Truman was forced to choose between fighting Communism and faithfully executing the Constitution. He should have used the war power of the presidency set by the Framers in order to achieve both goals but he did not and as a result he was forced to face the consequences of his actions. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution Act because of Truman’s actions in the Korean War. In 1973‚ after decades of debating on this issue‚ Congress decided to pass this legislation in order to limit the president’s
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Separation of powers is a major principle in the United States Constitution. It divides the power of the federal government into three co-equal branches. The legislative branch which creates laws‚ the executive branch whose job it is to enforce the laws‚ and finally‚ the judicial branch that interprets the laws. The purpose of separation of powers is to achieve an effective but still limited government and to protect the people from the abuse of power. The job of the executive branch is to carry
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unique without slavery. Settlers came to the New World because they wanted to get out of Europe. People also thought that the New World was going to be this great and wonderful place because of all the booster literature. Booster literature was pamphlets or posters about the New World‚ but they told lies and made the place look a lot better than it really was. The people that came were mostly serfs and lower class people who had to sell everything they owned just to pay for the boat trip to the
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The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies. British taxpayers already paid a stamp tax and Massachusetts briefly experimented with a similar law‚ but the Stamp Act imposed on colonial residents went further than the existing ones. The primary goal was to raise money needed for military defenses of the colonies. The Act imposed a tax that required colonial residents to purchase a stamp to be affixed to a number of documents. In addition to taxing legal documents
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The Enlightenment was a movement that swept Europe with new ideas and philosophy‚ which brought about change and social reform. The Enlightenment also spread ideas that guided the founding fathers as they established democracy in America. The key ideas from the Enlightenment that influenced democracy were Baron de Montesquieu’s views on the separation of power within the government‚ the Magna Carta’s ideas of checks and balances on the power of any leader‚ and the promise that everyone deserves basic
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Why did the founding fathers create a constitution based on the ideas of separation of powers‚ checks and balances‚ federalism and the bill of rights? The founding fathers wanted to create a constitution because many believed that the national government had to be stronger than what it had been with the use of the Articles of Confederation. But at the same time they were fearful of human nature and how often it could be seen in the history of other countries such as Britain‚ for people in the position
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Separation of powers is used by the constitution to create a three branches to prevent one branches getting too powerful. The three branches is legislative‚ executive and judicial. Legislative made up of 2 houses of congress would make the laws. Executive is headed by president would implement and enforce laws that is passed by congress. Judicial system of federal courts interpret the laws. Bill of right was created by anti-federalist to ensure their right are protected. The federalist end
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How important was Martin Luther King in bringing about civil rights for black people in the USA? (50) Martin Luther King was instrumental and pivotal; in the civil rights for black people‚ and arguably the most important person. King was critical for the civil rights movement; he was massively proactive. This is evident from King’s first significant role‚ the 1955 Bus boycott - King put forward his method of non-violent protest as for correcting the inequalities of the American Society. Already
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constitution of the United States was written in 1787 and was later ratified in 1789 by our founding fathers. The document was written because the people who came over from other countries were running from a centralized government‚ Great Britain. The people did not want to be controlled by their government but they wanted to have a say on how the government should operate. The people wanted a voice. Under the articles of the Confederation it spread out the powers of the independent states but it
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Slavery is an important part of American history because it affected both the north and south. Slaves were an important part of the economy for the south seeing as how it was an agricultural based economy and without slaves there wouldn’t have been such a rich economy. Slaves farmed and processed their cash crops such as cotton‚ sugar‚ and rice. Although‚ slaves were a main part in the southern economy slavery was not approved of by the all of Americans. There were activists that were for slavery
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