Federal assistance in the United States

to recent theories of marijuana ability to be used as a useful medicine that people have began to rise up and ask why we have been denied access to plant that has no proven health risks. This movement is not moving slowly either with twenty-three states already legalizing medical marijuana with four of them legalizing…

commander in chief of military responsibilities, but only if they were authorized by the congress; Article II, section 2,” The president shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States.” In the Federalist No. 74, Hamilton tries to explain why the framers decided to make the president commander in chief. The direction of war “most peculiarly demands those qualities which…

From the early 1800’s till the late 1900’s America began to change drastically. After the removal act of 1830 and the signing of agreements like the Treaty of Echota, which gave all lands east of the Mississippi river to the U.S. government. White American population began to blossom and so did the spread of Euro-centric culture. Although at the time Natives were not considered citizens, whites still wanted to rid Natives of their culture and replace it with their own. In order to begin the…

for “Welfare Reform” which has Temporary Assistance for the Needy Families (TANF) that is a federal program the benefits consist of a 60-month limit for a cash aid benefits for recipients. Generally, each state has their own guidelines for the TANF; however, the requirements may differ, due to economic factors. The TANF program, should also meet the federal work participation requirement (WPR). This is a mandated work performance requirement for states that have a TANF program. TANF program…

by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777 and ratified over three years later. Motivated by concerns of mimicking the system in England that had drove many of the colonists to the United States in the first place, the colonists created a weak centralized system and focused the power on the individual states. They soon found that the Articles of Confederation provided a system that was fatally flawed and incapable of supporting the young nation. The Articles of Confederation created a weak…

Of all of the presidential candidates running for president, Ted Cruz has the plan that will save America. America is in a state of turmoil with economic downturn and job loss to illegal immigrants, a broken tax system, and the threat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Barack Obama promised change in 2008, but no economic recovery has been evident, jobs have been continuously lost, and he has dismissed the threat of ISIS and saying that the U.S. “is making significant progress defeating them” (Riley 1)…

is a democracy, and the government can only act upon us as much as we, the people, allow them to. Looking as far back as the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years War in Europe and the Civil War in England, it was established that the nation-state should have sovereign control over external security as well as domestic affairs. Though there were probably many different interpretations on intervening in general external affairs, such as the control of foreign countries for protection,…

from the Union. In South Carolina’s Declaration of Causes of Secession, it states that the United States federal government was pushing against the South’s legal right to uphold slavery (Doc. A). South Carolina’s secession was the beginning of the complete secession of the South. Abraham Lincoln, who was elected president, fought to both preserve the Union and abolish slavery. The Civil War swept through the United States between 1861 and 1865, ending with the surrender of the South. After the…

minimum wage should be across the country, it is not an issue that the federal government should be concerned with. The monetary value of minimum wage should increase but still fluctuate between each state government based on the standard of living in their particular area. Minimum wage should be a topic the federal government oversees but does not control. Giving the federal government too much power over the subject causes states to be unfairly represented. The Department of Labor on Minimum…

The United States of America has had two types of governance throughout the history of the country. From 1738 to 1937 the United States used a dual federalism. In this type of federalism the powers between the state and the national government were divided. The states took care of property laws, license, commercial laws, etc. While the national government took care of the roads, tariffs, money, etc. This type of federalism government was created in order to stop one government from gaining too…