The Electoral College

        The Electoral College was created as a way to protect the elite from the poor.  The elite did not want the poor people of society to have too much power.  They were afraid that the poor would try to use the government to take money away from the rich.  For that reason they created an indirect democracy that allowed the elite to be protected and poor to feel they have some control over the government.  Another reason that the Electoral College was created is to it allow small states to have several votes in the election for president. If they did it by population, small population states would not even matter to candidates and would be completely ignored.  They are already some what ignored, but they would not matter if it was done by population.

          I personally believe the Electoral College is fair and without it we would have quite a few problems.  The first reason I believe that is because there will always be an immediate outcome.  If we were to vote for president with the popular vote, the candidates will always ask for recounts to try and get more votes which will extend the process and complicate it.  The second reason is that makes it so the president cannot just be popular within a particular region of the country.  That is because of the amount of votes you need to get in order to become president is greater than any, one region of country can give.  The third and final reason is that it helps prevent runoffs that could occur if we elected the president from popular vote.  One example of this is the 1992 election between Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, (Source).  For these reasons I think the Electoral College is fair.

Head of State

Head of State is comical movie about an average man running for president. He is picked up by his party to run for president and hopefully bring up the number of votes for their party next year. They never expected him to win, but he surprised them when he started winning in the polls and when he was elected president. The movie satirizes the trivial nature of political parties by having their candidates saying what it is safe say, but not really expressing their ideas or plans for how they want to change the country.

 
When Mays Gilliam first runs for president he follows exactly what his party tells him to say and do. He wears a suit and gives safe speeches that do not really reflect his actual feelings on certain topics. This changes however when Mays's brother tells him to actually speak and run the campaign the way he wants too. The first time he speaks his mind the people love him and chant with him. After this he slowly changes his campaign into a style that he fits him better. He stops wearing suits and starts wearing more ghetto clothing. He even fires his bodyguard and hires Muhammad Ali to be his new bodyguard and most importantly he speaks about actual issues he wants to try and fix in this country.
 
When he realizes that his party chose him to lose he fires both of his party advisers and kicks them off of his bus. He later hires them back though, because he knows he needs them to win. He also has his brother become his running mate in the election since no one else wants the position. At the presidential debate, that took a lot effort to try and get Lewis to actually commit to a debate, he changed back into a suit and rehired his original bodyguard. At this point Mays realizes that in order to win he has to look presentable and that his campaign does not have to be completely ghetto to get his ideas across to the people. The crowd loves him at the debate and he easily defeats Lewis in the debate.
 
In the end Mays puts his issues in his hometown first over his campaign which probably is another reason he actually ends up winning. He decides to keep his promise and bus around people that used to use the bus line, until it was shutdown. The movie ends happily with Mays becoming the first African-American president. He also gets engaged to the girl of his dreams and gets his face carved into Mount Rushmore. Mays Gilliam ran the election in the beginning just hoping he was not going to get shot and ends becoming president by the end of it.

Vote for Charlie Baker

          Vote for Charlie Baker.  There are several reasons why you should vote for him.  The first is that he is a Republican.  Seriously, though you should vote for him because he supports secondary education.  His goal is improve kindergarten and first through twelfth grade where more money is needed to help education and where it will affect the children more than in early childhood care.  Baker also wants to promote online college education.  He also wants to create a three year bachelor program which will allow you start working sooner and allow you to save money.  He also wants to institute a bachelors and masters degree program that can be completed in just four years for high achieving students.  These programs will not only allow students to save money, but also get out into the world faster to pay college debts.

          Charlie Baker also wants to provide sick time to businesses with fifty or more workers.  This will allow people in bigger companies to get payed sick time without hurting smaller businesses by forcing them to have payed sick time.  You would get one hour of sick time for every forty hours worked.  He also wants to give businesses incentives to hire people on welfare and put stricter welfare conditions on searching for work.  This will help get people off of welfare and into jobs.  Baker is also endorsing an off shore wind project.  He believes that people need to fix the environmental issues on there own because we all helped to contribute to the environmental issues we are experiencing. That is why you should vote for Charlie Baker.

Lincoln and 13th Amendment

President Lincoln had to overcome many different obstacles in order to get the 13th Amendment passed.  His first issue was getting the votes needed in order to get the bill to pass.  Even if everyone on the Republican side voted for the bill, they would still be twenty votes short.  He hired a group of men to bribe lame-duck Democrats into voting for the bill by offering them jobs.  This succeeds in getting ten to eleven votes from Democrats, until an important Democrat was forced to vote for the amendment because the governor that voted in was a Republican.  Finally, another issue Lincoln had to deal with was resistance from his cabinet to get the bill passed.  This was mainly came from racism.  They did not want the colored people to vote, own property, hold office, take jobs, or intermarry.

