Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act Shelia Greenwald POL201: American National Government (ACK1431C) Instructor: Benjamin Copeland August 12‚ 2014 MDPV is an ingredient in bath salts‚ a street drug that causes paranoia and hallucinations and waves of terror and frightening delusions. Bath salts are an illicit drug‚ but much more dangerous than other illicit drugs including crystal meth‚ cocaine‚ ecstasy‚ PCP‚ heroin‚ etc. Marijuana is a plant and the flowering buds of the plant is smoked
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State and Federal Prison System CJS/230 In our prison system today there are state and federal prisons throughout the United States. Our prison system is based on the created of the nineteenth century prisons that were used. Prisons confined felons serving sentences longer than a year and those sentence to
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1785 and 1787 that granted federal lands to states to create and support public school- an institution that the nation’s founders viewed as essential to democracy and national unification.” (Jennings‚ p3) In 1959‚ the admission of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union reconfirmed the Federal government’s support of education. Three distinct elements that impact education are; laws that have been passed‚ the removal of the church from public schools‚ and the role of federal government that has evolved
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creation of “ The Living Newspaper” which was almost a documentary type of theatre which explored a specific national problems ‚ However as it grew‚ it began to be very critical of the government operation and in 1939 ‚ congress Stopped funding the Federal Theatre Project because of its aggressive advocacy of social reform and government responsibility to do something about the social problems in the country‚ of course if you have a project that is being funded by the government and the new one begins
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There are many hoops that a case must jump through in order to reach the federal supreme court‚ and there are different tracks in which it can get there. The Supreme Court can have original jurisdiction‚ it can reach the court via the federal system‚ and it can reach it via the state courts. The Supreme Court receives thousands of cases a year‚ and will only hear from approximately 80. The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in a variety of cases. For instance‚ they have original jurisdiction
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Federal and unitary systems of government have many similar qualities therefore it becomes difficult to decipher between the two. In order to illustrate the difficulty in trying to distinguish between the two‚ I will first define what each system of government involves and then attempt to compare and contrast. Federalism is the creation of two layers of government‚ the federal government and the constituent states‚ which equally share the legal sovereignty of a country. Each tier of government has
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Throughout the history of the United States‚ there have always been arguments over what power the state governments should have‚ and the powers the Federal Government should have. More recently there have been instances where the Federal Government was questionable in some of their actions. Today’s Federal Government has too much power because issues such as gun control and healthcare would be better handled on the state level. One example of an issue that would be better handled on a state level
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current federal student-loan program has some problems that must be addressed. For example‚ the forgiveness of student-loan debt‚ artificially low-interest rates‚ and repayment plans. The U.S Department of Education is the primary source of federal student loans. Several types of loans are offered through the Direct Loans program. Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loans for undergraduate and graduate students. In order to address this situation‚ to help the students‚ the federal government
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The Federal Reserve System has four main objectives that it wishes to provide for the economy. These objectives‚ which are in no particular order of importance‚ are to conduct the nation’s monetary policy‚ supervise and regulate banks as well as other important financial institutions‚ maintain the safety of the financial system from risk‚ and oversee the nation’s payment systems. These goals include the Fed’s process of fiscal policy as well‚ which is government taxation and spending on public works
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org‚ the federal minimum wage was introduced in 1938 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression. It was set at a quarter‚ which is about $4.11 in modern America today. The minimum wage has been increased twenty-two times by Congress; the most recent increase was in 2009 when it changed from $6.55 to $7.25. There are twenty-nine states‚ including Washington‚ D.C that has a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage. Around 2‚561‚000 workers earn the federal minimum
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