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    The United States of America is one among the states that have the most powerful form of government. Notably, the American government commonly referred as American Federal Government has the best administrative policies. The American Federal Government has three main branches and each branch has powers delegated to it by the constitution. The core founders of this nation sought to ensure that each branch had its powers to exercise and that the branches relied on each other (separation of powers)…

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    In order for a bill to become a law it must first be passed within both of the chambers of Congress, The House of Representatives and the Senate. First and foremost, the two chambers vary within size and term lengths, the House has 435 congressmen with two-year terms and the Senate has 100 Senators with six year terms. Both chambers have different rules and procedures to pass bills through. The House is the “peoples party” and in session, Monday through Thursday whereas the Senate operates…

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    WEEK 8 REFLECTION Is lawmaking a procedural or political process? How? Lawmaking is a political process. It starts with a bill etering the House abs the Senate. The bill is then referred to the sub-committee for for hearings and mark-ups. After that the bill is returned to the House and Senate Floor for debate and amendments. Then to the Conference committee for reconciliation of the differences between House and Senate. If majority of conferees from each body approves the reconciled bill it…

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    including documents and journals. This paper looks at the works of many prominent publishers such as Frank E. Gannet, Leslie and Wynell Burroughs, National Constitution Center, the Constitution of the United States, National Conference of State Legislatures, Parlament and National Archives. While this paper shows that the separation of powers is important in government, it also proves how they provide “checks and balances” of each other. The Three Powers: Legislative, Executive and…

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    improvement… distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges, holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature, by deputies of their own election…” (FP pg. 38). Federalists argued the structure prevented abuse of power by dividing it amongst three separate branches, but also by forcing the branches to check one another’s ambitions, forcing them to work…

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    Over the last decades, culture negotiation has been proven to be one of the fastest growing changing systems in business, politics and education around the world. There are many styles of different cultures and different ways on how that nation negotiates. Some negotiation is according to region, nationality and language spoken. I have noticed the U.S. negotiating system is a lot more different than Kenya Africa, in the legal system business, communication skills and education system. In the…

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    How effective is Parliament at carrying out its various functions? Parliament’s three main functions are representation, scrutiny and legislation. The effectiveness of representation would be that parliament and the parties within represent their constituents and sections of society and voice their opinions and queries often. The effectiveness of scrutiny in parliament involves the studying of a proposed legislation in detail to ensure that it is in the nation’s interest and that it is in…

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    Separation of Powers, however, no group can have more than one of these duties. Only through the joined use of all three can the government use force. By obliging the assent of every one of the three branches, it improves the probability that the legislature won 't violence force. There are various approaches to separate the forces of three branches The US, for instance, requires those that proclaim war to be not the same as those that execute the war. Just by joining the two the war can be…

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    The first reason is because of how the three branches of government are set up in the United States of America which is the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. The main roles of these three branches are that the legislature branch…

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    of Representative. When people think of the word congress they most likely think of this definition, but congress is so much more. The US Congress is the reason we have all the laws that keep us safe. The word congress means coming together and legislature means making law, which put together congress means coming together to make laws, which is exactly what they do. Congress is a locally elected body of government that makes national policy. Which leads to congressional districts; Congressional…

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