United States Cabinet

The president’s cabinet is made up of many different departments all dedicated to a specific area of government. The department of state’s job is to create the nation’s foreign policy. This department is in charge of keeping a nice and stable environment for American citizens…

In many countries such as Canada and the United States, the hegemony has been divided between the executive branch, the judiciary courts and the legislative branch. “Generally, the amount of power for each member of these institutions is to be uniformly divided; conversely, the fairly recent transformation has increasingly concentrated the majority of power towards the hearts of the government” ("Is the Canadian Prime Minister too Powerful?,"2010). In recent years, many political scientist have…

Zaller of UCLA. His sources have been used to produce a scatterplot that charts Total Tax Rates with the Percent of Cabinet Seats…

day United States. A. The glass ceiling is defined as the point where a women can no longer rise in her career whereas a man continues to rise in his (Bellenger, 2015) B. Women lack positions of higher leadership in politics. a. In the United States only 17 percent of Congress is female (Schuh, 2014). 1. It is harder for a female incumbent to become reelected. 12 percent of men run uncontested compared to women’s 7 percent (Palmer, 2008) b. Only 23 women have served in the cabinet or…

Executive leaders also try to implement things that the people want to most. This piece will analyze how state executive branches operate, how they are influenced in their decisions, and how they are made up because of external factors.…

treaty between foreign nations and the United States. It was also intended to prevent the start of any new wars. Even though the League of Nations had resolved many disputes between countries, “it was in fact unable to prevent several major military actions from taking place” (Justice). Therefore, I do not believe that joining the League of Nations was the best idea for the United States at that time. Joining the League of Nations required the United States to be drawn into foreign affairs,…

On July 10, 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune was born to a poverty-stricken family. Out of her seventeen siblings, Mary was the only child to attend school. The other members of the family worked in fields picking cotton. Because her other relatives could go to school, Mary tried her hardest to educate them. This foreshadowed what Mary would later aspire to do in her adulthood. When she was around eighteen years old, Mary attended the Scotia Seminary on a scholarship. The school was located in Concord,…

3 Branches Research Paper There are three different branches of the United States government; legislative, executive, and judicial. They all have a way of “checking” each other, and making sure one doesn’t become more powerful than the other. All three have different roles in government, and these roles help run the US Government. The legislative branch of government has the power to make the laws. They also check the executive and judicial branch. They check the executive branch in many…

American Government In Comparison The United States is thought to be the foundation of modern democracy. As a “constitutional federal republic”,the United States does not stand-alone. Various "democracies" are constitutional republics, and have long traditions of a democratic culture, laws, and barriers. The selection role of the head of government is one singularity between the United States and some of the other major democracies. There are many forms of democracy, implemented and modified…

The selected reading, “Space Traders” is a troubling story about race relations, greed, status and reckless political power. The story begins on the first day of the year 2000 in the United States of America. For the first time ever, visitors from a star in outer space were to visit earth; in fact, they had announced their visit via radio broadcasts weeks in advance. Millions of people were prepared to witness this historic event. The visitors from the far star arrived in a grand fashion,…