Essays on Statesman

2016 is a general election year. One person will be chosen as the next president of the United States, and several others will be elected to the U.S Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. It is the first time in the history of the United States that a woman has been nominated for the highest office in the land. Many issues have come to the forefront of this election year, and several will be considered in the coming months by all states. Texas is no exception. This paper will explain the system of the Texas legislature, the issues ...

The Conservative movement had peaked and began its decline at the end of World War I. For nearly thirty years, liberals had the weight of political power as conservatism in America was left fragmented. The Old Right, the Neoconservatives, and the Libertarians had similar foundational ideals regarding communism and the economy, but they were not united. When Ronald Reagan became commander in chief of the United States in 1980, a consolidation of the conservatives began and the New Right emerged. Reagan was an essential motivator behind the conservative revolution in the 1980’s. Equality and privacy were the aims ...

I would agree with the man that Alexander the Great was not so much of a great leader after all. Even though he highly contributed in the spread and implementation of Greek culture and believes across its conquests, he highly underperformed as a statesman that he was. According to my perspective, Alexander the Great failed to perform satisfactorily in most of the areas that define a great leader. For a leader to be considered great, he or she should be able to leave behind a legacy, his performance as a leader should be outstanding and his missions and methods ...

The Fair Sentencing Act

On August 3, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, for the first time in the History of the U.S (Grindle, 2010). This law was a response to the then claims of racial biases of the law in convicting drug dealers. This Act established new quantity thresholds, which were meant to trigger statutory mandatory minimum and maximum penalties for offenses related to cocaine. By so doing, this law amended the Controlled Substance Act and the controlled import and export of substance. This new law saw to it that the quantities of cocaine that ...

Twenty-First Century Perspective

The Watergate crisis (1972-1974) marks a fundamental breach in the confidence Americans had in the integrity of government officials and in the American political system. Added to the Vietnam War and the economic decline that began to erode people’s income during this period, the Watergate crisis destroyed whatever American idealism remained about the leaders of the nation (Packer, 2011). Throughout the crisis President Nixon had supporters like Dean Burch (1974), who pointed out Nixon’s achievements as a leading statesman, but at the conclusion of the crisis when the taped conversations of the Oval Office were finally released, ...