Strickland v. Washington

Title: The Electoral College is Failing and should be Abolished Every four years, Americans elect a president and vice-president. Voters are not given the rights to vote directly for the presidential candidates.They actually vote for an elector in their respective state, who had pledged to cast a ballot on voters’ behalf in the election that actually chooses the president. This voting system is called the Electoral College. In the Electoral College system, different In states are allotted with…

The electoral college has been in place since the preamble of the constitution. "The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."(Office of the Federal Register 1) This nationally recognized system has been a topic of controversy. Some U.S. citizens believe that it is unfair, while other argue that…

not end there, though. After slavery, jim crow laws were widely used in the south to discriminate against African Americans. The idea of ¨separate but equal” was a piece of the jim crow philosophy that was established by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 (Separate But Equal: The Laws of the Land). Although freed from the chains of slavery, African Americans still did not have…

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"? Was one of the most influential speech in united state history delivered by Martin Luther King Jr On April 3, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, In his inspiring speech he talks about the unfortunate reality of society. He was able to deliver powerful messages of peace through the analogy and different similarities that people could easily relate to. The main emphasis of his speech was that African Americans should have equal rights and privileges as their white…

During the election of 1800, Jefferson, as well as Aaron Burr, received 73 electoral votes. Consequently, the election ended in a tie. Usually, in the past elections, the person with the most votes became the President and the runner up became the Vice President. Since the votes were a tie, it was up to the House of Representatives to decide who would be the president. Thomas Jefferson won the higher amount of electoral votes, 36, and started his presidency. As a result of the dilemma caused…

Theodore Arrington and Saul Brenner both had compelling arguments and supportingarguments. In the Article, Brenner was for the Electoral college, stating how it let people expressthemselves, it has impacted presidents to attend regional concerns instead of regarding nationalsand how some votes can count more than others. Arrington was against the Electoral college, hisreasoning was, members of the third party will most likely not be able to do mischief underelectoral college, there will be an…

“America has always been known to force their cultural opinions on many cultures besides their own, compelling them to revolt against the continuing oppression of American“ - India Cage I almost wrote a short story about the struggle to revolt against the construction of an oil pipeline that has threatened to be built on an Native American reserve but instead of sticking to what my teacher would want at the beginning of my persuasive writing. I choose to not only write about the…

For the last few years, a lot of US citizens didn't vote. The voting rates went lower and lower every time we had an election. People who don't vote, then complain why we have a lousy president even though they didn't vote! Each vote can make a difference, which is why I agree that we should have mandatory voting. It might break our tradition and constitution and this law might get a lot of hate, but when it comes to being president, this topic this is very important! If only two-fifths of…

The “Great Experiment in Democracy” is what the United States of America is often referred to as. From its beginning the United States has been a nation governed by and for the people, becoming the first nation to have the people tell the government what it can do, not vise-versa. What is considered to be among the greatest of feats is what former President Ronald Reagan believed was so special about the orderly transfer of constitutional authority being nothing less than a miracle in the eyes…

In a presidential race, the candidate with the highest popular vote can lose to a candidate with the lower popular vote if the candidate with the lower popular vote has more electoral votes. Originally, the electoral college was created to compromise the people's vote with congress’ vote. Some people argue that the electoral college should be changed or abolished while others think that there is nothing wrong with it. The electoral college needs to be changed because one party should not be able…