United States Senate election in New York

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Once a law has been passed by congress or by an executive order, it must be implemented, so that the nation can now be governed by a new set of laws. However, implementing a law once it is passed is often a much more complicated and complex system of bureaucracy that must be "waded through" to actually implement a policy. These include the president's role in policy setting, administrative discretion, as well as fully defining what the law means for the nation and its interests. The president…

which includes the Senate and the House of Representatives. It was designed to avoid giving too much power to just one branch; a way to maintain balance based on the interest of the states. This new system was created as a way to repair the weak government during the Articles of Confederation. The House is based on population and the Senate is based on state representation. I will discuss how the legislative process differs in the Senate and the House of Representatives as well as state some…

choose to compare and contrast are Senate and House OF Representative. Senate and House of Representative are the house of US congress. The Senate and House of Representative plays vital role in constitution because they both have to approve to make a law in US. Senate is long term than House of Representative, but the member are more in House of Representative. They both have some similarities and some differences, but one thing they both do together is Senate and House of Representative work…

Great Britain placed tariffs on the United States that will play a big role in history. The sugar act was a tax/tariff placed on the United States and colonists by the British to raise revenue(The American Revenue Act of 1764). The sugar act was a tax places on sugar, and molasses. The colonist were angry about the sugar act mostly due to economic consequences which made prices 3 cents (The American Revenue Act of 1764s ). This is one of the many taxes that will go on during this period. The…