GENERAL COURSE INFORMATIONCourse Number: POLS1800Course Title: Government of the United StatesCredit Hours: 3Prerequisites: NoneDivision/Discipline: Liberal Arts and Sciences/Political ScienceCourse Description: A study of the Constitution of the United States and the organizations‚ powers‚ and functions of the national government. In addition‚ current problems and policy and the role of the individual will be studied
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Federal and State Government PPA601 Foundation of Public Administration Leah Raby November 1‚ 2013 . Federal and State Government The current public policy issue that will be identified in the course of this paper causing a great deal of controversy in the news today is marijuana. Depending in what state one is living currently in the United States‚ will depend on what type of consequences if any a person might be facing if caught possessing it. The federal government defines
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First‚ the interest groups in the political process and influence of the United States‚ is conducive to a balanced and expanding the scope of citizen participation‚ promote scientific and democratic decision-making of the government. Since each of governmental public policy contains a variety of different and even conflicting interests in a democratic form of government‚ policy makers should listen to the views of the majority‚ taking into account the interests of the majority. By convention‚ when
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In the United States of America‚ the federal and state governments should share some power‚ while completely controlling others. Certain responsibilities have acquired traits that can only be provided for by the federal government‚ such as a national defense system. To run and maintain a standing military it takes an incredible amount of resources and manpower‚ as well as high-levels of leadership. However‚ there are other areas of policy that the states should control. The process of judicial
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EXECUTIVE ORDERS 13494‚ 13495‚ 13496 & 13502 President Obama has signed four executive orders that will greatly impact federal government contractors. These orders require the following: All federal contractors may not seek reimbursement for funds spent on influencing employees regarding unionization (EO 13494); EO 13494 prohibits federal contractors from passing on to contracting departments and agencies the costs of attempting to persuade employees to exercise – or to refrain from exercising –
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The Punishments and Laws Associated with Drug Trafficking in the United States Wylie Ramos ENG122: English Composition II Instructor: Kari Lomanno December 17‚ 2012 The Punishments and Laws Associated with Drug Trafficking in the United States Drug trafficking has been a major epidemic throughout the United States. The drug supply and demand creates an environment of greed and malevolence. It has caused countless deaths‚ destroyed people’s families‚ careers‚ and lives by taking them into
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from www.whitehouse.gov‚ obtain a current summary of government spending and tax legislation signed by the president. •Write a brief description of the fiscal policy of the United States. •Would you describe it as "expansionary" or "contractionary"? •How can American consumers influence decision makers on fiscal policies? •Explain and discuss if and how this has changed over the past 5 years For the last several years‚ the U.S. government has been primarily in an expansionary mode of fiscal
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Question 1 The U.S. Constitution and the two early Supreme Court cases on corporations—Bank of the United States v. Deveaux et al. (1809) and Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)—are official U.S. government documents that influenced early U.S. capitalist development. Whose viewpoints do they reflect? What are the main features of the vision of capitalism that they promote? How are these ideas similar to or different from those expressed in Joseph Story’s 1840 letter to Daniel Webster
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that defined the United States government‚ the Articles of Confederation both reflected the principles and view points of the American Revolution and emphasized the practical uncertainties of democratic government. To say that the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government‚ would be over-exaggerating quite a bit. The Congress was weak‚ and was purposely designed to be weak. They were purposely set up as a weak government so that the government could be less threatening
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John Doe J. Doe American Government May 10‚ 2011 Unitary vs. Federal Government Our Founding Fathers had viewed centralized power as a threat to their rights and liberties. They had been under the Unitarian constraints of British authority. Dividing power between the three levels of government‚ federalism‚ was one of the solutions to this problem. Our founding fathers also recognized the potential danger for conflict between the three levels of government‚ so they instituted several ways to
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