1) What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? No executive branch no national courts unicameral Congress required 9/13ths vote no power to levy taxes 2) Discuss the 3/5ths and Great compromises in detail. 3/5ths Each slave count as 3/5 of vote Used as a tool to get slave states to ratify Great compromise Aka Connecticut Compromise Created bicameral Congress House = population Senate = equal Compromise between Virginia and New Jersey plans 3) What framers…
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Federalism In Welfare Programs POL 201 August 15, 2013 Federalism and Welfare Programs This essay is to inform you of federal policy issues involving welfare causing conflicting debates between national, state, and local government and how these conflicting issues relate to federalism. Federalism is “A government system where power and authority are shared by national and states governments, with the ultimate authority derived from the people. (Levin-Waldman, 2012). This paper will also describe…
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Midterm There are many factors that affect how people act or define what they do within the political world. Most people are not born into the political genre that the eventually become accustom to, some follow in the footstep of parents while some choose their own path. An example of this is those who tend to want to save every penny of their money, are deeply into budgeting and preserving the necessities, sticking to traditional values and attitudes are usually republican. The mindset of such…
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The Federalism of Unemployment Insurance Federalism has become increasingly more noticeable in America over the past few decades. States are increasingly trying to hold on to their powers and the Federal Government seems to be increasingly ready to take over local issues. One of the issues that has seen growing tension between Federal, State and Local Government is Unemployment Insurance. In a time when the economy is on the downslope and people are having more and more difficulty keeping jobs…
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2. On the Constitution and its Purpose: Discuss the American brand of democracy characterized by constitutionalism, federalism, and separation of powers. How do these attributes enable the American government to function effectively for the welfare of its citizens and its national defense? Pull from Federalist 10 and 51 as well as our other readings to date. The Democratic Party develops their ideas on a basis that we are better together than on our own. They central their ideas…
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legal drinking age to fit with the time. In 1984 congress passed the Minimum Drinking act, which mandated every state to pass a law to make the MDLA 21 again (Levin-Waldman 2012). This mandate by the federal government was backed up by using Fiscal federalism. The Government bullied the states into complying with their regulations because, the 21st amendment says States have the right to regulate alcohol. With this fact in mind ,the Federal Government passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, which provided…
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What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of federalism for the United States? Compare American federalism with other systems of government (i.e., unitary and confederal)? Federalism is our system of government in which power is distributed between a central governing authority and sub-divisional (state) governing authorities. While it may seem that only lately there has been a significant debate over the role of government and their scope of power, in reality federalism has always been…
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states the authority to control the purchase and possession of alcohol inside its own borders, the MLDA Act required them to implement a minimum drinking age of 21. This act clearly raises issues of federalism because it required the national, state and local governments interaction in order to enforce what should have been an issue left strictly to the states control under the 10th Amendment. However, by using “carrots and sticks” so to speak, the national government was able to leverage influence…
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Everyone will not have the same views on the ideals and values but the majority of people subscribe to these Ideals such as liberty, equality, democracy, independence, and even individualism. The American political system has pros and cons to it, such circumstances like Federalism in early America which was a pro at that time, but it also prevented an establishment of a national policy. Who were the minority of early America? or the limitations in the government, even the ties that capitalism had to liberalism in early…
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Thomas Jefferson – greatly influenced by Locke; changed rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; furthered idea of natural rights- it was gov.’s job to secure these and if it failed people had right to form new gov.; consent of govern was what made gov. legitimate. Articles of Confederation- the 1st document to govern of the United States, adopted by Congress in 177 and enacted in 1781; established a national legislature (Continental Congress) but left states with most power; nation…
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