United States federal legislation

It all comes down to what prison is open and available for a new inmate. The Trump Administration, through the Bureau of Prisons, has issued a memo ordering federal prisons to submit eligible inmates to private contracted facilities. The memo calls for the trasnfer of low-security male non-United States citizens with 90 months or less remaining on their sentences to transfer to a private facility, to combat the issue of overcrowding, as well as to maximize the effectiveness of…

transport, the production, and sale of alcohol illegal. Congress also passed the Volstead Act that enacted to carry out the Eighteenth Amendment which officially started prohibition in the United States. Though this law was not well enforced it did work in some areas but not all and it created other problems the federal government had to deal with. People in the 1920s always…

Roosevelt was elected into office with a proposal to his new plan, the New Deal. His plan was to help the people of the United States in their time of need and increase the value of the economy. Soon Roosevelt signed into law, legislation to fix the banking crisis and the stock market. He also signed into law plans to help the unemployed in the cities and the United States’ farmers. To do this Roosevelt had to pass several bills. These bills were passed in order to reduce unemployment,…

Public policymaking in United States has three important phases; policy formulation phase, policy implementation phase and policy modification phase. All three phases are affected by social and biological impacts. All phases are dynamic because policies can be amended or repelled at any time under the right circumstances. Policymaking depends on the constant feedback from each phase to enhance the process. Policy formulation phase proceeds to policy implementation phase with the legislation's…

INTRODUCTION The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force on New Year’s Day 1994. The signatory members are the United States, Mexico, and Canada. While the purpose of NAFTA is to promote investment in those regions, the treaty does not confirm if water is a saleable good. The text fails to mention the word “water,” but nor does it expressly prohibit transactions involving the natural resource. This terse dichotomy leads to the following issue. The issue is whether…

since a democracy is not a unknown concept for them, but the success of democracy depend on whether the United States take into consideration the unique social and communal population or the system was chosen because it have been prove to work for them. A confederation is an alliance of sovereign states united for common objectives, this system is supposed to unite the different colonies, states or factions. This system also benefits the smaller factions due the use of a single vote, each…

Are the Democratic and Republican parties one in the same? Presently in the United States, our political system consists of two major political organizations, which are referred to as parties. These two parties are known as the Democratic party and the Republican party. Both parties have been in existence since the early to late 1800’s and have become the cornerstones of how our government legislates, both foreign and domestic. Each party has its own unique platform and identify themselves…

While the United States and Canada are bordering countries that share a continent their governments are quite different. The United States government runs on a presidential institutional system with a single member district. The United States has a federal government which allows power to be divided by the national government and local governments. However, Canada is fairly different. Canada operates on a parliamentary institutional system with a single member district. Canada also has a federal…

immigrants. The article, Should states crack down on unlawful aliens written by Kenneth Jost, examines how the actions taken by Federal and State authorities in an effort to curb illegal immigration have caused the political values of security and equality to conflict with each other. Civil rights advocates argue that legislation that allows for the profiling of individuals suspected of being in the country illegally…

is clear and evident that there must be an alternative solution. The alternative answer is medical cannabis oil. However, the state where the child lives has laws to prevent the child from receiving this alternative medication. Worldwide, including India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, medical marijuana is permitted for medical purposes (Newitt). Newitt states, “The marijuana plant has been cultivated practically…