Papers on Politics and Government
Vote No For Quebec To Be Separate From Canada
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Voting YES to the referendum will cause problems in many relationships
between peolpe who live in Quebec and those in the rest of Canada. Some of
these problems are unemployment and jobs. The residents of Quebec will no
longer be able to work in Canada just as Canadians will no longer be allowed to
work in Quebec. This will cause a rise in unemployment because many people
will be forced to quit thier jobs. The border between Canada and Quebec will
impose even more obstacels. Travel will become stessfull because passports
will be needed and duty taxes will be imposed. International trade will also be
a problem since Canada .....
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Gun Control
Words: 828 - Pages: 4.... commit these crimes. They have also punished the majority of the people in the United States who don’t commit these crimes. They limit our freedom to do many of the things that have been looked on as just natural in the past. They have made it harder and more costly to own and buy guns, otherwise known as the Right to Bear Arms. This being one of the first principles that this government was established on. Other countries have already gone to worse laws than this; for example Australia’s new law prohibits pump shotguns and semi-automatics from being owned. The new law compensated the people for the price of the gun, then has the gun tak .....
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The Uniqueness Of The American Constitution
Words: 835 - Pages: 4.... a delicate element and the Constitution is careful in defining
where certain powers lie. One of the novelties about this doctrine is that it
does a clever job of dividing certain powers between the state and federal
governments. Monetary units, for example, are issued exclusively by the federal
government. This is not only more convenient for traveling purposes, but also
allows for a more 'united' spirit. People in California can easily view a
commercial for a product affiliated with New York without having to translate
the cost or watch the television screen scroll down 50 different prices. The
Stock Market functions fairly smoot .....
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Labor Union History In Califor
Words: 874 - Pages: 4.... unions equal POWER. But it didn't start with Chavez. In 1894, California held its first strike organized by San Francisco and Sacramento Carpenters who pushed for a whole sixteen dollars a day. Well, they settled for fourteen. However, a year later the first official union was organized in California, the San Francisco Typography Society. Formed by printers at the Alta California newspaper, the San Francisco Typography opposed a wage cut and in no time the power of collective bargaining overwhelmed its first obstacle. The first of many. Unions thrived for several decades after, sending a sonic boom of labor reform across the nation. Wor .....
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The Role Of Citizen Political Participation In Hong Kong And Singapore
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small state would be over run by the newly established and expansionist
communist China to the north. During the years immediately after 1949 China was
expanding, taking over Tibet and Mongolia; Hong Kong's feeling of insecurity was
very real. The Colonial government did in subsequent years establish Hong Kong's
Legislative Council and Executive council, and the Colonial government appointed
prominent and respected local Chinese citizens to serve on these bodies. These
councils although far from democratic did ensure that the Chinese citizenry
would at least have representatives to express their pleasure or displeasure
with th .....
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The Vote To Breakup Quebec And Canada
Words: 1249 - Pages: 5.... with warnings of a slump and heavy job losses if
Quebec broke away.
On October 9th, Mr. Parizeau, realizing that his campaign was
failing, handed over leadership of the separatists cause to Lucian Bouchard.
Bouchard was head of the Bloc Quebecois (BQ), a distinct, federal level
party which swept[t the polls in Quebec in the 1993 federal elections, and
whose 53 members in the Ottawa parliament are second in number only to the
ruling liberals of Jean Chretien.
Already in June, Parizeau had retreated from his outright
separatist stance by agreeing with Bouchard, and with Mario Dumont, leader
of a small nationalist party, to cou .....
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Gen X
Words: 1130 - Pages: 5.... music, different movies, there is not much we have in common. Generation X has grown up in a world of money and quickly changing technology. In order to be the President of the United States of America, one must be thirty-five years old. Automatically that is at least a ten-year age difference between the two groups. There is an ever growing generation gap between candidates and youthful voters. In the case of the 1996 Presidential election, Bob Dole was in his seventies, my grandfather is not even seventy. Bob Dole and many other candidates in recent and past years have had trouble relating to Generation X and vice versa. Another reaso .....
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The Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Words: 1110 - Pages: 5.... was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and after a series
of name changes, it received it's present official name in 1935. During the
early period of the FBI's history, it's agents investigated violations of
mainly bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, and neutrality violation. During
World War One, the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating
espionage, sabotage, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft
violations. The passage of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in 1919 further
broadened the Bureau's jurisdiction.
After the passage of Prohibition in 1920, the gangster era began,
bringing about a wh .....
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Drug Abuse
Words: 1001 - Pages: 4.... crime rate will sky rocket if we let this behavior continue. Illegal drugs and their abusers are a plague to society for many different reasons.. Drugs have very harmful effects on the user and the people with whom the user interacts. The user is affected in many ways. The most popular drug in America, alcohol, is generally thought of as socially acceptable and relatively harmless. But it can have devastating effects. Alcohol might seem very harmless but it can harm the user very easily. Alcohol is easy to obtain and consume. It is taken as a beverage and, since it is legal, it can be purchased at the corner store. The immediate effects on .....
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Political Parties
Words: 2039 - Pages: 8.... should adopt, and they had enough votes in Parliament to pass their legislation.
are the products of representative democracy. During the centuries when laws were made by kings and their advisers, parties could not exist because there were no elected officials. Parties began to emerge in Europe and North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when elected legislatures became a dominant force in government.
In the earliest decades in which existed, their memberships were quite small. In the United States and England, for example, most citizens were not allowed to vote. Party membership, therefore, consisted mainly of landowne .....
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