This week we will explore electronics in our world and how it has changed society. Since industrialization has taken a major role in the development of the world around us, it has also changed each of us. Many of those innovations are commonplace. Today the daily newspaper is by some ...

We have come to a point in our country where when the news has a breaking story that begins with “Active Shooter”, we hold our breaths to hear how many have died needlessly. Overhead view from drones show us kids running and being led from schools with their hands held over their ...

I hope my series so far explains how people feel about politics and the environment. People are a funny thing and it is interesting how different people see the same question with so many different understandings. One of the questions on the survey asked, “in the next twenty years do you ...

This week survey questions deal with our planet and its future. Raise the question on the environment, and you will quickly find those on the far right believe the biggest threat to our planet are tree huggers and environmentalists. Talk with people on the far left, and they believe we should ...

This week we will review questions concerning the amount of time a person should be elected to an office. Especially the Senate, House of Representatives and the Supreme Court. The Senate has what are known as classes. The term of any senator is six years. But each class is voted on every ...

Alexander Hamilton, 1776: “I will only add that, prior to the appearance of the Constitution, I rarely met with an intelligent man from any of the States who did not admit, as a result of experience, that the UNITY of the executive of this State was one of the distinguishing features of our ...

Last week I explained our survey revealed most people registered to vote as soon as they are eligible. For patriotic reasons, and wanting to have a say in their country’s future. We also discussed how people begin their affiliation with a political group by family tradition. And even in ...

Alexander Hamilton 1887, “I have unfolded for you a complication of dangers to which you would be exposed, should you permit that sacred knot which binds the people of America together to be severed, or dissolved by ambition or by avarice, by jealousy or by misrepresentation.” Reading ...

After the U.S. Constitution was written, it did not take long for questions to arise that needed clarification and direction of law. Many of those forthcoming amendments were to insure the rights of liberty and choice in each citizen’s life. The new government was divided between, a growing ...

On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives passed the Thirteenth Amendment. The year before, the U.S. Senate passed the same Constitutional Amendment. When the votes were counted: In support of the Amendment, 119, opposed, 56. What actions did the Amendment put into place: ...