Policy has the option of allowing full freedom of speech in which broadcasters have full control over what they transmit, or the policy can have certain restrictions. Policy makers, when deciding to partition spectrum to broadcasters by assigning licenses, wanted to refrain from controlling or censoring content. ... There is still a small number of owners who control the airwaves, but the owners do not control the messages that are carried by those airwaves. ... Unfortunately, the limitations in broadcasting require more governmental control. ... Telecommunications policy and two industr...

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The Government and Environmental Policy. ... Public policy has also been employed to reform the Endangered Species Act of 1973. ... This policy is the process that puts a law into effect after it has been legitimized. ... So now that a foundation of the processes controlling these acts has been established, the question arises, what exactly is the Endangered Species Act within the Sierra Club? ... The three types of public policy programs are distributive, redistributed, and regulatory. ...

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In Mexico, however, the executive branch dominates the other branches to such an extent that the country effectively has a political system that is controlled by its president. ... Presidents acquire tremendous authority because they also control the selection of candidates in their party for elective office at the national level. ... The cabinet is divided into smaller groups, such as an economic or national security cabinet, which make policy recommendations to the president or respond to his policy initiatives. ... The decisions of the Supreme Court usually follow the pol...

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Public policy should be made publicly, not secretly, and regularly scheduled elections should be held. ... Private interests distort public policy making because, when making decisions, politicians must take account of campaign contributors. ... The President is extremely powerful in foreign policy making; so powerful that scholars now speak of the "Imperial Presidency," implying that the President runs foreign policy as an emperor. ... In the majority party (the party which controls Congress), the person who has served the longest has the most power. ... Bureaucracies violate the requiremento...

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The policy's scope was not just foreign; it was also domestic. ... This policy went effective on November 25, 2002. ... In policy analysis it's wise to understand the reason why a policy is constructed. When dissecting a policies purpose it's prudent to understand the actors in a policy; and who's benefiting fiscally or not from a newly formed policy. ... Liberties that are annulled by a government insist that the government needed control over its citizens. ...

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Canadian politics are continuing to strive towards perfection with the addition of new policies and the subtraction of old ones. ... This included regions throughout Canada using constitutional, legal and taxation levers to increase their control over activities and interests within the given provincial borders [Ste]. ... Creating one policy may benefit one industry, but on the other hand, crippling to another. ... This policy alone has pitted Ottawa against Alberta for over a decade [Ste]. Another economic policy set in place was that of the Canada-US free trade agreement. ...

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In general, a state can do anything that is not prohibited by the constitution or preempted by federal policy and that is consistent with its own constitution. ... Federal aid has become so important for state and local governments that Washington was on its way to controlling other levels of government. For example, there are two kinds of federal controls on state governmental activities: Conditions of aid and mandates. ... Moreover, certain Federal tax and regulatory policies make it difficult and expensive for states to raise revenues, borrow funds, or privatize public functions. ... (Ameri...

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Politics and Policy in States and Communities. ... Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America. ... Politics and Policy in States and Communities. ... Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America. ... Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America. ...

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Poor government policies have caused rampant abuse and fraud within the programs which has minimized the program's effectiveness towards its initial goal. ... Instead these policies are putting a strain on our economy and preventing it from growing, by taking up tax dollars that could be used for other important investments. ... The requirements and policies put in place around our entitlement programs are not sound government policies. ... As Curtis Dubay writes, "the goal of government policy shouldn't be to make more people dependent. ... Program costs have grown out-of-contr...

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Public policy should be made publicly, not secretly, and regularly scheduled elections should be held. ... The President is extremely powerful in foreign policy making; so powerful that scholars now speak of the "Imperial Presidency," implying that the President runs foreign policy as an emperor. ... In the majority party (the party which controls Congress), the person who has served the longest has the most power. ... Bureaucracies violate the requirement of a legitimate democracy that public policy must be made publicly, not secretly. ... Policy making may be considered democratic to an exte...

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With both men's contrasting ideas, the debates between them on political theory, and U.S. policies brought about the basis for party politics in the U.S. Their views on political theory, the establishment of a National Bank, and foreign policy conflicted because how each man believed where political power laid. ... Due to the belief of inequality, he found that a strong central government, controlled by the few with talent and power, was needed to control the mass of people with little talent and power. ... In opposition to Hamilton, Jefferson feared a long-lasting national debt, as ...

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Henry Clay called Jackson's Native American policy a stain on the nation's honor. However, Jackson's antipathy toward these peoples was typical of the frontier settler, and because this policy opened more land to settlement, most westerners supported it with enthusiasm. ... Although this was to a large extent a privately owned bank, it had a government charter to regulate the flow of currency, control credit, and perform essential banking services for the Department of the Treasury. ... In addition, many business people and state bankers opposed the national bank because of...

