With the help of visionaries like Martin Luther King, John Lennon, and Mahatma Gandhi, just to name a few, a large segment of the American population was empowered to question the grim realities of the world around them, to ask "Can we not do better than this?" ... In the aftermath of 9/11, a large number of Americans cried out "Our cries of grief are not cries for revenge." ... He is the only candidate with real plans for a transformation of this country, including a %15 cut in the Pentagon budget to fund Universal Health Care (any doctor, any type of care) and tuition-free Pre-k thru Coll...

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Following the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America, one of the most important task facing the new nation was setting up a constitution, a set of laws to govern the 13 states. ... Each state, regardless of its population, had only one vote in Congress. The larger states with larger populations said this was unfair. ...

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"Size And Population" About 90% of the population is mestizo (people of Spanish and Native American ancestry); the remainder are Native Americans, blacks, and whites. The population is about 60% rural. In 1995 the estimated population was 5,968,000. ... The Pan American Agricultural School, financed by the United Brands Company of the United States, is near the capital. ... Some people in the north speak English, and the Native Americans have retained their languages. ...

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America has always been known as the land of the free where individual rights are of the highest value. ... Put simply, most Americans aren't half as liberal as they think themselves to be. ... In America, it used to be all that was required was a target. ... These were not good times for minority populations. ... Take American television for example. ...

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Federal system in the United States of America: its origins. ... I n my opinion American political system conforms to all these features: u American system composed of national government and governments of 50 states. ... American political system has weak sides also. ... Their number depends on population. ... among the other associations people named America. ...

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In order to identify the flaws that existed in The Articles of Confederation, I will compare them to the Constitution of The United States of America. ... The House of Representatives gave each state a number of delegates in proportion to the population of that state. The second house, called the Senate, gave each state 2 representatives, regardless of size or population. ...

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This man exemplified the importance of the Strenuous Life's emergence from the Victorian Era in America. ... In the Victorian Era, life simply wasn't exciting for Americans. ... " Roosevelt referred to this phenomenon as "race suicide," which basically implied that this idea of only utilizing intercourse to reproduce, rather than for simple pleasure, was limiting opportunity to increase the white protestant population, while the immigrant population was doing the opposite. In essence, the realization that the population of immigrants was growing at an exceeding rate, w...

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Theodore Roosevelt appealed greatly to the American nation. ... He appeared to be a well-informed and highly moral man and the " common people saw in him a fiery champion" Overall what made Teddy Roosevelt popular was the fact that the American population saw that he was real and could relate to him. ... On July1rst, the Rough Riders stormed through the San Juan hills in Cuba Teddy was considered a hero by the American population. ... And it is this realistic human characteristic that charmed the American population because they felt Roosevelt was just like them and understood their needs...

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Theodore Roosevelt appealed greatly to the American nation. ... He appeared to be a well-informed and highly moral man and the " common people saw in him a fiery champion" Overall what made Teddy Roosevelt popular was the fact that the American population saw that he was real and could relate to him. ... On July1rst, the Rough Riders stormed through the San Juan hills in Cuba Teddy was considered a hero by the American population. ... And it is this realistic human characteristic that charmed the American population because they felt Roosevelt was just like them and understood their needs...

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In the United States of America, people are protected by civil rights. It is these rights that allow all citizens of America to be protected under the laws of the constitution. ... The black population liked President John F. ... For over 200 years in the United States of America people have been struggling to keep this nation fair and equal. ...

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According to the federalism principle, the American government is separated by lines of policy, where the national government centralizes the views, policies, and responsibilities of the entire country. ... So, unfairly, democracy is undermined in the name of efficient government, primarily because of the Electoral College, which embodies the American precedent that federalist comes before democracy when it should be the other way around. ... According to documents A and D, however, show that the United States' method of choosing the president doesn't reflect the population accur...

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African-Americans were not allowed to vote or own any property. ... African-Americans were not even regarded in state population when it came time to vote for state representatives. Women had a little ore liberties than the African-Americans did. ... When it came to elect state representatives, women were counted in the state's population. ...

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The first purpose was to create a buffer between the population and the selection of the president. ... They just did not trust the American people to make the right choice. ... In a state with a small population, they get 3 votes no matter what and a state with large population gets votes based on their population. ... The way Americans vote for the presidency needs reform. ... The American people are just going to get more frustrated when the people they vote for are not winning the elections. ...

