...from their discourse? Federalists are people who wanted their national government become stronger. They supported the ratification of the Constitution to help conduct the debt and tensions following the American Revolution. They felt that many individual and monetary policies make economic struggles and national weakness. They prefer to have central banking central financial policies. Contract to Federalists, anti- Federalists who oppose the development of a strong federal government and the Constitution ratified in 1788 wanted to remain in the hands of the state and local levels. They felt that states were free agents that should manage their income and spend their money as they saw fitly. Although less well organized than the federal, they also have an impressive group of leaders who are particularly prominent in state politics. Was the Constitution in danger of NOT being ratified? Yes, the constitution was in danger of not being ratified. The strongest objections raised by the Antifederalists, however, the main problem is the lack of protection for individual liberties in the Constitution. The debate raged for months. Nine states had ratified the Constitution, ensuring it will be in effect for the nine states. However, the main countries including the Virginia and New York were not approved. Its was very difficult in ratifying Constitution. What might our country have been like without the Ant-Federalist additions to our Constitution? If without the Anti- Federalist...
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...“Paranoia can destroy your life”, is a quote by the world famous lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, and paranoia is exactly the topic of the text ”5 ’Crazy People’ Who Were Right All Along. The genre of the text is an article by Gavin Jamieson, which is published on cracked.com. This website calls itself “America’s only humor site”, which clearly states that the main purpose of the site is to delight the reader. Humour and irony both plays a big part in the article. An example of the irony can be found in the introduction to the article: “…Guru Cobain was shortly thereafter taken from us by the Ant People who secretly rule our media.” The irony clearly appears in this quote, because as a reader, you know that the author does not mean what he writes, he more likely means the opposite. Furthermore, you see the author’s use of humour in his colourful language. He uses expressions like “kick a battleship’s ass” and “he wasn’t just full of hot air”, which both are metaphors to interest and entertain the reader. Both of the quotes are from paragraph #5, but playful language is used during the entire text. The used language is overall very casual, and the author makes use of an informal tone. In the text you also find intertextuality, which is references to other movies or texts, the readers know. For example the author makes a reference to the character James Bond from the movies of the same name, when he says “Asian 007’s” and he references to the American pop-culture when he...
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...RUNNING HEAD: DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 1 Hanser T. Whitfield Strayer University Draft Request for Proposal Government Contract Law 505 Professor Pino May 5, 2013 RUNNING HEAD: DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 2 Apply the appropriate FAR clauses to meet compliance in contract formulation and award. In my position of Contracting Officer for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a determination has been made that an open bid for Security Guards is needed. The objective of this solicitation of Request for Proposal (RFP) is from, Federal Protective Services (FPS), to contract security guards that will provide security and law enforcement coverage to all Government Security Administration (GSA) owned and operated federal property. Security Guards employed under this contract responsibility include: federal access building control, employee and visitor identification checks, security equipment monitoring and roving patrols of the interior and exterior of federal property. (Congressional Research Service, 2009). The solicitation will require security guards at several GSA building and properties to protect homeland and manage risk to ensure the continuity of our national critical infrastructure, the nation’s federal facilities and their occupants. To ensure further protection of our building...
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...federal government spent a billion dollars fighting wild fires. The Prepare Act, currently under consideration in Congress, would give funds to local governments for wild fire mitigation. FEMA would provide oversight for any funds directed to the states as the recent fire season was considered a disaster. Prepare, Ready, Equip, and Prevent Areas at Risk of Emergency Wildfires Act of 2013 or the PREPARE Act of 2013, was authored in part by Idaho’s own Senator Crapo and Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado (The Library of Congress, S.1428, .IS, 2013-2014). The federal government is aware that our forests have been mismanaged and this act, in a small way, helps to make up for previous management practices. It does not do enough to mitigate the effects of pests and wildfires that endanger our forests in Idaho. Some of you may know a little about the ownership of federal lands in Idaho. This paper will help you to learn more about this. Some of you may know a lot about ownership of federal lands in Idaho. Perhaps you know someone personally who has dealt with land issues in Idaho. Hopefully, you will learn something new about this topic that persuade you that the State of Idaho needs to assume ownership and oversight of these public lands. I was employed by the timber industry for several years and spent time lobbying on their behalf to keep public lands open for logging. I have researched and read many articles on the subject of transferring federal lands to the states. In...
