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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relates to the pursuit of excellence in everything you do. As one commercial put it‚ “Be all that you can be” (U.S. Army 1981). One must have the idea that if they want to maximize their greatest potential‚ they must work hard to produce it. To the Utilitarian this may appear selfish‚ but self-discipline and self-determination is key to achieving the goal. Oxford dictionary describes utilitarianism as one who practices the doctrine that produces the greatest happiness of the greatest number. For example
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1 BUSINESS ETHICS :: Introduction to Ethics • • • • • • Course format Overview of topics Mode of assessment Background to Ethics History of Business Ethics Role of Business Ethics Today Course Aims and Objectives The aim of this course is to give a basic understanding of the major theories of ethics - including deontology‚ utilitarianism and virtue theory - and their application in the relevant fields of business and information technology. One of the main course objectives is to encourage
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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis March 28th‚ 2015 Elizabeth Turra Brouwer 11-1175 Macroeconomics The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis The book "The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis” contains 4 lectures given by Ben Bernanke‚ chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve at George Washington University in March 2012. In this book he explains the type of actions taken by the Fed during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression‚ the crisis of 2008-2009. The main
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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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