Essays on American Government

Despite an active political presence, only two parties — the Democrats and Republicans — dominate the modern American political process, between them fielding all of the candidates that have become president since the mid-1800s.Why, in a democracy, do only two parties dominate? What of the...

FDR is not guilty of attempting to eliminate the traditional capitalist or free market system because he exerted government control on the economy to prevent further debt and damage due to the Great Depression. He created the New Plan in hopes to provide a way...

Introduction We are going to discuss the criminal just system and the phases of the criminal just system. The criminal justice system is made of three primary components. The first component is law enforcement. An example of law enforcement is the police, who capture and...

The media is a tool that usually passes information to people. The information should not forward the agenda and preferences of the individuals at a media outlet, but it should present the real and unbiased situation. The distribution and presentation manner of a vital issue...

Ten years ago tomorrow, the US government allowed the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers to go bust, an event that seemed to mark a historical denouement: the end of an American century culminating in humiliating failure of its economic policy. In the days that followed,...

According to the authors of the book, American Amnesia by Hacker and Pierson, Public policy in the past has massively been shaved by the variety of forces from institutions, elections, and polls to the interest groups. The range of political parties and their influence on...

Introduction Measuring inflation is a difficult problem for government statisticians. To do this, many items representing the economy are gathered in what is called “market basket”. The cost of this basket will be compared over time. As a result, the price index which is the...

THESIS: The structure and the rhetorical strategies used by Obama in his speech for presidency. Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ clearly leaves a trial for breadcrumbs for you to follow from the beginning to the end, as he begins with The Preamble to The...

Privacy is an essential part of life. Whether we should forfeit it to create a perfect world or not is incredibly ridiculous. There are some things that other people just shouldn’t know, and the same goes for government. Although some people believe that we are...

There are numerous environmental issues that concern the lives of people each day. An environmental policy that I am concerned about is House Bill 1103, which concerns the transfer of federal land to the state. The proposed bill would be known as the Transfer of...

The year of 1803 the North Americans made the best business of all the History, when buying the Territory of Louisiana to Napoleon. They paid US $ 15,000,000 (about 220 million today) for a territory larger than Mexico, which has one of the world’s largest...

Current Secretary/Date of Confirmation As of January 20th, 2017, James N. Mattis became the twenty-sixth Secretary of Defence under President Donald J. Trump. James was born in Richland, Washington and started his life of dedicated service to our country at the age of eighteen, upon...

The healthcare industry is a very lucrative one in which billions of dollars are spent on insurance, medication, and surgeries. The dizzying rates of increase of healthcare over the past few decades reveal gross exploitation and corruption so that the average individual may not be...

Donald Trump’s trade policies have shocked the world, polarizing commentators, business leaders and regular citizens both domestically and abroad. This has resulted in the delivery of a letter to the US senate, employing them to limit the president’s ability to use national security as a...

The Wounded Knee Massacre was the result of strong tensions between the Sioux Indians and the U.S Government, taking place on December 29th, 1890. 500 soldiers and 300 Sioux were involved; “150 Sioux… lay dead, and another 50 were wounded. Army losses amounted to 25...

I agree with this article, written by Adele M. Stan, that Trump has been nothing but a disappointment to the citizens of the United States and the country itself. His actions do not prove otherwise since they are mostly unconstitutional and demeaning to multiple minority...

The American government—in particular, the presidency—was in a remarkably primitive state. But Washington’s performance in those early years was both surefooted and brilliant. He went to one session of the Senate to receive its advice about a treaty but was annoyed because senators felt uncomfortable...

As a profoundly thankful citizen for your service and time, I am writing on the behalf of myself and my fellow citizens of New York State. We are concerned with your up and coming reassessment to continue the ban on hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale...

The US sees itself as a unique country and as “a city upon a hill”, which means the U.S sees itself as a beacon of hope because they accept everyone which is in a way unique compared to other countries. The U.S was at one...