State and Local Government Paper POL/215 University of Phoenix January 15‚ 2006 Introduction The city of Fountain‚ Colorado is a full service municipality. Within the city‚ several actively responsive city boards see to the needs of the community and plan for the city’s future growth. One such board is the City Council‚ which holds regularly scheduled meetings on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. Each meeting follows the same basic structure and allows for input from local citizens
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African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at more than 5 times the rate of whites on average. For example in Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for African-Americans. Approximately 4.6% of all African-American males in Oklahoma are incarcerated compared to of only 0.9% white males. In California 1 out of every 22 African-American adult male is in state prison. The racial disparity is greatest in the category of drug arrests and indicates institutional discrimination against African-Americans
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United States cross to the U.S to have a better economic status and a better state of life is to sustain their self or to support their families in their home countries because in their countries there is no work and the economic level is not as high than the United States. Immigration is a result of a number of factors‚ including economic and/or political reasons‚ family reunification natural disasters or the wish to change one’s surroundings voluntarity. Immigration to the United States has been
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church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach." Since the founding of our country‚ one of the most controversial issues has been the separation of church and state. Many nonreligious people wish for a complete separation of these two branches of government‚ but many Christians are outraged over the measures that the state takes to ’protect’ itself from the church. There have been many stances on the relationship between church and state‚ and three
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States Edward: Said “States‚” by Edward Said is an essay written by a Palestinian man with first-hand accounts of daily life in that region of the Middle-East. Said was renowned in the literary community as one of the most “distinguished literary critics and scholars...” Born in Jerusalem in 1935‚ Said‚ at the age of twelve‚ fled with his family to Cairo during the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state. In his essay‚ Said begins to discuss the state of the Palestinian people. The content
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Centre State Relations in India In the Objective Resolution adopted on 22nd January 1947‚ the Constituent Assembly declared its firm and solemn resolve to make India an Independent Sovereign Republic‚ where the States shall possess and retain the status of autonomous units. By July 1947‚ the question of partition was resolved with the fulfillment of the demand for Pakistan. Hence‚ the provision for autonomy to the status was dropped in favour of a strong Centre. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar‚ while speaking
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The Formation of the Modern State Name: Anjali Sharma I. Introduction: Formation of the modern state has been one of the most discussed topics amongst the political scholars. The state being the central of the political science‚ it is obvious that many scholars have dealt with it. Furthermore‚ political power means little without the state. Therefore‚ without discussing the formation of the modern state‚ discussion of political science is immature. The State has been defined by different scholars
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What is a small state? The relativity of influence In the period before the Cold War‚ the size of a state and its power within the international arena were mainly determined by traditional criteria. Factors that were taken into account included a state´s military capabilities‚ the size of its territory and its population. In times that a state´s main concerns were to survive and‚ preferably‚ to enhance its territorial gains along the way‚ a large population was essential in a way that it
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Throughout US History what were the trends in the separation between church and state? What were the main causes of these trends? Since the very beginnings of American History‚ the American people have set a strong primacy on separation between Church and State. As evident in one of the first set of laws protecting the individual citizen from its governing body‚ the Bill of Rights‚ and more specifically the First Amendment. James Madison‚ writer of the constitution‚ conveys the ideology that the
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Federal versus State Policy Comparison CJA464 Your Name Date 2013 John McLaine The United States of America is comprised of 50 states and 14 territories. Although many of the territories are un-inhabited nor are claimed by a specific state‚ the territories share a common need‚ they rely on the US for defense‚ social and economic support . There are also other lands that are considered to be US territories by virtue of having established a military base within a host country. The focus of this
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