...In the Constitution, “describing the electoral college is longer and descends to more detail than any other single issue”(Guelzo). Guelzo reminds us that the founding fathers cared so deeply for this one subject and went so in depth describing it solely to protect us from “tyranny of the majority”(“Pros and Cons”). When the founding fathers chose the use of electors over the popular vote it was only to protect all citizens, especially the ones living in unpopulated areas(“Pros and Cons”). Alexander Hamilton insisted that the electoral college is if “not perfect, it is at least excellent” because “ the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications”(“Pros and Cons”). Another reason to support the electoral college is that it has only failed five times; this was when a president who received the most electoral votes did not receive the most popular votes but still became president. The founding fathers did not lack the technology resources when they made the electoral college and it it is the very thing holding our sometimes volatile democracy in line(Prabhushankar). When politics get out of line, the electoral college poses as a constant, which brings a sort of order to society...
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...Changing the Voting System in America In the United States of America, the Electoral College system is used to elect the President. This system was created to make voting a quicker and easier process when the country was established. Horseback was the quickest way to transport votes at the time and to speed up the process of voting, the founders created the electoral college system. To eliminate the delay of travel, the electors who represent each state could be updated more quickly. Today we now have the internet and information can be easily transmitted instantly with no time delay when votes are counted and coming in from all states on the day of the election. The United States is a technologically advanced country so why do we keep using this process to elect our next president? This citizen criticizes the Electoral College system in the U.S. It must be replaced because it is outdated and unfair. The main issue that citizens have with the Electoral College is how it decreases the voting power. According to William Kimberlin, “States are given three voted regardless of their population but based on the state's population, the citizens votes are given to the states”. (uselectionatlas) This system is giving votes to citizens who are not in the states boundaries. In smaller states, a vote has more influence than a vote in a larger state because votes from larger states are distributed among the smaller states. For example, eight votes are taken away from California and redistributed...
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...College works. Explain some of the main pros and cons in the debate about whether to keep or abolish the current Electoral College process. Also explain one proposal to change how the system works without formally abolishing it. Evaluate the various arguments and the proposal. Include at least two perspectives in your assessment: According the New York Times (2008) Electoral College 101, in America how the system works in electing our commander and chief, is generally the Electoral College was created by the founding fathers and most that doubt direct democracy because they didn’t believe that the President and Vice President should be elected directly by the people and congress. The Electoral College includes 538 electors from 50 states, and the state capital calls the electors. The electors according to the constitution are responsible for electing the President and Vice President of the United States. A majority is required of 270 to win of the 538 electoral votes is needed to elect our President. The majority of the time the electors cast their votes for candidates receiving the majority votes in that particular state. Electoral votes are primarily based on the number of senators and representatives. Article II of our constitution sets guidelines on how our President should be elected and how often it states” the president “"shall hold office during the term of four years." The season begins in January for those running for presidency, as early as 2 years prior to national...
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...Individual and Team Case Analysis Template Case: Name(s): |Situation analysis | |Social environment- By the time Roussel- Uclaf was determining what action to take in the US, both the pro-choice and pro-life | |sides of the debate were very vocal in their opinions, though it seems that the pro-life side was more vocal in their opposition | |(at least in the earlier stages). | |Political Environment- The United States had just had 2 Republican Presidents who were staunchly anti-abortion. However, President | |Clinton was elected in 1992 and was much more liberal concerning abortion, and appointed more liberal people into regulatory | |positions (specifically, the FDA). | |Company/Organizational Environment- There are two levels at issue here. One is between the individual employees at each | |organizational level, and the other is between the parent company, Hoechst, and Roussel-Uclaf. Within each level of the | |organization, different employees at different management levels have differing opinions on abortion, which results in often | |oppositional opinions on RU-486. Also, at the different corporation levels (e.g. Hoechst...
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...B Bailey Health Reform Plan The Clinton Healthcare Plan of 1993 also known as the Health Security Act was a package presented under the direction of President Bill Clinton. His presidency started on January 20, 1993 and lasted until January 20, 2001. During his 1992 presidential election, Clinton pushed for this bill to be passed by Congress. “After nine months of brainstorming and politicking, President Clinton delivered to Congress today a 240,000-word proposal for universal health insurance” (Pear, 1993). This manifesto was the most multiplex, comprehensive plan conveyed by any President. Under the Clinton plan, most Americans would get health insurance coverage only in regional alliances. “ A company with more than 5,000 full-time employees could operate its own health insurance program outside the alliances. People working at company headquarters would be in the corporate health plan” (Pear, 1993). If there were employees of a large company that worked in another state with 100 or less than they were able to join the local alliance there. The Clinton Healthcare Plan of 1993 would supply additional treatment of helping. “Mr. Clinton said his proposal would provide much more coverage of preventive services than is usually found in private health insurance plans” (Pear, 1993). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 also known as Obamacare is a United States federal law signed in by President Obama on March 23, 2010. This law, jointly with the...
