Federalism refers to a form of government where different units are answerable to a central authority or power, even though the units are self sustaining. The factors that bind these units include; a constitution or written laws stipulating about how power ought to be distributed the organization. F...
On June 11th 1776, a five men committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration by the Continental Congress. ... Like all wars, there was a price to pay; this one left the British government with a great debt so Parliament turned their attention to the lucrative colonies and began passing acts that increased the colonies taxes and prohibited the settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains with the Royal Proclamation of 1763. ...
The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The beginnings of democracy can be credited to the Greeks of the sixth century BC. The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." These two words are joined together to form democracy, literally meaning, "rule by the people" (Pious). The Greek system of government was perhaps closer to a true democracy or rule by the people than any other in history. ...
Globalization, State, Power and Sovereignty Globalization "Globalization is the panacea for all our ills, but only in favour of the developed countries of the north" -Robert Reich Before a person can answer the question posed by this essay, he or she must fully understand the concept of globalization. ... The fact that this "liberal capitalist" system has become globally dominant means that because many states have selected it, other states who do not want to partake are left with no existent alternatives if they want to participate w...
He goes on to say that, "it seems fair to say that no man contributed more to the establishment of our Constitution and the stability of our national institutions that Robert Morris." ... Beard names a few people in specific that were against the ratification, Elbridge Gerry from Massachusetts and John Lansing from New York who actually left the Constitutional Convention before its end. ...
Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. ... Francis Fukuyama, US social analyst and political commentator says "Most scholars in both the East and West now accept that consumer oriented democracies tend to do a much better job of satisfying the basic human needs and the material wants of their people than any of the leading systemic alternatives on either the political left or the political right."" ...
Classical approaches to organizational management and early organizational theories were designed to predict and control behavior in organizations. Max Weber (1864-1920) developed an ideal type or pure form of bureaucracy (Weber, 1992) as a formal system of organization and administration that would reflect the most characteristic aspects of all human organizations. Luther Gulick (1892-1993) is the one who expanded on the works of Max Weber to build a foundation for structuring the organization (Gulick, 1936). Both of them are the major contributors to the classical organiza...
