Act of Congress

The President and Congress have always and will always butt heads, it’s a simple fact of life, but after the 1876 Presidential election, Congress grew increasingly bitter. Troops had been placed in polling places all throughout the South with the intention of stopping any and all ex-Confederate officers from attempting to vote, it seemed reasonable enough at the time considering it was against the law for former Confederate officers to vote. Congress, having been made up of mostly Democrats

States using executive action to shape policies for the United States, but congress plays a major role in the reasons why there are so many issues pertaining to the use of executive action. Another flaw is that it is not spelled out in the constitution that the president is allowed to bypass congress on any issues that are not attended to. Congress makes a huge fuss about the president executing his executive actions but congress is the one from the beginning that granted that right to him in the first

The Intolerable Acts of 1774, also known as the Coercive Acts, were created by Parliament solely to punish the colonies in response to the Boston Tea Party, an act of colonial defiance in which the colonists dumped large amounts of tea. The acts themselves consisted of 4 acts, each as a measure to secure English jurisdiction over their American Domains. The Boston Port Act would close down the port of Boston until the dumped tea was paid for. This would soon cause other colonies to send support in

President George H.W. Bush signed the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 into law on November 29, 1990, making it a federal offense for “any individual to knowingly possess a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.” Subsequently, in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), the Supreme Court held that the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was unconstitutional as it violated the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. In reaching

The president and Congress have a history of conflict. An early example of this was Andrew Johnson’s actions soon after taking office. He vetoed two bills, both of which benefitted blacks. Congress responded to this by overriding his veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Congressmen also passed the 14th Amendment and three Reconstruction acts. Johnson and the Radical Republicans strongly disagreed about the path that Reconstruction in the South should take. In November of 1867, the House Committee

Friends and fellow citizens, I, Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States of America have come to you to bring an important matter to your attention. The United States Congress and executive branch has infringed on our rights as citizens by enacting the Alien and Sedition Acts. As many of you know, the Alien Act states that any male over the age of 14 from our “enemy countries” or deemed as “dangerous” is at risk of detainment and arrest as they are apparently threats and danger to us. As

In 1996, the state of California passed the Compassionate Use Act, which legalized the use of medical marijuana. California was one of the few states at the time to legalize the use of medical marijuana, while the federal law upholds its authority to restrict citizens from using marijuana. The Compassionate Use Act conflicts with the Controlled Substances Act, which is a law enacted by Congress to regulate the use of marijuana. Nine years later, the Supreme Court is presented the case of Gonzales

branch, the failure to use checks and balances, and the ineffectiveness of Congress. With the lack of congressional involvement in legislative decisions, the president has the ability to take matters in their own hands. Throughout the course of American history, executive power has grown due to the increasing use of executive orders among presidents. Executive orders, also known as unilateral powers, allow a president to act on their own and overstep the process of a bill passing through the House

Supreme Court on the constitutionalism of an act passed by the United States Congress under the Commerce Clause. The respondent, Alfonso Lopez, Jr. had appealed his case up from his district court in San Antonio all the way to the Supreme Court. The process took almost three whole years. Lopez had been charged with violating the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 that was passed by Congress through the Commerce Clause. Lopez’s lawyer argued that the Congress did not have any constitutional power through

force.’” –U.S. Supreme Court ruling of the Prize Cases, 1862 (67 U.S. 6335). During the past decade of military operations combating terrorism, members of the U.S. government have thoroughly debated the power of the President and the role of Congress during a time of war. A historical review of war powers in America demonstrates the unchecked power of the executive when it comes to military decision-making and the use of force. Throughout history the power of the President to initiate, conduct