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receive care. A back injury and chronic arthritis prevents Phillip Willis from working, so he cannot afford the insurance to get back to work. The list of stories continues because of the failure of Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s governor, and the Tennessee state legislature to expand medicaid to the 280,000 people that fall into the legislative Medicaid gap. These people do not qualify for TennCare (Medicaid), do not make enough to buy subsidized plans on the…

Canada is one of the four countries in the world that have maintained a federal structure for more than 100 years (the rest are The United States of America, Switzerland and Australia). Like other true federations, Canada has a constitution that gives the legislative body of each of its federated states the exclusive power to adopt and enforce laws in its territory on a large number of subjects. Among the subjects that the Constitution attributes exclusively to "provincial" legislatures are…

Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny’s academic journal article, “The Economics of U.S Immigration Policy,” Orrenius and Zavodny state that Americans’ outlook on immigration vary from those who believe immigrants (legal and illegal) positively impact the economy and those who believe immigrants negatively impact the economy. Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny’s argue that the United States needs to implement an “immigration policy that addresses the concerns” about low-skill, unauthorized “immigration’s…

June 15, 2012 marked a very important milestone for the millions of undocumented students in the United States. It was on this date that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was announced. This executive order gave deportation relief to millions of students and allowed them to obtain a social security number, a work permit, and in most states, a driver’s license (Adams 50). A very important motive for this executive order was to facilitate undocumented students to pursue higher…

1980s and so on. According to conservatives what government the people need is best held in state and locality government. Conservative beliefs are complete opposite to that of liberals, such as in favor of a free market. Allowing businesses and corporations to do whatever they want works best for the people and Job opportunities. For the economy conservatives are in the favor of trickledown economics. Which states if the wealthy and corporations get huge tax breaks, they’ll create jobs and…

Peace, order and good governments in relation to a power struggle of jurisdiction. The whole case surrounds the question on whether the Attorney General, or the Attorney General of Canada should have the power to control the prosecution under the Federal Narcotics Control Act. It is a battle for powers of jurisdiction in regards to the criminal code, and more so the Narcotics Control Act; (NCA), 1961. The Narcotics Act was once Canada’s national drug control statue prior to its repeal in 1996…

dedication to provide open doors to immigrants, but it does not tell the whole-truth of the matter. To determine the validity Emma Lazarus’ Magnum Opus, one must look at the history of those immigrants, and how they have been treated in the United States. The United States has taken form due the cultures and experiences of immigrants from around the world. While the early years of immigration mostly consisted of Irish and English…

Private Prisons: Political and Practical Concerns The United States is a prison society. We have the second highest incarceration rate in the world (second to only the small island country of Seychelles), have almost as many current prisoners as China and Russia put together, and sentence convicts to longer sentences than most other governments (Walmsley, 2015; Human Rights Watch, 2014). We are the only country in the world that sentences minors to life without parole and, up until 2005, the law…

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States once said “A house divided against itself cannot stand (1).” This holds true as shown by the history of the United States. Much like a house, the US cannot hope to function if its states are asunder. As a response to this problem, the Founding Fathers created the Articles of Confederation. The Articles marked a leap forward to a stable government. Giving more power to the state governments was done in order to preserve the notion of…

The question is who rules or runs the United States and the easiest answer to this would be those who have money, money producing landowners and money producing business (Domhoff, 2012). In today’s society, this means that banks, corporations, agribusinesses, and big real estate developers, working independently on most policy matters, but combined with common issues such as taxes, opposing labor unions, and trade agreements with other countries set the rules these are areas where policy battles…