On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson attends the Paris Peace Conference that would formally end World War I and lay the groundwork for the formation of the League of Nations.
Wilson envisioned a future in which the international community could preempt another conflict as devastating as the First World War and, to that end, he urged leaders from France, Great Britain and Italy to draft at the conference what became known as the Covenant of League of Nations. The document established the concept of a formal league to mediate international disputes in the hope of preventing another world war.
Once drawn, the world’s leaders brought the covenant to their respective governing bodies for approval. In the U.S., Wilson’s promise of mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike rankled the isolationist Republican majority in Congress. Republicans resented Wilson’s failure to appoint one of their representatives to the peace delegation and an equally stubborn Wilson refused his opponents’ offers to compromise. Wary of the covenant’s vague language and potential impact on America’s sovereignty, Congress refused to adopt the international agreement for a League of Nations.
At a stalemate with Congress, President Wilson embarked on an arduous tour across the country to sell the idea of a League of Nations directly to the American people. He argued that isolationism did not work in a world in which violent revolutions and nationalist fervor spilled over international borders and stressed that the League of Nations embodied American values of self-government and the desire to settle conflicts peacefully.
The tour’s intense schedule cost Wilson his health. During the tour he suffered persistent headaches and, upon his return to Washington, he suffered a stroke. He recovered and continued to advocate passage of the covenant, but the stroke and Republican Warren Harding’s election to the presidency in 1921 effectively ended his campaign to get the League of Nations ratified. The League was eventually created, but without the participation of the United States.
Answer:
The executive branch only has powers that it can use to influence economic decision during crisis but can not expand it.
Explanation:
It must however be stated that the executive branch should be empowered and allowed to expand its constitutional powers so as to take proactive measures to stem down the crisis that might hit the nation so bad. The issue of waiting for deliberation by the congress may lead to delay as a result of different views from different political parties.
If the executive is allowed to expand its powers during economic crisis, the damage that ought to have been done might be slow down and bring back to normality based on the fact that the executive with its board members , parastatal , ministries are the ones that will be initiating and executing various policies to be adopted.
They are:
Executive: President and about 5 million others - The president enforces the laws.
Legislative: Senate and House of Reps - this part is called congress. Congress makes our laws. Congress is divided in 2 parts; senate and house of reps. Senate is made up of 2 people from each state. House of reps get together and decide if the bills should become laws.
Judicial: Supreme court and lower courts - hear cases that pertain to issues related to the constitution. They are the highest court in the country.
