ever since the founders of the United States desired a Federal Government with limited powers whose aim was primarily concerned with promoting the civil liberty of the Americans. According to Savage (2008)‚ during the reign of George Washington‚ the federal bureaucracy had only three cabinet departments; however‚ the federal government has since grown not only to more than eight cabinet departments‚ but also with other numerous bureaus‚ agencies‚ government authorities‚ administrations‚ and corporations
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Brief Historical Background of Local government System in Nigeria Regardless of nomenclature‚ local government is a creation of British colonial rule in Nigeria. It has overtime experienced change in name‚ structure and composition. Between 1930s and 1940s‚ for instance‚ local government was known as chief-in-council and chief-and-council‚ where traditional rulers were given pride of place in the scheme of things. In the 1950s‚ election was introduced according to the British model in the western
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Strong federal government vs Strong state government “Most bad governments have grown out of too much government‚” Thomas Jefferson once said. The question is‚ how do we know when our government is too strong? That’s a question that takes a lot of thinking about. Or‚ is our state government too strong? Sadly‚ most people have no idea what their state government is doing‚ trying to do‚ or putting to the side. Everyone is always too busy thinking or questioning about our president‚ and never paying
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Our criminal justice system demands a continuous evolution to create success within the department. The last 60 years society has provoked change with our criminal justice system. These changes vary across three different areas inside the departments; corrections‚ courts‚ and policy. Corrections had a large advancement in their policy with PREA. PREA is the prison rape elimination act and protects offenders and employees. The criminal justice court system made adjustments to policies on self-defense
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Christian Mercado State & Local Government Assignment #1 State & National Government The United States was founded on economic and political freedom. This freedom enables all our citizens to successfully pursue unlimited opportunities to use their god given talents to work‚ produce‚ invest‚ take risk‚ and grow wealthy while keeping the prosperous fruits of their enterprise. Here we have state governments that are “laboratories of government” and a notional government that has more autonomy
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history of the United States‚ there have always been arguments over what power the state governments should have‚ and the powers the Federal Government should have. More recently there have been instances where the Federal Government was questionable in some of their actions. Today’s Federal Government has too much power because issues such as gun control and healthcare would be better handled on the state level. One example of an issue that would be better handled on a state level is gun control. One
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Managing Human Resources: Personnel Administration in Local Government In this article‚ the author Ronald D. Sylvia speaks on the management of human resources and its difficulty in the preservation‚ and integrity in personnel administration on the local government level. In reading the article the author gives us a brief history of how the hiring process in the local government became so corrupt. Due to several legal and social constraints faced by public managers in the public sector of the
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Internal Controls for Local Government A Training Presentation for City of Tampa’s Leaders Training Objectives What you should know after this class: • • • • • Types of risk Who commits fraud and why Internal controls - who needs them 5 internal control components What you can do! 2 What are Internal Controls? To put it simply‚ internal controls are an exercise of common sense. You are practicing good internal controls when you? • Balance your checkbook • Keep your ATM/debit card
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proposed program and is presented into two parts‚ namely: Part I – National Government Budget‚ and Part II - Budgets of the three (3) Energy Corporations. | The FY 2008 Budget Program | The total proposed expenditure program for FY 2008 amounts to P1.227 Trillion‚ computed on an obligation basis‚ as presented in Table I below and in Annex A. | Table I Summary of Appropriations and Obligations of the National Government‚ FY 2006-2008 (In thousand pesos) | | PARTICULARS | 2006 (Actual) |
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Separation of Powers: States vs. National Government “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution‚ nor prohibited by it to the States‚ are reserved to the States respectively‚ or to the people.” (U.S. Const. amend. 10). Ratified in December of 1791‚ the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights states that the national government does not have the authority to control the state government’s concerns that don’t intervene with the U.S Constitution and vice versa. I believe that the
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