Essays on Declaring War

How the Congress Declares War

Introduction The constitution of the United States of America vests the power of declaring war over another country in the congress. This means that not even the president is supposed to declare war over another country if the same has not been approved by senate. Well, this is theoretical. There are several occasions where sitting American presidents have violated this protocol and declared war on other countries. From the Bush administration to the Obama administration, presidents have often acted in complete disregard of this requirement. Over the history of the US, congressional influence and activism on foreign policy has ...

Federalism can be defined as the process or act of sharing power between two or more entities with authority over the same people and in the same geographical area. In the United States, federalism is the DISTRIBUTION of power between the federal government and the state governments. It is regarded as the most innovative concept in the history of America’s constitution, although the word federalism does not appear anywhere in her constitution. A democratic government is a system of governance in which the supreme power is vested in the people, and it is exercised directly by them or their ...

Most Important Institution in U.S. politics- The Congress

Introduction

After the weak parliamentary rule failed under the AOC (Articles of Confederation), Framers of the United States Constitution was set out for creating a federal system of strong but limited central government. While many architects of the Constitution had agreed upon the need for having a more rigid national government, much to the debate of the Constitutional Convention that revolved around the how strong the government needs to be in comparison to the previously established state governments (princeton.edu). It is certain, that the founders planned Congress to be more powerful in comparison to the Supreme ...

The Second War for American Independence

The title of this essay is the name attributed by some historians and others to the conflict between the United States and Britain and their (Canadian) Indian allies. The background to this almost three-year war (1812-1815), had been various actions by Britain or British interests that had caused growing provocation and annoyance in America, culminating in the fourth American President, James Madison, declaring war on Britain on June 18th 1812. According to Kelly (n.d.) in his article “American History Timeline - War of 1812”, these were some of the events leading up to that declaration of war:

1803-1812: The British forced circa 10,000 Americans to work aboard British vessels;

1806: British ...

Evolution and Causes of the World War I

World War I was caused by complex reasons which had long been creating tensions. The actual war was caused by what can best be described as a ‘chain or cascade of events’ and the root causes of this war are the subject of much debate (America Government, 2011).

1815- Holy Alliance between Austria, Russia and Prussia was formed to maintain a delicate power balance in the region

1873-The League of the Three Emperors was formed through the engineering of German Chancellor, Bismarck. The league was formed by the monarchs of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary.

1879-Austria-Hungary and Russia disagree over Balkan policy. ...