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This stage is when a policy is accepted and is now being voted on by both parties of Congress and the president. Policy legitimation can be simple and complex. When all have supported and approve a policy proposal it can be simple but complex when legitimation needs more than a majority vote or a legal approval by a higher authority. A policy could force many hurdles if it doesn 't have a legitimation. An example of that is the nuclear waste Policy Act of 1982 that was a fail policy because it was misjudged.
Once a policy is created, adopted and have government involvement that 's when policy implementation stage come into play. Policy implementation is important to the policy process because government gets to take action towards implementing a program into effect. The government makes sure the program is achieving its goals. When Congress made the clean Air Act Amendment of 1990 and increase the highway speed limit, the industry and drivers didn 't comply at first. When consequences started being implemented to violators who broke the law you saw changes …show more content…
Whether government should interfere with what people choice to do ad be involved with because laws and policies are restricting human behavior. An example Stone gives is the burning of the flag. Do we have liberty in burning a flag? Freedom is seen by many as the right to do what you want as long as you are nor harming communities and others. This is why freedom is ambiguous and complex. As far as, for policymakers when dealing with policies whey look for firm criteria to guide them and justify their decisions. Liberty questions when government can intervene with individual’s choices and