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- 3081: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... enjoying at critical times the right the right of unlimited arrest and summary execution of suspects and hostages. The principle of such police surveillance over the political leanings of the Soviet population has remained in effect ever since, despite the varying intensity of repression and the organizational changes of the police -- from Cheka to GPU (The State Political Administration) to NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) to MVD (Ministry of ...
- 3082: The Press and Media Cause Rampant Swaying of the Election Votes Through Their Opinions and Reports
- ... and have great reason to be contented with it. Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time, and that of twenty aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better just to trust to the simple justice of my countrymen. (Tebbel 1985) His actions and reactions to ...
- 3083: Interest Groups
- ... regain the initiative, it would have to create a new class of its own --scholars whose career prospects depended on private enterprise, not government or the universities. "You get what you pay for, Kristol in effect argued, and if businessmen wanted intellectual horsepower, they would have to open their pocketbooks."1 The rise of Nader's Raiders and similar public-interest groups--which achieved remarkable results, considering how badly outgunned they ...
- 3084: The Government and Environmental Policy
- ... legitimation), implementation, and evaluation. The most relevant one of these steps is horizontal implementation when one considers the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act. This policy is the process that puts a law into effect after it has been legitimized. Congress and the President set up the initial regulation of the law, but the direct responsibility of regulation is turned over to the states involved. And, of course, workset-like ...
- 3085: The Federalist Papers and Federalism
- ... Twenty-nine letters have proved to be the most memorable in their balance and ideas of governmental power. It is not clear whether The Federalist Papers, written between October 1787 and May 1788 had any effect on New York's and Virginia's ratification of the Constitution. Encyclopedia Britannica defines Federalism as, "A mode of political organization that unites independent states within a larger political framework while still allowing each state ...
- 3086: USSR: The Doomed Empire
- ... real fact is that one represented an open democracy and the other a closed totalitarian system and both were the only real superpowers left standing after World War II.1 This split generated a bipolar effect bringing the entire world into a game of tug of war between the two superpowers. Throughout the four decades actual combative war never broke out but in turn a similar game of chess was played ...
- 3087: The Brady Bill
- ... to check the backgrounds of the prospective buyers to make sure that guns are not sold to convicted felons or to those who are mentally unstable. Even the proponents of the bill agreed that the effect of the bill on curbing the gun violence might be minimal considering the fact that the majority of guns used for criminal purposes were purchased through illegal dealers. However, the Brady Bill represented the first ...
- 3088: Congress and The Change in Term Limits
- ... long-term legislative service. The only way to counteract that bias is term limits. The limits should be shorter rather than longer. Three terms for the House would, for instance, have a muchmore powerful transforming effect than would the six terms favored by many officeholders. (Bandow, p.221) 81.3 percent of voters who support term limits prefer three terms; just 15.8 percent favor six terms. (McLaughlin, p.1) Shorter ...
- 3089: Canada - Of the United States of America
- ... trade agreement. An American economic forecaster, Marvin Cetron, wrote in his 1990 bestselling book, American Renaissance : Our Life at the Turn of the Century: Once the free-trade agreement with the United States takes full effect, the next logical step will be to accept politically what has already happened economically - the integration of Canada into the United States32 In conclusion, it is evident that Canada is different form the United States ...
- 3090: Affirmative Action
- ... by their share of the state's population.(NY Times, June 4 1995, pp.24) Many students believe that if the goal of affirmative action is to move toward a more equal society, then the effect is to create a campus obsessed with racial and ethnic divisions. Some skeptics say affirmative action in admissions contributes to a balkanized campus of racially divided dorms and friendships that make the benefits of diversity ...
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