Although both the cinema and the news media regularly depict the President of the United States as all powerful, Mr. Tips discusses whether the American President is really the most powerful man in the World. With the recent election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States and the departure of Barack Obama from that office, now is the perfect time to explore that unique American political structure of institutions intended by its Founders to limit the growth of the Federal government and prevent it from ever becoming as tyrannical as Great Britain had seemed to be in the late 18th Century. The political institutions of the United States were created with the then-recent experiences of the Revolutionary War in mind. The goal was to prevent the Federal government from ever becoming all-powerful and especially to prevent the Head of State from ever becoming a dictator with King-like powers.

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The Thanksgiving that Americans (and Canadians) celebrate today is a combination of two very different New England traditions: the purely religious day of thankful prayer and the harvest feast. The harvest feast is still celebrated and, to a much lesser extent, the religious aspect is celebrated too.

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