United States Congress

were stretching their territories throughout Asia. The United States, led by Franklin Roosevelt, decided to embargo Japan in order to slow down their expansion. This would lead Japan to attack our military base, PearlHarbor. The day that would "live in Infamy." A day after the attack, FDR made a speech to congress. His speech used Repetition & Parallelism, emotional appeal, and authoritative, but calm tone to make a clear call to arms for congress and the people against The Japanese Empire. In…

Congress can be viewed as being broken because it can be so hard to get a bill passed. Although it seems broken, it was actually intended to be that way. It is supposed to be difficult to pass legislation and our government is supposed to be limited. There are so many levels to go through before legislation gets passed. The congress is made up of the House of Representatives, and the Senate. In the house, it’s majority rule. The downside of that may be that the Rules committee has the final…

Serbia for the attack. Russia supported Serbia, so eventually it led to the Allied Powers against the Central Powers. World War I was mainly fought in Europe. After countless attacks, the war ended on November 11, 1918. When World War I began, the United States was still on the neutral side. After a few years, the country finally had to enter the war. President Woodrow Wilson was the one who suggested that America should be neutral in the war. However, after many conflicts occurring with…

it then declares the action to be null and void. That then means that the law is not to be obeyed or enforced. The judicial review was implemented in order to ensure a check and balance system when dealing with the government and the way the United States Constitution was interpreted. When the court system uses judicial review it helps prevent government officials from using the Constitution to illegally use their position in making the laws. Most Americans recognize judicial review as a power…

Prior to the military invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898, the Puerto Rican was already emigrating to the United States. Many of those heading to the mainland were “Puerto Rican revolutionaries who were conspiring on U. S. territory to break once and for all with the yoke of Spanish colonialism.” The four-century-old resilient stronghold of Spanish imperialism over the island was beginning to be confronted when, in 1868, the first pro-independence uprising against Spanish rule…

federal powers to include additions of states and integration into the union significantly hindered the balance between federal powers and state powers, granting the former much more importance in the “empire of liberty” model. Specifically, though, the Louisiana Purchase treaty was conducted with no regards…

a lot of people participated in the study of why this social issue still exists and could not be eliminated that “… at the current of rate of change, it will not close until 2059, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research” the United States Congress mentions in the Gender Pay Inequality. Even in the developed countries,…

The Mexican War from 1846 to 1868 was the first war that the Americans fought on the foreign soil. The expansionist-minded President James A. Polk believed that the United States had a “manifest destiny,” a God-given right to occupy the land across the west to the Pacific Ocean. He believed that the land from Texas to California should be part of the U.S. territory. [1] It was also his strong belief that the Americans could better manage the lands and the continent than the native Indians as…

The September 11, 2001, attacks by al-Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W Bush’s response to the attacks compromised the United States’ basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security. The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to al-Qaeda - as much as Bush tried to establish a link.…

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 might be one of the most important political moments in the history of the United States. Meant to address weaknesses with trade regulations in the Articles of Confederation it quickly became much more than that. All of the fifty-five men who convened in Philadelphia fervently hoped that the convention would strengthen the Articles of Confederation governing the first thirteen colonies. Most of the delegates were professional men, half of them lawyers, and…