Transitional Federal Government

In 1883, Federal Law created the Civil Service Reform Act, which also has the name the Pendleton Act. Due to its design, incompetence, theft, corruption, graft widespread in the federal agencies and federations had to be eradicated. The Pendleton Act created the Civil Service Commission (CSC) whose duties were to streamline the merit and judicial systems. As the act’s major achievement, it set a basis of ensuring rights of federal employees, and further amendments refined the process by…

evening. Tonight, I want to talk about the debate we've been having in America over the national debt -- a debate that directly affects the lives of all Americans. For the last decade, we have spent more money than we take in. In the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus. But instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts, while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our nation's credit card. As a…

Kike Aurelus Dr. William Geeslin POS-2041 US Government November 2, 2014 Federalism is the system of government that divides the power or governing between a national/ federal government and the regional/state governments. According to our United States Constitution a fundamental part of American government is the federalism system. The states are not just regional representatives of the federal government but have their own independent powers and responsibilities. As long as they do not…

school, even within city limits. The state of California bases much of its allocation of funds on local property taxes, test scores, and student attendance. A school in an area with lower average home value also receives fewer funds from the state government and therefore reduces the number of special programs that a school can offer, which can be detrimental to students of lower socio-economic backgrounds and disproportionately affects youth of color. Students in these areas may also score…

among the American people and the states. In fact, many state legislatures have adopted term limits for their legislatures. The broad support for term limits shows that the American people are ready for change and are not satisfied with their current federal legislature. A quote from an article on Congressional term limit supports this stating, “Virtually all supporters of term limits, including those in Congress, favor two-term limits in the Senate. The conflict is over the House…

“Government is best which governs least” according to the article “Civil Disobedience,” by Henry David Thoreau. In this article, Thoreau also mentioned that he believes that government is best when it governs not at all. However when a government governs not at all, then there exist chaos and war. But a government that governs least is a government that many people will agree is the best type of government. This type of government allows people absolute freedom. Not freedom per say, but…

every individual an idissoluble association between his own happiness and the good of the whole” (Mill, pg. 108). This is quite the opposite of Locke, who argues government is formed by a people who give up some rights in order to protect their interest alone (Knoebel). To achieve Mill’s ideal requires a constant evaluation of government policies and procedures, as well as the political climate of the nation. For reasons to be explained accordingly, it should first be stated that President…

less likely to interfere or challenge the United States. As that was the case, the Progressives did not have to worry about foreign issues and could concentrate on furthering their movement. Also, by making the US a world power, it made the federal government stronger, meaning that Roosevelt could now help the Progressive movement advance even more. So, if Roosevelt never ended up as president, he would have never made the United States a world power, and without that power the Progressives…

president to release the tapes to government investigators. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Watergate scandal is a proof about nobody is above the law even the president, and the Supreme Court has the power to check the power on executive branch. As the secret of Nixon was revealed to the public which frustrated many people, so people had ordered judicial branch to investigate the crime of Nixon, and that forced him to resign. By the freedom of press, government can’t hide their crime away…

secrecy. This is the essence of what Hobbes envisioned with the “social contract” When our fore fathers envisioned the master plan for government and citizens’ rights, they envisioned a country that modeled John Locks theory of natural rights. The architects of the U.S. Constitution sought to protect individual citizen’s rights and limit the ability of the U.S Government to infringe on individual citizen’s rights. Passing a law that requires individual citizens to submit too and surrender the…