American Government Module Journals - Assignment Example

In turn, it became the case that you could actually hedge and invest with the hope that individuals and corporations would default on their mortgage. As an issue of government, the securities industry is a self-regulated body, with some legislative cross-over into a government overseen legal jurisdiction. The de-regulation fervor of the 'less government is best' ideologues had tragic outcomes in the 2009 crisis, and precisely because the impact well beyond just the investors themselves. It is one thing when someone takes a loss with their own risk, and another when the general public is affected.

2:The constitution and Federalism The Federalist Papers are the lengthy justifications, and philosophical backgrounds to much of the principles of the Constitution and also the Amendments. When thinking about the Constitution, and Federalism, so many issues are at stake. One that per-occupied Madison, was the concern that he had with factions. As a justification for the freedom of assembly, the freedom to free-speech or religious affiliation, he argued that if we allowed all factions to flourish in the state, there is a better chance that no single faction will rise above to dominate all other perspectives and interests.

Arguably, when it comes to the constitution in relation to federalism, Madison's views on factions and 'free speech' are among the most significant related issues. 3:Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity then and Now Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the Democratic Vice-President that became President because of Kennedy's assassination, introduced the most significant piece of labor and social justice legislation in the 1963 Equal Pay Act which was followed in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [Purvis 124].

Both were aimed at not only protecting against discrimination, but also pro-actively improving the problem of social and economic inequalities. Johnson maintained that the system ought not just protect the rights and equality of access, but actually pro-actively improve the situation of those such that they arrive on equal footing. Where civil rights in the past was concerned primarily with the property owning white males who made up the social order, in its more current manifestation, a greater attention is now paid to the rights of visible minorities, and also attention is now paid to inequities based on gender.

The social and historical context of this legislation, is the civil rights movements and protests of the late 1950's and early 1960's, and it is worth noting that these were mostly protesting against the legality of 'Jim Crow' Laws in the US South [Purvis 203]. 4:Public Opinion Political action the median and political parties Survey's are the means by which one can prove anything to any-one. However, with proper representative demographics, they can be pretty powerful and accurate interpreters of public sentiment, at the same time.

Political ideology, and public policy are unquestionably shaped by public opinion and that means that those who collect that are influential. For instance, when the majority of people are erroneously misled to believe that the current President was born outside of the US, or that Green House Gas emissions and the amount of untreated carbon in the air, are causes of 'global warming', the policies and actions will reflect that. Recently, the President put his 'birth-certificate' on-line. Would he have done that if opinion polls