Choice of Child Welfare System According to Cromer (2007)‚ kinship placement is the recent alternative of a child welfare system. The recent project conducted in Washington shows that the number of children in kinship placement has nearly doubled. Kinship placement may be proven beneficial to children (Cromer 2007). However‚ there are also loopholes in implementing this kind of living arrangement. As such‚ this paper aims to discuss the negative impacts of kinship care system on the child’s growth
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people responsible for protecting you. Whether it’s police department‚ to the United States army‚ it is always good to know people are fighting to protect you. The Criminal Justice System will always be a part of U.S. society‚ however its major flaws can weigh out the good it is trying to bring. The criminal justice system‚is something people rely on and
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Like majority of the world‚ the Canadian criminal justice system consists of three main parts: the police‚ the courts and the corrections. These three main parts are responsible for the smooth operations of our criminal justice system. However‚ there are other factors that can affect the fluency of our system; factors such as the legislations‚ the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom‚ the mass and ever-growing public media‚ and human behaviours and emotions. It is the intension of the writer of
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Coalitions can be avoided by adopting a majoritarian or alternative voting system. In majoritarian electoral systems candidates are elected based on either a plurality or absolute majority. In a plurality system (first past the post)‚ the candidate with the most votes will win the election. For an absolute majority‚ the winning candidate must achieve more than half of the votes to win. If no one achieves this threshold of at least 51%‚ there is a runoff election between the top two candidates of
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Why the Electoral College should not be preserved? The Constitutional Convention of 1787 gave birth to the system of the Electoral College. Electoral College system can be described as a system in which voters vote for electors on election day‚ who then cast their vote for candidate in their respective party. Our Founding Fathers described this system in Article II‚ section 1 of the Constitution. According to the Constitution‚ electors per state are equal to the number of seats each state holds
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A multi-party system is a system in which three or more political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition. Unlike a single-party system (or a non-partisan democracy)‚ it encourages the general constituency to form multiple distinct‚ officially recognized groups‚ generally called political parties. Each party competes for votes from the enfranchised constituents (those allowed to vote). A multi-partysystem is essential for representative democracies‚ because
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A flat tax is a system that applies the same tax rate to every taxpayer regardless of income bracket. Typically‚ a flat tax applies the same tax rate to all taxpayers‚ with no deductions or exemptions allowed‚ but some politicians such as Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have proposed flat tax systems that keep certain deductions in place. Most flat tax systems or proposals do not tax income from dividends‚ distributions‚ capital gains and other investments. Supporters of a flat tax system propose that it
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“The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913‚ with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act. Its duties today are to conduct the nation’s monetary policy‚ supervise and regulate banking institutions‚ maintain the stability of the financial system and provide financial services to depository institutions‚ the U.S. government‚ and foreign official institutions.” The constitutionality of the Federal Reserve System (FED) has been a topic of
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controversy in college football since it was created in 1998. This system was set in order for the top two BCS college football teams to meet in the national championship and there are 8 other teams that play in four other BCS bowl games. There was much debate for several years whether there should be a playoff system‚ which will allow many teams to qualify for the National championship‚ as opposed to just two teams. Now that the playoff system has been established the question arises regarding the overall
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political party system has been around over 200 years; a foundation of our current political system was created during the election of 1796. America’s was founded on the concept that people have power of the government’s decisions. The first parties that were established were the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republican party. There are multiple advantages and disadvantages of having a multi party system and a two party system in our country. Changing the way that our political system works would
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