Some examples would be the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. In the era of Andrew Johnson, that option was not yet available. Upon entering his Presidency, Andrew Johnson wanted to appoint new people to positions that were occupied by those who were appointed by Abraham Lincoln. The majority of Congress was in opposition to Andrew Johnson and his ideas on the Reconstruction of the southern states, and in response to his reappointments The Tenure of Office Act was passed despite Johnson’s veto. The Act simply forbade the President from removing officials appointed with the approval of the Senate from office without the approval of the Senate.
AFFIRMITIVE ACTION vs. DIVERSITY There has been much said about Affirmative Action and Diversity. It is said that Affirmative Action has failed to “improve education and workplace discrimination” throughout the United States. Diversity in the workplace has its issues also, like communication, opposition to change, implementing and managing which are still issues with some organizations. I will begin by describing how Affirmative Action came about. Back in 1961 Affirmative Action was introduced by the late President John F. Kennedy as a tactic to make up for the discrimination that continued in spite of having the Civil Rights Laws along with the Constitution that guaranteed fairness and equality.
Hayden Price 12/4/13 Poli Sci 2040 CASE BRIEF 10: Clinton v. Jones (1997) 1) Clinton v. Jones 2) 520 U.S. 681 3) Paula Corbin Jones, who was an Arkansas state employee, sued President Bill Clinton for sexually harassing her while Clinton was still the Governor of Arkansas. Her lawsuit sought more than half a million dollars in damages. Clinton insisted that the case be stayed, and resumed only after he had left office. He also insisted that Presidents could be sued for neither their official nor their unofficial actions while in office. In 1994 a lower federal court judge postponed the trail indefinitely and this postponement was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Similarly, in 2008, Barack Obama too had to resign from the Senate. In this sense, the three branches are fully disconnected. The term ‘separation of powers’ can in fact be deceptive. As the institutions are separate and not the powers. Richard Neustadt, an American political scientist specialising in the United States presidency, cleared up this perplexity in 1960.
Besides stripping Japan of its military arms, soldiers who were posted at various locations in the large Asian empire during World War II were repatriated (8). The SDF became controversial because Article 9 banned the maintenance of a military yet Japan has one of the largest defense budgets (11). The new Constitution not only demilitarized the nation, it also aimed to democratize Japanese society. A new Constitution was written in 1946 and it brought about changes from the Meiji constitution that shifted Japan away from its prewar policies. An important pillar of the Constitution was the introduction of the idea that sovereignty comes from the people because it eliminated the higher privileges of the aristocracy (11).
“The forgotten Man”, the famous speech by William Graham Sumner, points his idea about the social problems in late nineteenth century and early twenties. In his point of view, if A and B came up with an idea to force C to do something to help D who is suffering from some problems, C would be the forgotten man. Sumner’s idea, to some extent, supports Jim Crow Law. During the reconstructive, the society didn’t reach the point of equality of the two races, instead it became even worse in many places all over the country. The Civil War only ended the slavery, not racism.
The American Federation of Labor was so against the thought of including non craft laborers into unions that they publicly declared the IWW was far too radical, and even went so far as to say they were un-American. The IWW was not strictly for non craft laborers either, after all, one of the founding principles of the IWW was union and worker solidarity. The IWW included many members of a coal miners union, officials of which attended the first meeting that ended with the creation of the IWW. Their efforts to band together all laborers, craft or otherwise, showed the clear gap between the IWW and all other unions of that
Lenin had decided that in order to move from Capitalism to Socialism, there would have to be Dictatorship of the Proletariat – governing on behalf of the workers. This was meant to be a temporary stage, however after Lenin died Stalin extended state control to having the Soviet Union ruled under his own personal dictatorship. Stalin claimed he was continuing Lenin’s work and protecting socialism. The constitution of 1936 gave every citizen the vote and civil rights, including freedom of the press, religion and organisation of the press. However only candidates from the communist party were allowed to stand in elections and a year later the purges began.
(Rodriguez 61) Immediately, the government began to form legislation to prohibit the unfair labor practices found in sweatshops. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a federal minimum wage, overtime pay, prohibited minors under the age of 16 from working, and prohibited minors under the age of 18 from working certain jobs which were considered dangerous. ("Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Amended" 5-7) This effectively made child labor illegal and heavily restricted sweatshop labor within the United States. Now finding their practices illegal, larger companies began to move their illegal labor practices abroad. (Brown, Deardorff, Stern 7) Developing countries had much less strict labor laws than the United States and these companies found it easy to exploit them.
It also ensures that he can put a high quality product on the market at a relatively low price. On the contrary, when the government requires that workers be paid more, businesses are forced to make adjustments in other areas to offset the added costs, such as reducing work hours, cutting benefits, hiring fewer people and charging higher prices. Naive lawmakers tend to believe, or at