Sunday, November 27, 2016

The Inauguration of President Ronald Reagan on 20th January ,1981 was held at the Capital West Front for the first time. In his speech he talked about normal occurrence of Inauguration of Presidents that still is a memorable feat for the American people. He talks about the rising deficit the country and the need to eliminate this to make sure the next generation will not suffer. He encourages Americans and reminded them of their past heroic feat of overcoming obstacles in their lives.
“How can we love our country and not love our countrymen” was one the one sentence which grasp my 

attention as he gave his speech that day. Despite this speech, he was the government who gave distribute

 wealth to fewer people. He further increased tax so that the poverty level rose. Although I thought

countrymen made the country obviously this was not to him as he gave relief to only a few people and not a

 majority of the citizen making a mockery of the statement “that the government was for the people and by 

the people.” In it the realization of the people of government being the problem.


The Judiciary which the branch of the government is model on an older English Legal System known as the “common law” which gives authorities to the judge to decide cases, which give them more freedom when given a verdict. They also have to take into account previous rulings of similar cases. Also it has seen the abolishing and passing of law which had in the past infringe on the rights of people in every aspect of life.
One such Civil rights is the court decision in Brown versus Board of Education, which declared segregation is unlawful unlike before when it was affirmed in the case like Plessy versus Ferguson or Dred Scott versus Stanford. Using the 11th amendment it specifically states that “equal protection clauses state threat the same Stanford of law must be applied to everyone and obviously laws that harm one people of people would fail the test created by the equal protection clauses.
The Brown versus Education was when the United States supreme laws establishing separate public school for Black and White student to be unconstitutional. This happen on May 11,1954 in Topeki,Kansas.
I choose that sentence because it brought a movement change in the lives of the African American and their children and gave them a chance to better themselves in every aspect of  their lives.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Equal rights



  The American Political System over the years have seen demand of equal rights in every aspect of life especially by the minority. Rights are connected with the idea of citizenship and has a civil, political and social aspect as point out by Marshall in the recent reading in class. He explained the entitlement of certain things by citizens of a country and equality when it comes to sharing those things. Although his research was in England, it had a bearing on American which system had its roots from that country.
   He explained that at one point in history, all these rights were combined unlike in recent times where it has  been separated due to the practice of capitalistic economy. In American especially which did not ratify the laws set forth by the United Nation in relation to a person or citizen rights to civil, social and political rights.
  This can be seen in the quote by Marshall. "The explanation lies in the fact that the core of citizenship at this stage was composed of civil rights. And civil rights were indispensible to competitive market economy. They gave to each man, as part of his independent status, the power to engage as an independent unit in the economic struggle and made it possible to deny social protection on the ground that he was well equipped with the means to protect himself."
     This is basically saying that American see these rights as want instead of need and a person has to provide this for himself instead of it being the responsibility of the government. some of these rights like Education, healthcare and protection are not deem an important factor in the growth of the economy that the government has to concern itself with. So basically I choose this quote because I did not see by what means the citizens were equipped with since these rights when apply will be the instrument to equip better the citizen to protect himself. Or I also say that maybe only the citizen that the leaders thought are "THE CITIZEN" have been equipped leaving the minority whom they deem not as citizen therefore unworthy of those rights.