Legislator

The best approach for studying comparative politics is through an empirical inquiry rather than a normative one. Empirical inquiry is based on evidence while a normative is based off assumption. Researchers will often become biased when discovering something if they believe they already know the information. Normative inquiries are often based of what someone believes is right or wrong. An example of an inquiry question: Is having a president (United States) more effective than having a prime…

Legislators must understand that there are no political lines when it comes to our children education and every effort must be put to cut non-essential pork projects, and assign these monies to the future of the state. “Charters are considered public schools…

Florida’s legislature comprises of 120 lawmakers in the lower house and 40 in the upper house, making a total of 160 legislators. The Washington House, on the other hand, is constituted of 98 lawmakers in the lower house and 49 in the upper house, making a total of 147. The two states also slightly differ in the length of their legislative bodies and the term limit for which a legislature can serve. In both states at the upper houses, the elected lawmakers have a term lasting two years; however…

Congress takes on a very important job when they write up and vote on bills. Congress people can vote on bills based the popular majority of their constitutes making them representatives, or they can be trustees and act according to their own opinions while voting on a bill. Some Congress people may use both styles at different times when voting on bills or they may use neither style. By using neither style they would not vote the way the people want or based upon their own view of what is best…

A linkage institution can be described as a structure within a society that links people to the government which helps set and further the political agenda of the American people. There are many different types of linkage institutions and many different ways that they can link people to the political process. Political parties and interest groups are two examples of linkage institutions that link people to the government. Political parties are groups of people that influence government by…

by explicitly identifying cyberbullying as a proscribed behavior, but they need to move beyond the behaviors that occur on school grounds or those that utilize school-owned resources. But in order to do this they need guidance from their state legislators and Departments of Education so that they draft a policy and procedure that will be held up in court. School, technology, and privacy lawyers disagree about what should (or must) be in a policy. It’s no wonder many educators are simply…

he wanted to emphasize and who those points were directed to. What I found was that Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for the social, political, and economic equality of African Americans by involving different audiences such as blacks, allies, legislators, and opponents to black freedom whom he knew would hear the speech either in person or through the media to join him in his dream of a better America. He hoped to see a world: where people of all races can have an equal opportunity to voice…

This inability to challenge the majority is what allows the majority to make a tyrannical approach in endangering the democracy of America. The legislators buy into this tyranny of the majority because they both agree with the majority and want to please the people that put them into office. This favoritism of the majority is not only secluded to certain people or parties, as Tocqueville claims, “all…

abide to the standards set forth onto them from the founders of the Constitution. The founders had set these standards, or roles, to ensure the freedom of the people by having them have control of their rights in the nation verse the government. Legislators voted for senators before the citizens did because it was believed that this would approve with the Constitution and relieve pressure off of the appointed officials from the people. Before this amendment was ratified, several concerns about…

The Half Has Never Been Told Study Questions Responses 1) Many white historians participated in the practice of “historical erasure.” By denying the importance of blacks’ contributions to the making and sustainability of America’s economic empire, it supports their false sense of American exceptionalism and individualism, and it tethers the notion that the Civil War was about slavery, a historical assessment that gives too much credence to the importance of blacks to American culture,…