Introduction
Ethics violation is not a new phenomenon in an organization setting. In one way or another, most professionals have fallen victims of breaches of the set code of standards or working against the norm either willingly or unwillingly. There are several ways a professional can practice ethical violation regarding the exercising of duties (Niebuhr, 2013). For various reasons, some ethical violations may go unnoticed because most people may observe the ordeal but fear of reporting the matter to the respective people because fear losing their job, the employer may be afraid how to tackle the issue, and sometimes the company may feel it is unfair or rather useless to report such matters to the concerned party. The aim of this paper is to postulate on Congressional ethical issues, third party candidates, and the federal and state authority.
Congressional Ethics
In the summer of 2010, two veteran members of Congress cast out on Washington`s historic inability to mete justice among the member of Congress who stray past the ethical boundaries. U.S Representative Charles Rangel was charged with 13 ethical violations that included failure to pay taxes on the rental income he received from his Dominican Villa. The highly publicized case raised a lot of questions on how often the Congress has handled cases of one of its own. In addition, he was charged with improperly multiple rental units in New York and improper use of his office in obtaining money for his Ranger Center. He was found guilty of 11 counts of Ethics rule violation and the house approved sanction against him. Though the Office of Congressional Ethics is charged with handling issues of misconduct against the members of Congress, it has not done enough to avert issues of ethics within the House of Representatives.
The verdict on Rangel evokes various questions on the ethics of the Congress members at large. Over the course time, instances of ethical violations in the Congress have resulted in the diminishing of the belief and trust bestowed upon the law makers. It is quite unfortunate that the people who have been elected to make laws that ensure that the rule of law is maintained are the ones that violate them (Basinger, 2013). These instances bring the credibility of the congress into disrepute. Despite the numerous attempts to ensure justice for all, the major forms of punishment that the members of Congress receive only range from expulsion, censure, reprimand and suspension.
Third Party Candidates
In the historian era, it is very normal in most cases that third party candidates never get a chance of winning the presidential elections. Especially in the United States, the political system undermines the third party individuals. There is a lot of bias because the democratic and republican candidates automatically get on the ballot while the third party counterparts have to be petitioned so that they get on the ballot (Abramson, Aldrich, Paolino & Rohde, 1995). The reasons for the downfall may be vary, but the primary reasons include financial difficulties and democratic and republican candidate are recognized in the constitution and are supported by the federal government.
The financial constraints arise because the candidates register as independent candidates. As such, a party is required to have clinched a five percent of the previous election votes so that it is considered to be allocated the federal funds. In this case, newly established independent parties do not have a chance to emancipate their potential, but instead, they whole depend on their sources of funds.
Another significant reason is the federal government is supporting the two party system; democrats and republicans. Consequently, there is less concern for the third party. Therefore, the government renders the third party unviable. It can be observed that the national government of United States does not recognize the third party because America has a system of single member district election where people vote for one person in a given area and, the one who takes the largest number of votes takes the seat.
Federal and State Authority
The current problems facing the United States of America is so intuitive. It depends on the approach and the point of view of an individual. For instance, immigration is a long-term threat that is mitigating the growth of the economy of United States. Apparently, Michael Trump had a proposal of building a wall with Mexico to bar immigrants. Such sentiments are meant oppressive rules which ultimately will widen the rivalry and diffuse anger and hatred among the neighboring country. The problem of overpopulation in most parts of the United Sates might be the driving factor of embracing this political divide. In the long run, such actions may bring war breaks which may endanger the citizens.
The United States Constitution fails to elaborate the of immigration policies that are just and right. However, the constitution is relevant in the sense that it commits the US government to ignore benefits of immigration to migrants themselves, restricts the power of the Congress to limit migration, and structural aspects of the US Constitution helps in limiting the political externalities of immigration. The issues collectively weaken the federal and state government`s ability to immigrants from going through negative policy to make them avoid the country entirely.
In conclusion, the federal and state authority has been an area of heated debates throughout the history of the United States Constitution. The view of the framers of the constitution was that the Federal government should have authorities granted to the government explicitly by all states. For instance, the broad power of the federal government to regulate admission, naturalization, and removal of illegal immigrants is deeply rooted in history and modern statutes, federal agency regulations and Supreme Court decisions attest to the nature of this power. The authority rests federal and state powers to regulate the allocation of power among the federal branches of government.
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