PODCAST: HISTORY UNPLUGGED
J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies
What is the idea of "Promote the General Welfare" and its meaning? The 1790s were a contentious decade. Washington’s Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, came to his post armed with an economic program that could be enacted only if the Constitution were interpreted broadly rather than in the more restrictive sense…
Which branch of government can declare war? In the United States, Congress, which makes the rules for the military, has the power under the constitution to "declare war". Which Branch of Government Can Declare War? The Framers of the Constitution were abundantly clear in assigning to Congress what one scholar…
Can the President declare war? The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S.…
The 10th Amendment and its focus on States Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791. It expresses the principle of federalism and states' rights, which strictly supports the entire plan of the original Constitution for the United States of America, by stating that the federal government possesses only those powers…
