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the right to vote. The Federal government gained much more power than the individual states. Each one of these changes was viewed as a significant development and combined they amounted to a revolution. Even though the government was not overthrown, the short timeframe in which these monumental changes were made led to this time period being labeled as a revolution. In 1860, the largest constitutional problem was how much power should be given to the states and the Federal Government. Most…

Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government…

and role of the federal, state, and local authorities in times of disaster and emergency response to such disasters like Katrina. Under the systems or practice where more power is pushed to the federal government to spearhead and to always play the lead role is not a good idea and Katrina exposed the truth in that. In as much as federalism exist, Homeland security and the disaster management organization should operate or response to national disasters and not just act on federal missions.…

An Exemption for Whaling Do you agree with the Norwegian and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption? In 1986, The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whale hunting. Only two countries challenged this ruling - Norway and Iceland. They are the only two countries today that still practice whale hunting commercially. Japan practices whale hunting for “scientific” purposes. At this rate, there’s nothing cultural…

global responsibility to protect their resources. These questions of environmental effects versus economic effects should be settled through studies from an international body. A committee that has all ready been formed is the International Whaling Commission that was set up in 1946 by the United States. The IWC should have a panel of environmental scientists as well as representatives from each country seeking to hunt whales. That way you have opinions from all sides that would be affected by…

What is the Current Scottish Legal Aid Policy? Legal aid in Scotland is the responsibility of the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB), an institutional body created by the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (Scottish Legal Aid Board, 2016). The actions of SLAB are consistent and stable but the Scottish government decides the aims of legal aid policy and the Scottish Parliament can implement legislative changes to the policy (Edinburgh & Scottish Legal Aid Board, 2016). The Scottish Legal Aid Board…

that strives to provide guidance on all matters related to radiation protection. The organization is semi-governmental that was officially chartered by Congress in 1964 and independent from federal control. In this capacity; the NCRP has heavily influenced policy and practice…

The three international laws are, the International Whaling Convention (IWC), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) (Lang “Overview of Laws…”). The International Whaling Commission, or IWC, was established in 1946 to oversee the management of the industry worldwide. It was created in response to the rapid decline in population due to…

No, no way, the Canadian government shouldn't ban the seal hunt due to many reasons. I feel the main reasons are: we would lose resources that we acquire from the seals, due to the increase in population of the seals, fishes that we eat are decreasing in population some are even close to extinct, and that the media is going above and beyond by showing nonsense and causing people to act against the seal hunt which is hurting the economy, specially the fishermans. First of all the seals are…

Canadian Seal Hunt The famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai once said “Environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain our environment, we can not sustain ourselves” This has led me to the belief that the Canadian Seal hunt should not be banned because of the environmental benefits, economical benefits and the health benefits it provides that have been discovered through well developed research. Firstly, the seal hunt is balancing out the…