California Proposition 13

attention to lands, regions, resources, people, and economy. California has many resources like water and the amazing California climate. Water is the most precious resource that California has and ironically now we are in a huge drought. Due to the many immigrants who traveled to California in hopes of a better life resulted in one of the world's largest diverse economies. California is the third largest state in America. California consists of many ethnic groups like Native Americans, Mexicans

My Book Report on California Government and Politics Find out more about California Government and Politics by Larry N Gerston, Terry Christensen. Originally published: 1991 The main purpose of this book report to is to identify the objective of California's government, people, economy, and politics. Some of the learning objectives are to describe changes in California population 18th and 19th centuries. But let first look into California's Economy and the agriculture elements. We have a

June 1998, California voters passed Proposition 227, which removed most “bilingual” classes by requiring public schools in the state to teach all English language development classes only in English (Smith). With many immigrants coming to America, especially storming into the Bay Area, Proposition 227 was overturned by Proposition 58 in November 2016, which then went into effect on July 1, 2017 (Hopkinson). Now, in 2017, at least 220 languages are spoken within the border of California, and among

funded healthcare services in the United States, cause a financial drain not only on the healthcare system but also the national economy. For example, FAIR (Federation for American Immigration) estimates that the cost of reimbursed medical care in California in 2004 was about $1.4 billion and $.85 billion in Texas, with one of the frequent costs to U.S. taxpayers being the delivery of babies to illegal alien mothers. Opponents furthermore have argued that Americans have greater obligations to their

Medicinal Marijuana: The Debate Marijuana or Cannabis sativa is a natural grown plant in which the leaves, stems and flowers contain delta-9-tetrahydro-cannibinal (THC). When smoked, THC gives the user a type of euphoria or “high” feeling. However, many medical professionals and patients claim that this drug also gives users medical benefits for various ailments; and they are fighting to have this drug legalized for this reason. According to the National Academy of Sciences

The state of California has the third largest prison system in the world and the largest in the United States. To understand how California got to this point in prison reform, you have to go back as far as 1994 when Proposition 184 was approved by voters with a 72% majority vote. Proposition 184 was the strictest "three strikes" sentencing law in the United States, which doubled the penalty for a second felony if the first one was serious or violent and carried a mandatory prison sentence of 25 years

Problem Identification Every day in California, working men and women face conflicts between their work responsibilities and their families. In order to work they must make arrangements for their children and elderly family members who need assistance. They address these conflicts through a variety of child-care, after-school, and eldercare arrangements. But sometimes when a child is seriously ill, an aging parent’s health deteriorates suddenly, or a baby is born or adopted, these daily arrangements

arguments of direct democracy and how it leads to irresponsible legislation that is not subject to inspection of the US political process. In the article, Helgerman explains how direct democracy came to be used in state government and used the state of California as an example. He stated that there are two processes to hold a piece of legislation up to popular vote to establish state constitutions, which are the initiative and the referendum. The referendum allows individuals to accept or reject laws that

worst types of people, mainly prisoners who are convicted of murder. The most common type of death is by injection. There are currently a bunch of inmates who are on death row, awaiting their deaths. The state with the most death row inmates is California with 744 inmates and the lowest is Delaware with zero inmates. The views on death penalty differ greatly. Some people may argue that the death penalty does not do its justice because of how slow and ineffective it is in dealing justice. They may

In 2008 California was faced with a huge budget crisis and governing crisis as the state governing was not nearly as efficient enough to respond to changes and problems that were happening in the state. This was due to a lot of poor laws that related to taxation and to the way our state government worked. There is also unique differences with California than other states, like our direct democracy system, and many of our laws are compromises that don’t work well between liberal and conservative ideologies