released to the public, ruining his reputation. No one believed their beloved president would end up to have one of the most corrupt terms in United States history. While he never took part in these scandals himself, many people appointed by Harding were convicted for multiple charges. Warren Gamaliel Harding, was the 29th President of the United States. He was elected president in 1920 by an overwhelming vote in a postwar…
Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon Court: United States Supreme Justice rendered the final decision in the case. Citation: The citation given to the case was 515 U.S. 687 (1995) Parties and their roles: (the plaintiff) consisted of Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon along with several lawn-care owners. These plaintiffs pursued criminal charges due to the Secretary of the Interior and Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) about the definition term of…
extends out of the 1938 amendment regarding tribe royalties. A coal lease involving the Peabody Coal Company and the Navajo Nation (United States v. Navajo Nation). Navajo Nation is a federally recognized Indian tribe within the United States. Better known as the Indian Mineral Leasing Act of 1938 (IMLA) (United States v. Navajo Nation). The Secretary of the Interior approved an amendment to the lease which allows Indian tribes to lease mining rights on their tribal land to private companies.…
The original bureaucracy of the federal government consisted only of employees from three small departments, State, Treasury, and War. The executive branch employs today almost three million people. Not only have the numbers of bureaucrats grown, but also the methods and standards for hiring and promoting people have changed dramatically. Given the size of the bureaucracy, it is difficult to imagine a statistically typical bureaucrat. As a whole, however, the permanent bureaucracy is more…
Fall had one reason for losing his integrity; he was greedy. He let his need for greed roam free and it destroyed his moral character. In addition to destroying his integrity, he destroyed people’s trust in him, one being the President of the United States, he gained control of the oil reserves and lost them, and then he was found guilty because of his heinous crimes. Fall’s desire for money grew when he was a child due to the lack of his family’s money. Albert Fall was born in Frankfort,…
war for the United States. Also this order took away the Constitutional rights of American citizens, the foundation of the United States of America. Lastly one of the main factors President Roosevelt used to order this order was listed under false pretenses and highly exaggerated to the point where Roosevelt felt it necessary to order the Executive Order 9066. During the early years of World War II, Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes in the Pacific Coast states because…
The United States Department of the Interior is responsible for the conservation and or management of the natural resources and most of the land. Within the Department of Interior is the bureau of Indian Affairs, it’s one of the oldest bureaus in the Department of Interior; they handle some of the federal affairs with Native Americans. Civil rights is what we have been fighting for since the beginning of time. Each step we have took in life has made baby steps to our new and improved future with…
My national park was Mount Rainier National Park, Mount Rainier is one of the oldest national parks in the United States, Mount Rainier itself is at about 1 million years old. Mount Rainier is also Washington’s tallest peak, and it has the 17th highest summit in the United States, its summit is about 14,410 feet; Mount Rainier National Park itself was founded in 1885. Mount Rainier is actually an active volcano, but the snow covers up the lava underpinnings. Mount Rainier also use to have life…
duties that help make the democracy of the United States of America work. The Legislative branch’s main duty is to write the laws for the United States. The Executive branch’s main duty is to enforce the laws of this country. The main duty of the Judicial branch is to interpret the laws of the United States, with the body of the Judicial branch being the Supreme Court. The Legislative branch has the difficult duty of writing the laws for the United States, although that is not all they do, they…
regulation of federal government agencies. Such agencies are delegated certain power by Congress to act as agents for the executive . For example, according to 38 U.S. Code § 301 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is an executive department of the United States that holds the power to administer laws that provide benefits and other services to veterans and their beneficiaries . The goal of administrative law is to provide important concepts and aspects as to what laws and legal principles…