Essays on Senators

During the first 2 centuries C.E., there was a period of peace and prosperity, called Pax Romana , which remained in history as one of the happiest and prosperous periods in the entire human history. However, the achievements of the 3 emperors of the Flavian dynasty, Vespasian, and his sons, Titus and Domitian, laid the foundations for Pax Romana because it represented a period of able administration and important political, social, military and educational changes which brought prosperity in the empire. The succession of the first of these emperors, Nerva, put an end to the Flavian dynasty and in particular, ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Question One

Jim Inhofe, James Lankford and Tom Cole are Oklahoma’s senators and representative respectively. Jim Inhofe is the senior senator in Oklahoma. Jim worked in aviation and insurance fields prior to joining the Congress. In fact, he was once the president of Quaker Life Insurance Company. He is the only individual in the Congress who has ever flown a plane. I like that this Republican has gradually nurtured his capabilities to venture into various life paths. He is stubbornly persistent. Despite losing the gubernatorial election in 1974, he was determined to crack the political arena. This is mainly evident ...

2016 is a general election year. One person will be chosen as the next president of the United States, and several others will be elected to the U.S Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. It is the first time in the history of the United States that a woman has been nominated for the highest office in the land. Many issues have come to the forefront of this election year, and several will be considered in the coming months by all states. Texas is no exception. This paper will explain the system of the Texas legislature, the issues ...

Administration Relationships

The relationships between the public policy-makers and the executors (civil servants) have attracted the attention of many scholars in the public administration, political science, public policy and law. The focus is on the relationship between the government, parliament, and the public service. However, the relationship between the federal bureaucracy and the elected policy-makers is crucial for the government functioning, its professional standards, as well as social credibility. Regardless of the perspective of the government being consistent, its texture, characteristics, operating principles and procedures vary from one public policy sector to another (Guess & Farnham, 2011, p. 315). This part focuses ...

1) Is it a good idea to not allow ordinary voters the opportunity to decide who their senators will be? Generally, it is a very good idea to allow voters to pick the people that will represent them. This is one of the most important aspects of the American government, and it has become a model for democracies around the world. Even though there are some people that believe that the whole population should not choose their legislators, believing the general populace to be uninformed and incapable of doing this adequately, liberty and personal freedom are two important values ...

This assignment is my own work. I have shown clearly in my work if I have used ideas and words from other sources. I have given references for any quotations or materials that come from the work of other people. I have shown if I have worked with someone else.

The Problem of Gun Control in the United States

For a long time the problem of gun control in the United States has remained open. This issue is one of the most serious to date, since it is directly related to the large number of victims who were killed because of the use of firearms. Firearms control problem ...

Chapter 18: Florida State Officials

Chapter 18: Florida State Officials

County Commissioners Miami-Dade: Jose Pepe Diaz Broward County: Marty Kiar, Mark Bogen, Chip LaMarca, Lois Wexler, Bean Furr, Tim Ryan, Barbara Sharief, Dale Holness Pinellas County: Kenneth Welch, Dave Eggers, John Morroni, Janet Long, Karen Williams Seel Hillsborough County: Toni PAPPAS, Sandra Ziehn, Carol Holden Duval County: Alejo Garcia, David Garza, Rene, Gilberto Uribe Brevard County: Andy Anderson, Jim Berfield St. Lucie County: Kim Johnson. Fire District Commissioners: Rufus Alexander, Michele Berger, Johnson Kim, Chris Dzadovsky, Shannon Martin, Mark Gotz

Collier County: Georgia A. Hiller, Donna Fiala, Tom Henning, Commissioner Penny Taylor, and Tim Nance

Representatives Debbie Wasserman, Alan Grayson, Patrick Murphy, David Jolly, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Corrine Brown, Ted ...

“Et tu, Brute?” Many people recognize this pithy question as Julius Caesar’s last words upon seeing Roman senator Marcus Julius Brutus, with whom he had a relationship akin to that of a father and son, among his murderers on March 15, 44 BC. The phrase roughly translates to, “You too, Brutus?”. However, there is no historical evidence these were Caesar’s last words; more likely; they were popularized by William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in the sixteenth century. Known as the Ides of March, Caesar’s death is one of the most famous political overthrows in all of ...

Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice, also known as Daddy Rice, in 1828, which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand, the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. Immigrants, lower class and colored people faced hard times. Although progressives responded to the ills of inner cities and working-class immigrants with ...

The Hollywood blockbuster, "Zero Dark Thirty" premiered in 2012 and became an instant hit. Ever since its release, the film stirred a great deal of media debate as it was not just about killing of bin Laden and the film makers, but involved foreign-policy, political and national-security journalists and the use of torture. Ever since the 9/11, America lives under the threat of another such attack. There have been a string of documentaries and films on the subject of government secrecy and counterterrorism programs. There are tough questions about how far should the US be willing to go in ...

Argumentative essay

Question one

There are several differences between a single member district and proportional representation. In a single member district, the electorate can only elect one person at any particular time in a race. In the United States of America, Congressional districts take this approach. The key issue is that in a specific race in the district in question, only one member can be elected. In the United States of America, each state elects two senators. Although this is the case, it is important to note that the two do not compete or run in the same elective post. In ...

In the historical time, women had few roles within the community, diminishing their effect towards the practices, laws, and structure of the society. Historical information characterizes women as housewives, whose main work was to take care of the family and its needs such as food, clothes and water among other things. However, there were women who made great progress in changing the stereotypes set by the community by exerting their knowledge towards the current affairs and way of life. Some of the men felt intrigued by their presence while others saw them as equals. Hence, it was a struggle ...

called and held to account

Introduction

Traditional models of accountability, primarily those of elections and legislative scrutiny, are no longer sufficient in holding governments accountable. While Emy and Hughes (1988) argue that accountability dilemmas have been long standing within ministerial government, they see accountability failures as an indication of mechanisms corrupted by political interest. The rise of new social movements is a strong indication of the collective desire of citizens to interrupt the “chain of accountability”. The desire to influence political decision makers is a reflection of a growing assumption that the democratic deficit facing most western governments requires experiments ...

Are twenty-first-century Americans more democratic than the Founding Fathers and would the U.S. profit by adopting New Hampshire´s Constitution? Are twenty-first-century Americans more democratic than the Founding Fathers and would the U.S. profit by adopting New Hampshire´s Constitution?

It would seem pretty straightforward to conclude that 21st century Americans are more democratic than were the framers of the Constitution. After all, only a relatively small minority of Americans were eligible to vote when the country first came into being. To start off, no women were allowed to vote. Of course, slaves were not allowed to vote either, ...

Abstract

One of the most significant milestone that has been done for the United States’ civil rights platform is enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These rights were enacted on July 2nd, 1964. It is through these rights that the rights of civil servants in the United States were assured of protection against such discriminations based on their sex, race, and religion, place of origin or color of their skin. This paper will in detail examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The paper will in detail elaborate on the meaning and significance of the Act as well ...

(a) A hierarchical structure and organization by functional specialty as enunciated by Weber’s principles of modern bureaucracy are two important facets of a government organization because they both serve as control tools in the efficient delivery of basic services to the public. Hierarchy represents the classic command-and-control relationship that is a defining feature in many organizational settings, including governments. A hierarchical structure permits those in the higher rung of the hierarchy to review the conduct of activities by those in the lower rung. It serves as a control tool that assures democratic accountability or to put it bluntly, ...