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...Cons of Gun Outlaw in the United States Sarah Chadwick, Maria Escalante, Aubrey Ballard, Jonathan Mcwilliams, Royal Delahoussaye, Andrew Urey, Stacon Boisse BCOM/275 February 12, 2013 Joseph Scott University of Phoenix Cons of Gun Outlaw in the United States I hate guns. Should an argument be made over a hate statement or should the right to bear arms hold to be as valuable as gold. The introduction of gun control laws can be an effective way to make the streets of America safe again but on the other hand this can also make law-abiding citizens become vulnerable for those whom have illegal possession of fire arms. Firearms, for the most part, are big business in the United States. Manufacturing firearms and ammunition have helped drive the economy for decades. The threat of banning some firearms has created the price of the AR15 assault riffle to sky rocket; so even the thought of not having a gun is big business. Fire arm sells increase with a bad economy because people feel they need protection from people becoming desperate (Thurman,R., 2009). Gun control is a sensitive subject in any country, in any neighborhood, or any civilized establishment. In America alone, about 80 million people representing half of the U.S. homes, own more than 223 million guns. And politically, 60% of Democrats and 30% of Republicans favor stronger gun owner laws (White, 2013). Gun rights are granted by the Second Amendment, which reads: “A well regulated Militia...
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...This meeting was intended for Jefferson to discuss about plans pertaining to the new government with James Monroe and the site of the capital. Monroe stopped Hamilton and his actions with the government already. This incident damages the relationship between the two. Another situation is that these men already had their own set ideologies and acts to pass within the government. While Hamilton did have allies, he and Jefferson founded their own group in secret. This was named as the Compromise of 1790. Chapter 3 was based on the topic of slavery. Thomas Scott and James Jackson supported slavery at the time. Slavery was discussed with its pros and cons such as the economic yield from it, but the morality against it. To remove all the negative emotion with this topic, the men agreed to make Congress not have the ability to remove slavery. Benjamin Franklin opposed this but had his hands tied because he feared of the southern states’ secession due to...
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...POS/110 Democracy in America Democracy in America is something that has been the topic of the news for many years. It has caused many debates among several different individuals. Democracy, like anything, has its pros and its cons as well. In the following paragraphs will be the tip of the iceberg of some things that are debatable about democracy in America. One topic in particular that has been debated is the Constitution. The Constitution was written in 1787. The Constitution is a nation’s basic laws. It creates political institutions and divides or assigns power among governments (Edwards, Wattenberg, & Lineberry, 2008). When the Constitution was written all those years ago the founding father were putting a system together to make sure that no official received to much control and go power crazy. One of the best pros to the constitution is that the power is divided among government officials. As stated in the paragraph above, this helps to keep power equal among those government officials. For example, a president is only able to serve two terms in office and the president has to be elected back in office at that. This keeps new ideas and new people in office. Where there are pros, there are always cons. One con that comes with the Constitution is it is very hard to have the Constitution amended. There have only been a handful of times that the Constitution has been amended. The Bill of Rights is one that was able to be amended, and it was for...
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...Writing on behalf of the majority opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes first introduced the clear and present danger test, which addressed the concept of when is it permissible for the nation to restrict its citizen’s freedom of speech. However the Schenck case never formally adopted the test, but merely introduced it as a refinement of earlier legal thinking/ doctrines. With regard to the pros and cons of the preceding case in which Justice Holmes established the aforementioned test, concerning the ability of the government to regulate speech against the draft during World War I, Holmes himself stated "The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that the United States Congress has a right to prevent.” Meaning in effect that the baseline pros of using a doctrine like that of clear and present danger is the protection of the public and the government itself from the threat represented by certain mediums of expression or explicit content that represents harm or potential harm. “It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace...
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...While Ronald Reagan is consistently put into light as the modern standard for conservatism, guiding America into the light it had not seen since the likes of JFK, LBJ, and Eisenhower, the American public and media has made his legacy out to be much more than he accomplished during his Presidency. Yes, Ronnie the Actor was able to polarize the Republican party, realign their leadership, promote Christian morale like never seen before, and give the name "Republican" an aura of honor. This debate should be restricted to Reagan's direct accomplishments as a President, none of which should relate to his contributions to the Republican party or to his revolutionizing Conservatism. These traits make him a very favorable President to some, however they do not make him one of the greatest Presidents of all time. The Con should present a case supporting Ronald Reagan's status as one of the greatest Presidents of all-time, and the Pro should defend its stance that not only is Ronald Reagan 1)"overrated", but that he is also 2)Not one of the best Presidents of all time. This issue may be taken as relative, to prove Reagan's superiority to other Presidents, or as subjective, by evaluating Reagan's accomplishments in domestic and foreign policy in relation to his failures. The American public voted Reagan the 4th Best President in US History, behind Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington, and this should be used as the standard of this debate. I know that this opening argument is very vague...
