In our society today, death penalty becomes very popular and most controversial
issue in the United States. In this paper, we will focus on death penalty
issue in three categories are civil right, public opinion and the congress.
We will use three categories to describe how each of them has their own
perspectives to look at death penalty. Before we begin, we will first introduce
the three areas categories and explain about each one of them.
First, we will explain about the public opinion. Public opinion is citizen
given the opinion to the issues or questions. Opinion involves in interviewing
the citizen. In America, everyone has right to argue what they want and
give opinion to certain things. American society is create by the people
and they have every right to hold their opinion. If people didn't speak
out or give their opinion, no one really know what the people or majority
think or want. When people didn't involve in what's going on in society,
it would be hard to imagine how the national government be response to
the public with in the society.
Public opinion is important to the government, because the society is under
ruled by government. And the government tend to response to the public
opinion. Many times, states law for and against in particular issues have
always reflected from the public mood.
Second, we will explain about the civil rights. During the 1950s to 1960s,
our government started promoting social equality and civil rights
movement. The government thought that many people didn't have equality
in society. In the civil rights movement in 1964, it established the government
guarantor of political and social equality for all the people. It's mean
provides equal of opportunity and improve the quality of life throughout
the United States.
Civil right act movement gives people all individual right, especially the black. Also civil rights are powers or privileges guaranteed to the individual and protected from arbitrary at the hands of the government or other individual.
Third, we will explain about the congress. Congress is usually enact laws.
In the United States, congress has two separate and powerful chambers,
which are the House of Representatives and the Senate. A bill can't become
a law unless it is passed in identical form by both the house of representatives
and the senate. All the members of congress have to vote on each bill that
emerges from the committees. Those who are not on a particular committee
depend on committee members to examine the issues thoroughly to make compromises
as necessary, and to bring forward a sound piece of legislation that has
a good chance of being passed. Each members decides individually on the
bill's merits. When the bill reaches the House of Representatives and the
Senate too, members may get to vote on only a handful of amendment before
they must cast their yea or nay for the entire bill.
Before the bill have become a law, congress members, two chambers and the
president have to make a lot of decision in order to past the law. In some
cases, when a bill passed by the two chambers and the congress members,
president can cancel them. Also the congress can override a president's
veto by an extraordinary of two-thirds of majority in each chamber.