The United States presidential election in 1800 began with a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Because of a tie for the presidential election, the House of Representatives would have to vote for the president. Alexander Hamilton, a rival of Burr, convinced many Federalists in the House of Representatives to vote for Thomas Jefferson, ...
COMMENTARY | By this writing, I hereby bequeath to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) the legal authority to strike me down with a Predator drone should I ever become a “senior operational leader of Al Qaida” or “its associated forces.” I don’t believe constitutional due process laws apply to battlefield situations, whether the president ...
In the Supreme Court, there are two schools of thought that have existed since the inception of the American Constitution. The first school of thought is the invocation of judicial restraint as the policy of the Court. Judicial restraint is the deference of decisions on policy to other political bodies and lower courts. This view ...
What is the role of the judiciary within the mechanism of checks and balances as reflected in the Federalist Papers, and what are resulting strengths and weaknesses of the American Judiciary? Please be sure to include a clear account of what the Founding Fathers meant by “checks and balances.” Through analysis of several of the ...
Many of us are familiar with most of the 10 Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights section of the U.S. Constitution. However, other parts of this very important document often go unnoticed. One of those parts is Article 5 of the Constitution. Its purpose is to outline how the U.S. Constitution can be ...
Since the birth of this nation, the issue of federal authority verses states’ rights has been a heavily contested issue. The debate over the relationship between the federal and states governments and over the principles of interposition and nullification began well before the Civil War. Support for federal power existed from the beginning of United ...
Throughout American history there have been many social movements, some, such as the Abolitionists movement, the AARP movement, the Judicial Review movement, and the Women’s Suffrage movement were ultimately successful, while others, such as the Pro-Life, and anti-abortion movement, have ultimately proved to be failures; regardless of their eventual status, all social movements require specific ...
