Strickland v. Washington

Mistake History has teach generations and generation but hasn’t prevent generations from mistakes. As Edmund Burke once said, “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”. During the American Revolution, Edmund Burke played role as opposing for taxes in the colonies. He believe constitutional government should be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances nationally or globally. Throughout years, Edmund Burke’s quote has reflect historical…

In 1940, during World War II, the United States Congress passed the Alien Registration Act making it illegal for any citizen of the United States of America to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Tensions were high between the United States and other nations that supported the Axis powers, yet the United States took this fear too far by passing a law that only compromised the practice of free speech. This law required non-citizens to register themselves within four months of…

How Federalism Changed in the Nation Federalism is “a system that balances the power and sovereignty of state governments with those of the national government. Both the states and the national government derive their authority directly from the people, and the states have considerable autonomy within their areas of responsibility” (L. Tucker Gibson and Robinson, 70). There are three types of federalisms that have changed over time for our new nation today: dual federalism, cooperative…

Inventors, states, and electors all have one thing in common and that is their rights. Whether they 're the rights to an invention or the inalienable rights of a human, they are all in place to protect the rightsholder. Protecting rights is a major idea that the founding fathers had in mind when declaring their independence. The electoral college is a rarely understood establishment, that provides rights to all voters in America, while protecting the states as well. Due to a low informed…

In the United States there are two form of democracy Republican and Direct democracy. Direct democracy is a form of government where the individual citizen of the country directly vote for the leader or president. This means that everyone's vote is specially counted and everyone gets a fair chance to show support for the candidates, However this only works on small nations. On the other hand there is Republic Democracy, this is where the representatives vote for the leader or president. United…

Presidential Democracy A presidential system is a republican system of government where the executive branch is led by a president who serves as head of state and the head of government at the same time. The president is also the head of the army and directly responsible for foreign policy. The people vested the sovereignty to nominate representative who exercises them for the benefit of the whole nation. This means that the president is directly elected from time to time by the people…

At the turn of the 20th century, it was evident that there was a "widespread concern about overcutting forests, flooding, and erosion..." (Sowards) throughout the United States. Many people were not aware of the environmental damage that their actions could lead to during this time period. As seen in the late 1800s, Americans hunted for bison, resulting in the extinction of the species. Likewise, as cities throughout the nation began to grow and overpopulate, pollution was an issue and was…

Anthropologists and Native Americans were the major participants in the controversial debate and court case over the ownership of the Kennewick Man, sometimes called the “Ancient One.” The US Army Corps of Engineers, who superintended the land where the Kennewick Man was found, also participated, siding with the natives to fight for the reburial of the Ancient One The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, otherwise known as NAGPRA, is a federal law that protects items in…

The founding fathers made sure of this by inserting the electoral college into the American constitution. Some of these founding fathers included George Washington, the first president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and last but not least Benjamin Franklin. American constitution? What’s that? Well the American constitution is the national government followed by the essential laws…

Whitman Pre-Civil War and Post-Civil War Analysis During his influential seventy-three year life, Walt Whitman produced works such as Leaves of Grass, and “Song of Myself”, which were influential in the transition from transcendentalism to realism. Whitman’s evolution was partly caused by the Civil War, being that after the war, the starkness of the situation his beloved country was in is evident in his work. More specifically, the Civil War changes Whitman’s view of Democracy, changing the…