Have you ever thought of how the American presidency came to exist? Hi everyone I will be presenting a documentary from YouTube called “The Ultimate Guide To The Presidents” by History Channel which is about a 43-minute video. Therefore the summary of this documentary talks about how the early days of a presidency and how it came to be by the United States of America during 1789-1825. In addition, this documentary connects to my government class because it portrays the history of the United States in its early days such as its presidency affected the present-day United States of America’s democracy positively. Overall the documentary helped deepen my knowledge of government course topics because learning about how the presidency was formed gave me an insight into how America was exploring the unknown or experimenting with this new national government system at the time since no other country has tried it which was exciting and very interesting to me. Above all This led to the main point I believe that is presented in the documentary is most significant during the introduction to a new system as having the most effect on America’s presidency were the events of the first election and The Constitutional Convention. To summarize I will be presenting evidence from the documentary on why I believe the most significant parts of Americas presidency history are The first election and The Constitutional Convention.
The subject of this paragraph will be explaining important events that happened during the early days of the America presidency during 1789-1825. Therefore I agreed that the most significant historical parts of the presidency are The first election and The Constitutional Convention. In addition, I will be presenting evidence from a documentary on YouTube called “The Ultimate Guide To The Presidents” by History Channel in the section Constitutional convention states “Well the founding fathers claimed that King George III was an abusive executive So they didn’t give the president of Unilateral power, They established strong courts, A strong legislative, and Relatively weak chief.” This sentence “So they didn’t give the president of Unilateral power, They established strong courts, A strong legislative, and Relatively weak chief,” is significant because this indicates how the founding fathers discussed and agreed on how much power a president should have in this new government. Another example from a documentary on youtube called “The Ultimate Guide To The Presidents” by HistoryChannel but this time in “The first Election” section states “The first presidential took place on February 4th,1789, 69 electors met in their respective states and cast two ballots, The winner would be president and the runner up, vice president, Washington swept the first ballot with all 69 votes while John Adams, became vice president. This sentence “The first presidential took place on February 4th,1789, 69 electors met in their respective states and cast two ballots” is significant because this was the first-ever presidential hosted in America where George Washington himself become the first president. Therefore I choose these quotes because they conveyed how much of an impact The First election and The Constitutional Convention had on America’s history and on its democracy present day.
In conclusion, I learned a lot from this documentary, and helped me understand more about the early days of a presidency. In addition, it helped me learn how important the presidency was in our national government in America was which led me to believe that the most significant historical parts of the presidency are The first election and The Constitutional Convention.
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Therefore I believe I deserve 10 points because I have answered all the bullet points and supported them all with evidence
1 reply on “Film Review: American Presidency”
Adam, this is an interesting review, but you did not quite meet the requirements of the assignment- this is an episode from a series, not a feature-length documentary (it’s too short, and as an episode, it doesn’t tell a complete story, because it’s meant to be viewed as part of a longer whole). That being said, you did a nice job of discussing the episode and relating it to our class topics. I have to disagree with your self-grading assessment slightly (8/10), on the grounds that you reviewed an episode and not a feature film. If you disagree, let me know and we can discuss further.