trafficking continues to become a huge concern for the United States and its surrounding borders. The United States provides estimates of 600,000 to 800,000 personnel are trafficked over international borders a year (Human Trafficking: Better data, strategy, and reporting needed to enhance U.S. anti-trafficking efforts abroad 2006, pg. 1). However the Department of Homeland Security along with several other entities to included federal and state law enforcement agencies, U.S. government…
As technology evolves, so will the methods that criminals and terrorists utilize to achieve a personal gain. In the United States and throughout the most countries, technology plays a significant role in the way our economy operates, how cities obtain power, and how information is shared. If technology was used to disrupt this state of living, this could lead to a detrimental chain of events that could cripple the very existence of how we live. The technology we rely upon has numerous…
It would not be possible to find representatives who are familiar with all parts of the continent. Our state governments should guard our interests and rights. They would understand the people so they could more closely relate with them. The experience of local government in the New World is very appealing. The result of such a government would be a completely…
This is a story of two distant friends, Katrina and Ricardo, who live in the states of Nebraska and Florida respectively, and who share a close relationship but find themselves on two diametrically opposed sides of the ever ongoing socio-political debate in American politics. We are opposite on various social,economic, and political issues relevant to today’s American society. I am a conservative and she is a liberal. Katrina was born and currently lives in the small Nebraskan city of Bellevue.…
Does national security override free speech? In the case of Snowden, Manning and Assange, they each leaked classified documents to the public under the name of free speech. Is this actually classified as free speech? According to J.S Mills, if it doesn’t cause physical harm to a populace, then it is classified as ‘free speech’ and so the leakage of government documents is allowed in accordance to Mills’ theory on free speech. Mills does not include psychological harm to anyone in his definition…
the thirteen colonies of the United States of America yearned to form a government that would essentially replace the British system. The first attempt of restitution began with the Founding Fathers’ and their deliverance of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was “a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens (Articles)”…
John Locke Although not American, John Locke, born in England in 1632 and studied at the Christ Church University, is one of the profound English philosophers of the time. His influences are thought to have largely influenced Europe, as especially clearly identified in the French Enlightenment, in governance ways and consequently, mostly affected the forms of governance throughout Europe. The French and the British people adopted his ideas, especially in management (Frecknall-Hughes 1).…
Different parties have very different views. Especially the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. Federalists believed in a strong national government run by wealthy, educated men. Democratic-Republicans believed in strong state governments run by the people. Their opposite views came into conflict many times. The Federalists wanted a strong national government that was run by wealthy, educated men. They believed that these people would make good decisions. They also wanted to…
regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and among several States, and with the Indian Tribes”. Commerce clause can be defined in the constitution as any business or commercial exchanges in any forms between citizens of different states which includes social communication between citizens of different states by telephone or radio, and person from one state to another for either business or pleasure. It was created to eliminate the rivalry among the states that had intense commercial advantage due…
imperialism was Anna Manning Comfort who is the author of Home Burdens of Uncle Sam, in which she talks about how the United States shouldn’t interfere with other countries as there are already many things going on within its own territory. However on the opposite side Rudyard Kipling, who is the author of White Man’s Burden, argues in favor of imperialism as he encourages the United States to take up the “burden”. Lastly, Jules Ferry was the French Minister who wrote Speech…