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- 16821: The Republican Party: Overall Issues, 1860-1868
- ... Congress, of a territorial legislature or of any individuals, to give existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States." In the first four years of the 1860's, the North and South waged war over these issues, with the Republican North emerging victorious. The Republicans took charge of the national political power. Although he worked with an anti-slavery platform, President Lincoln attempted to make a generous peace with ...
- 16822: The Need For Gun Control
- ... U. S. have militias because we have the five branches of the U.S. Military, the Army, Navy, Marines, Airforce, and Coast Guard. The military provides this country with enough support to fend off any war levying or belligerent nations. That is the military's obligatory purpose today. There is no necessity for a state run military. The U.S. Military's purpose is to keep this land free. Second, the ...
- 16823: Interest Groups
- ... Only much later did the institution acquire a reputation as the head of liberalism. Through the 1950s and 1960s, as Americans enjoyed steady increases in their standard of living and U.S. industry reigned over world commerce, Washington came to consider the economy a dead issue. Social justice and Vietnam dominated the agenda: Brookings concentrated on those fields, emerging as a chief source of arguments in favor of the Great Society ...
- 16824: Joan Of Arc
- ... 6, 1412 and died May 30,1431 at the age of 19. Joan is a French national heroin and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She rescued France from defeat during the "Hundred Years War" against England. In honor of her victory she is often called the Maid of Orleans. This is a story of her life. Joan was not a well-educated woman. She had never learned to read ...
- 16825: Joan Of Arc 2
- ... of Arc, in French, Jeanne d'Arc, also called the Maid of Orleans, a patron saint of France and a national heroine, led the resistance to the English invasion of France in the Hundred Years War. She was born the third of five children to a farmer, Jacques d'Arc and his wife Isabelle de Vouthon in the town of Domremy on the border of provinces of Champagne and Lorraine. Her ...
- 16826: The Effect of Third Party Candidates in Presidental Elections
- ... powerful and dangerous force. Indeed, Ross Perot and George Wallace had a profound effect on the outcome of the elections they participated in, but Perot had a more lasting effect. Ross Perot proved to the world that it is quite plausible for a completely independent candidate to "walk into center stage and steal the show" (Robinson 141). With the decline of the political parties and their role in the campaign process ...
- 16827: The First Amendment: Free of Expression
- ... The 1969 supreme court ruling Tinker v. Des Moins Community Schools defined a student's freedom of speech best. John and Mary Beth Tinker wore black armbands to school as a protest of the Vietnam war. It was a silent protest; the Tinker's never caused one problem, although some students did make threats at them. The school's administrators made them take them off. Their case made it all the ...
- 16828: John Locke
- Perhaps one of, if not the, most historically influential political thinkers of the western world was John Locke. John Locke, the man who initiated what is now known as British Empiricism, is also considered highly influential in establishing grounds, theoretically at least, for the constitution of the United States of ...
- 16829: Congress and The Change in Term Limits
- ... stop. (Crane (2), p. 251) Validating this statement is Senator Warren Rudman, a Republican from New Hampshire, who explained that he retired because "the longer you stay in public office, the more distant the outside world becomes." (Wall Street Journal, p. A22) But he is one of the few to voluntarily step aside when his proper time was up. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, senior representatives are more likely than ...
- 16830: Clinton Administration Policy Toward the Caribbean Country of Haiti
- ... concerning Haiti. What the United Nations and the U.S. roles were, and what the public thought was concerning these issues. Also why the United States was involved with the internal dispute of a third world country where the national interest was not clearly defined. The issue of why was it or was not so important for the United States to send troops to Haiti will also be discussed. The problem ...
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