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causing discrimination against one another. Greenwald also states “Some of the surveillance was ostensibly devoted to terrorism suspects. But great quantities of the program manifestation have nothing to do with national security.” (94) In this quote Greenwald says that many of the programs have nothing to do with national security because they don’t just see the information or everything there surveillance is capturing the government is saving everything not for a day nor a week but for years…

Government Surveillance in America On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by terrorist groups in New York City by a terrorist group that cost thousands of lives. The acts of terrorism that happened in 2001 were followed by the U.S House writing an act that would be called “Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” or “The Patriot Act”. This act was eventually passed and put into effect. It being passed gave government intelligence agencies the power…

expected that each state would run its own marketplace, different from HealthCare.gov, this is not the case though, since many of the states decided to let the national government take care of the marketplace and to use the federal system. There are multiple reasons for this transition to a sole federal system and marketplace. One of the reasons is that state budgets do not have enough money in order to build the infrastructure it needs, and grants are virtually unavailable, so many states are…

between the federal, state and local government. The muslin of plain woven piece of fabric set the foundation of the structure garment of our government. The single sheet of muslin represents each state and its “reserved powers”, which are set aside for the…

Alameda County resides in the East Bay of California and is the fourth most racially diverse county in the United States (Narula, 2014). It comprises of 14 suburban cities and several unincorporated communities with an overall population of 1,610,921 and more than 12% are seniors aged 65 and older (175,320). Geographic isolation between some cities and an ever aging population makes public transportation a concern for the county and it’s stakeholders, especially in regard to the seniors and…

The United States government has, in recent years, become more and more infatuated with the idea of welfare. Citizens for the most part seem to be equally as in love with the idea as well because they think that it will solve the growing US poverty problem. However, studies have shown that not only does welfare hurt impoverished communities, it encourages poverty and government dependency. There are many social, economic, and political factors that play into this phenomena and it is hard to…

State versus Federal Government In the United States, there are two types of laws: state laws and federal laws. While many different states have different opinions on how their local governments should be run, they all follow federal laws. For example, in New York, you must be 21 years old if you want to buy cigarettes in Suffolk County. But in Onondaga, you only have to be 19. But that’s a state law only. The federal law on the other hand states that you must be at least 18 years old to…

developed in 1916, customs was the greatest source of income for our government (NMAI 2015). “It is located near the southern tip of Manhattan, next to Battery Park (New York Architecture 2015).” The building is actually on the site of where Fort Amsterdam used to be located. The federal government used to rent buildings which were previously constructed (New York Architecture). “In the early 19th century, however, the federal government began expanding and constructing…

Societies today are built on a form of social power. This power is typically handled in the form of government, but not all governments acquire power in legitimate ways. According to prominent sociologist Max Weber, there are only three legitimate avenues to social power: traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal. Traditional authority—or the ‘eternal yesterday’ as Weber puts it—is a dominant power which relies on tradition or custom. With this way of ruling, power is not challenged because…

State Versus FDA Regulation of Medical Marijuana There was a consensus amongst the interviewees that there is need for regulation of marijuana as medicine, whether that regulation be at the state or federal level—through the FDA—is where the conversations departed. While several of the interviewees discussed the pros and cons of state versus FDA regulation, listing advantages and disadvantages of one or the other, only three of the interviewees expressed a definite “yes” that marijuana as…