The Federal Government The Federal Government The three branches of the federal government provide a base for the way we live our lives. The process by which the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches operate is long, but necessary. Each branch has a duty to watch the others through a process of checks and balances mandated by the Constitution of the United States. The following will give a brief explanation of each branch and their duties. Judicial Branch Our Judicial branch of government is defined in Article III of the Constitution and by Congress. ...

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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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Presidential candidates have been caught having affairs, fathering children out of wedlock, and raising "slush funds" of cash for personal expenses. ... The first being power misconduct. This occurs when someone involved in government allows power to take control. ... The society today is most scared to the first form of corruption which was mentioned is power misconduct. Power is known as "the capacity to achieve goals "(Leach 2008.) ...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con ...

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