Why are the American people,Senate,&Congress letting the 'War President' and his cronies spend all this money?
Also, it is NOT the President's perogative to go to war. Congress and the UN, among others, allow and create the avenues to war...he is not a king. He must work within the confines of International law. But we see he does not...let us remember, this guy couldn't be doing this himself. He is just the figure head for a whole bunch of bad people...who are finding themselves backed into a corner by the moral majority.
Did people get to vote on the Iraq War?
If by “people” you mean the electorate body politic of the United States? Not directly. Only indirectly by virtue of voting for their congressional representatives, Senators and in the Presidential election before and after.The votes cast ‘for’ or ‘against’ the conflict were in the form of either statements by the Congress or budgetary measures to fund the war. The members either voted for, against, or abstained.Then again, no war in our nation’s history was voted on by the electorate either, but by their representatives only upon a presentation of the Chief Executive.
How did slaves vote under the 3/5 Act before the American Civil War?
There was no “3/5 Act.” The so-called “Three-Fifths Compromise” was a clause in the U.S. Constitution, not a law passed by Congress.The compromise was drawn up during the drafting of the Constitution, because representation in the House of Representatives is based on population. The northern states, where slavery was already abolished or being phased out (New Jersey was the last Northern state to do so, in 1804), didn’t think that slaves should count at all for purposes of representation in the House. However, they did want to count the slaves as people for the purposes of taxation; in those days, each state’s tax burden was based on its population.The South naturally took the opposite tack. It wanted to count the slaves as people for the purpose of representation in the House, but argued that since they were property and were already taxed as such, they shouldn’t be used to count toward the tax burden of the southern states.After lengthy debate, the two sides agreed that slaves would count at three-fifths for both representation in the House and for taxation; 1,000 slaves would be counted as 600 people.Beyond the matter of representation in the House, where the South had more representation (and paid more taxes) than its free population suggested it should, this had no effect on voting. Slaves were not allowed to vote at all. In most states, free blacks couldn’t vote, either.
Will America go into civil war soon?
Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast that includes Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt and Daniel Brühl. In Captain America: Civil War, one year after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions, one led by Steve Rogers and another by Tony Stark.
If democracy is real, why don't the people vote on war and other issues, rather than the president or those who hold other offices?
You do, although not directly. But that's because you don't live in a direct democracy. Those don't really exist anymore. The population needs to be very small and the education system very advanced before something like that will work off. Athens is pretty much the only state that ever pulled it off. (Although that city isn't the best example, because sh*t went wrong for the Athenians all the time).You see, you live in a representative democracy, which means you vote, but you don't vote on every issue. Instead you help elect the officials who are supposed to make those decisions. That's why most modern-day democracies are also republics. The decision of whether or not to go to war is a decision made by government officials, but you do affect their choices in some way. If the war is unpopular, then certainly the douchy officials won't get your vote next time around, so at least they're restrained by that.
Why don't people criticise David Cameron and Theresa May for voting for the Iraq War?
It was Blair who actually brought the UK into the war. Although Cameron and May would have done the same, the fact that Blair actually did it makes a difference.There was potential misinformation, making it more difficult for other MPs (such as Cameron and May) to make an informed decision.Labour is such a large leftist party that many make the fallacious assumption that anyone on the left supports Labour. Therefore it is hypocritical to criticise Cameron and May, as much of Labour voted for the Iraq War too. Even if the person criticising them criticises Blair too, the accusation of hypocrisy will still stick, inaccurate as it is.
Why did many americans oppose US participation in world war II?
The United States was in a state of depression at the beginning of WWII. After the previous high number of deaths in WWI (the US joined late, but where they were deployed, they sustained a massive amount of deaths), no one wanted to enter into another world war. The prevailing thought was to let Europe settle their own war. Furthermore, the United States was a divided government at that time. While FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was President at the beginning of WWII, the government was primarily republican - very much in opposition to anything that FDR was considering because they considered him to have a very dictatorial "regime". However, when the government switched from pro-Rep, to pro-Dem, Franklin was able to get the votes from Congress. All that needed was the public support. However, the general consensus was the public didn't want to go to war - mainly for the reasons stated in the first paragraph. Although there was a general feeling of sympathy toward the Allied power (which was why the US still traded massively with Great Britain - including lending huge amounts of money and equipment), people still wanted to remain neutral. The US still hadn't really recovered from the isolationist idea from the previous era. The US mainly became global after WWII.
Should people in the military be allowed to vote?
I was not only referring to the American Military. However most of the replies referred to It. So I did my home work. It seems I am only partially right with the American Military. The results are a true eye opener. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/feature... chapter: Voting right (the consensus view seems to be that the military as a whole votes Republican by a margin of slightly less than 2-to-1, with enlisted men and women Republican by 3-to-2, and Republicans outnumbering Democrats among officers by 8-to-1) chapter: Values and weathervanes (This country has 1.4 million active duty soldiers, and 1.2 million reserves. It also has 26.4 million veterans, nearly 13 percent of the nation's adult population.) According to the article America has a 50/50 split... Clearly this is not reflected in the Military!!! if 66% vote republican 66% of 13% = 8.6% of all votes 33% of 13% = 4.3% of all votes The Military gives republucans a 4.3%advantage.