The federal government has three main branches. These include the executive‚ the judiciary‚ and the legislative. The president is head of the executive branch and makes laws official. The supreme court and other federal courts have judicial authority‚ to explain the laws of the country under the constitution. The legislative branch is the congress divided into two different chambers the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although our government today is still divided into three branches‚ The
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The histories of the state and federal prison systems have some connections which both systems has something distinctive. The State is usually operated by the state governments and consists of prisoners that are considered blue collar criminals and the federal systems are mainly associated with white collar criminals. Both prison systems have security levels which include minimum‚ low‚ medium‚ and high levels of security. To learn the knowledge of the history about federal prison in so many different
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portrays the belief that the Federal Government has more power than the states. When thinking about the tension between who has more power‚ the three of us agreed that both have a say in our nation but‚ the Federal Government has more authority. We chose to give the states 40%‚ because the States are allowed to make specific laws‚ and the people within those states have rights that are protected by the Constitution. Although at the end of the day the Federal Government still has more power‚ therefore
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The main role of the executive is to preform leadership like duties such as carrying out leadership roles‚ ceremonial roles‚ and preforming symbolic. The leadership role demand formulating‚ articulating‚ and implementing goals of the political system. The effective chief executive becomes the spokesperson for the people‚ attempts to invigorate the people’s support for these goals‚ and then develops strategies that ease their accomplishment. For the most part the chief executive takes the initiative
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT What is government Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) said the purpose of government is to establish peace and security for the people. Government: The formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people. Main components are people‚ policies‚ and powers. Government consists of elected officials who have the authority and control over others and the other half are the public servants who carry out the daily functions. Power is the government’s
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Empowering Local Government The PDP pledges to empower the local government to give it more administrative powers‚ whereby‚ it will be given maximum autonomy to take decisions‚ to prioritize developmental activities‚ and even change developmental activities based on the need and urgency. It would receive more financial powers‚ as PDP believes local government bodies have limited financial power‚ in terms of available funds or the discretion to use it. Within the first week of forming the government
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United States is made up of three government branches. The legislative branch creates the law. The legislative branch is made up of United States Congress‚ Senate‚ and House of Representatives. The executive branch carries out or enforces the law. The executive branches made up of the President‚ Vice President‚ and President’s cabinet. The judicial branch judge interprets the law. The judicial branch is made up of the United States Supreme Courts and other federal courts. The American government is set
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explaining the differences between revenue expenditures and capital expenditures during a useful life and identifying any similarities. Briefly explain the entries of revenue expenditures and capital expenditures. The difference between revenue expenditures and capital expenditures is that revenue expenditures are expenditures that are immediately charged against revenues as an expense (Weygandt‚ Kimmel‚ & Kieso 2010 pg. 409). Also capital expenditures are expenditures that increase the company’s
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ANALYSIS OF KENYA’S GOVERNMENT REVENUE From the analysis Taxes seem to be the major source of revenue to the government since in the year 2006/7 it accounted for 93.16% of the total revenue‚ in the year 2007/8 it accounted for 94.91% of total revenue and in the year 2008/9 it amounted 94.71%. This is a good sign since the tax revenue/total government revenue is ideally required to be above 50%. The following classes of taxes were the major sources of revenue for the government: • Taxes on income
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India has a federal form of government‚ and hence a federal finance system. The essence of federal form of government is that the Centre and the State Governments should be independent of each other in their respective‚ constitutionally demarcated spheres of Action. Once the fundamentals of the government are spelt out‚ it becomes equally important that each of the government should be provided with sources of raising adequate revenues to discharge the functions entrusted to it. For the successful
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