Electoral college

In order to keep the rich from the poor due to the unbalanced population gap between this 2, the electoral college was created.  Is it fair? No. Does your opinion matter? Of course not! Your voice won't change what the government thinks. Nobody here (maybe Jason Ramos being an exception) are among the extraordinary wealthy or in the government.  But that doesn't stop the electoral college from working time after time.  What this does do, however, is allow small states to get more votes regardless of their lack of population compared to bigger states.

Without the Electoral college, there would be some problems.  With out it, there would not be an immediate out come with the votes.  If popular vote were to be the process of which we decided presidency, our candidates would request for recounts, making the process take much longer than necessary.  One example of where it succeeded was during Bush and Clinton in 1992 not allowing any run offs from potentially happening.

In the movie "Head of State", starring Chris Rock, many interesting points were made during the movie. Chris Rock stars as Mays Gillian, an African American politician on the pursuit to become president.  Mays lives in an under class community and is known for giving a hand to anyone who needs help.  After an unfortunate plane crash that he saw on the tv, forcing the party to find new candidates ASAP.  This party noticed Mays heroic acts of saving the lady and her cat from the exploding house and wanted him to run for president.  Mays goes about this process differently than most would, almost as if mocking the system.  During a fundraiser,  he spices things up and becomes a DJ, getting everybody to dance and have a good time.  Typically having a good time at a fund raiser for political parties is not fun at all.  Most of May's speeches across the country were casual, plain, boring, like most speeches by people who have been in his position, except at the end.  Mays, while shitting a little bit on his apposing candidate, also reaches out to the crowd in front of him as well.  Instead of telling the crowd what the people wanted to hear,  he tells them how he feels and what his real views are.  At the end of the movie where Gillian is in a debate with his competitor, they both have different views, obviously.  They both also come into this debate with very different techniques.  Mays has a playful, joking attitude about the situation but has good points when it comes down to it.  As does his competitor, who comes with a serious attitude, which is normally how things are supposed to be in debates.  One reason why Mays wons this election (aside from it being a movie and fake) could be that Mays dresses more casually, more like the middle and under class, which would probably contribute to him getting over 90% of the underclass (and minority.. i think)'s votes. My opinion is Chris Rock had the better final word, helping him get more votes when he said "god bless not only America, but...." I don't remember the list of countries he said, I think one was Haiti.  At the end of the movie, both of the candidates were posted in front of their TV waiting to see who won.  When it came down to California, Mays Gillian came out on top.

The governor that I would vote for would be Charlie Baker.  Charlie is against making new taxes for the people, forming a better state government and eliminating waste.  While he is not a democrat, he does seem to be wanting to do a lot for the people.  Charlie thinks that they are trying to slowly raise taxes on number 2 when they say that the money would be going towards a good cause.  How do we know where that money is ACTUALLY going? The government might just be looking for a new way to get money out of us.  Baker thinks that small business owners and small business workers would get screwed if question 4 were to pass. Mckyle also pointed out at the end of his blog that Charlie Baker has flow and I'd go so far to even say that that's an understatement,

Honest Abe

     President Lincoln had many difficulties while trying to pass the 13th amendment. Abe had to deal with racism inside the House, such as the cabinet thinking it was a bad idea to abolish slavery.  If slavery was abolished, that would mean that African Americans could vote, own property, rank high in the military, take office, and take white jobs.  Abe was a man of his word, kinda. He was known as "Honest Abe". While this was true in some cases, it was not true in others.  He promised lame duck politicians jobs if they voted to pass the 13th amendment and they did get their jobs.  However, he lied about telling the north the south does not have any peace commissioners. Lincoln believed it was so important to pass the amendment so slavery would be abolished so the war would end. 

     While Lincoln did have a good point on the civil war ending if slavery was abolished, he also had other intentions on his mind about passing the 13th amendment.  He thought that if he were to abolish slavery and allow African Americans to vote he would surely get the majority of the black population next time he runs for president. In the end Lincoln gets assassinated. Sorry if I ruined the ending.

