Transitional Federal Government

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…

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 medicine needs to be regulated through the FDA and nine expressed a strong conviction that, if federal prohibition were to end, the regulation needs to…

powers between the state government and the federal government. It is important in a democracy for the powers to be equally distributed, for if one person in the government takes total control, it would no longer be a democracy. A government with too much power isn’t a good thing, for the society itself would change. One of the main things that helps our society balance the powers between the governments are the three divisions of government. The three branches of government consist of the…

beliefs in the principle of popular government and their opposition to monarchism. Democrats won every presidential election in the years of 1836-60, but the slavery issues split the party. Both these parties often have different views on how the country should be run and different outlooks on political issues. With these two parties there is still one that is rarely spoken of one of which is the Federalist. The Federalist are supporters of the United States government a U.S. political party…

Is torture acceptable? Is it effective? Many Americans are asking these questions in response to the American Government recently issuing its first open admission to the use of torture in pursuit of intelligence. Torture has historically involved inflicting physical pain until the individual if willing to cooperate but in recent decades the use of psychological, or “no-touch”, torture has become the go to interrogation method when trying to persuade enemy combatants to cooperate (Welch, 2009)).…

over the world” (Chomsky 77). According to Chomsky the U.S. treats immigrants badly. For example, “People of African origin were nonpersons for the federal government, also they criminalized those who treated blacks as human beings rather than as property” (Chomsky 79). Notably, the U.S. government has taken racism as normal issue. The U.S. government force the people to act and react in certain ways in order discriminate any person that do not follow the “white standards”. According to Chomsky…

and work experience (“US Welfare System - Help for US Citizens”). Government assistance programs were first put together to lead aid recipients to career objectives and unsubsidized employment. Welfare does not work like that today in modern day society. Welfare is an expansive system designed to help those in need get back on their feet, not to provide for those in poverty for the rest of their life. Last year, the federal government spent $4.8 trillion on assistance programs. Most of that…

Do you think guns should be banned in the United States? According to the National center for Injury Prevention and Control, “Every day on average, 55 people kill themselves with a firearm, and 46 people are shot or killed in an accident with a gun.” My own experience supports this viewpoint. My grandmother easily feels threatened by guns. Once when she was going to get out of her car, somebody put a gun to her head. However, he fled quickly because of a crowd of people. Guns can be scary and…

Why then does the American government show such little responsibility with the great power they possess? The concept of freedom has been a contested subject for ages in the United States. It has assumed various meaning during the different stages of the American history. Mass surveillance has become a tool of political domination. However, technologies being used to monitor people. During the era of the founding fathers, it stood for liberation from political authoritarianism. Freedom in the…