Asses the importance of the ethnic minority vote in the US political system The political system within the US consists of two parties; Democrats and Republicans. Whilst the Democrats conventionally gain the vote of the worse off citizens, the Republicans achieve the vote of the better off citizens; nevertheless, neither party are oblivious of the importance of the ethnic minorities. In 2008 Blacks voted at higher levels than they ever had in any other Presidential Election. Black voter turnout averages between 5% and 10% below that of the White voter turnout. Many Blacks doubt the political system has any value for them.
The success of a constitution may rely on its ability to evolve however there are also many other factors that will lead to the success of a constitution. It could be stated that by looking at the American constitution the ability to evolve is not the main factor in success. The American constitution had remained in place for over two hundred years whilst being fairly rigid, lacking the ability to evolve and with only 7 amendments being made. However it can be regarded as successful based on its other merits. One could be its ability to prevent abuse of power.
Popular vote winners have been denied the presidency in 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000. The Times once described the system as an 'antidemocratic relic', and there is enough evidence to support their view. Supporters of the electoral college se these elections as 'one-off anomalies', but a closer look at previous election results actually tells a different story. In 1976, a switch of a few thousand votes in Ohio and Hawaii would have returned the presidency to Ford, despite Carter being ahead in the popular vote by 1.7 million. Reality is that the electoral college can produce an undemocratic outcome, even if only rarely.
Even though the changes proposed in the Constitution were essential to the survival of the nation, the Articles of Confederation also had some positive and effective measures. Some of the strengths of the Articles included the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 while some of the weaknesses of the Articles amended in the Constitution are the power of taxation, and establishment of the executive branch of government. One of the changes in the Constitution that addressed and mended the weakness of the articles was the power of taxation. Originally the Articles of Confederation stated that only states alone could levy taxes (Doc C). This weakness was later addressed and amended in the constitution, when it granted the federal government all powers of taxation (Doc C).
Recent research has suggest that the senate has now become the more moderate house. Jeff Flake, a previous congressman but now senator, was one of the most conservative members in the house, and According to DW-Nominate scores, which look at a member of Congress’s roll call votes, he was in the 98th percentile for conservatism among House Republicans in his final year in the chamber. However, Flakes election somewhat changed in view point, he now became a moderate, and he wasn't the only one, Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada was in the 80th percentile for conservatism among House Republicans in the 112th Congress but in the 30th percentile for conservatism among Senate Republicans in the 113th Congress. There were a number of other as well but whats interesting about this is that moderates in senate still seem to have influence, the huge variety of ideologies in a states somewhat force moderate to live on, solely on the fact of re-election. The number of moderate in the senate, outweigh that of the tea party caucus, 3-1.
Turnout was 82.2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. Douglas won Missouri, and split New Jersey with Lincoln. [123] Bell won Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and Breckinridge won the rest of the South. [124] Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123. There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral
Whether we believe it or not, our youth is killing themselves and the leading way is by guns. There is an estimation of 41,149 suicidal deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Suicidal deaths with firearms are ranked higher in comparison to homicides, which are ranked 2:1. So many of these suicides could be prevented by households leaving their guns outside of the house or tucked away in hard to reach places. In states where gun control is not monitored as much, rates of suicide were higher; for example, Wyoming reported that in the 63% of households that contained guns, the suicidal rates were higher than in those houses that did not contain guns.
Why gun control won’t stop crime After the tragedy in Newton CT, where twenty-six innocent people lost their lives gun control seems to be a hot topic again. The ideas of certain types of gun control have been all over the news and radio talk shows ever since the tragedy. But it’s my belief that gun control is not the answer to violent crime, and in my opinion gun control doesn’t make us safer, it just makes law-abiding citizens an easier target for crime. Many opponents for stricter gun control laws have stated it will cut down on violent crime, or mass shootings such as the one in Newtown. Politicians have stated thy will introduce new laws wanting tougher background checks, forced registration, and outright banning of military looking firearms.
In the decade of the 1990s, the number of guns in this country increased by roughly 40 million—even while the murder rate decreased by almost 40 percent. “Accidental” gun deaths in the home decreased by almost 40 percent as well.” (www.gunowners.org.) Did you know that if they were to outlaw guns they would be violating are Constitutional right? Well they would be, in the Constitution of the United States of America states that’s, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Many people also believe that you are either for gun control or against it, but that’s not true, I believe that, yes there should be rules to owning a gun and yes they should have to be locked in some way when there are kids (0-17) around, and I also think that
The gun doesn’t fire itself. The people are the ones killing people whether it was with evil intent or simply by operator error. Accidental shootings accounted for less than 2% of deaths of adults in 1995 there were fewer fatalities because of firearms than all other causes studied according to statistic studies( Agrest,J. 2008) A study of statistic focusing on children: When the same studies focused on children, the studies showed that fatal accidents involving children and firearms accounted for less than 3% of fatalities in children. Accidental poisonings and children falling were the only categories to score lower in frequencies.