Do you know the job description of the President of the United States of America? If you were interviewing the person for the job would you know what he is expected to do, once elected by the people. It is your business, who would you want to run it? Requirements: The President and Vice-President are ...
Historian David McCullough is the narrator of this splendid piece on the Congress of the United States. He has the help throughout of interjections by Cokie Roberts, Charles McDowell, David Broder and Alistair Cooke, all experts in their field and in their knowledge of Congress. Congress is the Legislative branch of government consisting of 100 ...
As the United States society has evolved throughout history, so has the American government and its respective institutions. Though the United States Constitution did allow for some leniency in interpretation by the legislative bodies, the Founding Fathers clearly displayed some of their essential expectations through the expressed powers provision (Article I, Section 8). Twenty-seven poweres ...
In the post-World War II era, right up until 1970, the United States Congress generally allowed the President to decide foreign policy. In the ’70s, however, in response to what was seen as executive mismanagement of foreign affairs, Congress began to reassert itself as a power in the foreign policy arena. This resurgence took the ...
“Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary bluntly defines imperial presidency as ‘a US presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows'” (Am. Foreign Policy 118). This asserts for questionability of the acts performed by the President defined by the Constitution. The Founding Fathers chose, instead of concentrating Constitutional authority in a single body, to disperse ...
The environment has always been of high concern to everyone. It is no wonder than many of agencies then are concerned about the stability of the environment, and having their say in the regulations that are enforced. Environmental policy is maintained consistently by an iron triangle involving three main aspects. First, the three sides of ...
In the United States Congress there are two houses called the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the House of Representatives most of the legislation is done through committees and subcommittees. This is where the influence of lobbyists and special interest groups come into play. In the House, representatives often take a bill that ...
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