Legislator

opponents of Antifederalist campaign which failed to nullification of ratification in February and March. In Ireland word legislators of Pennsylvania and other states were as sensitive to popular opinion. Further he explains the legislatures debated in an open public form, stood for election. Furthermore, he illustrates how legislators to consider ratification, and states “No legislators in American history were ever more susceptible to public pressure.” As Ireland explains, Most Antifederalist…

government is willing to spare. In the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage case, deliberation over how the government could afford to expand Medicare without adding to the federal deficit was the major issue in passing Medicare expansion legislation. Legislators had to find creative ways to get elderly Americans the benefits they need without risking a veto from the president. The resulting legislation was step in right direction. However, it did not actually solve the problem. In fact the Medicare…

level, legislators and taxpayers may want to know how the decision to locate a facility was made; and at the societal level, legislators and citizens may want to know what the health goals are for the Province. We believe the information needed to answer these and similar questions are the same as that required for effective management. However, the information would need to be aggregated differently. Program managers, for instance, would likely require more detailed information than legislators…

President also serves as the chief administrator, chief diplomat, chief legislator, and chief citizen. The President has a very busy schedule, and must try to play all of these roles while paying attention to his many constituencies. However, not all of these roles are prominent each and every day of the President’s term. On this day, the roles that seem most prominent are chief administrator, chief executive, chief legislator, and chief citizen. As chief administrator, the President is in…

affiliation. Even though there has been a specific meaning attached to the word, the meaning has still not been the same. The word used before this was ‘floor crossing’ . This particular term finds its first mention in the British House of Commons when a Legislator had changed his party by crossing the floor and moving to the other side i.e. the opposition or when he moved from the opposition to the Ruling’s side. Therefore, the prodigy of Defection was not at all a new concept in many of the…

political decisions are made by the people directly, rather than by their elected representatives. In essence, the laws are either voted on or they have a debate about them. An important feature about direct democracy is the fact that is has a legislator. A legislator, a governmental body primarily responsible for making the laws, is voted on by the people. A direct democracy is based around participation from all citizens. Because much participation is needed, the citizens can make proposals…

is the sum of the 100 senators, 435 members of the House of Representatives and three more legislators that correspond to the District of Columbia. Each State has a number of electors assigned according to a complicated formula that…

moral panic within society. Social and political forces in the 1990s were increasingly advocating for victim’s rights, child welfare and the women’s movement. Along with the media these movements caused legislators to become fixated on “sexual predators” (Jenkins in Wayne). In response legislators “extended the government’s physical control over sex offenders, both by means of significantly enhanced prison terms, and the resurrection of dormant provision allowing involuntary civil commitment”…

to do so, they would lose their position as chairperson. This system of chairperson selection has led Congress to turn into a legislature where, as Former Speaker of the House John Boehner once stated, “in too many instances, we no longer have legislators; we just have voters” (Boehner). This was exemplified by the recent Omnibus spending bill of 2018, which was “Written behind closed doors by congressional leaders and released just 17 hours before the House of Representatives voted on it”…

aforementioned roles all have benefits and detriments, it has always remained imperative that members of Congress act in the fashion that the majority of their constituents wish, as long as it is in accordance with factual information. Although Legislators are required to act in the best wishes of their constituents, as Document A points out it is important that members of Congress must not act on the impulse of the people. This…