The idea was to lower unemployment, which had reached an all-time high, restore prosperity and reinstate some of the Progressive ideas that had faded away. ... Several bills were passed that provided mortgage relief for farmers and homeowners, such as the Home Owners" Loan Corporation (HOLC.) which not only bailed out mortgage-holding banks, it also enhanced the loyalties of the middle class to the Democratic party. ... It also showed that the constituency of the Democratic Party had changed. ... Roosevelt issued in an era of assurance for the Democratic party since most of America began to tu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The assortment of government interest parties is cultivated by the pluralism of the government at the federal, regional, and local levels. ... The plans of the organizational agencies usually coincide within reach to the plans of private factions within their components. ... However, pluralism can make it difficult to get legislation enacted because different political parties need to express their varied opinions and there may be intense disagreement. ... The existence of political disciplined parties in our system is an indication of the variety of political energy in our nation. ... It is c...

• Word Count: 1119
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• Grade Level: Graduate

These moneys from rich individuals and corporations go to the parties, not directly to the candidates. ... In recent decades the amount of money spent by candidates for office has reached staggering levels, yet it continues to increase dramatically. ... As a practical matter, if you write a large check, you get to be well known in the party and gain a certain amount of access. ... With barely fifty percent of eligible voters turning out at the polls during presidential election years, the issue of democratic participation has reached a critical level of urgency. ... "Both parties are...

• Word Count: 2003
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"I am relieved to say that leaders from both parties have come together for the sake of our economy to reach a historic, bipartisan compromise that ends this dangerous standoff," added Reid (Hulse). ... If by 2013 the committee is unable to reach an agreement, automatic spending cuts will be enforced on both the Pentagon and defense spending (Jackson). These areas were chosen because of their importantance to the two parties, which would hopefully inspire cooperation (Hulse). ...

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Not only have efforts to increase voter turn out failed to reach their goal, but they have done the exact opposite. ... In general, political parties play a much smaller role than they once did. The parties supply a label, as well as services and some funds. Candidates must campaign for their party's nomination as well as for election. ... If the Responsible Party Model is used, it will require a strengthening of political party importance. ...

• Word Count: 1811
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These three things seemed far from reach for the colonist because of the superiority of the King and his esteemed army. ... Then the Committees of Correspondence met and the result of this was the Boston Tea Party as a revolt against the British. ...

• Word Count: 676
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• Grade Level: High School

As a result of no nationwide regulation to force people into identifying with a political party, partisan classification tends to be an unofficial mental commitment to a party. ... In the majority party (the party which controls Congress), the person who has served the longest has the most power. ... Furthermore, most of what the federal government does never reaches the public. ...

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Party discipline declined, and congressional members became more involved in foreign policy due to the ability to travel overseas easier. ... A compromise was reached where a nonbinding resolution would be adopted by the Congress that called for the administration to submit a report defining its goals in Somalia and to seek formal congressional approval for the US troop deployment. After fierce military action killed 18 US soldiers, the Clinton administration "reached for new options" amidst strong Congressional criticism and announced its intention to withdraw completely from Somalia by Mar...

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HIPPA is the most far reaching legislative act passed since ERISA. ... It also says if you gave the information to someone like a billing service or third party claims service and they must transmit it electronically. ...

• Word Count: 625
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some parties claim that the loss of profit from piracy negatively affects budgets for research and development; this is unsubstantiated because it is impossible to gauge the extent of loss from piracy. ... Parties lobbying Washington to enact piracy reducing legislation are essentially asking for a favor tantamount to regulating the amount of carbon dioxide produced by humans. ... Even though piracy regulation is obviously detrimental to fiscal performance, some parties claim that copyright enforcement is still important because the absence of it can prove to damaging to artistic creativity. ....

• Word Count: 2876
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although they are early in the process of trying to win a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states, some conservatives worry that the political clock is ticking and the drive to amend the Constitution will be doomed unless they can reach consensus. ... The alliance assembled by Daniels cuts across traditional party lines and includes Catholic, Jewish and Muslim leaders as well as ministers in historically black Protestant denominations. ...

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Clinton thought such a demand on Republicans to produce a budget would produce inner-party quarrels and cause the GOP to implode. ... At current rates, our government is about to reach its breaking point. ... Overall, the difference between the two parties budget plans is only $400 billion. ... The GOP plan: By fulfilling campaign promises made by freshman Republican Congressmen to cut government spending, the GOP managed to pass a $1.6 trillion budget resolution by a party-line vote, in both houses of Congress (Hosansky 1450). ... While both parties agree on premium ...

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• Grade Level: High School

All this resulted to calls to and from terrorists were not monitored with the notion that the other party might be American. ... The government should reach out to other countries, listen to them and work with them in combatting this menace. ... A consensus can be reached by noting the views of thoughtful Muslim and Arab leaders (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, 2004). ...

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This was used as a major stepping-stone to reach the goal of outlawing all alcohol. ... For instance, if the police show up at a house party, and they see no one outside, they cannot enter the house because they have no probable cause. ... High school students look up to college students and see that they go out and party every weekend, so they do the same thing in order to be accepted. ...

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This was particularly evident in the areas of foreign relations, internal discontent over tariffs, and political party struggles. ... Because of the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation, the United States did not reach a peaceful settlement concerning the Mississippi River until the Pinckney Treaty of the 1790's. Political party struggles (or struggles between the beginnings of political parties) also tended to bring about disunity in the early government, thereby weakening its effectiveness. ...

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At the same time, the Democratic Party gained control of both the presidency and Congress for the first time in the post-Civil War era. ... Although both parties almost unanimously approved the first income tax because, according to Susan B. ... But only two years later, most realized that one could not be created, and the idea of a constitutional amendment became part of the Democratic Party platform (Witte 74, Seligman 589-91). ... They were later combined, and congressmen from both parties agreed to vote for the compromise, much to the chagrin of Senator Nelson Aldrich, who a not only again...

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• Grade Level: High School

President Lincoln's major goal was to strength the Republican Party in the South. ... The official reconstruction of the south ended in 1877, but the attitudes have taken over a hundred years to change, and the attempt to make that change reached a boiling point during the 1960s. ...

• Word Count: 1036
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• Grade Level: High School