Vice President of the United States

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    Johnson was from Texas and after college taught children. Later, he went into politics as a Democratic Primary Texas senator. In 1960 he ran for President against JFK, and sadly lost. But then got asked to be JFK’s Vice President, and said yes! On November 22, 1963 JFK was shot in Dallas, Texas while in a parade. In a twist of fate LBJ got to be the President because of the assassination. In July 1964 Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress. But before 1964 he was against, “colored”…

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    The Preamble Analysis

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    most well known writings, gives an introduction to the United States Constitution. Stating the purpose of the Constitution, this document gives the power to every citizen of America, unique compared to any other document written at the time. In addition to giving power to the “everyday man”, this paragraph obligates the government to protect the people, create justice and peace. The Articles Ratified in 1788, the Articles of the United States Constitution help the people understand how the…

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    Pros And Cons Of Framers

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    national conventions, which only happen every four years, are extremely significant in selecting a new candidate to run for president. Gathering all the party elites and party members into one huge rally, the national conventions are held to debate and compromise on certain issues to ultimate set the party platform. Then, they nominate who their candidates for president and vice president will be. However, the national conventions have had drastic changes over time. Because of significant…

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    The book “The Day The President Was Shot The Secret Service, The FBI, A Would-Be Killer, And The Attempted Assassination Of Ronald Reagan” written by Bill O’Reilly was about the attempted assassination of the 40th president of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan. The author tells the reader through this book a lot about the struggles Ronald Reagan had encountered in order to become president. Then once he became president he was shot and had many struggles just to survive. This book…

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    President William H. Taft was the twenty-seventh president of the United States of America. His presidential term lasted from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1913. Following President Taft, President Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth president. His office term began on March 4, 1913 and lasted until March 4, 1921. His Vice President was Thomas R. Marshall and he stood by President Wilson’s side all eight years. President Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton City, Virginia. He attended…

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    pleasure. The Island of Luana is a place where people can come to be happy and to enjoy life. Just like any other island people come here to get away from reality and have a nice vacation. We have fought for many years to not be a part of the United States and to able to call it our own island. Luana is a very big Island, the size of Texas and Oklahoma put together. This island has many things that need to be done to it. The government is not very good and we have to vote on establishing a…

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    Republican Party Dbq

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    This act would allow the settlers to decide whether or not their state would be a slave state. The name of the party was created by Horace Greeley in a 1854 new york newspaper article. In this article he said: "We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and…

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    We Are All Federalists

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    in the 1800 Presidential Election, Adams had lost his support because of his neutral stance in the French-British conflict and also because of the Alien and Sedition Acts. The house of Representatives chose the president after 6 days and 36 ballots were casted, Jefferson was elected President, during his inaugural address Jefferson tried to ease the nation’s fears of a Republican government by saying “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” 1801-The Judiciary Act In the Judiciary Act…

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    think the President and Vice-President are elected due to their individual vote casted on election day. However, this is not completely accurate. They are elected by a group of officials, who have pledged to support their nominee, called the Electoral College. Each state has a number of electors comparable to their population: its number of senators (always two) and representatives in the House. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who vote to decide who will be President and…

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    Gerald R. Ford was born at Omaha, Nebraska he became the president of the United States, on August 9, 1974. He was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the U.S from 1974 to 1977, Ford would distinguish himself as a student and a football player in high school, and at the university he attended which is the University of Michigan. His political career leading him to running for president started when he opened a successful law practice in 1941 with his friend Philip Buchen,…

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