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The first choice didn't give Americans any power, and would most likely end up in corruption because of the "favor"" congress made to the President. ... The electoral college has been in place for over two hundred years now, and still, most Americans are not sure how it works, or if its the best system. ... This number changes each ten years; it may lower or rise depending on the population status. ... No matter how small of a population a state has, it always gets three Electoral College votes, this includes Washington D.C(illustrated in my visual). ... For this same reason, many America...

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During the Revolutionary Era in America, there were several attempts to form a government system in the colonies. ... A chart showing the estimated market value of United States exports to Great Britain in comparison to the United States population can be very useful. This document shows how although the population was steadily increasing, the values of the exports were varying. ... The novice American products couldn't compete with the veteran British. ... John Jay feels that we, Americans, should be able to have control of "our shores." ...

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The Electoral College preserves the votes of states with lower populations. ... One of them being that the delegate the majority of Americans do not favor, which would be decided inthe popular election, may win the E.C. ... With this system Certain smaller states hold a greater percentage of Electoral College votes than the percentage of their U.S population percentage. This is due to the minimum number of Electoral College votes for a state being three, no matter the population. ... In the past it was inconceivable, due to the large population and comparative lack of technology, to hold a pop...

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Madison noticed how the Articles of Confederation disrupted the majority of the American people and created a system of government where liberty was so free that it hindered society. It was then that the decision to create a new system of government was in the best interest of all the people in America. ... There were a few problems within the Constitution of the United States of America, but the effects that it produced in society were far more positive than that of the Articles of Confederation. ... The United States would have been unable to expand their market value with the popul...

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The laws of America did not have to be changed in order for blacks to receive equal rights, but they did have to be clarified and enforced. The beginning of this legislative process was when Harry Truman integrated the American armed forces in 1948. ... Whites in the south responded to this with increasing the level of violence they were using to try and keep the black population in the roles they had traditionally played. ...

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He was the sixteenth president of the United States of America from 1861 to 1865. ... He felt so strongly, that he was willing to lead the Union against the Confederacy in America's first and only Civil War. In that war, over 3 million people fought and over 600 thousand died (which was 2% of the population back then). This war was the only war fought by American's on America's soil. ...

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During the years following the presidential reconstruction of the Southern states (1865-1867), a demanding Northern population called for harsher repercussions to the civil war's losing side. ... These Senators and representatives would bring about new laws that would change how the South was rehabilitated, and how the black population would be treated during the following years. ... The effect that reconstruction had on the black population, and impoverished whites for that matter, was positive, but marginal. ... In 1869, congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment which granted all American...

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The council's agenda included preparing the civilian population for mobilization and coordinating industries and resources for national security and defense. ... This draft was different from the one used prior to the Spanish-American war because it also included African Americans. ... The Board oversaw production of all American factories and was headed by millionaire Bernard M. ... The administration also taught the civilian population to go without sugar, wheat flour, meats, and fats because these items were needed by the troops. ... With the new federal agencies, the government interv...

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President Andrew Jackson presided over an important time in American history. ... He believed that because the population of the United Stated was growing at such a rapid rate, people would soon have less amounts of land. There was still an extremely large Indian population living in the United States, these Indians were mostly the Cherokee Indians living in and around Georgia. Jackson's record regarding Native Americans was not good. ... At San Jacinto Santa Anna was defeated by the American Troops. ...

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Almost every American young and old has an opinion on him. ... Numerous citizens all over America have protested against President Bush's intent for attacking Iraq. ... Consequently, America has suffered a great loss to the economy. ... The younger population, more fit for a retail job, has found that the elder community, which has recently lost a job, has taken their occupation. ... America has now realized that there are not many people fit to run a country....

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While FDR struggled to define a balance of capitalism and socialism that was acceptable to the American people, Huey P. ... The Share Our Wealth approach called for the government confiscation of the fortunes of the wealthy and redistribution the confiscated funds to the rest of the American population. While not striving for equitable distribution of total wealth, in his plan Long envisioned that each American family would be guaranteed a basic fortune of no less than one-third of the average American fortune, which at the time, amounted to $15,000. ... With 60% of the population earnin...

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As the population in the U.S. increases and federal funds decrease, the government tends to forget all of the little people who elected the politicians into office. ... These are the great tourist attractions in America, but they don't receive the recognition that they deserve from the government. ... This will cause a domino effect because less tourists will want to visit America. ... The public created the U.S. government to ensure that there will always be a wise and fair leader for America. ...

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