The topic I have chosen to write about is the filibuster. The filibuster is a very important and unique issue in American government. The filibuster is used in the Senate to slow up or derail bills. It is also used to block judicial nominees, threatened most recently to be used against Judge Alito. It is a very strong tool especially to the minority party. The minority can use it to make a point or to try and get their way. The filibuster may be very upsetting to the majority party but will be very important to them when they one day become the minority party.
The filibuster has come very far in its origin. The tern filibuster originally was someone that went around reeking havic on people, most commonly pirates. In the middle of the nineteenth century many of these groups of people organized in the U.S. and went into Central America and the West Indies and started revolutions. These people became known in English as filibusters which was derived from the Spanish filibustero. In......

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Title: Filibuster
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