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...Information Technology Consulting Assignment-1 Submitted by Group-42 FT152020- Anandh M FT152099-Manzoor A FT152034-Srivani C FT152087-Lokesh C FT151008-DhulipallaBharadwaj Satellite Industry Association - The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) is a trade association which represents global satellite operators, global service providers, global satellite manufacturers, satellite launch services providers and ground equipment suppliers. It is based in Washington D.C. It has been a single platform for the satellite industry since 1995 on policy, regulatory and legislative issues. It promotes the technology in commercial satellites for infrastructure building, disaster relief, national and state security. 1) Satellite Manufacturers: • The...
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...regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.” But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn’t something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in. We haven’t balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We’ve raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations of the world. We have 15 billion dollars in gold in our treasury; we don’t own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are 27.3 billion dollars. And we’ve just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total value. As for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely...
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...other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Common Core Standards Initiatives In the following paper, the writer [If this means yourself, avoid referring to yourself in the third person; if this is a personal account, use the first person (I, me, my)] will include an article about the current common standards initiative. In doing so, the writer will discuss the role of the federal and state government] involvement in education. In addition, the writer will include connection between her article and the basic foundation of education. First the role in which the federal government involvement in education consist of The federal government can support the Common Standards initiative through various of arrange incentives, such as current federal funds, support of alteration state accountability structure, and providing financial support for the state to...
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...Report and Pay Sales or Use Taxes For consumers that order tax-free items online, but live in states that charge a sales tax, they are technically required to report that purchase to their state tax agency and pay the sales tax directly to the agency. When consumers are required to do so, it is often called a "use" tax. The sole difference between a sales tax and a use tax is the person that ends up giving the money to the state government. When it is a sales tax, the retailer is the one handing over the money, while a use tax is handed over directly by the consumer. However, collecting use taxes on small purchases often costs more than simply letting the consumer not pay the use tax. Instead, state tax agencies try to focus more on collecting use taxes for big ticket items that are purchased online with no sales tax, such as cars and boats. However, there are a number of states that have stepped up their enforcement of their use tax laws and are now trying to make their state residents pay the taxes that should be paid. However, these states are still hampered by limited resources as well as the complexities involved with tracking down minor purchases and demanding that a use tax be paid. It is worthwhile to keep in mind that state governments are missing out on a substantial chunk of money when it comes to uncollected use taxes. It is not too hard to imagine the federal government stepping in at some point to pass legislation regarding use...
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...Elizabeth Reynolds Writing 5 Essay One Assignment: The Tuskegee Study Free at Last: the Center for Disease Control Ends and Ethical Research Practices Begin During the forty year Tuskegee Study, the government overstepped its duties and infringed on innocent African American lives. Researchers in Macon County, Alabama started this study in 1932 in order to examine the effects of untreated syphilis in African American men. The study began with 399 subjects with the disease and 201 without it; by the time the research was halted in 1972, over one hundred of the men had died (Jones 2). One government organization involved in this experimentation acted particularly irrationally: the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC knew exactly what was going on with the Tuskegee Experiment and understood that the subjects were being denied treatment. However, the CDC never questioned the morality of their experiment. Furthermore, the director at the time, Dr. David Sencer, was an advocate for continuing the research. Even when Dr. Irwin J. Schatz, staff member of the Henry Ford Hospital, first sent his letter to the CDC objecting to the Tuskegee study in 1964, Dr. Sencer allowed the CDC to set the letter aside and pretend it did not exist. When another opponent of the study, Peter Buxton, started his 1965 investigation of the study, Sencer’s first concern was not that the CDC was acting unethically, but that the CDC would get bad press (Jones 190). Clearly the CDC was not actually...
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...Insecurity in our nation: Examining the call for State Police. As it has been widely reported, the question of State Police has again come to the fore like sore thumb. In the past few months, Nigerians have been exposed to more argument about the merits and demerits of having State-established and controlled Police as opposed to the centrally controlled, Nigeria Police Force. Also, in these same past few weeks, it seems as if a new low has been reached in terms of insecurity which made people to start calling for a State-controlled Police. Even with the prevailing insecurities, the Governors of the States in the North stated unanimously in a recent gathering that they are not ready for State Police. This is in-spite of the initial agreement reached with Southern Governors to ask for State Police which in essence means a decentralization of policing, an outright removal of policing from the exclusive list of jurisdiction of Federal Government. Prior to this scenario, the Governors, in their respective States can be described as having firm and absolute grips of instrument of coercion such as even the Nigeria Police. Granting them further powers to establish State Police, will certainly go to confer on these Governors an awesome power which is comparable only to that emanating from the ladies of their manors. With a State Police established by the Governors, who is that private citizen, politician or a political party that would dare challenge their authorities...
