Seventeenth Amendment. Among his most dubious activities, Taft advanced an authoritative development whereby the President, as opposed to the unique offices of government, would present a financial plan to Congress. Congress precluded that activity, however Taft 's exertion foreshadowed the production of the official spending plan in the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which gave the President new limits for proficiency and control in the official…
The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the world; he is the leader of the number one economy of the world and the leader of the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. Then, the president has important responsibilities, like first and foremost protecting this nation from foreign aggression and at the same time preserving the peace around the world. Thus, the president meets and forms relationships with friend countries who share the same values, vision, and…
Not long ago, in 2003, the US Congress so loathed French President Jacques Chirac’s dissent on the Iraq War that it renamed French fries and French toast in its cafeterias to “freedom fries” and “freedom toast” as a firm token of its displeasure. Although the American constitution is a stellar example of secular…
The presidential election of 2000 created great controversy throughout the country regarding claims that some African Americans and other Democratic voters were not allowed to vote in Florida for various reasons. Some of these reasons included claims that the voter did not have proper identification cards, manipulating a list of former felons to exclude thousands from voting, and even different acts of intimidation. Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election focuses on the suspicious pattern…
hold a senior pay position. With that in mind the percentage of a smaller minority gets smaller, with 7 percent of Africans Americans at that level and Latinos at barely 3.6 percent. The percentage gap has caught the white house notices with the president who issued an Executive order 13583 to establish a coordinated government effect to promote diversity and inclusion…
During the 2012 election the democrats are the ones with the higher voting numbers, and more than often it’s a Democrat that gets elected. Most of the votes rely on demographics however, particularly the voters of diverse race and ethnicities. The white vote isn’t weak but nonetheless the Hispanic vote is often the stronger one, especially during the 2004 election although the white vote was significantly stronger in the 2012 election and still serves as something of a threat as most whites…
In March of 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address to a nation that was in the midst of the Great Depression and declared a war on poverty. He specifically greets former President Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes, yet he is mainly addresses the general public with a determination to overcome the economic issues that the Great Depression brought to the people. Although, he mentions the state of the economy throughout his address, FDR hopes to revive “the…
Electoral College: The Last Barrier to True Democracy The American government was unique at the time of its founding because it brought back the idea of democracy, which had been a form of government almost non-existent since the Roman Empire. The idea of democracy is simple: citizens participate in politics through voting. This didn’t apply to all citizens; only white male landowners were allowed to vote until the Jacksonian era, when it was expanded to almost all white males. It wasn’t until…
Why then does the American government show such little responsibility with the great power they possess? The concept of freedom has been a contested subject for ages in the United States. It has assumed various meaning during the different stages of the American history. Mass surveillance has become a tool of political domination. However, technologies being used to monitor people. During the era of the founding fathers, it stood for liberation from political authoritarianism. Freedom in the…
“As long as I’m president we’re going to keep on stepping up and making sure America remains as it’s always been: a place where people, who in other parts of the world are subject to discrimination or violence, that they have in America a friend and a place of refuge,” President Obama declared Saturday, November 21, with relations to the Syrian crisis (Obama calls caring for refugees ‘American leadership’). A refugee is defined as a person outside his/her country of nationality who is unable or…