To Serve and Protect The police role and how they use their power To Serve and Protect others suggests two important facets of police work it’s centrally protective role and it’s service orientation. Do police protect and serve everybody equally? Protect the community fairly? Which community? For both good and bad reasons, American society does not comprise a single community but many and though these communities overlap and intersect in many ways they are often separated and ranked. Unarmed…
Dylan J. Lovas. HIST 3401. Professor Warren. Bill of Rights Report. · The Fourth Amendment protects American citizens’ “houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” This means that if a government official or police officer wants to search your person or your property, he/she cannot do so without a judicial warrant and/or probable cause. · Back during the colonial era, King George would often give British soldiers “writs of assistance.” These were…
Roles of a Citizen in a Democracy A Democracy is a type of government that is for the people to choose their leaders and to hold their leaders accountable for their policies and their conduct in office. The people are the ones who decide what they want and who they want to represent them, usually by a majority vote. But who exactly are these people? We refer to them as citizens of where ever they are from. We are citizens of the United States of America and we also live in a democracy. As citizens…
America, most respond with the land of opportunity, land of the free, and the pursuit of happiness. People living in poverty from all different countries across the world dream about migrating to America for a better life. But how difficult is it to actually become an American Citizen? In the book, “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez, the author puts together short stories of his life from a family of undocumented immigrants of Mexico trying to cross the border to California; in hope to pursue their dream…
Professor Trout American National Government 4 December 2013 Is American Democracy Working? American democracy is one of the very calm kinds of government in the world while it is a long way from ideal. The American democracy in which we exist has several strengths and weaknesses. Neither strengths or weaknesses out weigh one another, however it is important to have both due to the changing definitions. A democracy is a government…
Amber Champion December 1, 2012 SPC 2608 In today’s society there seems to be many different restrictions in place. Many people would say too many. For example, restrictions on the minimum age requirement before you are allowed to drive a vehicle, minimum height requirements for children and adults in order to be able to ride a roller-coaster, and how old you have to be in order to legally be allowed to consume alcoholic beverages. Although, many of these restrictions are in place to…
United States of America Citizen on a daily whether it is positively or negatively, this sentence should represent democracy and equality, sadly it isn’t the case. In a democratic country people are all under the law and no one is considered above the law but many have experienced that contradict itself America is the land of the free and home of the brave but overtime we’ve all watched democracy being more about special interest instead of public interest, . many citizen are downhearted with the…
newsletters, tax press and other print publications. Social Media : It is the terms used to describe the new generation of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies. Examples are internet forums, blogs, wikis, and picture, music and video-sharing. Examples of social media applications are Google Groups, Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, youTube, Flickr, and Twitter. Suwanun and the conflict in Cambodia The unrest was sparked by a Jan 18 report in the local Rasmei…
Valerie Baehl English 101 15 November 2012 Citizens United the Death Knell of Democracy In 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on the Federal Elections Commission v. Citizens United, a case that will have drastic effects on our political system. Large corporations and labor unions will now have unprecedented influence over America’s national, state, and local elections. If Congress does not overturn the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United then, as a result, the decision has the…
Issue: Inflation Research question: How does inflation affect the average American citizen? In 1960, a McDonald’s hamburger was only 20 cents but today the same hamburger is $1.29, this is due to inflation. According to Oxford Dictionary inflation is defined as “A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.” In other words inflation is the increase of the cost of goods and services overtime. Different goods and services experience rising costs at different rates. when…