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...OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE *** Typed by Sameer Parekh (zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau [1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment] I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. This American...
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...Why Should Government Support the Arts? State governments today face monumental challenges: record-breaking budget shortfalls, rising unemployment, widespread home foreclosures and escalating needs for public assistance. States are wrestling with these immediate pressures while also trying to address long-term concerns about education, economic competitiveness and health care. All the while, public managers and elected officials must uphold the principles that taxpayers expect: thrift, accountability, equity and transparency. In this environment, all areas of spending—including the arts—are under increased scrutiny. Lawmakers may question whether government has a legitimate role to play in the arts or may ask why the arts should receive funds when so many other needs are pressing. We encourage you to welcome dialogue about these issues. The 40-year history of state arts agencies proves that when policymakers understand how the arts benefit government and citizens, they find a way to continue support, even during hard financial times. We hope that this document will help bring those benefits to the foreground and help your state answer common questions about government’s role in arts support. Designed for public arts leaders and advocates to excerpt and adapt, this material can be used to support your state’s case for the arts. Select the points that are most relevant in your situation. Quote the research. Add your own examples, and consider the tips and ideas included...
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...they do) and the amount of business they do with the federal government. The firm I chose that does business with the federal government is Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Lockheed Martin employs 140,000 people worldwide. Robert J. Stevens is the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Lockheed Martin is one of the world's largest defense contractors. In 2009, 74% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales. It received 7.1% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon. The company has received the Collier Trophy six times. They most recently received the award in 2001 for being part of developing the X-35/F-35B Lift Fan Propulsion System, and again in 2006 for leading the team that developed the F-22 Raptor fighter jet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin) Lockheed Martin does a lot of business with the government. They have several contracts that they pursue and perform for the government. Lockheed Martin is active in many aspects of government contracting. Lockheed Martin received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of...
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...in the world don’t have same form of government some work on the belief of their leader and some work on the basis of written constitution For Instance if you compare USA with China both have different system Democratic system of United state of America is strong. Whereas China is Communist which falls under the classification of People Republic United state has a government national organization stand upon 2 thing 1) Separation of Power 2) Federal system US government had a fear that if excess deliberation of power is given in that hand of commen man or in the hand of company it would not be safe for the freedom of the nation, so they revised the organization into 3 branch 1) Legislative 2) Executive 3) Judicial All these power are vested by US system named a Constitution which has 1) President 2) Federal Court 3) Supreme Court which is part of federal court All the power and duties of these 3 branches are clearly explained in act of Congress which also includes formation of department and courts inferior to the Supreme Court All these powers are bifurcated keeping in mind the equality that is it should be balanced with each other which would same the government from criticism of people. US government divided in 2 part the federal and state. Every government has its given fallowing thing 1) Autonomy 2) Power of Legislative 3) Executive 4) Judicial 5) Power of the federal government which is...
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...The United States of America prides itself on its democratic government, but the power of the federal government today threatens American democracy. The federal government should grant states more powers to govern themselves. States' Rights advocated the strict limitation of the advantages of the federal government to those powers assigned to it in the Constitution of the United States, and reserving to the several states all other powers not explicitly forbidden them. The government has many important jobs to do that effect the whole nation and the rest of the world, so if they give the states more power they can concentrate on improving the nation and to promote better living. Each state has different needs; it should be up to their governor and the citizens to decide what needs to be done. In McCullouch v. Maryland (1819) the Supreme Court concluded that Congress had the right to establish a national bank as an implied power of Article I, Section 8, because the bank was being used to further Congress' constitutional authority to tax and distribute funds, as provided in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. The Court also prevented states from taxing the federal government, by declaring Maryland's legislation unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause of Article VI. Chief Justice Marshall stated that the state's power to tax was the power to destroy competition by taxing it out of existence, which was being used unconstitutionally against the federal government. This ruling is...
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