position in Congress for a long as they wanted? For years‚ term limits have been a very sensitive topic in discussion as it is a debatable issue that contains two different sides; there should be term limits and there shouldn’t be any term limits. Perspective one‚ which is in favor of term limits‚ explains how corruption and bad power influence would be limited. Perspective two‚ which is not in favor of term limits‚ states that experience matters more and that it needs to be preserved in Congress. There
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The powers of the Executive Branch‚ or otherwise the President‚ are spelled out in Article II of the Constitution; however Jeffery Tulis argues the point that there are two constitutional presidencies. The first one is the constitutional presidency that the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and it has changed little to none. The second is the informal version of the constitutional presidency that Woodrow Wilson devised and that the majority of Presidents since have followed
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Number 1 The executive branch is the branch of the president. The powers of the executive branch are the things that the president is constitutionally bound to; which include being commander in chief in charge of the military‚ having the legislative authority to veto‚ the appointing of judges‚ and the issuing of executive orders. Different presidents do and have done different things with the same power. President John F. Kennedy asserted his role as commander in chief‚ during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Continental Congress helped the colonies in so many ways. Their decisions are what got united states citizens away from the british and had a big role. Without the Continental Congress the Colonies would not be independent from British rule‚ and the United States today would be under control of the British‚ and not be the great country that we are now. “If ye love wealth better than liberty‚ the tranquility better than the animating contest of freedom‚ go home from us in peace. We ask of
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The case Democratic Alliance v President of South Africa deals with the extent of the constitutional constraints that exist in relation to the exercise of power by the president. s179 of The Constitution together with s10 of the National Prosecuting Authority Act stipulates that a National Director of Public Prosecutions‚ who is the director of public prosecutions is appointed by the president‚ as the head of the national executive. In Democratic Alliance v President the issue was whether the appointment
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The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) History The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC or Kongres India Se-Malaysia) is a Malaysian political party and is one of the founding members of the ruling coalition‚ Barisan Nasional‚ previously known as the Alliance that has been in power since the country achieved independence in 1957. The MIC was established in August 1946‚ at the end of World War II‚ to fight for Indian independence from British colonial rule. After India gained its independence‚ MIC involved
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A. Compare the membership of Congress (both houses) and the "typical" American citizen. For starters‚ the expectations of a member of congress are highly different from that of a typical citizen. The expectation and duties of a Member of Congress are extensive‚ encompassing several roles that could be full time jobs within itself. One Outstanding difference is there income. Most members of Congress are considerably wealthy and earn a pretty high income where as a typical citizen usually doesn’t
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Congressional term limits is a very controversial subject today. Many people‚ including our president Donald Trump‚ think that we need to “flush out” or get rid of the people who have been in congress for a long time. With this ambition‚ multiple problems arise. People who have a job should not just be pulled out because they have been in there too long. That is not a good enough reason in any case. The people working in congress have worked and worked very hard to become part of this high position. Donald
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In the spring of 1947‚ President Harry S. Truman gave a speech to a joint session of congress‚ where he declared his new foreign policy approach for the United States in the post war era. This approach would become known as the Truman Doctrine‚ in it the U.S. would as Truman said‚ “support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures” . Effectively Truman’s speech indicated that the U.S. would act to stop the spread of communism whether it be from
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enduring peace all through Europe. This mindset‚ achieved through the devastating wars that just occurred‚ urged European powers to create dependable frameworks for peace‚ specifically the Concert of Europe and the League of Nations; however‚ these groups experienced varying success levels. The Concert’s eagerness to obliterate any resistance through a legal use of military power kept any real clash from coming to fruition; this is differentiated by the Leagues‚ who had an absence of authority‚ prompting
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