Referendum

Fraud Case Analysis Rita Crundwell started working for the City of Dixon’s finance department as a high school student, but she eventually became the city’s treasurer and comptroller in 1983. Seven years after her appointment, she began a twenty-two-year fraud scheme that enabled her to embezzle approximately $54 billion dollars from the taxpayers she was serving. To embezzle the municipality’s funds unnoticed, Crundwell discretely opened a bank account at the Fifth and Third Bank…

Key Terms: Reservation System - After the strained relationships between the Native Americans and the Americans, the reservation system was developed. It gave Native Americans a certain plot of land which the American government urged the Native Americans to stay on. Battle of the Little Bighorn - Before this battle, the Native Americans had wiped out 250 Americans including Colonel George Custer. The United States military was then called in order to seek revenge. This was the short period of…

Have you ever wondered how the noun and verb form of the word camp could differ? How is it possible to have a noun and verb for of the same word? Although that may seem outrageous there are plenty of words that have a noun and verb form that are closely related to each other. For example; record, escort, insult, crash, phone, shop, etc all have a noun and verb form and this list could go on-and-on. Today we will focus on analyzing the word 'camp'. To begin our analyzation on the word 'camp' we…

identity has been the topic of discourse for the greater part of five decades. On 26th October 2017, the 32nd anniversary of Uluru being returned to its traditional owners, the Turnbull government formally rejected the key recommendation of the Referendum Council. The recommendation proposed the “Makarrata Commission”, which would advise Parliament on laws which impact Indigenous Australians, as well as supervise…

The 1970’s was a time where democracy in states increased almost exponentially. A wave of democracy was swept across countries and states, either repairing or destroying an already broken government system. “In 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries were dictatorships; today, more than half are democracies” (Diamond). This growth in democracy is incomparable to any other time period, and is the largest humanity has ever seen. There has been much change to government systems since the 70’s.…

Alexis Tsipras caved. He swapped bailout for more festering pain exacted externally, rather than suffer pain on Greece’s own terms. Bailout equals austerity. But the price is higher taxes and spending cuts that will benefit international creditors. These austerity measures will have very predictable effects on the Greek economy. Austerity is the new dominant macroeconomic zeitgeist, having supplanted Keynesian economics. Austerity has become the policy of choice anywhere when economies are in…

Analyze and evaluate Rousseau’s argument that public discourse is more likely to lead legislation away from the general will than toward it. Do you agree with this argument? If not, why not? If so, under what conditions? Introduction and Thesis In Rousseau’s On the Social Contract, he makes the argument that public discourse and debate is likely to lead the legislative body away from the general will rather than towards it. This paper makes an agreement with Rousseau’s assertion and argument…

The aboriginal civil rights movement is a triumph of the human spirit. The aboriginal civil rights movement is a triumph of the human spirit, though it has its shortcomings. The aboriginal civil rights movement achieved many things politically and socially with the help of significant people and there are some things we are yet to achieve. Firstly, the aboriginal civil rights movement 's political achievements meaning achievements that directly relate to law and legislation, are extremely…

the execution by Regall Authority without consent of parliament is illegal”. This implemented the significance of parliamentary supremacy in New Zealand, the executive are not able to disregard statutes. Another import statute was the Electoral Referendum Act 1993 proposed the introduction of MMP, the pressure of multi-party government under MMP has imposed a significant restraint on executive power it decreases likelihood to pass controversial or unpopular policies quite as easy as was…

In 1978 Iran suffered the first televised modern religious revolution the world had ever seen. It was a time where the leader thought more of his country that the people did themselves. The Islamic revolution was a subject of a popular uprising that took place in Iran for two years (1978-79); it mainly resulted in the overthrowing of the Shah monarchy. On April 1st Islam became the first the Islamic state, with Ayatollah Khomeini as its lifelong leader. The revolution in Iran was the result…