DACA-ptives

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Joseph Farrell ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Illegal Immigrants ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
The People ◽  
States Government ◽  
The Will

The play on words in the title is used to illustrate a problem facing the United States government, United States citizens, and illegal immigrants. Recent estimates describe the number of illegal immigrants living in the United States at between eleven and twelve million individuals. To address issues with some of our illegal immigrants, on June 15, 2012, President Obama initiated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. This is an Executive Order easing the burdens of immigration law on some illegal immigrants living in the United Stated. In what follows, I will explain how in spite of there being a right on the part of the United States and nations in general to exclude immigrants and to deport illegal immigrants, the DACA program is actually morally good if not a right on the part of the people in question insofar as they are captives of the will of their parents/guardians who brought them here originally and captives of a system of laws from which they cannot escape without help. In a sense, the DACA program liberates captives and rescues said captives from a legal and moral prison created by all those around them. Rescinding it involves moral turpitude.

The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-110
Author(s):  
Cynthia Nicoletti
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
United States Government ◽  
States Government ◽  
A Cell ◽  
The Will

Confined alone in a cell in New York's Fort Lafayette in the heat of the summer of 1865, former Confederate naval secretary Stephen R. Mallory had little to do but reflect on the fate of the defeated Confederacy. Convinced that his life might be forfeit if the United States government made good on its threat to try him for treason, Mallory composed a lengthy letter to President Andrew Johnson petitioning for a pardon and seeking to explain his views on the demise of the Confederacy and the fate of the states' right to secede from the Union. While Mallory stressed his opposition to disunion in 1861, on the grounds of its inexpediency, he admitted that he had placed loyalty to his state above his duty as a citizen of the United States. He had “regarded the commands of my state as decisive of my path of duty; and I followed where she led.” Nonetheless, Mallory went on to disclaim his belief in the principle of secession in very striking terms, describing the death of secession in the crucible of the Civil War as the result of a trial by battle. Mallory never specifically denied secession's constitutionality; instead, he told Johnson that because he “recognize[ed] the death [of the Confederacy] as the will of Almighty God, I regard and accept His dispensation as decisive of the questions of slavery and secession.”

The Integration of Tribal Traditional Lifeways into Epa's Decision Making

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Cirone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Unfunded Mandates ◽  
States Government ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
Indian Tribes

On November 6, 2000, the President of the United States of America issued Executive Order 13175 requiring consultation and coordination with Indian Tribal governments in the "development of Federal policies that have tribal implications, to strengthen the United States government-to-government relationships with Indian tribes, and to reduce the imposition of unfunded mandates upon Indian tribes." Within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consultation has taken many forms. One way of fostering a strong working relationship between tribes and EPA has been through EPA-Tribal Councils.

Genocide in Vietnam?

Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Hugo Adam Bedau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
United States Government ◽  
The People ◽  
States Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
International War ◽  
Final Question ◽  
Indochina War

In 1965, shortly after the United States Government had ordered regular bombing raids over Vietnam, Bertrand Russell and his Peace Foundation organized a nongovernmental “International War Crimes Tribunal.” Its aim was to determine whether the U.S. Government was committing crimes in violation of international law in its conduct of the Indochina war. Hearings began in November, 1966, in Sweden. A year later, Secretary McNamara was ordering preparation of what is now known as the Pentagon Papers, and four months after that was the massacre at Mylai. The final question put before the Tribunal was: “Do the combination of crimes imputed to the Government of the United States in its war in Vietnam constitute the crime of genocide?” The Tribunal voted unanimously that “the United States Government [is] guilty of genocide against the people in Vietnam.”

scholarly journals A Precis on How Democracies Die as a Consequence of America’s, Failure of Government Working for the People while Serving the Interests of the Wealthy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. p65
Author(s):  
Frederick D. Bedell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
The People ◽  
States Government ◽  
The Government

This precis speaks to the failure of the United States government to sustain the wealth of the middle-class after the post-World War Two years’, while serving the wealthiest Americans. It will document how the country has become polarized and fractured along ideological and cultural lines. This situation has created a segmentation of the country that has competing visions, purpose and meaning which is tearing it apart.It will also focus on the inequality in the country that has emerged from the Oligarchy’s domination of the political and free market space-government of the 1%, by the 1% AND FOR THE 1%. Their mantra is to keep the government out of business and have business in the government.

U.S. Loyalty Program for Certain un Employees Declared Unconstitutional

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 984-985
Author(s):  
Mark A. Roy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
United States Government ◽  
District Court ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Loyalty Program ◽  
States Government

On April 8,1986, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held, in the case of Hinton v. Devine (Civ. No. 84-1130), that Executive Order No. 10422 of January 9, 1953, as amended, under which the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Program had been instituted, was unconstitutional in that it violated the First Amendment rights of American citizens. The district court also enjoined the United States Government “from publishing, communicating, or advising any third parties, including any international organizations, as to the loyalty of William H. Hinton or any other United States citizen.”

scholarly journals Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in United States Government Courses

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 127-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Champney ◽  
Paul Edleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Science Majors ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
States Government ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Males And Females

AbstractThis study employs the Solomon Four-Group Design to measure student knowledge of the United States government and student knowledge of current events at the beginning of a U.S. government course and at the end. In both areas, knowledge improves significantly. Regarding knowledge of the U.S. government, both males and females improve at similar rates, those with higher and lower GPAs improve at similar rates, and political science majors improve at similar rates to non-majors. Regarding current events, males and females improve at similar rates. However, those with higher GPAs and political science majors improve more than others.

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