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Bonus: Ebola

     A recent issue that news and America has covered is Ebola.  Ebola is a virus that has fatal results if not treated. EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) was first found in 1976 in Yambuku, Dominican Republic of Congo. The disease was named after the river inside the village it came from.

     The disease is transmitted to people from wild animals and from then spreads from human to human as such in various parts of us of a. There are currently no licensed vaccines for Ebola, but there are 2 candidates that are undergoing evaluation.  There are also treatments like immunological and drug therapy under development to treat EVD.

      Early symptoms of Ebola are having a fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches.  Later symptoms would be vomiting, diarrhea and rashes.  If it is not treated immediately fatal consequences such as liver and kidneys not being able to function, internal/external bleeding and even death.

      The 5th Amendment is the Amendment that allows you to decline self incrimination. You are given the right to decline to give incriminating information. It states that "no citizen shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

 

     The 2nd amendment allows citizens to bear arms. Meaning, they are allowed to carry a gun if they are licensed.  To ban guns entirely would only effect those who legally own a gun. Illegal gun owners won't be effected by this law.

Petoria

         Petoria, the land of Peter Griffin is an Authoritarian gov.t, although Peter probably doesn’t know what that means.  An Authoritarian gov.t only has one leader, aka Peter.  Peter explained how he cannot be touched by singing his own version of “Can’t touch me” originally made by MC Hammer.  Peter has diplomatic Immunity so MC can’t sue him, just as he can do whatever he wants in Petoria without any consequences.  But, as you know, America likes to step in on anyone’s business that they don’t like.  They cut off all of the Griffin’s every day house-hold requirements for survival.   They basically flushed the Griffin’s out of Petoria with limiting them to little to none food, water, heat and electricity. Although Peter had gotten mail from communist leaders such as Castro along with other country rulers, they did not supply him with military defense against America’s army.  Another down side to Petoria is Meg and Chris couldn’t go to school, not allowing them to get an education.  Petoria didn’t last as long as peter had hoped because he lacked a government entirely, especially the federal government.

  

Ratification of the Constitution

      Before the states were unified, the 13 states were basically 13 countries.  Each state had their own laws, making it hard to get all the states to agree to follow the same set of laws.  The anti-federalists believed that citizen's rights and liberties were not emphasized enough with the new gov.T under the constitution.  The concerns that the anti-feds had with the constitution had been dealt with by creating the national Bill of Rights.  The Bill of Rights was made for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties.  It also limited the government on their power in fear of a future monarchy.  While the federalists argued the constitution did not need a Bill of Rights, the anti-federalists said it was necessary to "safeguard individual liberty."

The failure of the Articles

     One issue that occurred while The articles of Confederation were in tact was it gave too much power to the state instead of balancing the power between the federal and the state gov't. The forefathers were scared that too much power in one central gov.t would result in monarchy.  Another weakness this article had was the voting method.  The article would only discuss something if it was a problem that all 13 states had.  If the issue had been discussed, it would need 9 of the 13 votes from the states.  The reason why this would never work is because not all the states would attend these meetings, making it really hard to get anything done.
 
    Without a powerful federal gov't or an executive branch the articles were bound to fail.  Without the executive branch there's nobody to enforce these acts. The federal gov't didn't didn't have the power to collect citizen's taxes. They also couldn't regulate trade. More abilities that the federal government could do that the states can't is enter treaties with foreign nations and declare war or peace.

No government?

    Without the government I don't think America would be at the point we're at today, maybe even the world. As a country we've developed a lot over the past 240 years, to say the least. Thousands of laws have been set in place from California to Maine to allow a stable foundation for future generations to rise from, and that's exactly what we did. If the founding fathers never signed the Declaration of Independence then the America we know and love wouldn't be the same. We may even be driving on the other side of the road.  We might have adopted laws from Europe or Canada if we didn't start our own back in the 1700s.  Everything that happens within our government effects how we live today, whether their decisions  had been accepted and put into place  or decline  and thrown away.

     If America never obtained the nickname "home of the free and opportunity" then my grandparents may never have moved here from Ireland to seek a better place to live. So there's a chance that without the government my parents wouldn't have met and I wouldn't be born.