POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Eurasian Economic Union, Second Continental Congress
13 Dec 2016
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The constituti on - start of fe der alism in the u s. Met initially for the philadelphia convention to discuss amending the articles of. Confederation; became clear they needed to write a new one. Same year of the collapse of the french monarchy /beginning of revolution. 1791- ratification of the bill of rights (amendments 1 -10) Treaty of paris- ended the american revolutionary war in 1783. Richard lee, of many, called for the colonies independence of gb during the 2 n d. Patrick henry- (cid:862)gi(cid:448)e (cid:373)e li(cid:271)ert(cid:455) or gi(cid:448)e (cid:373)e death(cid:863) i(cid:374) rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) the gb"s i(cid:374)tolera(cid:271)le a(cid:272)ts. 1/3 of senate up for re-election every 2 years. House of representatives re -elected every 2 years. Given roughly 1 seat in house for every 30,000 people/state. Filibuster- prolonged speech by individual senator/tag team used to debate over piece of legislature and delay voting on said procedure. Senate has ratified more than 1000 treaties and rejecte d less than 20.
