In an attempt to revive a failing economy after the War of 1812, the United States created the Second Bank of the United States. Angered by this new regulation by the federal government, the state of Maryland decided to place a tax on this National Bank in hopes of destroying it. ... In the end, the Supreme Court decided that a taxation placed on the National Bank by Maryland was unconstitutional and that this National Bank, despite local displeasure, would remain in affect. ... Nowhere in the Constitution does it explicitly allow for the creation of a National Bank, and since this is the ca...

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Washington had the support of the people, and according to Joseph J. ... During the course of Washington's presidency, many of Alexander Hamilton's controversial fiscal policies were supported, like assumption of state debts, the excise tax, and the Bank of the United States. ...

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In a study of blood types since 1918, blood banks have gathered data of more than 20 million individuals worldwide. ... Researchers: Steven M Weissberg, M.D. and Joseph Chrstiano have made great landmarks in the applications of blood types. ...

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Further, Congress did not have the power to tax the individual states, as indicated in the letter from Virginian Joseph Jones to George Washington (Feb. 27, 1783). ... Since the government under the Articles was not given power to set up a sound currency system, or to establish a national bank, even greater disorganization prevailed. ... Although problems continued to exist over questions like whether to have a national bank, the Founding Fathers eventually agreed that a Constitution and a strong central government would be needed if the government of the U.S. was to rule effectively. ...

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Many banks couldn't continue to operate. ... At the time of the Great Depression, government intervention in the economy was higher than it had ever been and a special government agency had been set up specifically to prevent depressions and their associated problems, such as bank panics. This agency was the Federal Reserve Board and it was to have been the loaner of last resorts for banks in order to prevent collapses as had happened during earlier depressions. ... The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this alliance began to dissolve in 1...

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At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ... The civilian officials, as earlier stated, include persons like doctors, bank investors etc. ...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. This system uses the investment of money or 'capital' to produce hefty profit for its owners and shareholders to reinvest in the system to generate a seemingly endless cycle of wealth1. It has been commentated by many that the system leads to the main body of available wealth and power in the world to be held by an elite minority. There is no query as to whether such a system exists today as that...

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Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, were men who were in support of gun control, putting it in order. ... Like Hitler, Joseph Stalin The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. ... Guns protect political leaders, prominent businessmen, celebrities, cabbies, bank guards and jewelry merchants. ...

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World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment for democracy in all countries. Peace was thought to have been restored among the world. People's views of the world were tainted and many nations began to struggle. In the years following the end of World War I, Americans found themselves in an era, known as the "Roaring Twenties," where the...

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Hamilton pushed for The Bank of the United States, a large standing Army raised by the President (Congress was to raise and support armies,) a Department of Navy, funding and excise taxes, and, in foreign policy, a neutrality that was sympathetic to British interest to the detriment of France. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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