I will be focusing on just a few key areas that have been struck due to the recession for President Obama and the Great Depression for President Roosevelt and how each man either fixed the problem or is attempting to. Here is just a short list of issues: unemployment rate, financial institutions and the stock market. Just like President Roosevelt, President Obama hit the ground running with his uncanny ability to act upon the economic crisis that was yet again effecting the American people. Obama scored major points with the people since within his first hundred days in office he was able to get congress a much needed stimulus package for their approval that would take care of the financial crisis the American people were facing with major businesses and financial institutions declining at a very fast pace. However, Roosevelt was facing a much worse scenario with an unemployment rate of nearly 25% after the stock market crash of 1929.
Lewinskky Scandal: The Story of the Comeback Kid America’s 42nd president and his administration are responsible for many milestones and achievements. To start, the governor from Arkansas was, and still is, the third-youngest man to be elected President of the United States at age 46 and was the first democrat elected for a second term since Franklin D. Roosevelt. These small feats are nothing though when analyzing the true legacy of the Clinton Administration. Perhaps the biggest achievement was that between the presidential elections of 1992 and 2000 William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in the history of the United States of America. And, although his economic policies are the most well known political achievements of his administration he was also able to enact significant pieces of legislature.
This lack of democracy and in many cases, violence, towards the mentioned groups leads me to the overall conclusion that whilst Jackson may have attempted and possibly succeeded in democratising politics, at the same time he failed to democratise American society. Andrew Jackson can be seen to have democratised American politics from the moment he was first elected due to his image as the “Common man”. Having risen from poverty in the South with very limited formal education, Jackson was the first President to appeal and to represent the interests of the non-landed classes like the traditional Southern states where he grew up. Because this was so new a concept, voters were given the opportunity to make a decision: to either support Jackson’s non-autocratic views or to disagree with them. This was the first time in American history that voters were given such choice due to difference of opinion of the two candidates, leading to the development of the two-party system.
Jacksonian democrats were only guardians of political democracy, individual liberty and equality of economic opportunity, and the United States Constitution when it benefitted them. They were inconsistent in their handlings of these political notions. Voting in the elections during the 1820s to 1840 was more popular than ever. After the financial panic of 1819 white males without land demanded that they have suffrage and the ability to hold office; they were granted in the era of the Jacksonian Democracy (PK). White men now had universal manhood suffrage.
Barack Obama k III In the 2008 Presidential election there was history made the night Barack Obama the 44th president an African American was elected in office. He defied all the problems and did the impossible. He’s is now currently trying to reverse the state which the United States are in. The economic state which the U.S is in is the worst since the great depression. Obama and his team are trying to come up right now with a way to get America back where it was ten years ago.
“During the 2008 US presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama (US Senator, D-IL) campaigned for the need to reform the American health care system, stating that the cost of health care was a threat to our economy and that health care should be a right for every American”("History of the," 2011). Health care reform was on top of the would-be presidents’ agenda. In November 2008, President Barack Obama took office. In 2009 and 2010, he continued to try to persuade Congress to pass the reform on health policy. “An explicit health policy can achieve several things: it defines a vision for the future which in turn helps to establish targets and points of reference for the short and medium term”("Health policy," 2014).
In 1847, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and during his single term became known for both his opposition to the Mexican War and the institution of slavery. After switching allegiance to the new Republican Party in 1856, Lincoln ran for the U.S. Senate against the "Little Giant," Stephen A. Douglas. Though Lincoln lost, the race attracted national
When Franklin D Roosevelt came to power in 1933, first of all he promised a new deal. Roosevelt was clear that he would use his full power to get the US out of depression. His main objectives was getting Americans back to work, protecting their savings, providing relief for the sick, old and unemployed and also getting American industry and agriculture back on their feet. For Roosevelt’s first 100 days, he worked with a fast pace of activity. In the months between the US elections, the economic state was at a low.
Although only Congress can declare war, the President has the power to authorise the force of troops for a 90 day period without Congressional approval. However, the separation of powers and “checks and balances” limits the Presidents power which is held in back by both the Congress and the Supreme Court. For example, the President proposes changes in the law but it is the Congress that must pass them. Also, any law passed by the Congress by congress and signed by the President may be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. As Commander-in-Chief the President is undoubtedly the most powerful person in the USA in regards to foreign affairs.
Discuss the view that by 1914 Britain was not yet a democratic country: In 1850, Great Britain was not a democratic country. The franchise and power were held by the rich landed elite. The government was dominated by the upper class and only 4.16% of the population elected the government of 1832. In order to establish whether Britain was a democracy by 1914 it is necessary to consider the progress against the 7 hallmarks. Historians argue that Britain became more democratic in some of these but not all.