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    new country and how we the people rights will be protected because the Article of Confederation gave too much power to the states, in which the officials couldn't control rebellion. After couple of years of revising the Bill of Rights, the bill was ratified in 1791. The Bill of Rights help divide the power evenly by creating

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    To guarantee a partition of forces, the U.S. Federal Government is comprised of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. To guarantee the administration is successful and nationals ' rights are ensured, every branch has its own particular forces and obligations, incorporating working with alternate branches.(Branches of Government · House.gov n.d.) The legislative branch is comprised of the House and Senate, referred to all in all as the Congress. Among different forces, the legislative

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    Germany The government of Germany currently is a democracy where the executive and legislative functions fall on the parliament; this is a parliamentary government (Shively, 2014). After the fall of the Hitler regimen in 1949 the Germans rewrote the constitution so that the government’s power would be fragmented so no one person could ever have sole power over the country. According to Shively (2014) the “German government is a federal system so there are many agencies that are not controlled by the

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    the United States government needed a clear line of division between powers. (loc.gov). Our nation’s founders saw fit to clearly outline and define the separation of powers to protect the rights of citizens. To ensure this and to prevent one group from attaining too much power, along with a system of checks and balances to aid it, the government separated into three branches: the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. The legislative branch of the United States government

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    Nuclear Weapons Roles

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    Identify all of the Executive Branch departments, agencies, etc., that have a role regarding the nation's nuclear weapons and what each of their roles is. The agencies that have a role regarding the nation’s nuclear weapons are include the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Commerce, Department of State, and Homeland Security. The Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), through its Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

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    In 1787 the four founding fathers of the United States wrote the constitution . The constitution was written to let the people of the U.S know how the states would be governed and also to stop the government from having too much power. The constitution is divided into three branches : the Legislative branch, Executive branch and the Judicial branch. All the branches are based on the idea of separation of power in which each branch has a specific power and responsibility and don’t rely on

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    Federal Bureaucracy

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    What is a federal bureaucracy? According to American Government: Roots and Reform federal bureaucracy is defined as the thousands of federal government agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs. When the bureaucracy was first created it contained only three small departments; State, Treasury, and War. Over time the Executive branch and bureaucracy have grown significantly, now employing over three million people. This began with people getting fed up with the

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    Federal Budget

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    The federal budget is one of the biggest political debates in Washington, D.C. Every year, the President and Congress debate over how much money should be allocated to certain areas of the budget to effectively manage the country. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the President to submit the budget to Congress for each fiscal year. The federal budget includes funding request for all federal executive departments and independent agencies. The United States spends more money on defense

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    government I’m going to talk about is the Legislative branch. The Federal government looks to act in the best interests of its citizens through a system of checks and balances. The Legislative branch is a powerful branch. It’s so powerful that it can declare war. The Legislative branch includes the Senate and House of Representatives and several agencies that provide support services to Congress. In the Senate there are two senators per state, making the total amount of senators come up to one hundred

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    meaning of a particular constitutional phrase, the Court should look to the intentions of the founders” (Sidlow & Henschen, 329). However, this approach was a little stiff because the drafters viewed the issues with the thinking of that time. The United States has experienced the Civil War, the World War and a plenty of movements that strove for various rights toward the African American, female, homosexual and some other groups. It has become one of the most open-minded countries in the world. So

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