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Federal and State Government Roles

This 20 page paper gives an overview of how government branches influence public policy, and how outside groups influence local ad...

Examining the U.S. Constitution

Few documents since the Magna Carta have had such a profound influence on social and political history as the Constitution of the ...

United Kingdom, Monopolies, and Perfect Competition

firms; with no need to differentiate ones offerings, ideally there should be no promotion or advertising; if there is, its a waste...

Border Control: United States and Mexico

clearly has an affect on taxing in the United States. And, the taxing is not just involved through the situations noted above, but...

Steel Industry

falls in the stock markets, including steel companies. This movement to share prices in response to external influences reflects ...

Interest Groups in the United States: Are They Too Powerful?

(p. 80). Applying his checks and balances principle to interest groups, James Madison believed that there would be so man...

United Kingdom and United States' Private Printing and Vanity Publishing Industries

talent and new innovative ideas. It is worth noting that texts which are printed privately do not only include the experimental ...

Proposition 209 Civil Rights Initiative of the State of California

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the socioeconomic and political aspects of California's Proposition 209 and also examines i...

United Kingdom and United States' Treatments for Substance Abuse

In six pages this paper considers substance abuse treatment options in these countries with the workplace setting the primary focu...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Nullification Crisis Conflict (1828-1832): Was There a Winner?

because of the tariff, the British would be purchasing less of the Souths most important cash export - cotton. This ignited alrea...

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

In six pages civil rights and civil liberties are discussed in order to assess their validity. Three sources are cited in the bib...

International Participation, the United Nations, and Human Rights

In eight pages this research paper examines how the U.N. approaches human rights issues in a discussion of organizations such as t...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

Individual Freedom and Rights in Assisted Suicide Issue

In eighteen pages whether or not the government at either state or federal levels have the right to interfere in the wish of a ter...

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King, and Henry David Thoreau

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

Federalism and its Changes

entrenched in either the federal or the local jurisdictions. And while many think progress is being made, or that things have chan...

Government and Health Care

This essay addresses five issues. The first section is a brief description of one of the recommendations from the IOM for nursing ...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...

United States' Democratic Model Input Types

In six pages this paper discusses input such as votes, lobbyists, special interest groups and committees to evaluate how 'democrat...

Afghanistan, Global Terrorism, and American Foreign Policy

flow of refugees into neighboring countries such as Iran and Pakistan. The factional conflict eventually resulted in the fundament...

Striking and Teachers

scene or people could die. Similarly, hospitals need staff and emergency personnel. One can see why striking in such occupations a...

Human Rights, Sovereignty of States, and the United Nations

1995). And now that the Cold War is over, the U.N. seems more rudderless than ever - charged with requests for peace-keeping f...

Rights and Duties of U.S. Citizenship

In five pages this research paper discusses United States citizenship in terms of naturalization process, rights, and responsibili...

'Ethics' of Kickbacks

to physician loyalty, but the Justice Department stepped in and called the plan a kickback. The government won, to the tune of $3...

Government Procurement and Article Two of the US UCC

requested product. The Uniform Commercial Code serves as some level or framework by which boundaries are established in terms of ...

Direct Price Controls Imposed by the United States Government

the "shortages" experienced in the 1970s was to raise the price of natural gas -- not through market forces but through the creati...