A department that is traditionally focused on domestic issues could become involved in foreign policy-making because of two main reasons:
- It can regulate a good or service given internationally. For example, it can be clothes or technological devices.
- Foreign policy-making (or foreign relations), also regulates behavior that could have an international consequence. For example, it could be a business that contaminates the environment.
1. The Yoruba and the Kingdom of Nri
2. Benin Empire
The Establishment of Hausa Kingdom
The Constitution of the United States established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Under America’s first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak and states operated like independent countries. At the 1787 convention, delegates devised a plan for a stronger federal government with three branches—executive, legislative and judicial—along with a system of checks and balances to ensure no single branch would have too much power. The Bill of Rights were 10 amendments guaranteeing basic individual protections, such as freedom of speech and religion, that became part of the Constitution in 1791. To date, there are 27 constitutional amendments.
<span>"His eloquence as a speaker and his personal charisma, combined with a deeply rooted determination to establish equality among all races despite personal risk won him a world-wide following."</span>
According to a catastrophic new assessment from the World Bank, projected sea level rise would cause 40 percent of the structures in the Marshall Islands' capital of Majuro to be permanently submerged and entire islands to vanish, potentially costing the Pacific republic its identity as a nation.
