The Republican

between the different American Regions. It was as though the citizens of the northern, southern and western part of the United States considered themselves independent. The Election of 1824 was led by four candidates who ran under the Democratic Republican Party. John Quincy Adams from New England, William H. Crawford of Georgia, Henry Clay from Kentucky and General Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Although they all ran under the same political party their opinions couldn't be more different to…

Malachy McCourt Sr. grew in northern Ireland where he fought for the Irish Republican Army. However, his tenure with the army came to an abrupt end due to an undisclosed crime he committed for which a bounty was placed on his head. With little options left he escaped to America. When Frank’s mother Angela met his father he had just served three months in jail for stealing a truck. Not long after, he impregnated her and ended up being coerced by her sisters into marriage. With the impending…

important president though you may not think that he was because of the common knowledge of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln he has history to. So James monroe was born April 28, 1758 thus the story has begun. So James Monroe was in the democratic republican party as in for the details about the party. This party was created to support the constitution and it worked because now we under the constitution’s rules. My thoughts about the party it's a good thing they supported rights for…

Throughout this all-encompassing novel, Joseph J. Ellis is depicting what truly happened in prominent political events rather than the common ideas. He extensively goes into great depths rather than merely scraping the surface of these phenomenal affairs. Specifically, he elaborates on events such as the Duel between Hamilton and Burr, The Compromise of 1790, the plague of slavery, George Washington 's presidency, and the rocky friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It is more than…

sign says LITERALLY. You know that you are on Pearse Street, you Americans. It’s named after me Great-Uncle Padraig Pearse.” He paced the floor‒deliberately looking back and forth‒going from Lane to Blair. “Pearse was the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He met many times in this very room, but for what? Along came the IRA and so many other liberation organizations down the road. All wanting to free Ireland of British rule, aye they did. Did it work? Hell no. Because the…

Home Rule no matter what, many signed the contract in blood. The Ulster Volunteer Force was also set up in 1913. In response to this Irish Nationalists set up the Irish Volunteers lead by Eoin MacNeill. A seven man military council called the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) sought to control the Irish Volunteers and to use them against the British, MacNeill was not a part of the IRB. The Volunteers aim was to protect the rights of the people of Ireland and they had no plans to directly attack…

The main differences between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson lie behind what they thought the principle of government was. According to Hamilton, government was needed to protect individual liberties. Hamilton was the leader of the Federalist Party also known as the Hamiltonians, who strongly supported his ideas. They believed in order for Americans to be free they needed a strong central government ran by well-educated people such as Hamilton himself, to protect individual liberty. “He…

The United States has come a long way since the days of the American Revolution or either of the World Wars. Today war is all about airstrikes, drones, and the use of any other new technology in order to find a way to keep our troops at home and fighting conflicts without having “boots on the ground” as the saying goes. However even with, or perhaps because of, this new technology our country finds itself involved in conflicts that are unconventional to what we have seen in our history. The…

The Easter Rising began on Easter Monday, 24th of April 1916, and lasted for six days. The Easter Rising was an insurrection against British rule in Ireland and took place in Ireland's capital city, Dublin. The Easter Rising of 1916 is believed to be the most compelling single event in modern Irish history. The number of plays, novels and poems centred around the Easter Rising are endless. For the purpose of this essay I will discuss how the Easter Rising is represented in both Sean O' Casey's…

there are two dominant political parties, Democratic Party and Republican Party. For 2016 presidential election between the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and republican candidate Donald Trump, both parties have strong but different views on important issues that American citizen face today. Democratic party’s platform is very liberal and it is all about putting public interest above individual interest. On the other hand, Republican Party’s platform is about putting individual interest…