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Posted by Adair Doran on Feb 22nd, 2011 at 11:57am  Comments (0) Comment on Post

Foreign Policy

  • Congress has power to declare war.
  • senate has power to ratify treaties.
  • BUT, President has power to wage war and negotiate treaties.

War Powers Resolution, 1973

  • passed because of the Vietnam War
  • was to give Congress more power over committing forces overseas
  • President had to notify Congress w/in 48 hours of deploying troops
  • Had to bring troops home w/in 60/90 days unless Congress extends time

Attached to AP Government, Civics
Posted by Adair Doran on Feb 22nd, 2011 at 6:55am  Comments (0) Comment on Post

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Bacon, DesCartes, Pascal, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Diderot, Hume, Gibbon, Adam Smith, Manchester School/Physiocrats, Kant, Beccaria, Wollstonecraft, Joseph II, Frederick II, Frederick William, Frederick I, Maria Theresa, War of Austrian Succession, Pragmatic Sanction, Diplomatic Revlolution, Seven Years' War,  Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, the Romanovs, the Partition of Poland, GB in the 1700s, Robert Walpole, Tories and Whigs, Edmund Burke, rotten boroughs, Jansenists, Louis XV, 


Posted by Adair Doran on Feb 13th, 2011 at 12:06pm  Comments (0) Comment on Post

We will finish CH 12 tomorrow and start on COngress - Ch 13.  Bring your books to use in class when not hearing presentations.


Attached to AP Government
Posted by Adair Doran on Feb 11th, 2011 at 7:12am  Comments (1) Comment on Post

James I, Charles I,  Charles II, James II, Divine Right of Kings, Petition of Rights, Long Parliament, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, The Commonwealth, Navigation Acts, The Restoration, Tories and Whigs, The Glorious Revolution, William and Mary, the English Bill of Rights, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke

Henry IV, Edict of Nantes, Duke of Sully, Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Intendents, Louis XIV, Mazarin, Versailles, Colbert, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, War of Spanish Succession, Treaty of Utrecht

Posted by Adair Doran on Feb 11th, 2011 at 7:06am  Comments (0) Comment on Post

Causes for Exploration, Prince Henry the Navigator, Diaz, Da Gama, Cabral, Cortez, Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, Columbian Exchange, Commerical Revolution, Price Revolution, joint-stock companies, mercantilism, the Dutch Republic



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