United States Congress

for years. Many American citizens have approved term limits for Congressmen, moreover many states and hundreds of cities and counties across the United States have adopted term limits for state and local officials. Such widespread support of the phenomena shows that the public is not satisfied with the prevalent careerism and thinks that amendments to the federal legislature would be beneficial for the Congress and the country as a whole. The below paper will present objective political arguments for

incredible that society hires congressmen to work for us, yet, these employees of the people believe themselves entitled to exempt themselves from laws they pass for their constituents? Social Security is perfectly fine for us; but not for them. Congress; the only job in America that entitles the employee to a lifetime pension equal to their salary coupled with lifetime retirement healthcare benefits that you can’t find on an Obamacare exchange. When did being a servant of the people with a defined

Several of Americans are watching the news right now waiting to see if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Congress get the 50 out of 52 votes to repeal legislation and to begin the Obamacare debate. After the votes are counted the debate will start to see if Obamacare will be repealed or will not be repealed. Obamacare, also known as Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was signed in March 2010 by Obama to, “Include multiple provisions that would take effect over a matter of years

History of Social Security Derived from Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck's Prussian Plan for German workers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt developed a plan to provide pensions for elderly Americans in 1935. After nearly six years of depression, the United States was ravaged with an unemployment rate of 25% and many others had lost everything they owned due to the collapse of the internal banking market. The future looked grim for most Americans because even those with jobs had barely any purchasing power

In chapter 5 of, Readings In American Politics Analysis and Perspective by Ken Kollman, David R. Mayhew poses the question of “what would Congress look like if its members were only interested in re-election?” Mayhew poses this question as a pretext for his theories on this topic and uses it to form his own viewpoint based off of his experiences in the realm of domestic politics, more specifically Capital Hill. Directly after Mayhew poses this question, he answers it by saying that members would

throughout the internet community. On January 18th, 2012, Wikipedia and 7,000 other websites went down for a whole day. They did this to raise awareness of the bill, and the unfairness to the American people. SOPA did not pass all the way through Congress and become a law. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was introduced shortly after SOPA. CISPA was promised to be a more refined version of SOPA that would be more effective. CISPA is designed “with the intention of allowing more

directly threaten both equality and democracy. Thus, resulting in “power over” the people, rather than for the people. To support my claim of both powers becoming too threatening towards democracy and equality, the topics of re-election rates within congress, the role of special interest groups and super PACs regarding their own political influence, and the role of people power will be briefly examined as too how these three topics directly interfere, as well as threaten, both equality and democracy

freedoms upon which democracy is built and without which they could not gain power. From the 1920’s on, ‘red baiting’ had produced anti-communist sentiments in the American populace that had largely eradicated most communist organizations in the United States (Hillstrom 17). The culmination of over thirty years of hysteria over communist infiltration bred an atmosphere of suspicion and agitation. Combined with the Alger Hiss conviction and the Hollywood blacklisting period under the House Un-American

“In 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16” (“Child Labor”). This was during the end of the Gilded Age, when child labor was problem and was starting to be a major one. Child labor started because of poverty when children worked to support their families but were forced to give up education. Children could work long hours in dangerous positions for little money. Child labor continues because children have little power to complain or stand up for themselves to adults, their

ordeal. My reasons are that he has been governor for a long time, it's the states fault, not Rick's, and my last reason why Rick Snyder should