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...But I also can't say that electoral college works the way it supposed to work. There are certainly positive effects of electoral college, but let's take a look at two main problems that it should help with, but actually it doesn't. Is it helpful against tyranny? The last elections showed that answer is no. A candidate still can manipulate people's feeling through creating the cult of personality or whatever, but just instead of the one big campaign you need to make 51 small campaigns. The other pro of the electoral college, that we can argue about, is giving opportunity for all states become equal candidates attention. Let's see at this year's election, the candidates most visited states during campaign are Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania. Why the candidates spent more time and money in those states more than in others? Because the electoral college force them to do that. They know that if they will lose even with the small difference they will lose all electoral votes. So, the candidates have no reason to pay that much attention to the states with big margins, like California for democrats or Texas for republican. Instead, they are interesting in the needs of just few states with close...
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...Should USA Lift Embargo on Cuba I. Introduction A. The island of Cuba has been the source of both enormous economic profits and problems for the United States B. First, provide information that will help you to understand what, when and why it happened. Second, mention the cons that the US has by lifting the embargo on Cuba, why it shouldn’t, and the problems that can cause. Finally, mention the pros that the US has by lifting embargo on Cuba, and why it should. II. Body A. The embargo consists of economic sanctions against Cuba and restrictions on Cuban travel and commerce for all people and companies under US jurisdiction. However, 1. Revolutionary Fidel Castro established Cuba as the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere (1959) Therefore, 2. Cuban Democracy Act(1992): Maintaining sanctions on Cuba so long as the Cuban government continues to refuse to move toward "democratization and greater respect for human rights". Helms–Burton Act – 1996. However, B. The embargo enables the United States to apply pressure on the Cuban government to improve human rights. For example, 1. Will make the United States appear weak. 2. People say that lifting the sanctions would be an act of appeasement. The United States should not risk sending the message that it can be waited out or that seizing US property in foreign countries is ok. In contrast, C. Lifting the embargo will benefit the people of Cuba, the interest of the U.S and will harm Castro’s power. ...
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...in 1944, read instructions via paper taper. It lacked many of the features of modern computers but inspired additional work both at Harvard (where it ended up) and at IBM (which helped to engineer it) (Smith, 2013). With technology smelling blood in the water, programmers were forced to step up their game to trump the previous creator. Early computers built in the 1940s were government programs usually funded by a national military, but commercialization quickly developed. The first commercial computer was the UNIVAC I, which was built for a division of the Remington Rand company which are the same company that creates firearms (Smith, 2013). This computer was deemed successful with the prediction of Eisenhower’s election into the presidency in 1952. In the late 1970’s many computers were coming to light and were proving their worthiness including the Apple IIc, which did not stop production till 1993 with over 6...
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...Nick Wade Nov, 9, 2015 US History Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was in office during the civil war and gained the likeness of most of the country. Lincoln was born in the backwoods of illinois. He grew up in poverty, but became a politician and came out of poverty. As president and commander-in-chief, he passed the 13th amendment and won the civil war. During his presidency, Lincoln was a successful leader because of his different traits that allowed him to be president and enjoyed by many Americans. This was demonstrated by his strategist, intelligent, good leadership and good decision maker personality. Mr. Lincoln was a great strategist, both in the office and fighting the war. Lincoln had the ability to learn on the job. Abraham was considered by many a great commander in chief and strategist because he thought long and hard about decisions, whether it be about the war or other decisions. Sometimes he even visited officers in the field(Smithsonian,1). The 16th president used a big...
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...III) Articles of Confed a) Confederation b) Specific Terms c) General Results d) Shays Rebellion IV) Constitution a) 4 key debates B) Specific terms of the articles (about the national govt.) • Unicameral legislature • No power to tax • No power to raise army • No executive branch (could make laws but not enforce them) • No judicial branch • Unanimous vote needed to change Articles C) General results of the Articles • Weak and incomplete national govt. • Economic chaos o States fund the war by borrowing money from federal govt. o Govt. wants the money back o Economy dries up and leads to a “trade war” with competing interest o States taxes their own citizens since they can’t borrow money o People (mostly farmers) lose their possessions and property since they can’t pay taxes o Damages the economy even more since farm family is out of work • No sufficient national defense o Enemy 1 the British o French and the Spanish also potential threats o Native Indian tribes also potential threat • States are left largely on their own (13 separate states, no unity) D) Shay’s Rebellion 4 Key debates 1. Representation of the states (large population vs. small population) o States might be equal but not for individuals o Creates a Bicameral Legislation (2 houses) 1. Senate 2. House of reps (representation based on population) which is known as “the great compromise” o Defensive compromise; better at not getting stuff done than getting stuff done. 2. Slavery...
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