The Major Causes Of Statelessness In The United States

There has always been a huge political debate on what powers the federal government and what powers the state government should hold. Do you feel like dual federalism gives the states too much power? Do you feel like cooperative federalism was bad because there was no distinction between the federal government and the state government? Do you think that categorical grants are better than block grants because the money has a more specific purpose?

People have been arguing for years about who should have more power, either the federal government or the state. People arguing that the states should have more power than the government because they care more about the people. Then other people will say that the federal should have majority of the power since they oversee everything the states do. I believe that the federal government and the state government should have shared power, but I think the federal government should have the powers such as declaring war and things to help the people as a whole. Then the states should have the power to do what they think is the best things for the people of their state.

According to Krisberg and Taylor-Nicholson, state budget cuts, lowering prison over-crowding, and improving corrections are the underlying reasons for the policy shift. Although “county custody costs (county jail) may be somewhat lower than state prison costs, shifting the custody and supervision costs of selected offender groups to the county will only cut spending in state prisons,” and may fail to lower the overall costs of corrections in California (Owen & Mobley, 2012, p. 47). Whereas the state prison system seems to be progressing toward its population-reduction goal, “this measure is shortsighted and somewhat deceiving” because a “corresponding rise in county jail populations will continue California’s

The 51st State: America’s Working Poor is, a movie on the affects and effects of poverty in America. The film starts off by reviewing the many different percentages about poverty, a very important one being on how 5% of Americans do not believe poverty exist in our country. Another fact being, 12% of Americans live without enough to eat and 1/5 of children are living in poverty. There are way more children living in poverty than 20 to 30 years ago, today. The film reflects on how Americas have a major problem in believing that if an individual is in poverty it is due to their own shortcomings, called individualism. Due to their beliefs, there is a lack of assistance for the Americans living in poverty conditions. When Americans hear “poor

     The impact of a state’s right to nullification can ultimately cause a great deal of damage to the country that it resides in. To describe the impacts one would need to take a look back into history when the Nullification Crisis took place. South Carolina had economic hard times after the war of 1812. Cotton prices started to drop and South Carolina was in a state of depression. Southerners however tend to blame their economic woes on the policies of the national government. (Goode

There are a lot of important issues that Americans face today. But one of the most important is mass incarceration. This problem is affecting the economy, the government spends billions of dollars to keep people in prison. Private own prison are getting a lot of money just to house prisoners. Prison is one of the biggest businesses in America. These prisons are profiting from minorities and by holding undocumented immigrants. A lot of people that are incarcerated didn’t commit serious crimes. Some people are in prison on nonviolent drug charges. Does America Needs a Alternatives to Incarceration, maybe the government should try to rehabilitate nonviolent offenders.By population china is the most populous country on earth. And yet America a country with four times less the population has more prisoners. This is happening in a country that advocates freedom and democracy. A country sometimes called the free world .Is this happening because America has the most violent criminals in the world? What are the causes for the unusually high incarceration rate in America? Because of government continuously implying new strict laws America has become the country with the highest incarcerated.

In the past four decades, there has been a staggering increase in the United States prison population at the local and state level. Currently there are 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails that has added up to a 500% increase over 40 years (The sentencing project). The cause of this prison growth is a variety of laws and punitive sentencing policies that were initiated starting in the early 1970’s. Policies such as harsh drug penalties for non-violent crimes, Mandatory Minimum Maximum sentences and the Three Strikes law have all contributed to America’s current problem of mass incarceration.

The mass incarceration in the United States, has grown hand in hand with the well-disguised scheme of racialized social control that worked similarly to Jim Crow institutions.  Howard Zinn describes social-economic structures that justified slavery, also prevented a class movement between poor whites and slaves that would threaten the power of the elite. The birth of white privilege and segregation of African Americans aided in creating Jim Crow policies and in the criminal justice and political spheres. American society is still systematized around preserving and safeguarding white privilege. The uneven path America took toward emancipation, freedom and partial radical equality resulted in the failure to pay black soldiers equally, the migration of freed blacks from southern states and the highly racist attitudes whites held toward blacks. Therefore “white privilege simply confers dominance, gives permission to control, and blank check” to pass and implement laws that would benefit one group over the other”.

Amid the red Alarm of 1919 -1920, numerous in the Unified States dreaded late foreigners and nonconformists, especially the individuals who grasped comrade, communist, or rebel belief system. The reasons for the red Panic included:

The prison boom has produced mass incarceration, a level of imprisonment so large that it has made an experience on an entire social group. The prison boom started in the 1970s after the civil rights movement. The numbers of incarceration rose immediately for African Americans, due to the tension that still remained between the whites and people of dark color. There were poorer neighborhoods, school desegregation, advancement in voting rights, and protection from discrimination all soon came to an end with the prison boom. Mass incarceration exist because racial disparities exist, the justice system is ineffective, and it has made an impact on collateral damage.

The number of people incarcerated in America has steeply risen since the beginning of the War on Drugs. In 1980, about 300,000 individuals were in jail. (Alexander, 2010) In 2000, the number rose to over one million, and at the start of 2008, there were 2.3 million adults in prison in America (Pew Center on the States, 2008). These increases in the rate of incarceration are traceable to the War on Drugs (Nunn, 2001). “Convictions for drug offenses are the single most important cause of the explosion in incarceration in the United States (Alexander, 2010).” Drug offenses account for two thirds of the rise in the federal prison population between 1985 and 2000 (Nunn, 2001).

An ascribed status is the social status that a person is assigned at birth. Thus, the position is neither earned nor chosen. Rodriguez and Guzman argue that race in the U.S. is understood as an ascribed status because a person is assigned a race at birth -- you cannot choose or earn your race. Additionally, race in the United States is unchangeable. This is even true for when a person goes to different countries. For example, even though a person might be considered white in one country, if he or she is considered black in America, to America, they will always be black. Furthermore, Rodriguez and Guzman wrote that the way race is understood in America "disallows or ignores more contextual definitions" of race. The ascribed status race has in America means that what is believed to be in your blood when you are born is what you will be for the rest of your life.

The political theories of nullification and secession were by no means regarded lightly throughout American history. When comparing states’ rights to the federal law, deciphering which carries more precedence could quickly become a rather sticky situation. As a result, much speculation was raised as to whether or not these two concepts were constitutional. When analyzing various arguments made throughout the past, it is easy to see that nullification and secession were clearly not justified by the Constitution.

Nearlly all countries in the world that exist that have only formal citizens in their populations: migration and globalization give rise to communities within states. But Richard Katz,

Question 1: Fragile States - Causes & Impact. Discuss the characteristics of a state described as “fragile”, “failing”, or failed and address the possible causes of state failure as well as the “danger signs” that might warn of impending failure.