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Although democracy has either one person or small group of people leading everything, it differs from the political system of monarchy or dictatorship in that the people can control their leader. ... Corruption still remains a major issue in their government, even though the president tries to create a policy of transparency and honesty. ... Rogers states that an improper board policy allowed part-time employees to get an extra boost in their salary. ... Instead, they are pawns in the game of power and who can control the most assets of a country. ...

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Indeed, such concerns revolve around three major themes, and one of them regards being opposed to gun control and concrete belief in the 2nd Amendment including the right of citizens to carry arms against the state. ... Indeed, the more definite militia members' concerns might encompass those linked to the environmental issues, jury rights, abortion rights, gay rights, affirmative action, religious issues, educational standards, states' rights, the effects of GATT and NAFTA, immigration policy, and the 'militarization" of the U.S. law enforcement (Mulloy, 2008). ... Ac...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. INTRODUCTION 4 3. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 4 3.1. Population 4 3.2. American classes 5 3.2.1. Upper class 5 3.2.2. The upper middle-class 5 3.2.3. The lower middle class 5 3.2.4. The working class 6 3.2.5. The lower class 6 4. LANGUAGE 6 5. RELIGION 6 6. ECONOMIC ...

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Hamilton's plan is the true federal approach to any situation that the revolutionary generation faced: put it under the control of the central government. ... The Republicans believed that each state should be responsible for its own money; not only because it would be unfair if a state with less debt had to pay more due to another state having a higher debt, but also because putting complete economic control of debts into the federal government was highly reminiscent of Great Britain's economic policies. ... In fact, one of the key policies of his presidency was the Proclamation of ...

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Eventually Indian removal entered a new stage, especially with the Cherokee nation, the most dramatic example of the Indian policy of the U.S. government and its motivations. ... treaty after treay was renegotiated by the U.S., the Indians were manipulated and controlled. ... This is where the new stage entered becaus ein 1830 Congress passed an Indian Removal Bill for financial support of a policy that was already in progress for a while. ...

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If properly controlled and regulated, this prior illegal substance could become one of America's most helpful medications. ... While the national government's policy towards marijuana is still in favor of no marijuana use, state governments can regulate their own laws and eventually change the national policy if there is enough support. ... Also, the fact that the US national government only acknowledges marijuana as a harmful substance, while positive aspects of the drug have been proven to be true, leads one to question many other national policies and how that impact citizens in...

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All these examples of rebellions, even though they failed, made the idea of anyone owning a gun dangerous to the public eye, mainly because it seemed that at any time a large group of people found themselves unhappy with a new policy they could just go ahead and grab a weapon and try to "Regulate" the government into making things go the way they want. ... The Federalists believed that an army should be in control of defending the people therefore making individual ownership of guns unnecessary. ... The first state to design any gun control law was Kentucky. Kentucky's gun con...

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Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, under the Federal Controlled Substance act(Mathre 4). ... They instituted a more restrictive policy: "Any patient using marijuana, and any physician prescribing it would face federal prosecution; the physicians in addition would lose their drug licenses and might even be banned from Medicare and Medicade"(Sager 30). ... Nate Miley, an Oakland official argues, "It was our understanding that, under the Federal Controlled Substance Act, agents of the city could distribute marijuana or other illegal substances for public safety reasons"(Aizenman 18). ... The govern...

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In her introduction to her book, Appiah mentions that these international disputes have arisen typically when governments assume the responsibility to act for their citizens, "And the possibilities of good and of ill are multiplied beyond all measure when it comes to policies carried out by governments in our name" (Appiah, xii-xiii). ... When Iraq, a less competent country in the eyes of America, was floundering after the US invasion, the US stepped in to take control. ...

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"The Out-of-control Presidency" is an article my Michael Lind in which he makes the claim that the executive branch of the government has become too powerful. ... Where we first see the president take a dictatorial role is in foreign policy. ...

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He argued for federalism to prevent tyranny; by which states could serve as testing grounds for new policies and programs. ... They feared that popularly elected representatives would eventually try to concentrate their control and tyranny would reign (O'Connor, 1993, 64). ...

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With the same volition of his protest in the Civil Rights Movement, he attacked the United States government for use of imperialism and power to control Vietnam thus having claim in Southeast Asia. ... Zinn is committed to fighting fascism because it a government policy that promotes nationalism and ethnic identity. ...

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The purpose of government is to keep its subjects from harming each other. To minimize harm, government must control the interactions between people, both grand and small. An efficient government is one that causes these interactions to occur in a productive fashion. From a social perspective, th...

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