United States Senate election in Illinois

Host enters with mic and theme plays Host: Hello everyone and welcome to, “Are you smarter than a 4-Her!” Today we are going to see if a couple of random county fair goers can do what 4-Hers do! I’m ________ and I’ll be your for host today. Now it’s time to meet our contestants! Enter Grandma and Townsperson Host: Ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage Grandma Smith and Jackson O’Hara. Why don’t you two tell the audience a little about yourselves? Grandma: (in old lady voice) Well,…

Leadership is a trait that is extremely valuable in any society. Leadership is a very influential process. Being in any position of leadership allows for a person to shape, regulate, control and change the attitudes, behavior, and performance of his group members. Leadership roles fall into different categories depending on actions that are required. Three of the main ones are the following: Autocratic leaders make decisions without consulting team members, democratic leaders make final…

embody more than one voice. Originally a lecture following the inauguration of Barack Obama, Smith compares the then President-Elect to historical figures who share his “irreducible multiplicity” (12). As a biracial man who has lived in multiple states and countries, Obama has the gift to speak to and identify with many different people. Throughout this text, Smith wavers in deciding whether it is advantageous for political leaders to have multiple identities or allegiances. One of her most…

The creation of the Keystone XL Pipeline is an issue that has become the subject of national debate for the past couple of years. On one hand, there are those that believe it should be built because of its economic benefits. On the other hand, there are those who are against its creation because of the environmental damage it could cause and the communities it could ruin. Because of how divided people are over its creation, President Barack Obama has had to address the issue several times as…

The Electoral College is outdated and needs to be changed. In the United States our founding fathers devised a system, like none other, to elect the president. Through an indirect vote of the people. What this means is that people don’t actual vote for the president. They vote for electors that then vote for their pledged candidate. So for example, I vote for Trump in the election. I am not actually voting for Trump directly. I am actually voting for an elector that is pledged to vote for Trump…

is designed to be made up of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each house, however, clashes with one another, making for a broken Congress. In Hamilton and Madison’s On Congress (1788), in order to be in the House of Representatives, one “must be of the age of twenty-five years; must have been seven years a citizen of the United States; must, at the time of his election, be an inhabitant of the State he is to represent” (page 180). If these guidelines are met and one is…

The founders of the United States had many hard choices to make when deciding to “form a more perfect union” with the Constitution. They had to make a federal government that would be acceptable not only to the common people but to the naysayers as well. If they did not satisfy the needs of the people, then they would not be able to trade and be recognized as a power on the world market. The founders needed a way to convey this to the citizens of the United States and make them interested in…

lawmakers (Obama Uses Power of Appointment, Sidestepping Senate). President Obama has stated that "Senators had blocked or refused to consider the confirmations of the nominees for various reasons, including questions about their qualifications" (Obama Uses Power of Appointment, Sidestepping Senate). In the nomination fight over Mr. Cole, President Obama 's nomination of whom to install as the deputy attorney general for the Justice Department, the Senate 's Democrats tried to confirm the…

21: Section 1: Repeals the 18th amendment (alcohol is now legal again) Section 2: This gives the State the right to regulate alcohol within its own border Section 3: This amendment would become void if 3/4 of states did not ratify it within 7 years. 22: Section 1: This limits the president to two terms (excluding Harry S Truman…

each other to make sure that the peoples’ rights are protected and the government is functional. The House and Senate make up the legislative branch and together they make up the Congress. The legislative branch creates all laws, controls foreign commerce and interstate, taxing and spending policies, and declares war. The Office of Compliance, Library of Congress, and the U.S. Senate are a few of the legislative branch organizations. The executive branch is made up of the President and his…