This affected the laws which go into place and how things are conducted in government both on the federal and state levels and is by far not what democracy should include. ... The federal government has certain standards to which it is supposed to uphold as does the state governments. The federal governments require the following; "To ensure that no person or group would amass too much power, the founders established a government in which the powers to create, implement, and adjudicate laws were separated. Each branch of government is balanced by powers in the other two co-equal branches: The...

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The American Government spends a great deal of time creating a budget for the finances of this great nation each fiscal year. ... "2 The creation of the Department of Homeland Security basically took twenty two branches of government and combined them into one, this may seem like it would be a decrease in cost because of downsizing one branch of government into one but in fact it caused a small increase in cost to the average tax paying citizen. ... It's the caps as adjusted by the two law changes last year, and the dashed green line, or what we are submitting in terms of P.B. '...

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Congress, Guamanians were given the privilege of local government. ... No law shall be passed abridging the development of the Chamorro culture, language, traditions, or customs. Places of significance to the culture, tradition, and history of the Chamorro people shall be preserved as provided by law. ... A commission shall be established by law to study and promote the perpetuation of Chamorro culture and traditions. ... One would think that the Chamorro people of the CNMI and the United States government would have ...

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During the time of European expansion, many interventions by the powerful states emerged because of the failure of Pacific government. ... The existence of a state, or statehood, is recognized by international customary law only when that state has a political entity with stable populations, a defined territory, government and ability to create diplomatic relations with other states (Di John 2010). ... Ignatieff (2002), on the other hand, affirms that a state fails when "the central government loses the monopoly of the means of violence " (p.118). ... It refers to a situation where the structu...

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In this document the laws of the land and an entire system of Government was laid out. ... There are no Constitutional or Federal Laws, which require electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote for that elector's particular state. However, many states have their own laws regarding so-called "faithless electors". ... The founders of our Country and the framers of the United States Constitution instituted the Electoral College to separate powers between the States and the Federal Government. ... Currently, about 25 states have laws in effect that punish "faithless electo...

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