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brought before the court today is the constitutionality of the Public Accommodations Equal Access Act. In addition, it is also evident that the facts in this case raise the issue of congressional authority. Moreover, in order for the Court to come to such a determination, Congress’ justification for the passing of such an act, as well as the powers of Congress, will be reviewed. Because the act was implemented in order to forbid discrimination based upon sexual orientation in dining, entertainment

Power to Declare War Congress and the president use their powers to check and balance each other. One power of Congress is the ability to declare war. However, Congress generally gives the president control during war time. Because of this, the president is able to acquire more power over the war while Congress can do little if they have already given their approval. After the Vietnam War, in which Presidents Johnson and Nixon continued to wage despite a divided Congress[i]; they decided that the

From 1774 to 1789, the 13 American colonies used the Continental Congress as their form of a government . Many things that the Parliament did gave the colonists enough reason to be angry with the King. Starting with the Navigation Acts and the Stamp Act. Britain was no longer allowing the sale of any good produced in America to be shipping to anywhere other than Britain. Even though the States were farming more Tobacco than could be used in all of Britain, they still were not allowed to sell it to

eventually went to the Supreme Court . The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Gibbons, since his right to operate a steamboat on that route was protected by an act of Congress. According to Chief Justice Marshall, since interstate commerce includes navigation through a generally accepted understanding of the word “commerce”, the act of Congress was constitutional. To quote Chief Justice Marshall, he also argued that “Commerce… is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations,

War the bloodiest battles in American history. Following the Union’s victory, the seceded states had to be readmitted into the Union through a process called Reconstruction. However, this process was not easy as there were conflicting plans between Congress, Abraham Lincoln, and his soon to be successor, Andrew Johnson. During the Civil War, plans for Reconstruction were being sought out by Lincoln. In 1863, Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction – also known as Lincoln’s Ten Percent

Case Study: The USA PATRIOT Act One of the most controversial policies to pass legislation within the United States congress with the approval of our president at the time, George W. Bush, was the USA PATRIOT Act. The USA PATRIOT Act is actually a acronym for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. This Act reduced the restrictions, which now allowed the law the power to search various electronic communications records

Being american in the 19th century meant preserving the union and using the land for financial prosperity, which created hostility between Natives and Congress had with the Native’s representation in the constitution. Cotton was America's biggest export during the 19th century as America produced over 400 million pounds of cotton each year. The economic prosperity and stability that came with owning land for cotton production created an “Urge to convert “unused” Indian land into into commercially

assassination. Johnson had his own ideas of Reconstruction and tried to take his own course of action in putting the Union back together following the Civil War. A series of bitter political quarrels between President Johnson and Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction Policy in the South eventually led to his impeachment.      Radical Republicans wanted to enact a far-reaching transformation of Southern social and economic life, permanently ending the old planter class

forces. Article II within the constitution also states that, “The executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America.” The president has expressed powers that are established by the constitution, and can not be revoked by Congress. The president also has delegated powers that are powers given to the president by Congress.Congress delegates presidents the power to veto bills they enact, and identify the best means in carrying out a decision. The presidents expressed powers

creating a new act to instate a reference pricing law would be far too long and drawn out to make such a risk worthwhile. Just getting such a bill to the point where Congress would vote on it would be a long and winding road of pushing the bill through committees and rewriting parts of it to get the house and senate to even consider passing it, likely taking close to a year if successful. And even getting to the voting stage, such a bill would have a very low chance of passing through Congress. This is