How to..American Politics: This has separate arguments, so put all of your thoughts and beliefs in one answer, or multiple answers, but everything I have in this thread is 100% true about our Government, so if you want to argue with it, you're wasting your time, but I'd love to know what you have learned. I'm up for a debate, so you guys can freely say whatever you want I wrote this all myself, and this is just a collection of notes and opinions, so you guys can feel free to share your point of view, and I'll reply without bias.. If you have questions about anything, do feel free to ask. I tried to refrain from giving my own personal opinion on things, so I just gave facts.. So argue with facts all you want.. Separation of Powers - The federal government is divided into three branches and each branch has their own specific power. That's call a Check and Balance: •Check: All branches have a power..Powers that check other branches powers. •Balance: The fact all balances have relatively equal powers. Some examples... Legislative •Power to make laws •Coin money •Declare war •Establish post offices •Maintain military •Impeachment •Federal courts •Regulate interstate •Approve treaties •Taxation •Borrow money •Declare war Executive •Power to enforce law •State of the union address •Grant pardons •Amendments •Special sessions •Appoint ambassadors •Commander in chief •Punish crime •Negotiate treaties with other nations •Appoint judges Judicial •Power to interpret law •Judicial Review Excuse my terrible handwriting, but this pretty much summarizes what is done by our branches of government, and shows what branch has what power over which branch. Writing fast, freaking power points. Now I can sit here and tell you why each of the fifty states are not actually "States" but are American territories.. Yes, we have territory, people, and government. But is that all a state really is? No. We do not have sovereignty. The constitution. All of our laws not conflict with the constitution. Therefore the technical term for the "United States of America" would be, "The State of The United States of America." The Articles of Confederation officially recognized each of the 13 states as their own Sovereign states, with their own money, and no central ruling government. What is our central ruling government? The federal government? No, they just wear suits. All of our rules, laws, and regulations come from the United States constitution. Therefore we have no sovereignty.. After Shay's rebellion, we had realized the Articles of Confederation were too weak for various reasons. Saying this, we had to have an upgrade, and fast. Sovereignty In the Articles; Sovereignty resides in states In the Constitution; Constitution the supreme law of the land Want to argue about it? Let's go. Popular Sovereignty -Power rests with the people. "Popularity" -Voting -Article 1, the House of Representatives is chosen by popular election. Limited Government -Government can only do things PEOPLE give it the power to do. -How does the constitution limit power? •Expressed Powers •The United States government can only exercise those powers in the constitution. Commerce Clause -Article 1 •Congress has power to regular interstate trade. (Trade between more than one state.) Trade was important when the United States were just beginning. This is the reason Florida doesn't have Florida dollars, and you don't have to go to a bank in Georgia and exchange it for Georgia dollars. Necessary and Proper Clause -Article 1 -Congress can make any law necessary and proper to carry out their expressed powers. •Also known as the Elastic Clause Supremacy Laws "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land." -Any law made by congress or state legislatures that violates the Constitution is void. -Any action by Government officials that violates the Constitution is illegal. Full Faith and Credit Clause -Every state needs to recognize all other states' laws and records. • Licenses and marriages, etc. Due Process Clauses -Citizen cannot be denied their rights without going through specific legal procedures. Takings Clause -Government cannot take your property unless they give you "Just compensation" for your property. •eminent domain. Process to admit a new state -Have a territory with at least 60,000 people. -Have territory petitions to congress -Drafts a constitution. -Congress votes for it -President ratifies. Both houses of congress pass bills onto the President. Majority vote (2/3rds) to override vetoes, or laws. Treaty of Paris -Ended WW1 -Established the League of Nations, (Now the United Nations) -Mostly made up of Woodrow Wilsons's 14 points. -We withdrew from the League of Nations because congress voted against our own idea. We were becoming too involved with foreign affairs.. Look where we are now. Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, Germany, the Korea's. If we were any more hypocritical, in the sense of our historic government and own constitution, I would say that we are doing a wonderful job. Ex Post Facto -Retroactive law. -When someone committed the act, it was not illegal. Habeus Corpus -Suspended during the Civil war, for confederate POW's, world war 2 for the camps, the response to 9/11 for suspected terrorists. (These are the most known, that I know of at least) -Unlawful combatants and saboteurs could be denied of Habeus corpus, and this may be acted at any time, in terms of riots, murder, high profile cases, or various other things. Vocab •United: Together as one. •State: People in a territory organized politically with the power to enforce law w/o higher power. -People, territory, government, (sovereignty) •Government: Formal I situations through which society makes and enforces its public policies. •Power: Get someone to act •Authority: Right to use power •Legitimacy: Acceptance of ruling regime by those being ruled. Docs •Declaration of Independence: 1776, wrote on July second, established, and then signed on July 4th. •US Constitution: 1787, outlines and establishes our government. •Articles of Confederation: Our first constitution, all colonies stayed independent states, and allowed separate sovereignty. Things Shay's rebellion really exposed: Illustrated the articles of confederations weaknesses, such as; no money, no government, and no army. The conditions encountered by many citizens during the revolution; post war economy, states warring each other, no tax, riots, fighting, debt, depression, uprising, and death. The goal was to close down the courts because they believed the courts were working together to take land from the farmers. The fact that the Articles gave no power to the state, they couldn't tax, or raise an Army.. All of it was a terrible idea. Shay's rebellion played the role of showing the flaws in the government, which helped us raise the constitution you guys mindlessly argue about, and think you, "Understand" completely, but the more you guys argue about this piece of paper, the more you guys show me how big of an idiot you are. But really, I'm up for any topics you guys are up for.. Such as alcohol, voting, weed, whatever.. Doesn't matter. Hope you enjoyed reading, and maybe learned something about the American Government, and your own government.
Definitely messed up that BBcode, but that's okay. Wasn't exactly going for presentation, just content.
I only have a prime ministerand snow lots of snow here. You guys down south are lucky not having so much snow
look around, people are talking for once on this frankly immature ( dont get me wrong, im the most immature person there is) game, but for once its nice to have a civilised conversation about politcs And i Find it interesting finding out about other countries politics You no Like? Theres plenty more other threads
I've recently looked up a debate in Parliament, and honestly a lot more gets done, a lot faster, and it is a lot more fun.. It looks great! Kind of wishing that our senate and house got things done that quickly.
i guess thats good But theres a bit of debate in Croatia That more power should be given na k to the president And now With us gonna join the euro :/ its weird The prime minister is good i guess He deals With Like the more advanced stuff i guess And day to day stuff gets done in the prime ministers sessions
All the stuff you are saying are all the things I have no idea about.. So it's all new information to me.
Our president is limited to two terms Or 5 years of serving the constitution How Does it work in the states?