over the United States from 1607 until 1776 because of their powerful government and military. The commonly known document, “The Declaration of Independence” was an official…

1828. Interestingly, the percent of the voting public that actually voted more than doubled between the 1824 and 1828 elections, as can be seen in Document 6. When Jackson first runs, a voter participation of 27% is recorded. Despite losing the election, Jackson’s return four years later seems to incite a voter turnout of 58%. The purpose of Document 6 is to illustrate Jackson’s effect on the voting public’s decision to participate in national politics. One of Jackson’s landmark moves was to…