Without this authorization, any military activity against another country is illegal. There are two exceptions to this law: one is that, if your nation has been subjected to an armed attack by another nation, you may respond militarily in self-defense. The condition were not by the 9/11 attacks, however, because they were not carried out by another nation. Afghanistan did not attack the United States, and therefore this was not why the United States should have gone to war. Indeed, the 19 men charged with the crime were not Afghans.
Does the President have unilateral war powers? The age old question is does the president have unilateral war powers? John C.Yoo, a professor at University of California Berkeley argues that the language of the constitution sates that the in a crisis situation to have speedy action, the president has the power to declare war to ensure the safety of America. Michael Cairo, from "The 'Imperial Presidency' argues that the founders never wanted the president to have all power. They wanted to have distributed power throughout each branch.
Eichmann in Jerusalem Response The Ultimate Selfishness Rels 331, September 26th, 2013 Brett Hamm 10045163 In addition to providing a historical account of the war, the book Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt reports on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, pertaining to his part in sending many jews to their deaths. The majority of people would wish for Eichmann to be deemed as ‘evil’ during the trial, as an answer for the flagrant crimes that he committed. As we see however, she describes the case of Eichmann the man, not the monster, who never hated jews, or exhibited any signs of sadism. Throughout the book, Arendt emphasizes Eichmann’s inability to think and claim of following orders as his ‘defense’, but the whole time I read the book I couldn’t seem to leave one perception that screamed out to me. It seems obvious that Eichmann did what he did out of self interest, in order to further his career, an idea which I will attempt to fortify during this response.
Executive Privilege: Confidential communications between the president and his advisers do not have to be disclosed. The justification for this practice has been the separation of powers and the need a president has for candid advice. During the Watergate Scandal, President Nixon refused to turn over tape recordings of White House conversations. The Supreme Court, ruling on executive privilege for the first time, held that there was a sound basis for the practice, particularly in military and diplomatic matters, but there was no immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. Impoundment of funds: From time to time presidents have refused to spend money appropriated by Congress.
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was the people trying to fight for their freedom, which at the time meant political justice and insubordination to King George III. This was also a way for them to justify the American Revolutionary War. The list of complaints against King George were many. Some of these complaints were that he kept a domestic army stationed in the colonies even though there was no war being fought at the time and these armies were deemed superior to any civil power there in the colonies. King George III controlled the judiciary powers and did so by pardoning his soldiers who committed murder by protecting them with mock trials.
This was controversial because the Reagan Administration had made it an explicit public policy not to engage in any deals with terrorists (Tower, 2). By selling weapons to terrorists in Iran and aiding Contras, the United States directly violated the public policy at the time. Additionally, Congress was never notified (Tower, 2).
Apart from the colonist being harassed with taxes, their trade with all parts of the world except Britain was another reason why the colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence. The illegal imposition of rules over their trade and production, commonly known as the Navigation Acts, which have been pressed on them for over a century and made worse by the Sugar Act and Townshend Acts was controlled once the Declaration of Independence was written and signed. Furthermore, the colonists were being deprived in many cases. The Boston Massacre was when a mob of 50 colonists gathered to protest against the officials. As fists and clubs began flying a soldier dropped dead, this forced the soldiers to fire, killing five civilians and wounding six.
John F. Kennedy Assassination Do you think it’s right for people to die for what they believe in? Is it wrong for them to state what’s on their minds? Getting assassinated because people don’t like your thoughts or what you have done is wrong to me. In 1963, a political leader named John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. John was the youngest man to be elected president of the United States (Americnhistory.com).He was disliked by many people but that never stopped him from anything.
In America the role of the government is to protect its people and be a big brother. In this case the government did the exact opposite and betrayed its people to the point of killing people. Back in the early 50’s and late 50’s the government was very arrogant and thought they could do what they wanted when in reality that is not true. The people of the 50’s also had little to no advocacy (people that watch out for people) and there were no Watch Dog groups or groups of people that did not allow the government to harm its citizens. The only reason the government would do something of his nature was for the effects, for example when the government would test their nuclear weapons in the desert they would send soldiers into the desert
In the beginning the Patriot Act was initially established and thought up by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. After 9/11 America was in a place that they have never been in since the American Revolution, a foreign country attacking upon our people. This made our country very skeptical and fearful of another terrorist attack so the leaders of our country thought about a new act to protect our country from a greater evil. Bush and Cheney started up a covert program where only eight people from the house and senate were allowed to even get in on the act, and that was determined by their power they had and ranking they had in the government. They did not want the American public to even know about it.