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Living in America has been quite the struggle. It’s been over 100, almost 200, years and Great Britain is starting to be more controlling over us, American citizens. I see no reason for them to tax us, just so they can pay off their debt for the French and Indian War. The British were the…

As society has developed, questions have emerged about the nature of the rights that the American government owes its citizens, with the rights that were originally formulated in the Bill of Rights within the Constitution sometimes not being seen as adequate for addressing present circumstances. The purpose of the essay at hand is to make…

In this research paper I will be informing you about African Americans in the military and how blacks in the military has changed over the years, and the different roles they have played in wars globally. I will start my research paper with 15 black military heroes through the years, I will give you information…

The arrangement of projects that were actualized between 1933 to 1938 that brought the economy out of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the greatest monetary droop the country has ever experienced and the customary financial speculations and approaches did not work. This implied new strategies and speculations were called for. These were fundamentally…

The UK’s constitution is classified as unwritten or uncodified, this means there is no single document which sets out the fundamental laws that illustrate how the state works. This can be problematic as the sources of the constitution cannot be located in one place, however it is flexible, meaning that constitutional change can be made…

The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5, 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments, the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The…

During his oration on 5 March 1774, John Hancock expressed his deep sadness and called for a powerful indignation towards the brutal story of death. This powerful speech was delivered as he recounted the events of the “Boston Massacre”. While this event didn’t involve a large number of people being killed, it was still referred…

The rode to achieving reconstruction after the Civil War would establish a series of daunting troubles for the United States of America. In the reading “Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson” David Donald revisits the events that led up to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment and the nations struggle to attain reconstruction under his presidency. The outcome of…

Atkins v Virginia             On June 20, 2002 the US Supreme Court made a landmark decision, reversing a former statutes founded in the case of Penry v. Lynaugh in 1989. In Atkins v Virginia, based on the articulation of the Eighth Amendment, the decision of the Court was to prohibit the execution of the mentally…

Arguably, one of the most talked about amendments and overall policy legislation pieces of modern-day politics. Now, more than ever, the testing and judgement of the Right to Bear Arms has placed the American people at opposing ends. As the amendment is written, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,…