Federal government

are more closely aligned with the cooperative (marble cake) model because it supports a stronger national government (Lecture 3 Federalism).Dual federalism implies the existence of distinct layers of government, each with powers in their own spheres; these powers are not mixed or shared (represented by the layer-cake metaphor). For example in the the layer cake model the national government rules by enumerated powers only (supported by the Tenth Amendment),has a limited set of constitutional…

The federalists supported the idea of stronger power concentrated at the federal government. They believed in a strong central government that would rule the people of the United States directly, have great power and control almost all issues within the country. They perceived it as the most effective way to keep order and to protect citizens’ rights. The idea of weak central government and different sets of rules for every state seemed to them disastrous as the nation would not…

pledged to stop and prevent immigration and acceptance of Syrian refuges, however, refugee resettlement and immigration in general is not a state issue as set by a Supreme Court precedent and thus this will lead to confrontations between sate and federal powers. The Syrian Civil War is a currently ongoing situation that is essentially a humanitarian crisis. The ongoing civil war consists of the Free Syrian Army who s trying to overthrow the current president Bashar al-Assad, and while many would…

learning about the goals and the shortcomings of the Articles notifies future Americans of what they could do to make America better without repeating what happened in the past. The goals of the Articles of Confederation was to prevent the central government from having a lot of power. Under the Articles Congress had the power “to declare war and make peace, to make treaties and alliances, to coin or borrow money, and to…

minimum wage is only $7.25 per hour, so if you do the math that means you can only earn $14,500 per year on a 40 per week, minimum wage job. To begin, if minimum wage was enough, than we would not have minimum wage workers that seek and qualify for government assistance. For example, a McDonald’s employee named Andrew Olson, makes $8.06 per hour while his wife is making minimum wage at Dollar Tree. He says, “Tax payers shouldn’t have to pay for what we need to survive”. If tax payers have to pay…

the New Deal, Congress passed the Act to simplify the process of amassing debt by instead setting an overall dollar limit on the national debt. This new mechanism simplified the spending process, and helped ensure fiscal responsibility of the federal government. However, this changed…

Federal Budget Process The federal budget process is a drawn out, monotonous and intricate process. Both the executive and legislative branch work together to complete this process, many times taking up to 17 months for the budget to even come into office. Budgets are important regarding the spending of the government just as much as the aspect of raising revenue. Depending on which budget is trying to be obtained, will differentiate between the budget steps that will need to take place. The…

or think twice about the detrimental effects that our lifestyles and everyday habits have on the oceans, let alone any other ecosystem or even the Earth, for that matter. I hope to find that maybe we as citizens are slightly responsible, for the government has proposed and signed into law quite a few acts that have promoted the marine conservation movement. Marine conservation is a term used to describe…

The United States government is comprised of three main branches of government; the executive, legislative and judicial branch. Every branch has a specific function that contributes to the system in its entirety. The executive branch is headed by the President of the United States and implements and enforces laws which are created by the legislative branch. The judicial branch interprets laws and determines their constitutionality. The legislative branch creates laws, a power granted through the…

an authority figure with enough perceived power tells people to change their behavior about something and the people then obey. An example of obedience is: the federal government requiring U.S. automakers to increase the average fuel economy of all their cars from 27.5 miles per gallon-37.8 miles per gallon by 2016. The federal government said “change” so the automakers then obeyed. Normative social influence is when an individual changes his or her behavior just to match another person’s…