One of the ways in which African Americans expected to benefit from serving the military was through a stable source of income, since even through through much of US history the military was segregated, African Americans still found living wages there.
The Supreme Court has the legal right to involve itself, because of large reasons. For the first reason, The race was tight enough, and no matter what, one of them was going to win. Bush was already 'winning', and so there really wasn't a point of recounting. Also, another reason is that a country cannot be without a leader. If this continued, the US will not have been following it's guideline (if they continue the previous president until finish counting), or will be leaderless. Also, the Supreme Court is there to regulate rules, and at this point, it is just exercising its rights.
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Yes, it is normal for the economy to go through cycles of expansion and recession, since this is called he "business cycle". It is not normal, however, for recessions to turn into depressions.
That would be a republic. America is a Constitutional Federal Republic
William Westmoreland was the chief commanding officer during the Vietnam War.