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- 6231: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... Congress in Arkansas' Third District in 1974. The next year he married Hillary Rodham, a Wellesley College graduate. He had met her while they both were studying law at Yale. Their marriage formed a strong personal and political partnership of talented equals that would give added dimension to the Clinton Presidency. It also expanded the Clintons' household; in 1980, their daughter, Chelsea, was born. Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney general in ...
- 6232: The First Amendment
- ... came out of a time where people had just gotten over the tyrannical rule of Britain and were searching for new ways of doing things. Many older men saw it as a safeguard of their personal liberties and as a check on the abuse of power by the states. In England in 1665, there was such a thing as The Conventicle Act. This act stated that anyone over the age of ...
- 6233: Marbury v. Madison
- ... while Congress can balance out that check with the override, or, in extreme circumstances, with impeachment. The system of separation of powers implied that each branch, "as Madison remarked, had ‘ the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist the encroachments of the others.'" But without judicial review, what power does the Judiciary have? With Marshall's establishment of review, the Supreme Court could check both the Executive and the Legislative ...
- 6234: The Electoral College
- ... stronger president renders a weaker legislature.Household names like Washington, Lincoln, and FDR had no problem exercising exclusive control of their respective America. Today, President Clinton has been successful in an economic sense however, his personal life has been exploited and he now faces impeachment hearings. Could America have selected a more efficient, moralistic president or have we as a nation facilitated the demise of the presidency. To answer such a ...
- 6235: What Role Should the U.S. Play in World Defense?
- ... was known as Operation Desert Storm. This proved to be a terrific success by the Allies. What role did we play in this war, and how did it differ from the Vietnam war? In my personal opinion, the U.S. went about this situation extremely well. While in the Vietnam War, the U.S. fought alone, in the Gulf War, we built up a huge military alliance against a common enemy ...
- 6236: Apartheid in South Africa
- ... the racist policies that denied non-white their basic human rights, grew stronger. "White Power" took hold, when Britain handed over power to the white minority of South Africa in 1910. The whites immediately began writing laws to guarantee their control. Non-whites were not allowed to vote. In 1947, another white supremacist government was elected. announcing an official policy of 'apartheid' or separation, with more unjust laws. The nightmare ended ...
- 6237: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ... degree in a specific field and/or a related work experience. These positions include Electronics Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Attorney, Contract Specialist, and Chemist. The administrative positions also require a four-year college degree. They include Personal Security Specialist, Intelligence Research Specialist, Computer Specialist, Management Analyst, and Language Specialist. The technical positions require individuals to be over 16 years of age and have a high school diploma. Examples of these jobs are ...
- 6238: Albert Camus
- ... and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time; in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a ...
- 6239: Albert Einstein 4
- ... Einstein left Germany when Hitler came to power. It was then when he gained a position at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton, New Jersey. In 1939, Einstein worked together with other physicists by writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, acknowledging the possibilities of making an atomic bomb and the likelihood that the German government would launch efforts in the same field. As a result to Einstein s ...
- 6240: Alexander I
- ... at least a century behind the rest of Europe. The war with Napoleon, which ravaged Russia taking hundreds of thousands of lives and destroyed some of the Empire's finest cities, took it's own, personal toll on Alexander. He was troubled by the loss of life and the war itself, which he saw as a not only a battle between nations, but also a spiritual battle between the forces of ...
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