Woman suffrage is the right of women to vote. Today, women in nearly all countries have the same voting rights as men. But they did not begin to gain such rights until the early 1900's, and they had to overcome strong opposition to get them. Reading Jailed for Freedom has been like peeking into a w...
Constitutionally speaking, since people cannot be property (not by governments nor by other people) , that by virtue of democracy they should be citizens of the place they inhabit, that because the people of Guam are now U.S. citizens, and that they inhabit U.S. territory (Guam), one would reason that Guam should be a state of the Union -on "equal footing" with other states. ... As American citizens, a dichotomy of identities exists for the colonized people of Guam. On the one hand, Guamanians have the freedom to take part in the American experiment -to practice self-governance and hence self-...
This man was not an Irish-American; he was an Irishman who became an American. ... Wilson argued that any American ought to be defined as American, and not taking into account their place of origin (Irish-American, Jewish-American ...) when they vote they are all Americans. ... The leaders of the different groups of immigrants as Italian-Americans, the Jewish-American, or Hungarian-American, demanded explanations for the comments made by Wilson in his book. ... Wilson's long campaign for immigration, his meetings with the different ethnic groups in America, his speeches defending the ...
Teddy Roosevelt devoted his adult life to civil service in order to make life for American citizens better. ... He himself called America, "the police man of the world." ... He spent two months on Rutherford Hayes" tour of America campaign. ... He said in 1895, "Very many friends of the reform movement, and very many politicians of the party to which I belong, have become frightened at the issue thus raised and the great bulk of the machine leaders of the Democracy profess to be exultant as it, and to see in it a chance for securing their own return to power. ... He went back to New York as a ...
However, Congress was formed for a distinct purpose: to represent the people of the United States of America. ... A quick laundry list of the minorities in the United States being under-represented might read as such: African-Americans, Women, Black Women, Hispanics, Gays and Lesbians, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, Indians (Native Americans). ... We now examine some of those histories in trying to answer why America's Congress does not look like America's people. ... While some minorities such as Black Americans and women have had notable records in Congress, Hispanics and...
THE UNITED STATES Government The national government The United States Constitution defines a federal system of government in which certain powers are delegated to the national government and others are reserved to the states. The national government consists of executive, legislative, and judicial branches that are designed, through separation of powers and checks and balances, to ensure that no one branch of government is able to subordinate the other two branches. All three branches are interrelated, each with overlapping yet quite distinct authority. Since its ratification in 1788 th...
