Today's 'democracy' is more of a republic than anything. In ancient Greece, every citizen got a direct and equal vote, by casting stones into the pile that signified which side they were on. In today's democracy, the people don't get that much say
Georgia’s economy became slightly weaker
Among instances of corporate malfeasance in the early twenty-first century, the "Enron" scandal was the most shocking and economically damaging for <span>employees and shareholders, since it was thought that corporations that were so large could not fail. </span>
Some might say FDR, some might say LBJ, others might say Nixon. The reality is that the power of the Legislative vis a vis the Executive is in constant flux.
In terms of sweeping policy initiatives FDR's administration might be the time when the Presidency took on many of its contemporary roles. The activism of the LBJ administration was a further expansion of the New Deal-era role of the FDR administration. LBJ also was arguably the first president to use the US armed forces in foreign engagements without Congress declaring war (Gulf of Tonkin resolution)--a precedent we have become all too familiar with. In terms of 'imperial pretensions' Nixon assumed all the New Deal, Great Society, civil rights activism, and the ability to intervene militarily of the preceding Presidencies and expanded them to include unfettered use of the CIA and FBI.
<span>Mahan argued that British control of the seas, combined with a corresponding decline in the naval strength of its major European rivals, paved the way for Great Britain’s emergence as the world’s dominant military, political, and economic power. Mahan and some leading American politicians believed that these lessons could be applied to U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the quest to expand U.S. markets overseas.</span>
