Vice

The Executive Branch of government has the responsibility of enforcing laws. The Executive Branch has quite a few checks and balances over the Legislative Branch of government. The Executive Branch has the power to discard any bills, even if the Legislative Branch wanted the bill to pass. The Executive Branch also has the power and control to call any important or special Congress meetings. The Executive Branch can suggest any legislation and can attract people about legislation and other things…

Friday night, 4:59 p.m., I sat at my laptop, refreshing the page until the results were posted. At 5:00 p.m., I nervously scrolled until the page displayed ‘Freshman Class President’. Taking a deep breath, I squinted one eye and read what was underneath: Jackson Winn 2013-2014 Freshman President. I stared at the screen, tears fighting to emerge from behind my eyes, thinking it was the end of the world. Little did I know, this would be the first of my many battles in the election process. I…

dicated that votes for president would be directly proportional to the popular vote in each state. Additionally this proposal requires that the winner must receive more than 40% of the vote, and if no candidate receives 40 percent than the presidency and vice presidency would be decided by the senate and house of representatives. This proposal proved unsuccessful. In 1969 a plan was proposed after the election of 1968, in which a president would be selected by a direct popular vote. The…

The “Great Experiment in Democracy” is what the United States of America is often referred to as. From its beginning the United States has been a nation governed by and for the people, becoming the first nation to have the people tell the government what it can do, not vise-versa. What is considered to be among the greatest of feats is what former President Ronald Reagan believed was so special about the orderly transfer of constitutional authority being nothing less than a miracle in the eyes…

the United States abroad. John Adams, a Federalist, who had served as Washington's Vice President for eight years, won a narrow victory over Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican . This proved to be an interesting time in American history as the political process was structured so that the second place winner automatically became the Vice President. This was the only time in U.S. history that the president and vice president have represented opposing political parties. They fought amongst…

branches responsible for making laws and is led by congress. Congress is separated into two houses which are called the senate and the House of Representatives. The senate is based off of equal representation so each state gets two representatives. The vice president is considered…

John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president, and the second president in the United States of America. He helped draft the Declaration of Independents, and he served on the First Continental Congress during the year of 1774. Then on October 30, 1735 John Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. For most of Adam’s life he lived in Massachusetts, but he lived in Europe for about 10 years. At the age of only 16 John Adams was offered a Harvard scholarship where he studied and earned…

Since the 2000 Election, the question of whether the electoral college does more harm than help the country has been a widely debated topic. While the question never left people’s minds, people seemed to believe it would not happen again especially after Barack Obama’s two successful wins in both the popular vote and electoral college. However, the recent 2016 Election truly has people outraged and thinking of the question more every day as the current President is constantly in the news for…

life, being in the military, becoming vice president and then later on, President of the United States of America. Nixon was vice president from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961, with president Dwight D. Eisenhower. He then became president in January 20, 1969 up until August 9, 1974. Richard Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, and then elected to the Senate in 1950. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Nixon when he was 39, to be his vice president. Nixon was…

organization, APS Software, has requested the help of an OD consultant to assist with implementation of changes in its Human Resource department. The Vice President of the human resource department has changed the model from a functional to a full client management service model. This entails a new focus on teamwork and the adoption of a new structure, which the vice president feels will increase productivity. In addition, it will also improve the internal client manager and internal…