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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Political science -- United States"”.
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Creating a government that works better and costs less: A historical analysis of Civil Service reform
What this project endeavors to do is to take the complex issue of twenty-first century governmental administration and, through historic analysis using some of the classical and renowed literature of the past, paint a broad brush picture of where we are today, how we got here, and where we are …
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The twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United States
… Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The Amendment was first proposed to Congress as Senate and House Joint Resolutions in February 1965. It became law in February 1967, when Nevada secured the distinction of being the 38th state to ratify it, thus fulfilling …
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A Burkeian analysis of selected speeches of Bella Abzug
The purpose of this study is: (1) to examine her use of Burke’s concept of identification; (2) to explicate the strategies she employs in order to reach her desired ends; (3) to apply Burke’s dramatic Pentad (Act, Scene, Agent, Agency and Purpose) to selected speeches of Bella Abzug; (4) to examine …
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A history of the third term tradition, 1789-1928
<p>In discussing the Third Term Tradition, I have tried to compile a. history of the precedent rather than an argument for or against it. From Washington to Franklin Roosevelt many different viewoints and arguments have been advanced. Out of the wealth of material which is available I have …
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China's New Maritime Legal Enforcement Strategy in the South China Sea: Legal Warfare and an Emerging Contest Over Norms at Sea
China has over the past several years begun to implement a new Maritime Law Enforcement (MLE) strategy in the South China Sea. This new MLE strategy utilizes vessels from China's rapidly expanding MLE agencies, reinforced by PLA naval and other military assets, to assert the country's claims …
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The presidential campaign of 1948
… of being re-elected to the presidency of the United States seemed very dubious. It was uncertain that he would even secure the Democratic nomination for that office.</p><p>Truman's pre-convention Western trip. In the early summer of 1948 President Truman left the Capitol on a supposedly …
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Las Vegas in an Era of Limits: Urban Water Politics in the Colorado River Basin
… metropolitan region and to engage in interstate political negotiations over acquisition of new water resources.</p> <p>My study of the SNWA highlights a geopolitical condition many American metropolitan areas face in the twenty-first century: water management and resource acquisition occurs at a …
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A study of the congressional hearings on the dismissal of General MacArthur
… on South Korea. Regarding the proposal that the United States take unilateral action if our allies did not support us, he said that our collective-security system could not survive if we took action other members of the system disapproved. He opposed the use of Nationalist troops on the grounds …
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Matthew Lyon in Kentucky
… Suppliant though he was in his later years for political preferment, on account of his financial losses ensuing from a curtailment of our commerce during the Napoleonic wars and our own War of 1812 and by a political defeat resulting from his having opposed the administrative policies which …