The president needed to pass the 13th Amendment and he used the Constitution as implied papers in order to pass the amendment.  In order to get the bill passed he had to do some unethical things.  He had to bribe lame-duck Democrats.  He had to lie about peace talks in order to make it look as if the amendment was the only way to get peace.  Finally, he had to twist what the Constitution stated in order to pass the Emancipation Proclamation.

President Lincoln wanted the 13th Amendment to pass for several different reasons.  The first was that if the amendment passed he would have colored people’s votes for reelection.  The second reason was that he wanted to keep his promise to the colored people that he would free them and keep them free from slavery.  Finally, the third reason is because he believed that all people should be free no matter their color or race.  

Amendment Memes

This meme is referencing the fifth amendment.  It is making fun of how someone is trying get away with a crime that it is obvious he committed.

This meme references the fourth amendment.  It is showing a person enacting their fourth amndment rights.  The fourth amendment protects you from any unreasonable searches or seizures without a warrant. 

Petoria

         

          Petoria is an Authoritarian government in which Peter is the dictator.  He rules over his property and enjoys the freedoms it brings him at first.  One of the benefits Peter enjoys because he is a "government official" is diplomatic immunity.  Peter especially enjoys this one by taking what he wants and by doing illegal acts.  The second benefit Peter enjoys is the ability to annex property by "invading it".  One example of him doing this is when he takes his friend's pool.
          Although Peter does enjoy owning his own country, the consequences of owning one start to catch up to him.  One of the consequence of Peter not being a part of the United States of America anymore is that his children can not go to public school, which Peter does not seem to care that much about.  Another consequence of him not being a part of USA is that he no longer receive town water, town sewage, and electricity.  Finally, the third consequence of not being a part of the USA is that eventually he is not allowed to leave his "country" because they have set up a blockade around his house to stop him from invading the USA.  This eventually leads to Peter being threatened by the US army.  The army states that he has to surrender or they will blow up his "country".  In the end due to these threats Peter succumbs to the USA and is forced to give up Petoria.  

The Ratification of the Constitution

It was difficult to ratify the Constitution for many different reasons.  The first reason is that the people thought that the delegates in Philadelphia that created the Constitution exceeded their congressional authority.  The second reason is that the delegates in Philadelphia only represented only the elite and not poor or uneducated.  The third reason gave to much power too the central government at the expense of the states.  Finally, the fourth reason is the Constitution had failed to adopt a bill of rights which would have protected the people from the government.

The group of people that opposed the Constitution were the Anti-federalists.  They brought the issues above to the people using the newspaper and pamphlets.  The group that defended the Constitution was called the Federalists.  They fought back by also using the newspaper and pamphlets.  They successfully put down most of the criticism proposed by the Anti-federalists. The main problem was that the bill of rights had not been accepted into the Constitution yet.  The Federalists countered this by stating that once the Constitution was ratified a bill of rights would be created.  





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The Articles Of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation failed for many different reasons.  First of all there was not real government. The government was a "firm league of friendship." (Article III)  A firm league of friendship is not going to hold together a group of mostly independent governments with differing rules. (Article II)  The few rules that government did have at that point could not be enforced because the government did not have any kind of military.  Back then all the government could do is make treaties and declare war.  (Article VI & IX) Our government needed more power in order to stay in control of the states.  Each state had only one controlling vote in the government.  This poorly represented all the people within that state. (Article V)  The states were too independent and laws in each state differed by a lot which could confuse traveling people.  Finally, the last reason the government failed is because it could not tax its citizens.  This caused the government to lack the money needed to run. (Article VIII)  The Articles of Confederation failed because it had a weak government. 

The World without the Government

     If there was no government we would be in complete anarchy.  Just look at the book Lord of the Flies.  In this book these kids end up in situation in which there is no government.  By the end of the book most of the kids on the island have become complete savages and are trying to kill one of the kids.  To me this is a representation of how the world would turn out without some kind of governing authority to help guide and protect us.  The world would be in complete chaos, until some sort of dictatorship would form from someone who is powerful, has a lot of weapons, and has a lot of supporters.  Crime will also increase with a lack of authority to stop it. 
     We created the government for a reason.  We wanted protection, order, laws, and punishments for criminals.  You might not have known you wanted that, but trust me you do.  The other option is anarchy and that is not even really an option.  We wanted criminals to be punished and to be protected from them.  We wanted to have certain rights protected.  That is why a government was created.  We did not want to live like savages, but wanted freedoms too.  We created a government, but limited its power through the Constitution and the Ten Amendments.
     For these reasons I believe the world is better with the government than without. The government gives us so many things.  It gives us currency so that we can buy items.  It regulates products and makes sure they are safe.  It sets building codes, provides highly regulated water, and does so much more.  Without the government we would not have drinking water, currency, and safe products.  With nothing to regulate companies they could produce unsafe products and set prices of products.