Vice President of the United States

Running for president can be a long, stressful, controversial, and emotional process. Now imagine finally winning the presidential election only to have your opposing candidate to automatically become your vice president. This may sound beneficial and not pose a threat if both of the candidates are on the same party, but it can be a disaster if the opposing candidate is on the opposite party. As unlikely as it sounds, this scenario actually happened in the election of 1800, which caused a change

The Electoral College in the United States is not a place but a process. It was a process our founding fathers established in the Constitution. It is a complicated voting system that most citizens today do not understand. The Electoral College has been in place for well over two hundred years and is unfortunately showing its age. Most people believe that when they vote in a general election for the President, they truly believe they are voting for the president. This has shown to be the case

the Electoral College? The validity and necessity of the Electoral College has been questioned approximately since it was formed in the Constitution. Many different events in history, such as the president having a vice president from the opposite party, and the electoral college electing a president that didn’t win the popular vote has caused this to be an area of controversy. After looking into the origin of this system, how it works, and societal and technological changes that have occurred in

Main Ideas 1. The president’s role as chief of state means that he is the ceremonial head of the government. 2. The president’s role as chief of party means that he is the leader of his political party. His role as chief citizen means that he represents all the people of our country. 3. The three formal qualifications of a president are that he is a “natural born citizen”, he is at least 35 years old and that he has been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years. 4. The 22nd amendment

In the United States, there are three branches to help with laws: legislative, executive, and judicial. Legislative power makes laws, executive enforces it, and judicial interprets the law or gives the law a meaning. The legislative power checks the executive power, which carries out the law, by approving treaties and presidential appointments (pg. 68). Also by creating agencies, programs, and they may remove the president through impeachment (pg. 68). It makes sure there are appropriate funds

candidates? Why is it harder to win presidential elections post 1968? Every four years, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, millions of U.S. citizens go to local voting booths to elect, among other officials, the next president and vice president of their country. Their votes will be recorded and counted, and winners will be declared. But the results of the popular vote are not guaranteed to stand because the Electoral College has not cast its vote. thinking of the 2000 U.S. presidential

The Electoral College in the United States is not a place but a process. It was a process our founding fathers established in the Constitution. It is a complicated voting system that most citizens today do not understand. The Electoral College has been in place for well over two hundred years and is unfortunately showing its age. Most people believe that when they vote in a general election for the President, they truly believe they are voting for the president. This has shown to be the case

The events that occurred on September 11, 2001, impacted the United States and the world. Jane Mayer highlighted these changes in her book “The Dark Side,” through her interviews on the lack of communication pre-September 11th and the changes that took place following the attacks. Mayer’s work changed many views around the United States because of the layout of the events and actions dealing with September 11, 2001, by putting them into a chronological order that allowed for the reader to receive

passing laws which supported U.S. citizen's right under the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were Vice President Aaron Burr and President Alexander Hamilton. These two men are important in United States history for many reasons based upon U.S. politics, war tactics, education, and family values. Furthermore, Aaron Burr was the vice president of the United States during the term of President Thomas Jefferson. Compared to Alexander Hamilton who was a member of the Mainland Congress and a writer

powers of the other branches. They also have a system making sure one branch doesn’t become more powerful than the other this is called Check and Balances. Today the principles of the constitution is what withholds the United States as a country. The Vice President of the United States is the head of the Senate. The Legislative has two houses