Seals of the U.S. states

the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777 and ratified over three years later. Motivated by concerns of mimicking the system in England that had drove many of the colonists to the United States in the first place, the colonists created a weak centralized system and focused the power on the individual states. They soon found that the Articles of Confederation provided a system that was fatally flawed and incapable of supporting the young nation. The Articles of Confederation created a weak…

Throughout history, the United States has always been in conflict over the subject of race and racism. Although, the United States in reality is supposed to be free and united as the country name says it is, however that is not the case as it stands now. Racism has been around for a while and no one has said a thing, until a group of brave people, The United States Constitution, and Henry Luce present their sides about the truth about race and racism. To begin with, in an article written…

a few U.S. states including: Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont (Kafer 2016). Although it’s legal in some places, there are many requirements and steps to applying for assisted suicide. These requirements are enforced by acts, such as the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act and the Death with Dignity Act (Friedman 2007). Most of the acts written to legalize assisted suicide in the United States were…

As President Bush states human trafficking is just a modern day form of slavery. The victims are abused physically and psychologically, taken advantage of, and tossed around from owner to owner. Although most people may think that slavery is no longer a problem the united states has, it is actually the contrary. Human trade has been going on for far too long and although the United States government has taken extraordinary measures to stop it by creating several acts against it and…

because the goals were too idealistic and broad with no plan as to how the government would achieve them. Though the southern states were readmitted the government admitted the states under three separate plans, while overall achieving the goal, the smaller details of what the government required of the newly admitted states ultimately failed leaving room for the states to return with little fuss. Possible reason for this is how war ravaged the south was from the war and how little money they…

from the Union. In South Carolina’s Declaration of Causes of Secession, it states that the United States federal government was pushing against the South’s legal right to uphold slavery (Doc. A). South Carolina’s secession was the beginning of the complete secession of the South. Abraham Lincoln, who was elected president, fought to both preserve the Union and abolish slavery. The Civil War swept through the United States between 1861 and 1865, ending with the surrender of the South. After the…

Northerners and Southerners carried deeply held differences about the meaning of nationhood. For the South, the nation was only an alliance of sovereign states that had power independent from the federal government. To the North, the creation of the Constitution was the start of a nation with a strong federal government that overruled the states. These opposing viewpoints were the result of the different cultural identities and political institutions of the two regions, and were reinforced as…

The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, was the decisive moment that made the United States of America join World War Two. During and after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, America responded to the attack in different ways many times. The United States responses varied in effectiveness but all ended by turning in U.S. favour. [[EVENTS]] The U.S naval officials placed in Hawaii decided that the best response, at the time, was to fire at the Japanese bomber planes and submarines…

the federal government should be concerned with. The monetary value of minimum wage should increase but still fluctuate between each state government based on the standard of living in their particular area. Minimum wage should be a topic the federal government oversees but does not control. Giving the federal government too much power over the subject causes states to be unfairly represented. The Department of Labor on Minimum Wage explains how, “The minimum wage does not increase…

The United States of America has had two types of governance throughout the history of the country. From 1738 to 1937 the United States used a dual federalism. In this type of federalism the powers between the state and the national government were divided. The states took care of property laws, license, commercial laws, etc. While the national government took care of the roads, tariffs, money, etc. This type of federalism government was created in order to stop one government from gaining too…