Constitution Assignment Part A

The Preamble Paraphrasing
The preamble, which is the beginning of the constitution is basically the impact of the constitution on the Unite States. The constitution enforces laws and rules fallowed to achieve a stable and peaceful society in the Unite States. To be able to make a orderly society with fairness and peace and keeping justice in society.

The Legislative Branch- Powers and Responsibilities
-The outline of the Constitution states the legislative branch to be first.
-It includes the House of Representatives and Senates.
-Creates bills that can become a law.
-Determines punishments for breaking the rules or being un-orderly.
-Controls laws of trade that the US has with other countries.
-Controls the production of money or value of the money.
-Controls the amount of money spent on the government.
-They can decide to declare war or figure out conflicts between other countries.
-They can override treaties made by the president.
-Controls the laws about tax.

Executive Branch- Powers and Responsibilities
-The head which is the president can disapprove of approve of certain laws that are made by the congress.
-When making decisions it is often made with the consent of senators (or advice).
-Qualifications for being president includes being a born Untied States citizen and have lived in the US for up to 14 years.
-The president can be known as the commander and chief of the army and the navy.
-Provides information to the congress.

Judicial Branch- Powers and Responsibilities
-Includes the supreme court which is made up of 9 Justices.
-According to the Jurisdiction, the judicial branch must extend cases including conflicts involving between two states, citizens of different states, citizens of same states, and foreign states.

Thoughts and Feelings While Reading Constitution
While reading the constitutions and taking notes I was annoyed by the fact that there was so much more to the constitution then i thought there was with the numerous amount of reading I had to do. I felt that there was a lot more information in each article then necessary. Some of the information didn't seem as relevant. It was really detailed and as if it was trying to include every specific detail as possible.I lost my focus a lot and often read the words but not really pay attention to what the reading was trying to teach or provoke. Although after rereading certain parts and start to get the hang of it, i couldn't help feeling as if i was reading a big book or list of just rules and laws and structures. I did not know whether I should take it seriously or not because in our society as we know it is still not as "stable" and "perfect" as the Constitution says it would be. Theses rules and laws seems to contradict the ideas of freedom and justice.

Insight and Questions
-What is the process of removing or adding other laws or rules into the constituions?
-How effective is the constitution on the United States? (Percentage Wise)
-When including freedom and justice for all, is this really true, what about minoraties or immigrants?

Thoughs about Election

To be completely honest I feel like i do not fallow enough about politics going on in the United States as much as I should to have a full and complete response to the elections. But instead of using that as an excuse, I do have some thoughts about things that I have heard and seen about the elections and peoples thoughts even way before the elections. First off, I was surprised at peoples reactions and how involved people were in this years elections compared to the last elections between Bush v. Gore. I found myself knowing more facts and more curious about this years elections than any other in my life. This brings up thoughts in my mind of why?
Ive heard all this hope of change and hope just because of our new president being Obama. It makes me wonder if he is acutally going to fallow through to his plans that everyone has been talking about. While discussions in class do bring up thoughts in my mind of the fact that since we have a president who is prodominatly seen as "black" rather then "mixed", would it really give hope and cause the majority of those who are African American to raise from the stereotype of being in poverty or just make it lower? I do not personal have an opinon but my reactions to the elections mainly bring up questions and curiousity.
One thing that makes me curious is of those who were strongly voting republicans. For example is the people ive seen in this videos a while before the elections took place:

This video makes me think of how will those who were strongly against having a "African American President" react now that Obama is the president. Will they in a way suck it up and try to work around the fact that hes black. It makes me wonder why is it that it bothers them more about what he looks like rather then what he wants to give towards the country. I would think that what a person has to offer is more important thatn what they look like would more likely effect the Unite States. The people in the video dont investigate him and learn what he offers because they had their answer when they heard his name being "Barak Obama". They went along with a prejudice and now are too far along to turn back since it is offical that he is our president.

Capitilism

The American way of life can commenly be seen by its dominant frameworks, one of these freameworks can be recognized as capitilism. There are many perspectives and aspects to capitilism. Many people may have their own opinion of capitilism but without known the fundamental way that captilism works then their is know way to form an opinion. The real/ official definition of capitilism is: an economic system in which goods and services are produced and distrubuted, and consumed through the mechanism of free makrekts. No one is able to really understand the basics of capitilism without the understanding of the three main ideas that forms capitilism. The three ideas are Land, Labor, and Capital. These three concepts are significant part of production of a product. For example, Land is the acutally "land" the product is grown on or manufactured on, the resources on the land used to grow the product. Labor is the work and people choosen to produce and sell the product being sold. And last is Captial which is the objects (things that arent for sale) used to make the porduct or promote the product such as signs, advertisment, etc. In Capitilism, there are many stratagies behind marketing and selling a product. Busniesses try to make as much money as possible while spending the least amout of money making the product and advertising the prodcut. This can be known as profit motive. Busniesses set the price of their porduct according to what is known as the market price. Market price is the highest price the seller of a product can set their product for yet at the same time thinking of the lowest price that the cosumers are willing to pay for the product. The market price is primarily based on suppy and demand, these aspects is what can shift the marker price. Supply is the total amount of prodcuts that are for sale. Demand is the total amount of products that the consumer will buy at a certain price. A graph is what usually is used to represent supply and demand. This is obviously known as the Supply and Demand chart. The points in where the line segment of supply and demand intersect is what the market price is. This is how many busniesses find their market price for their products. If there are some senarios such as the price of a prodcut were to become lowered, you must remember that the total amount of supply stays the same as it is the "quanitity" of the suplly that acutally makes a sudden change. This new price caused by the senario can be known as the Equilibrium Price. Another senario which can be known as a "shortage" is when there are people willing to pay the price to buy a product but there are not enough products to buy, not enough products for sale. Another idea that comes up is competitions between busniesses. If there is a free market than busniesses will most likely find themselves in a competitions between many other companys selling the same products. Competitors of a busniess try to sell cheaper than other companies with the same products to gain more consumers which gains more profit. Capitilism can be found everday in our dailey lives while shopping and trying to find the best price for certain things to working to pay off debts and having a standard life. Our lives can be known to be driven by the invisable hand. The invisable hand is like the automatic direction that life will continue to go towards. The invisable hand is what automatically gives you the motive to know what to do next in life. People can have the motive towards a better life and the invisable hand is what usually helps direct them.