The Ballot or the Bullet is a gripping speech that stresses the importance of voting and black nationalism for African Americans through these two methods that’s how the black community will promote change. The historical discourse was delivered in 1964 to the Cory Methodist Church by human rights activist‚ minister‚ and icon Malcolm X. The speech demonstrates the power of discourse more importantly serves as the perfect example of a rhetorical situation. The civil rights movement was a pivotal time
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Chapter 7 Outline The Constitution and the Legislative Branch of Government The Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 provided for the direct election of senators. Article I creates the legislative branch of government. Congress is a bicameral institution. The upper house is called the Senate in which each state receives two representatives‚ and the lower house is called the House of Representatives that is apportioned by population. The Senate has a six-year term with 1/3 of the seats up for reelection
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According to David Mayhew‚ author of Congress: The Electoral Connection‚ Congress has many different functions that it performs including: “ . . .legislating‚ overseeing the executive‚ expressing public opinion‚ and servicing constituents” (Mayhew 2004‚ 8). While all these are important to the role Congress plays‚ the most important ability is the authority to create laws. Congress derives its power to perform its functions and to create laws‚ from Article I of the Constitution. Although Article
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Barack Obama: Man on a Wire By Steven Malik Shelton With the success of president Barack Obama’s reelection campaign which paved the way for him to exhaust a second term‚ he faces dilemmas as dangerous and precarious as he did during his first term. It is quite a balancing act that president Obama must perform if he is to maintain equilibrium between the demands of the wealthy elite and the
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of full obstruction of all President Clinton’s legislation.17 The LA Times described the strategy used by the Republicans just before the election. The author of the article‚ Paul Richter‚ used Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole’s excessive use of Filibustering as an example. Richter stated that Bob Dole employed “the
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The Judiciary as Social Policymaker‚ Arbitrator‚ and Regulator: An Integrated Theory of the Judiciary PSC 332 11/26/2013 The judiciary plays a unique and pervasive role in American society because of its influence in establishing legal precedent‚ regulating industry‚ and crafting social policy. The judiciary is the arbitrator of disputes involving nearly every aspect of human experience‚ and in many cases these disputes cannot or will not be resolved by the executive‚ the
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An essay on Malcolm X’s famous speech given in Cleveland‚ Ohio on April 3‚ 1964. Introduction Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. His dream was that one day whites and blacks could live together in equality. King and his rhetoric of idealism are what come to mind for most people when they think about the civil rights movement‚ but there is another famous civil rights leader who had some very different ideas than King. Malcolm X was the leader of the more radical civil rights movement
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endless debate on bills‚ making the filibuster a clever tactic‚ a two-thirds vote is necessary to overrule and end any debate. From March to June the bill was debated in the Senate until finally a vote of 71-29 on June 10‚ 1964‚ overruled the filibustering Senators. For the first time in American history‚ a southern filibuster of a civil rights bill was stopped by a "cloture" (the process of closing a debate in the Senate by calling for a vote). The civil rights supporters were satisfied with the
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The Brady Bill Introduction The legislative process in the United States Congress shows us an interesting drama in which a bill becomes a law through compromises made by diverse and sometimes conflicting interests in this country. There have been many controversial bills passed by Congress‚ but among all‚ I have taken a particular interest in the passage of the Brady bill. When the Brady debate was in full swing in Congress about three years ago‚ I was still back in my country‚ Japan‚ where the
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HIST 8 lecture notes 5.2.13 US-Latin America Policy 1823-1946 * Increasing US influence and intervention * After the removal of the Spanish monarchy’s control in the Americas‚ Cuba and Puerto Rico are the last vestiges of Spanish control in the western hemisphere * International rivalries and how they play out in this hemisphere during this period is important * Once the civil war is over‚ the US‚ as it is industrializing‚ is concerned with what they termed “our backyard”
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