AP Essay- Congress The framers of the Constitution created a bicameral legislation where there were two chambers of congress made. There was the Senate and the House of Representatives and these two chambers split the necessary duties that congress needed to fulfill. The framers of the Constitution chose a bicameral legislature because they did not want all powers of the government concentrated in a single government institution as they would have been if a unicameral legislature was used. They
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At its core Congress should act as a representative body. Congress should seek to represent their constituents and ideals the constituents voted for. Moreover‚ at its core America is supposed to elect a barometer of the public opinion. Americans representatives should strive to represent the people that elected. The ability to participate in a national legislative body through electing a representative is the function of a free republic. Taken to extremes‚ if a type of representative democracy did
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What can congress do to influence the bureaucracy? In ordinary usage‚ “bureaucracy” refers to a complex‚ specialized organization composed of non-elected‚ highly trained professional administrators and clerks hired on a full-time basis to perform administrative services and tasks. Bureaucratic organizations are broken up into specialized departments or ministries‚ to each of which is assigned responsibility for pursuing a limited number of the government’s many official goals and policies those
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The delegates at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) were motivated to a surprisingly large degree by the desire to benefit Europe as a whole‚ and this is reflected in their purpose in calling the Congress together and the settlement they reached. National interest was modified for the sake of the general interest of Europe. The Congress of Vienna was held in order to draw up a plan to alter Europe politically and territorially so as to prevent the extensive expansion of any one great power
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liberated Ionian Greeks. The Athenians had a different perspective. They felt related to the Ionians‚ and in their view‚ security could only be reached when their compatriots were safe as well. Therefore‚ they continued the struggle and founded the Delian League. From the very first beginning‚ there appears to have been an element of rivalry with Sparta‚ as is suggested by the author of the Constitution of the Athenians‚ a little treatise that is (probably incorrectly) attributed to Aristotle of Stagira:
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The Congress of Berlin was an international peace conference convened by the European great powers in Berlin‚ Germany in June and July 1878. Following the recent conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877‚ the Congress of Berlin aimed to divide the perennial no-man’s-land of Europe‚ the Balkans‚ along lines more reflective of the then-current balance of power. The ultimate effect of the Congress was effectively to reverse Russia’s territorial gains during the war‚ returning some seized territory
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DIANA JOY G. SILVA BEED-1B POWERS OF THE CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OF THE POWERS OF CONGRESS * Enumerated Powers – refer to those specifically or expressly conferred to the Congress by the Constitution. The enumerated powers of the Congress includes: * Power to impose taxes * Power of appropriations * Declare the existence of state of war * Power to meet as board of canvassers in the election of President and Vice President * Power of impeachment
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The Hanseatic league was formed in the Baltic sea. Hansa ships sailed from the Baltic sea to the North Sea though the Sound and all the other Northern European countries‚ depending on them for supplies. They transported important raw materials like iron‚ lead‚ tin‚ copper‚ leather and grains such as rye oats and barley‚ and so on. Transporting these goods along the various trade routes was not always easy. While in interior Europe there were plenty of regular means of transportation‚ transportation
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History – League of Nations Q1) In what ways did the League of Nations aim to deal with disputes between countries? (4Marks) The League of Nations would try to encourage countries to disarm so there would be less threat to one another and also for them to trade together to build stronger bonds. The League of Nations would give the nation aggressor a mere verbal warning and if the nation aggressor did not listen to the warning they would have to pay much great consequences such as economic sanctions
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League of Nations and USA The message of this cartoon is that without the USA in the League of Nations‚ the League isn’t complete and will be weak without it’s figurehead of new power‚ which would have been the USA. The USA didn’t join the League because Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats (who proposed the idea of the League of Nations) lost against the Republicans. In America‚ the people were anxious that if they joined the League‚ they would have to send men to fight conflicts across the world‚
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