American Indians who lived in the West

hough the War of 1812 was dubbed “Mr. Madison’s War,” his role in the prosecution of the war was relatively ineffectual. Elected in 1808, President James Madison was intimately familiar with the ongoing diplomatic and trade conflicts with Britain. As Secretary of State under President Jefferson, he was the principal architect of the “restrictive system” of trade embargos designed to force Britain to relax its control of Atlantic trade. Madison’s support of this failed system lasted well into the war itself.

Madison’s attempts to resolve disagreements with Britain peacefully was viewed by some in his own Republican party as a sign of weakness. A group of pro-war Republicans, led by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, argued that military force was the only option left to combat British imperiousness. These “War Hawks” were not a majority of the party, but over time, their influence acted on more skeptical party members.

President Madison eventually did bring a declaration of war to Congress, but his leadership in planning for war was mostly absent. Republican ideology was intensely skeptical of the concept of a national standing army, preferring to rely on state militias, and the Madison administration, following in the footsteps of Jefferson, did much to starve national military forces of men and material support. His influence on Congress was minimal, and in retrospect, it is hard to understand how he, or the War Hawks for that matter, felt that the United States had the necessary military resources to prosecute a war on multiple fronts.

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Choose one of these issues to research:

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What is your chosen issue? My chosen issue is bullying.

Why is this issue a problem in your state or local area ? Bullying in many countries is a big problem. In Peru statistics are not so clear but when you read the news you notice that number of students beiing bullied is increasing. This goes from physical agressions to insults. Fortunately there is awareness of the problem and most of the people know that has to be stopped.

What government agencies and citizen groups would likely to address this issue?

There are many things that can be done for example parents, school staff, and other adults in the community can help children prevent bullying by talking about it. Also, it is a good idea to build a safe school environment, and create a community-wide bullying prevention strategy.

What is the ultimate goal to address the issue? The ultimate goal must be zero bullying and to do that it is necessary team work I mean parents, authorities, the school system must be involved and to know that the problem is solved it is important to use statistics to monitor the issue.

What are the public policy alternatives to address the issue? The public alternatives are working very hard in creating a strategy to overcome the problem. The strategy can be designed to give psychological help to the victims and to give lectures in schools and also to monitor the problem with statistics.

What is one positive outcome and one negative outcome for each possible policy alternative?

One positive alternative is that the strategy ends up solving the problem one negative alternative is that victims probably end up having psychologycal problems or maybe phisical injuries if bullying is not attacked with a good strategy.

What is the best plan to get the policy enacted?

It has to be team work, I mean eveybody has to be involved and it has to be a good strategy for the short and the long run.

How can citizens get involved to help enact the policy? Parents, children and aurhorities must create awareness that a problem like this exist and must be solved.

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