Locate your state’s constitution and examine the major elements and articles of the constitution.

Review its contents and functions. Search for information about the branches of government and the funding sources for your state government.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

• How are the main components of government set up by your state’s constitution?

• Which branch of your state government seems the most powerful, on paper? What evidence do you use for your choice?

• Does the state constitution contain a Bill of Rights? If so, what appears to be the most important feature?

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read chapters 8, 9, and 10 in American Government and watch the video, Episode II – It’s a Free Country.

 

Reflect: Our political system is characterized by certain fundamental features to include a system of laws, rights, and liberties. The laws, created and supported by the Constitutional framework, are designed to protect and secure the rights and liberties of individuals and groups throughout the U.S. However, the government also has an obligation to provide for the security of its citizens from serious internal and external threats that could cause grave or severe damage to our country. The need for homeland and national security can create a dilemma where conflicts emerge between these security needs and the demands for civil rights and liberties.

 

Write: In your initial post, explain what obligations the U.S. government has towards its citizens and how can these obligations impact individual and group rights? Provide real-world examples to support your explanation. Fully respond to all parts of the prompt and write your response in your own words. Your initial response must be 200 to 250 words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.

 

1. Define the culture of poverty.

    

    

    

    

2. How do Messner and Rosenfeld define the American Dream? How is it criminogenic?

    

    

    

    

    

3. What is relative deprivation? Provide an example.

    

    

    

    

    

4. Define middle class measuring rod and reaction formation? How do these contribute to the formation of delinquent subcultures?

    

    

    

    

    

    

5. How was social structure theory used to inform policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations?

    

    

 

1. Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit?
2. What are the socio-psychological conditions that create the environment of false confessions?
3. What is the value of DNA evidence in false confessions cases?
4. Why does the author, Leo, in his article believe that the Miranda rights do not protect innocent people?
5. After reading the two cases, why did the defendants falsely confess to crimes they did not commit?

 

This is for a discussion post. Need to pick one of the questions. Needs to be 2 paragraphs.

 

Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, contends that “the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, [created] an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world’s two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization…” He continued by writing that with “this ‘flattening’ of the globe (which) requires us to run faster in order to stay in place… (brings us face to face with the reality that) the world has gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in stable manner…”

 

Share your thoughts with the class about one of the following questions, all of which refer to “the world is flat” quotation. For more information on Friedman, visit his website at: http://www.thomaslfriedman.com.

 

1. Are the material incentives in China and India likely to make those middle class workers more supportive of a global economic and cultural system? Why or why not?
2. How do you account for the anti-globalization reactions of terrorism?
3. Are the new opportunities for Asian workers a threat to American workers? (Is this a zero sum situation?)
4. Will political systems be unable to maintain stability? Explain

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you identify, compare, and contrast the policing function at the local, state, and federal organizational levels. Analyze how the organizational, management, administration, and operational functions at these three organizational levels are similar or different and why. Be sure to identify the leadership characteristics and responsibilities pertaining to each organizational level.

Select any four of these six topics for your the Assignment and address each question comprehensively:

 

1. It has been said that “a company that deserves a union gets one,” suggesting that if proper leadership and motivation techniques are employed and desirable policies devised, the workers will not want to unionize. Either agree or disagree with this philosophy. Support your position and explain what a company could do to create an environment where workers will not want to unionize.
2. Some means of resolving negotiations impasses involve economic weapons (e.g. strikes and lockouts). There are other means of impasse resolution that do not involve the use of economic weapons (e.g. fact finding, mediation, med/arb/interest arb, etc.). Select two (2) non- economic means of impasse resolution, 1) explain how each one functions and 2) discuss the relative pros and cons of each.
3. Unions have declined as a percentage of the workforce in the private sector. With this decline, have career and workplace dissatisfaction and alienation increased? If so, why is this so? If not, why not? Support your position.
4. List and discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages in using seniority as a factor to determine shift preference or overtime assignments.
5. Identify two different steps a company should take to prepare for its first round of bargaining with the union pre-negotiation activities. Explain why each of the steps you have identified is critical to achieving an initial successful collective bargaining agreement with the union.
6. Identify and explain the major ways in which the government is an important participant in the labor relations.

Resources: Electronic Reserve Readings, University Library, and Internet

Locate two articles. One must describe an effective public leader and the other must describe an ineffective public leader.

Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper that analyzes the traits and styles of both leaders and determines which traits and styles made the leaders effective or ineffective.

1. One-Time Tax Rate

   Real estate magnate Donald Trump once proposed a one-time tax of 14.25 percent on the net wealth of every American with more than $10 million.  Would this be an efficient way to raise tax revenue?  Why or why not?  Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

2. Social Services Initiatives

   Should the Federal Government increase social services initiatives to improve the quality of life issues for the less fortunate ones.  (For instance: 1) promoting training/educational assistance initiatives to help the unskilled workers obtain/hold jobs; 2) assist the elderly/homeless with affordable housing: 3) increase health insurance coverage for the poor.)  Secondly, what impact would this have on the federal deficit?  Is that a burden we should place on all of the citizenry?  Why?  Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings

Discuss two arguments as to why we need a global and holistic perspective in order to understand better our relationship to our environment.