Government Dishonesty In The United States

The history of the United States of America is one that is short compared to

Watergate Scandal has been considered as one of the darkest chapters in American history. The event not only refers to unethical use of power by the public representatives but also levied great deal of attention on the mechanism of surveillance over the activities of public servants. Watergate scandal provides ethical directions not only to public servants but also provides ethical guidelines to the lawyers and media representatives as well. This incident reveals how ethical lines were crossed time and again by the politicians, legal attorneys and media for their own purposes. Ignoring the righteousness of the outcomes, events like these cause severe damage to the public's trust vested in these authorities which takes a long time to restore.

Since the inception of the United States of America 250 years ago, our government has enacted a practice of lies and deceit that keep its citizens in the dark. Matters such as false allegations that result in long standing wars, financial misuse and abuse, secret alliances that serve the government agenda's, and the altering of history affect not only the US citizens, it affects the global population as a whole. This deception has resulted in mistrust of the US Government as people question what our government is up to and what they are seeking to gain. In order to earn the public's trust, the United States Government needs to be transparent with its citizens, giving us the information whether it's positive or negative instead of allowing

Freedom is defined as the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement. It is the power to determine action without restraint and the exemption from external control, interference, and regulation. Americans, these days, commonly regard their society as the freest and the best in the world. Their understanding of freedom has been shaped and based upon the founding fathers’ belief that all people are equal and that the role of the government is to protect each person’s basic “inalienable” rights. The United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights assures individual rights including freedom of speech, press, and religion. America has changed dramatically from the country our founding fathers discovered. Some could even argue that

As citizens of America, how free are we? Yes essentially, we can make our own decisions but at what cost. It seems like in order to uphold structure and stability within while securing the wellbeing of every citizen of a nation us to have a government. However, if the establishment of government is essential, there are certain sacrifices one has to make to ensure one’s protection. Therefore, the battle between freedom, equality, and security comes into play when you’re trying to construct a “perfect” government”. In which we are inbounded by our constitution that has been in effect for two centuries.

America is a nation that is often glorified in textbooks as a nation of freedom, yet history shows a different, more radical viewpoint. In Howard Zinn’s A People's History of the United States, we take a look at American history through a different lens, one that is not focused on over glorifying our history, but giving us history through the eyes of the people. “This is a nation of inconsistencies”, as so eloquently put by Mary Elizabeth Lease highlights a nation of people who exploited and sought to keep down those who they saw as inferior, reminding us of more than just one view on a nation’s history, especially from people and a gender who have not had an easy ride.

Many people around the country forget the past histories and events that went into shaping America into what it is today. Some of these events include The Whiskey Rebellion during Washington's presidency. Along with the Alien and Sedition Acts during John Adams’ presidency. Many people even forget that France and Britain were fighting in a war at this time, and that Americans were fighting between which country to support. Though this is true, America is still standing today because of how George Washington protected the rights of the American Society through many ways during his years setting precedents for other presidents. Despite this, John Adams didn’t, as he made many mistakes during his presidency .

In the end the world will never be perfect no matter what the Constitution says, there will always be problems, no one will ever be happy. The past is a horrific time where many are happy they didn’t have to live in that time but those who did live in that time know what it was like. The history of the United States is not reflected in the world of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution through the ideas of inequality and abuse of power. Once we find the right guy or girl to run the United States then we may be able to fix these problem so the world can be a little more

America, land of the free, place of opportunities, has been through a lot to get to where it is today. As much as there are lots of negative, we gain positivity and justices along the way. Our struggle for democracy is an ongoing and never-ending war, but as much it is our struggle for democracy and justice, we can create a more justified society for our future generation just like how our past generation fought for our basic rights. The great migration and the court case, Brown versus the Board of Education, has been events that may have occurred in the shortest amount of time, but has made a huge impact of America’s history for the better. As much this has made a significant contribution to history, there is still lots of work

America has had many historical identities throughout its lifetime. Many periods can be debated and analyzed from the surface but there are topics where one has to dig deep and find those areas of critical assessment where now in hind sight, we can say whether America was right or wrong.

American history was a time of war for independence, war for justice, and war for freedom. The past has never been a pretty place for the American people alike. With disease, enormous amounts of poverty, slavery, also the lack of dependable transportation. Humankind has never had it

The United States has always had a rocky history and at much more often instances than we would like to admit because of controversial actions of its own citizen’s with regard to the Constitution. The Civil War of 1861 up until 1865 was one of America’s first industrial modern conflict involving very sensitive social issues on slavery that divided the nation and pitted American men against other American men. Prior to the Civil War, many slaves were brought from African territories to work in plantations as a free labor force. As a justification to owning slaves, it was imbedded that slaves where inherently inferior and as in many cases, treated less kindly than an animal would be. Much of these influences where brought from the European counterparts that the Americans had broken apart from, and unlike America, Europe was in a process of changing slaves into a force of wage labor, although they were still treated as subhuman. Since the Southern part of the United States had such a strong dependency on wealth through slave labor, many new equality ideologies and industrialization from the north caused great rifts and tensions between competing and opposite ideologies were one attempted to influence the other. Thus, the Civil War was a conflict of slavery due to a changing market revolution, the manifest destiny, and new found ideologies on concepts about slavery and freedom.

From the beginning of European colonization, America built up many events such as conflicts and discoveries that occurred throughout history. The retold descriptions of these events vary in many different viewpoints. Having both the people and patriot’s interpretations of the same America’s history helped to perceive what happened during the colonial America. A Patriot’s History of the United States by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen was written in a conservative viewpoint with deep patriotism in America’s past from its development through European colonization. Schweikart argued that no society is free from corruption, and America’s history should be remembered in a nationalistic viewpoint with virtue. A People’s History of the United States

country it is today. Unfortunately, some of American history is filled with mistakes that are

This is why it is so important to learning our history. Some would say that America is “going downhill,” but all we have to do is look at what we had in the past and see how good it was. We should stand together and remember how America was built, and what we were built to stand for. We have to know where we even started and to get back to it, and we need to know what we were in the past to know who we are