Legislating Morality Something Learned The desire to legislate morality is well established in American history. Our forefather's passed legislation to prohibit acts that they felt might induce people to behave in a socially unacceptable manner. Th Continue Reading...
Executive Orders Abuse Power? The best known directives consist of executive orders and presidential proclamations, but there are many other documents that have a similar functional and effects. Reduced to their basic core, presidential directives Continue Reading...
Meghani, Z. And Kuzma, J. Re-Conceptualizing Objectivity to Address the Regulatory Agency-Industry "Revolving Door" Problem. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Assessment of Model Article What about this article do you wish to emula Continue Reading...
Door Policy -- Literature Review Extension Annotated Bibliography Revolving Door Members (2011). First Street -- Where People and Policy Interact. Retrieved http://firststreet.cqpress.com/content/Revolving_Door_Members.aspx This intelligence tool Continue Reading...
Federalist No. Primary Source Analysis On September 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States was signed by 39 delegates from 12 states in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after spending the summer debating the final form in the Continue Reading...
While on the surface it may seem that, in the interest of fairness, one who relies on the advice of a representative of the government should be entitled to the express conditions of any benefits stated by said government agent, the deeper issues in Continue Reading...
Therefore, one state could register a higher turnout at primary elections, while at local ones, a smaller figure could appear. Thus, it can be said that the issue of voter turnout does not rely necessarily on the technical aspects of the law in appl Continue Reading...
Third Parties The founding fathers of the United States were initially opposed to the formation of political parties considering them as "quarreling factions" that would hinder the public from freely judging issues on merit. The complex structure of Continue Reading...
twentieth century seen the triumph of the state or the individual in the United States? You may wish to consider the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 particularly. Does that piece of legislation contain group or individual rights? What prob Continue Reading...
Background InformationOn the low coastal lands of the eastern part of North Carolina, many people, including families in some rural parts daily, must be confronted by lousy smells from hog or pig farms that occupy large tracks of land in the State. P Continue Reading...
urban area of Tampa, Florida, and serves as an instrumental case study of how an urban locale can address problems of environmental health and safety. Specifically, this study assesses the failures and successes of Tampa to regulate and reduce water Continue Reading...
Internal Revenue Service's Use of Circular 230 to Regulate Tax Preparers An oft repeated maxim in American history states sardonically that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes" (Franklin, 1840), and under th Continue Reading...
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal reflected the concept of positive government, meaning that the New Deal gave Americans an optimistic outlook. that the New Deal helped the United States to balance its budget. that government intervention helped people Continue Reading...
United States has become preoccupied with the internal affairs at the expense of the foreign affairs after the civil war. It started interfering in overseas conflicts and interacting with the World after the diplomatic inactivity from Latin America a Continue Reading...
242). This approach to decision making in public administration was thought to result in improved policies since the approach was well suited to the pluralist environment in which these decisions were being made and provided opportunities for altern Continue Reading...
Third, the Republican Party places much emphasis on individual rights as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, due to believing that American strength comes from encouraging "individual support for our laws and the court system" and that the federal g Continue Reading...
William Leuchtenburg's Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal is a text that combines recent American history with a political and sociological analysis of American policy and government, and adds a healthy dose of biography of the president to give Continue Reading...
Over the years, the electoral process has changed a lot. As per the original rules, each state legislature selected its electors. The electors would then assemble at a given time and vote for two people. The person with the majority of votes became Continue Reading...
succeeding presidencies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt seem to be categorically and diametrically antithetical from every conceivable angle. Entering the office in 1929, Herbert Hoover's administration marked the end of America's mo Continue Reading...
tagged along with the burning issue of slavery in those years preceding the American Civil War, expanding American territory would redound to the best advantage of its people and further enhance its economic and political objectives and gains. The Continue Reading...
Case Study: Challenges Facing Urban PlannersFair housing for allall human beings who live in this countryis now part of the American way of life. President Lyndon B. Johnsons proclamation following the enactment of the Fair Housing Act of 1968Today, Continue Reading...
Administrative Law Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife Facts: Lujan, the secretary of the Interior is representing the federal government. Defenders of Wildlife is an organization that exists for the purpose of protecting endangered animals. In 1973 the Continue Reading...
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the nations' first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strikes in the country's history. The strikes and the violence it brought about temporarily paralyzed the country's commerce and led governor Continue Reading...
Great Depression New Deal Voices Protest In this essay, the author will discuss the importance of Huey Long and Father Coughlin in shaping the course of the New Deal. Since Brinkley also mentions Charles Townsend's social security ideas, it will als Continue Reading...
Tea Party: Social Movement, Special Interest Group, or Real Political Party On February 19, 2009 CNBC's Rick Santelli stood on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and ranted against a proposal by the Obama Administration to subsidize the m Continue Reading...
It reads: "Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britai Continue Reading...
In many respects, Milk's broad political objectives emphasizing the responsibility of government to solve the problems of its citizens may have been more effective in furthering gay rights than the more militant or at least confrontational approach Continue Reading...
It would therefore be a policy to be shaped by the powerful oversight of the federal executive that would serve to dominate the process. In the years following his supposition, however, many detractors have cited that the role which the public, the Continue Reading...
"Perhaps all of this had nothing to do with the 1927 flood," he writes. "Or perhaps it did." How can he possibly question the facts presented in his own narrative? Clearly, the levies that are supposed to keep the Mississippi River out of New Orlean Continue Reading...
During the Eisenhower Administration, America underwent a number of radical changes in its political and social arenas, the most important being the rapid rise in consumerism which before Eisenhower was limited to the wealthy and those in the upper Continue Reading...
immigration in the United States is a complex topic that can only be understood in any depth by employing the perspectives of different social-science disciplines. The focus of this paper is immigration to American in the early to mid-nineteenth cen Continue Reading...
Weapons of Mass DestructionIntroductionThis paper addresses the methodology, and discusses the findings of the research. It also offers conclusions and recommendations for addressing the problem of WMD prevention. It applies the theoretical perspecti Continue Reading...
JF Kennedy Assassination Assassination of JF Kennedy: A turning point The USA has undergone a lot of significant historical events and progresses and changes over time that have helped shape the future of the nation from the time they occurred. The Continue Reading...
Hatch Act What is the Hatch Act, why was it passed and why is it important? Under the First Amendment, all citizens have the right to speak freely and engage in political activity under their right of assembly. However, there are exceptions to this Continue Reading...
Sovereign Immunity (Chicago Citation) It has been a tradition in English law that the Sovereign can do no wrong and therefore had immunity against any and all laws within the kingdom. In fact, this was a way to protect the Monarch from being held t Continue Reading...
Cybersecurity In October 2010, Wikileaks, an international organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media ("leaks") by anonymous sources, released "the Iraq War Logs," almost 400,000 documents which allowed major m Continue Reading...
authors of the Federalist Papers take for granted that human motives arise from 3 sources: passion, interest and virtue. Their goals regarding the 3 are, PASSION; (1) to prevent passions from being aroused, (2) to keep already aroused passions from Continue Reading...
Nevertheless, there have been many decisions over the years that have tended to weaken the intent of the Framers. In 2001, in Zelman v. Simmons Harris the Supreme Court ruled that school voucher programs did not violate the establishment clause of t Continue Reading...
Policy reforms split movement coalitions, and fracture and demobilize movements. Because participating groups enter social movements with a range of goals, it is not surprising that they would view acceptable outcomes differently. Coalition dynamics Continue Reading...
