Thursday, July 2, 2009
Presidents and Amendments
Well, clearly I need to touch up on my parliamentary procedures in the US Constitution. The President has no official role in the amendment process, but he can sign the certitificate at the end of ratificationas a purely symbolic, ceremonial gesture (As Nixon did with the youth vote!). As for Wilson's opposition and veto (which was overturned in Congress), that was concerning the Volstead Act, which put the 18th amendment into law and enforced prohibition. SB
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The coldwar american culture was one where people were tought to live in fear of communism. It was believed that communism wasn't simply a different view of the world but in fact an attack on americans and their very lives. It was certainly an age of distict fear and paranoia, with anything red-HY
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