14 Questions 1. How do political appointees get their position? 2. What are iron triangles? 3. How can the president and Congress control the bureaucracy? 4. What do bureaucrats do? 5. Why was the merit system established? 6. In terms of government‚ what is devolution? The Constitutional Roles of the President Chief Diplomat: The president is responsible for setting the direction of United States foreign policy. The president can make treaties with the advice and consent of the United
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Articles of Confederation did not create a strong enough government to keep us unified and protected. Thus‚ the Constitution has been created to make sure a proper government is set-up and that our rights are secured. Although the concerns of Anti-Federalists’ are understood‚ I agree fully with the Federalist’s proposed structure of government. It covers the basic rights instituted in the Declaration of Independence‚ and creates a centralized government that will help serve and protect the country while
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The Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967) resulted in the striking down of state laws that prohibited whites and African Americans from marrying. Mildred Loving‚ one of the parties in the case‚ issued a statement on the fortieth-anniversary of her case in which she urged that same-sex couples be allowed to marry. Q. Are the two issues—laws prohibiting interracial marriage and laws prohibiting same-sex marriage—similar? Why or why not? I believe laws prohibiting interracial marriage and
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affect us deeply because Americans today are becoming more and more dependent on the internet. Though the government of America has much of it’s private information recorded on paper‚ yes but much is saved on the Internet as backup. With this‚ terrorist groups hire hackers or even study about computers to be able to launch a Cyber Attack that would help them steal and even look through the information to give them an advantage. With them knowing the key aspects of the government that would help them
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Study Unit The Origins of American Government By Robert G. Turner Jr.‚ Ph.D. About the Author Robert G. Turner Jr. holds a B.S. in business and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in sociology. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience‚ mainly at the college level‚ and is currently serving as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech‚ Blacksburg. Dr. Turner is primarily employed as a professional freelance writer. His literary credits include two stage plays‚ two novels‚ and two nonfiction works
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The ancient Inca government and the government of the United States of America have some things in common; while at the same time both very different. The powers possessed by the Inca monarch are similar to those of the U.S. government. However‚ Inca punishments for criminals are very different from American punishments for criminals. The Inca government had a very strong structure‚ which enabled it to last for hundreds of years. One major distinction between the two governments though‚ is that the
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Mercantilism is an economic theory where a nation’s strength comes from building up gold supplies and expanding its trade. Britain formed the American colonies so that they could increase their gold stores. They wanted raw supplies to make into products to sell and make money. They wanted America to pay taxes so that Britain could make money. America used the theory in that they thought they ought to‚ in order to be strong expand their trade beyond Britain. Countries like Belgium‚ and France wanted
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led the American colonists to realize that they did not need the British any longer. The colonists felt that they themselves‚ were not Englishmen but members of their own society within the American colonies. By winning the French and Indian war the British were entitled to the land east of the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. As the Americans began to move westward thinking that if they fought the war in the colonies‚ they were entitled to that land. While the American soldiers
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the Christian Church‚ democracy came to be understood as representative democracy. During the 18th century‚ the notion of a representative
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The experiences of the Native Americans and the Africans in the North American colonies during the colonial period differed greatly‚ but were also similar in many ways. The natives were just that‚ natives; they owned land that was taken from them by European settlers who came from a land faraway. The settlers came to the natives’ land‚ and were at a disadvantage because most of their people had died from diseases or hunger whilst crossing the ocean to find a New World. The natives saw how pathetic
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