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In the case Dolan v. United States Postal Service, Barbara Dolan filed a suit against the United States Postal Service for injuries she incurred after tripping over some mail that was delivered on her porch by the United States Postal Service. The U.S. Government claimed that they had sovereign immunity in this case. The waivers of sovereign immunity for the Postal Service are as follows "claims against the United States, for money damages, accruing on and after January 1, 1945, for injury or…

To me the major challenge that the Founding Fathers needed to reconcile was how to make 13 individual sovereign states into one functioning unit without infringing on the States right to govern their own citizens. James Madison, a staunch supporter of federalism, wrote in his The Federalist No. 10 “that no man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity (Dolbeare & Cummings, 2010, p. 93).” This is…

Lesbian women encounter different consequences in various regions of the United States while disclosing their sexual identity. For instance, the Midwest and Southern states are difficult areas to live openly as a person who identify themselves as LGBT. Disclosure and non-disclosure of one’s sexual identity can be difficult for lesbian women because they think about the severity of the consequences. If lesbian women resides in a region that values heterosexual identity only, then she may…

The definition of the state as ‘the set of institutions that monopolize the legitimate uses of coercion and violence in society’ comes from Weber (Abercrombie et al, 2000). However, there are other definitions of the state as the concept is complex and open to the interpretation of different researchers and authors. It is important to note that the state is not the government; the government runs the state and so the actions of the state are influenced by the government. The institutions,…

Court, diplomats, and guests and spoke his final annual State of the Union Address. In it, he described the State of the Union in a “time of extraordinary change — change that’s reshaping the way we live, the way we work, our planet and our place in the world.” The change, he said, came through a variety of ways, but these changes are not without fault, however, as they both “broaden[ed] opportunity” and “widen[ed] inequality.” During his State of the Union address, President Obama brought up…

Just as society is concerned about expenses and profits, elected representatives needs to have the same assessment of costs and benefits in regards to attaining savings through cuts in existing Texas aid programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which is mostly funded by federal money. Even though it provides nutritional aid, policymakers should tighten the controls on the program because it is non-taxable income, has loopholes, and increases government spending.…

it makes it easy for the not so great qualities to just fly under the radar. One of those not so great qualities is the brokenness of the Texas foster care system. In 2016, over 200 children in Texas were killed by child abuse, leaving Texas as the state with the highest child fatalities. In several of these fatal cases child protection agencies had contact with the child or someone in their lives before their death. Consequently, these disturbing statistics lead to the questions what…

American society until the atomic bomb” thereby setting the country on the road that would lead to oil shocks, drive-in movie theaters, and even rock 'n ' roll. Not only did the novel focus on Henry Ford’s invention changing the face of the United States, but also on the Wright brothers and their invention of the airplane. Their dauntless proof to the world of the capability to break scientific boundaries with what they called their machine. The Wright Brothers publicly demonstrated (tragedy…

Population Growth Population growth rate on Earth is increasing exponentially; in fact, it is believed that the population will increase to more than 9 billion people by the middle of the century (United States Census Bureau, 2016). This is an unimaginable increase from the two and a half billion souls Earth had just in 1950 alone (Population Institute, 2016). The impact has raised serious concerns for the planet and it sustainability. The population increases in both developed countries and…

issues and enforces laws. Controls the military as well as the state 's economic instruments. In a unipolar system the central power also combats any attempts for subordinates to gain their own independence or greater autonomy. (Rourke and Boyer 2010) A bipolar system exist when there is hostility between the actors in the system. In a bipolar system the one actor attempts to overthrow and eliminate the opposing actor in the state. Increase your own power by means of recruiting, and preventing…