Power Struggle In America

For my midterm paper I decided to look further into a topic I discovered while researching for a previous rabbit hole, the Idea that over time Congress may be losing power to the other branches of the federal government. I contacted my study group via email telling them my idea and asking for their input. In my original email I explained that it appears to me that the other two branches of the federal government of government are absorbing power previously held by the legislative branch alone. The war powers act of 1973, and the increased use of executive orders are prime examples of this ignominy. In response to my initial email I received very helpful feed back from my study group. Elodie Muhoza responded by asking a very important question pertaining to what specifically I plan on looking into. After considering several possibilities I concluded that the best option would be to look into American history and try to identify evidence supporting the idea that there is an ongoing power struggle within the federal government, and if said power struggle has resulted in congress losing power. Evelyn Marquis recommended that I look into events, both current and past, and try to identify more points where power has changed hands. I think these events would be integral to

As part of her research she asked how she could more clearly relate this to the idea of America. My response to this was that she could potentially look into America’s possible moral obligation to control climate change, or parallels and differences between America’s period of industrialization and developing nations today. In the end Elodie decided to focus her topic mainly on the criticisms developing nations receive for the way they go about Industrialization, and their impact on climate change when compared to the United States’ impact on climate