Melanie · Mar 7‚ 2013 Group 4: Politics and Government (15th April 2013) 18th April Research conference Belize City Topic: Politics and Government •Define politics. •Distinguish between power and authority. •Identify and define Max Weber’s three ideal types of authority. •Describe the four basic types of contemporary political systems: monarchy‚ democracy‚ authoritarianism‚ and totalitarianism. •Discuss the political spectrum‚ special-interest groups‚ watch-dog groups and voter apathy
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attempted in reducing crime activity. Some of the police department’s goals are to invest in people through training‚ recognition‚ and retention efforts. Transparency‚ accountability‚ and collaboration with the community‚ and identify and focus efforts to solve problems through innovation. Some other issues that were discussed were the number of homicides‚ aggravated assaults‚ robbery and rape. When people from the public began speaking their opinion on these issues I was really interested in what
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There is no one type of government that is way better than the others. In a unitary government the entire country is controlled as one and the government has all the power. In a confederate government the individual states have a lot of independence and there is a weaker and limited central government. A federal government is between unitary and confederate where the individual states still have power but the central government also has power. A unitary government does not allow the individual states
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The Federal government had more power than the state government because the United States Constitution decided to give the federal government more power. States government did not work because the articles of confederation failed to establish power. Federalists were supportive of a a federal government where the constitution should imply powers and the government should have the power make laws. The anti-federalist wanted the states to have all the states to have power and to have each state to have
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The role of Federal Government and State Governments have been very important for a longtime in the United States. The relationship between Federal Government and State Governments are defined in the United States Constitution‚ which is a great guideline of development for us to run the entire country. In the Constitution‚ both governments have the same or their own powers. “The Federal and State governments share many similarities power such as setting up courts‚ building highways‚ spending money
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pick a certain percentage of the employees and randomly choose people to take the test. In conclusion these drug tests make the workplace more productive‚ safer‚ and overall better for the environment. i also learned lot of things from the topic citizenship on the phillipines. The documentaries that we have watched show that the Philippines are encountering many problems in state of education especially on rural areas. The government seems to forget those places because they are the one who are experiencing
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State governments‚ a step above local government but a step below federal government. They exercise reserved powers‚ in other words all powers not given to the federal government or the citizens of the state. These powers are established in the Tenth Amendment and include laws directed at the public welfare such as health and safety laws. In general‚ state governments are a practice of federalism which is the middle position between having a central government in total control and having the people
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basically a system of separated powers between national‚ state‚ and local governments who share power within the same political system. All of the separate powers regulate certain laws for all individual citizens. Before the U.S. had federalism and The Constitution in 1789‚ the U.S. first created The Articles of Confederation. The problem with the Articles of Confederation is that the states had more control than the national government. States had their own permission of creating laws and making their
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that have immensely powerful grief and significance that could be interpreted in multiple ways “Massacre of the Innocents” by Peter Paul Rubens‚ 1612 is one to fit the description immensely. When viewing “Massacre of the Innocents” what meanings are exemplified‚ shown‚ and reasons behind all the violence throughout the graphic painting. A treasure in art like “Massacre of the Innocents” by Peter Paul Rubens has many meanings and messages‚ including dealing with deep injustice‚ dealing with ignorance
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The biggest difference between state government and federal government is that one has much more power than the other. The federal government is mostly over the delegating war‚ providing/maintaining a navy‚ as well as passing laws and making bills. The state government is responsible for having a school system‚ establishing a local government‚ and can regulate trade between the states. The state government should have more power as each state is different from one another‚ also each state having
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