Federal Election Campaign Act

against the Federal Election Commission; the case went to the Supreme Court, who ruled in Citizens United’s favor. This case reignited a long debate between republicanism and free speech. The rise of the Industrial Revolution led to several concerns over the corporal influences and the quid pro quo corruption in politic. Since President Teddy Roosevelt’s administration, Congress has imposed regulations on the finance of federal election campaign to prevent such corruption, such as the Federal…

I decided to watch two commercials on Justin Trudeau and I'm actually quite impressed with the idea and message behind both of them. The first commercial I watched was “Escalator-Harder to Get Ahead”. Personally, I found that using the escalator to portray his thoughts was interesting. He stated that Harper is just causing the Canadian economy to move backwards due to the benefits he gives the wealthy and how he gives cuts to everything else. Next, he uses the escalator stopping to show that…

Amendment also apply to corporations. The result of this is a lack of separation between the two, while in reality, the interests that a corporation has are far different than those of the individual. It is assumed that small donations from a person to a campaign will overall not affect the races as a…

In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court Citizens United ruling struck down the ban on limiting corporate and union contributions and financing of elections. This ruling unleashed a wave of unlimited spending on political ads and other strategic to support candidates and/or damage the image of opposition candidates. The court decision was divided in a 5-4 vote. Essentially, this decision made it permissible for corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums of money on efforts to sway…

Political corruption is always brought up during election season and seemingly everyone has their own fix. Corruption today can be quickly discovered if one just follows the trail of dark money. Funds given to a politician from a corporation, whether in a campaign or as lobbying, is referred to as dark money by liberal politicians. Citizens United V. FEC was a supreme court case which ruled that money is speech and thus corporations can give endless sums of money to politicians under their…

becomes less responsive towards the majority of its citizens, limiting legislation that could be passed to help remedy current and future issues (Douglas, 2007). It’s been found that the funds given to campaigns from the individual voter to large corporation has little affect on swaying the elections, but that it’s not accounting for the money flowing in,…

Financing Since 1997, the OASDI program have always placed a requirement for their workers and their employers and self-employed persons to pay taxes on every earning to cover jobs up to the annual taxable maximum. Amounts are automatically adjusted as wages continue to rise. There are two separate trust funds that funds are placed in; the OASI Trust Fund and the DI Trust Fund. All the money that is received by the trust funds is usually used to pay the benefits and operating expenses of the…

The Food and Drug Administration, established June 30th 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley, is an essential part of our federal government. It began after the Food and Drug act was passed in 1906. It was intended to regulate misbranded food and drugs (The History of FDA's Fight for Consumer Protection and Public Health) and has evolved into what it is now, regulating everything from food to supplements to cosmetics to pacemakers. The FDA consists of one commissioner and…

The Pure food and drug act was and still is a needed policy for our relatively young nation, because if it wasn’t instated we would still be consuming Chalked thinned milk and Diseased meat from improper food processing and sale of these botched products. This improper use or mishaps still happen to this modern day and this act has been in effect since 1906 just a little over a hundred years. Considering the most recent contamination of this is with iceberg and romaine lettuce and it was four…

Before the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed by the United States law in 1976, the human population was believed to have been exposed to a multitude of chemical substances and mixtures. These chemicals were beginning to cause a lot of health problems to humans. This caused the lawmakers to believe that among the substances that are being constantly developed and produced, there are some whose manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use or disposal may present an unreasonable…