United States Senate election in Illinois

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    Bank of the United States debate Joe W Pfingsten HST201 CSU Global- Online Campus September 6th, 2015 Jonevic Hular Angco Bank of the United States debate INTRODUCTION Even though Clay and Webster were the ones that were right that the bank to stay open and was not bad for the people. Andrew Jackson side of the Bank of the United States debate was the right way. He was right the bank had too much power and enemy of the common people. The Economic privileges and social inequities of the…

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    President Barack Obama is the President of the United States. As the President has many duties he has to perform. One of the duties he has to perform is appointing staff members, the cabinet, and several other officials. In Article Two, Section Two of the Constitution it states that the President of the United States has a right to appoint officials. The Chief of Staff is Denis McDonough. As the Chief of Staff McDonough has to supervise the staff of the White House, control who is near the…

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    President Obama 's additional war-related campaign agreement was to improve the United States military assurance in Afghanistan in order to maintain the extremist Taliban’s from achieving power and allowing the Al Qaeda repeatedly using the country as the foundation for terrorist operations against the United States. Obama soon after taking office, granted the military 's request, which was originally made at the end of the Bush presidency, to dispatch an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan,…

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    making a total of 160 legislators. The Washington House, on the other hand, is constituted of 98 lawmakers in the lower house and 49 in the upper house, making a total of 147. The two states also slightly differ in the length of their legislative bodies and the term limit for which a legislature can serve. In both states at the upper houses, the elected lawmakers have a term lasting two years; however, there is a limit of 4 terms in which one can serve in the upper legislative arm in Florida…

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    On February 24, 2009, just over a month after becoming President of the United States of America, President Barack Obama stood and gave his first State of the Union address. In his speech, he presented to the public some of his goals as President to help pull America out of the economic recession. He presented specific ideas in areas such as budgeting and economic recovery, health care, and education. Now, nearly seven years later, we can look back and evaluate how his goals have been met.…

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    Paradox Of Democracy Essay

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    it may be possible to get rid of the effects of this paradox, therefore rendering it harmless. An example of the paradox may be slavery; the majority ruled that the minority should not have any rights at all. The Jim Crow Law, passed in 1877, gave states in the US the right to segregate between white people and colored people ("Crow Law"). Segregation as a whole is the perfect example of how majority rule may not agree with minority rights. There is no clear way to eliminate the disagreements…

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    of Conscience” in order to make the Senate and President Truman re-evaluate their positions on a speech made four months prior. In February of 1950, fellow Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused 205 members of the State Department of being communist traitors to the United States government. His accusations caused fear, mistrust, and hatred among the senators. Through her speech a few months later, Smith set the record straight and encouraged the Senate to regain “basic principles of…

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    We the people of the United States of America created a constitution that is the law of the land and has been for the past 234 years. However, this document was created during a time that was very unlike the modern world. Due to the differences in the world that the founding fathers lived in they made a grave mistake that has yet to reprimanded in the all powerful document controlling the country. The mistake that the country’s forefathers made was the installation and the henceforth…

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    corruption of politics during the gilded age. A young Midwestern man named Smith is voted into a Senate seat where he tried to pass a bill for a boy’s camp. Incidentally the location of the camp was in the same location the other Senator from his state, Senator Paine, wanted to build a dam. The issue over the land caused an argument to ensue between the two Senators. The argument took place within the Senate and took multiple days to resolve. Capra illustrated in the beginning of the movie the…

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    of Representatives and Senate. The House of Representatives and Senate differ in many ways. Not only do they have different requirements, but also the legislative process and responsibilities are not alike The House of Representatives is composed of 435 members and was created in 1789. In order to become a representative, a person must meet a number of qualifications. For one, the required age is 25 years old. This person must also be an US citizen and a resident of the state he or she would…

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