They have also continued to grow to maintain their power base. ... The power base could consist of regulation power, financial resources, information and knowledge possessed by agencies and their employees, expertise of agency officials, as well as the voting power of federal agencies" employees, just to name a few. ... There are always controls - internally and externally - trying to prevent the agencies from getting too much power in order to maintain a balance of power in the government. ... This control of legislative action, however, is not effective and can be costly in terms of bot...

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This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's private living quarters for any reason at any given time without a warrant (as defined in the Sections mentioned above). ... Section 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be terrorist intelligence activities for a foreign power. ... If the Bush administration is re-elected in the upcoming presidential election, our rights to privacy and freedom will be dimini...

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This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's private living quarters for any reason at any given time without a warrant (as defined in the Sections mentioned above). ... Section 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be terrorist intelligence activities for a foreign power. ... If the Bush administration is re-elected in the upcoming presidential election, our rights to privacy and freedom will be dimini...

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Three goals of radical republicans were they wanted to prevent the leaders of the confederacy from returning to power after the war, they wanted the republican party to become a formidable institution in the south, and they wanted the federal government to help African Americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing their rights to vote in the south. ... Unfortunately, the relatively radical program was not accompanied by anything systematic in the way of social and economic welfare; thus the Negro had the vote before he had either the education or economic power that would enable him to ...

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While the reforms had the desired effect of lessening the administrative power of the president it did so by making political institutions more bureaucratic. ... He claimed that according to the Constitution, the power to declare war is not in the hands of the President but in those of Congress. ... This assault on the national government was carried out to protect the power of local communities. ... Their goal was to reduce the power and influence of political organizations and instead they favored a national administrative power. ... As a possible solution to this dilemma Milkis proposes t...

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The constitution gave our government a limited, an enumerated and a delegated right to act, dispensing power between three balanced branches. ... During the 1996 presidential election nearly 90 million eligible voters stayed away from the polls. ... Government, over the span of our sententious history has taken on more and more of one thing: power. Lord Acton summed it up best when he stated, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Despite the fact the since 1968 Americans have elected the every presidential candidate that pledged to support a smaller government, th...

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America has come a long way since its Independence. Throughout her history she has gone through a number of changes. One of these periods in which number of reforms took place was the during the period between 1870- 1914 five political parties dominated the American politics of that time. These par...

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The idea of a parliamentary system over something such as a presidential system would promote the idea of shared power, where no one person has sole control over the nation, and therefore no one group controls either. The composition of this governing body should be representative of the population, and a system of checks and balances should be imposed so that no one religious or ethnic group can gain power to control the others. ...

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It also said that the government could use "fiscal policy, it power of taxing and spending, to stimulate the economy"(Schulman 36)... (9) In order to prove himself worthy of presidential office, LBJ pushed two landmark pieces of legislation in the 1950's. ...

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