Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

Super PACs in Elections In our modern world, money holds a massive amount of power. Money is a motivator. Our civilization is a slave to its power. Money has the power the encourage people to act against their morals and their own interest. Not only does money rule every aspect of our personal life but it has also sized control of our government. Our government was created as a democracy where the power is given to the people but since then money has removed power from the people and has given…

The Affordable Care Act took almost a year to pass through Congress. It sparked heated debate and resistance from Republicans. Republican leaders argued the bill infringed upon American liberties while Democrats said the bill improved social justice and the lives of the citizenry, especially the 45 million uninsured. People who once could not find an insurance provider because they suffered from a previously diagnosed illness or people who were dropped by a provider due to an illness, now had…

Politics of Indigenous Recognition Analyse the broad shifts that have taken place in Australian society since the end of the Second World War, and how those historical changes have shaped the contemporary nation There has been an abundance of injustices suffered by the original owners of our land which still continue to this day but since WW2, which occurred from 1939-1945, Indigenous Recognition has been one of the rapidly changing important issues in Australian society. Although there has…

from corporations, which are likely used for political leverage. One is inclined to agree with the people, as politicians continue to favor the interest of big business over those who elected them. By allowing corporations to donate to political campaigns the government has undermined…

state in the United States Senate. Part of this job is to write and vote on new laws called bills. Kelly Ayotte is a republican United States senator for the state of New Hampshire. Elected into the senate in 2010, she is ranked as one of the most bipartisan senators and has been widely recognized for her commitment to finding common ground to solve problems and deliver results. Ayotte was born in Nashua, New Hampshire on June 27, 1968. She attended Nashua High School and received a B.A. from…

away from voting for Hilary Clinton. But there were many things that held that back and didn’t allow them to run the film on cable. One of the main things that held it back was an Act that was passed back in 2008. This prevented the Organization, Citizens United to post it for cable viewers. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act basically banned the video. The Video violated one of the guidelines which stated that if the was a form of “electioneering communications” because it went after a…

Federal courts have recently made headlines when they blocked several of Donald Trump’s executive orders sparking rigorous debate as to what the role of the Judicial Branch is. Much of this debate is centered around whether the judges blocking the orders is judicial activism. The argument for or against judicial activism is always heated around important supreme court cases, but in the end no consensus is reached. In order to take an alternate approach to the argument against judicial activism,…

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling. Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer. New York: The New Press, 2013. 111pp. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world; 2.3 million inmates which equals a rate of 730 inmates to every 100,000 citizens. As Marc Mauer explains our correctional system began with the premise of rehabilitation but has now evolved into a retributive system. Race to Incarcerate A graphic retelling was the collaborative effort of Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer.…

On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama was inaugurated in as the 44th President of the United States of America. I was eleven years old, a fifth grader in Mrs. Crawford’s class. I clearly remember all students gathered in the library, as a bulky television rolled in on a black cart that we used before projectors and Smart Boards were implemented in public schools. On the television, we all watched our President be sworn in. It was the first time I could ever remember watching an inauguration. I say…

presence of Super-PACs in the 2016 elections have resulted in candidates ignoring their constituents and increasing partisanship due to money from super-PACs that go to negative advertising and persuading politicians to favor those who donate to their campaign rather than their constituents. The…