The Supreme Court of the United States is the Nation’s highest court, and was established on 4, March 1789; the court is made up of a Chief Justice and five Associated Justices. From the time the United States established the Supreme Court there has been 112 Justices of the court, including 17 Chief Justices ("United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary ", n.d.). Over the years the United States Supreme Court has heard cases brought on by one state against another, between state and
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policies of the United States justified during the Cold War? Would you like it if you were forced to think and act in a certain way? In the past, there were countries, such as Germany, that tried to use force to make other people think the same way as they do, by killing people that were different, or thought differently. The United States and other countries didn't feel that they could just stand around and let things like this happen. The United States worked with others in the United Nations to
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The United States Constitution Jasmine T. Collins HIS 115 2/16/14 Thomas Deering The United States Constitution The United States Constitution was the first form of government. The Bill of Rights was later added. The United States Constitution and Amendments were established to fix the problems stated in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government. The phrase “We the People” is one of the first fixes between the Constitution
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Rico and living in the United States? I believe that there are big differences. I came to the United States when I was fifteen years old. Although, I am currently living in the United States, I always go back to Puerto Rico to visit my family. I love it there. I like living in the United States but there are many things that differ from Puerto Rico such as food, education and weather. Puerto Rico has variety of Spanish food that make you go there. Puerto Rico’s food is one of the best reasons to
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Immigration Immigration has always been a huge topic for discussion in the United States of America, but with the recent statements made by Donald Trump and the other Republican candidates, the topic of immigration has received more media attention than normal. I believe that Immigration is a good thing for the US so long as it is legal and controlled in some way. From my own personal experience, my parents immigrated to the United States after the Vietnam War and have been in the country for over 30
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wars in which different parties were fighting for either freedom or territory and in the Spanish American War both Spain and the United States were in conflict for both. The Spanish American War began in April 1898 and ended August 1898 which was a brief rivalry between Spain and the United States that led to the death of three hundred and seventy-nine Americans . The United States found themselves intervening in Cuba’s fight for independence against Spain after President McKinley and the queen of Spain
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the United States executed a covert mission in Pakistan that lead to the death with the most wanted terrorist, Usama Bin Laden. For almost 10 years, the United States and its agencies where looking for Usama Bin Laden all over the world for the atrocious acts against the United States in September 11, 2001. The United States was dedicated in taking down everyone responsible for the terrorist acts on that day and finally in May 2nd 2011, the US was able to find him. The President of the United States
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America is a very competitive country, they always have to be number one in everything they do. During the twelve year space race, if the Soviet Union would have been the first to put a man on the moon, then America would have had to retaliate by spending more money, doing endless research on going to Mars and possibly starting a settlement. The space race would descend, but America would never settle being in second place for long. “President Kennedy was convinced that with a strong commitment of
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On August 6, 1945 a bomber called the Enola Gay took off from Okinawa, Japan and started its flight towards Hiroshima. The bombers mission was to drop an atomic bomb that had been developed by the United States. The name of the bomb that was dropped that day was called the “Little Boy”. When the bomb exploded, nearly seventy thousand people were killed and another estimated seventy thousand were injured. The bomb destroyed everything in the immediate vicinity and fires ravaged across another four
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a book by Josepha Sherman, the Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. This consisted of an arms race, where the two nations struggled to build more powerful weapons than the other, and the space race, with each nation trying to be the first in an astronomical feat. Though there was not an abundance of fighting and combat, the Cold War was abounding in spies, tension,
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