United States Senate election in New York

The Electoral College is outdated and needs to be changed.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…

First Presidential Debate After watching the first of three presidential debates, I felt that, despite the unconventional campaigns of 2016, the debate proved informative and revealing of both candidates. Moderated by NBC News anchor Lester Holt, the debate took place at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY between candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The primary topics of the debate were released one week before the debate (“CPD”). While the questions were not released prior to the debate,…

The Horn of Africa, Eritrea, is home to around 6 million people and is the worlds’ most oppressive state. Isaias Afwerki has been in power for around two decades and since taking up power in 1993 has forbidden any elections from taking place. Political theorist, Robert Dahl, considers the following four aspects vital for the making of a free and fair election: 1. the ability to vote without fear of reprisal; 2. coercion is prohibited and not practiced; 3. all voters are counted as equal; 4.…

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…

same crime twice) Also says that private property cannot be taken without the owner being paid for it. (if a new road were to be built for example.) 6. This is the…

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…

Representatives in 2006. This victory elevated Representative Nancy Pelosi, a liberal, to House Speaker. In the Senate, Harry Reid, became majority leader, as the Democrats were able to win a slim majority with 49 seats, plus two independents who joined the caucus. The combination of these victories concluded unified Republican control of Congress. In the two months that followed, presidential elections took place, and Senator Barack Obama was sworn in as President. Democrats continued to expand…

In a presidential election, voters cast ballots for the candidate they prefer, though these votes only select their state’s electors. Electors, who are slated to vote for the popular-elected candidate, then vote in a second election to select the actual president. An electoral college system adds a layer of separation between the popular majority and the power of the federal government’s executive branch, while also giving the ability to misrepresent the popular vote. The electoral college is…

institution within the whole state. It is also the most powerful out of the three branches of government. The Texas Legislature consists of a bicameral body that is organized of one hundred and fifty House of Representatives members and of thirty-one Senate members. The House of Representatives has a chief presiding officer that is known as the Speaker of the house. Speaker of the house is one of the individuals that has a powerful political figure within the state. The Senate has a presiding…