0
Government
Questions and information about the structure and history of legislative systems and ruling empires of countries other than the United States
7,944 Questions
The transfer of power from the national government to state and local government is known as?
devolution.
yes
How did municipal governments respond to the challenges of urban expansion?
The challenges of urban development included the need for public facilities like sewers, transportation, and utilities. One reform mayor, Hazen S Pinigree, hired the poor working class to build public baths, parks, and schools. This helped both poor, working men and the need for urban expansion.
The relationship between the branches of government may take two basic forms which are called?
Federal and confederal
Socialism
reservation
Can government limit freedom of expression?
Yes, freedom of expression can be limited if any obscenity of defamation is used. Also, government can restrict your time, place, and manner. For example, you cant shout "Fire" in a theater just for fun. Somebody could get hurt rushing out of the theater. Freedom is a very valuable freedom, but could be limited in some ways. Yes, freedom of expression can be limited if any obscenity of defamation is used. Also, government can restrict your time, place, and manner. For example, you cant shout "Fire" in a theater just for fun. Somebody could get hurt rushing out of the theater. Freedom is a very valuable freedom, but could be limited in some ways.
Edgar Degas
What is an independent agency of the US government?
To name a relatively tame on, the Environmental Protection Agency which is independent and not attached to any one department.
What is a certificate that represents money the government has borrowed from private citizens?
A Bond.
Three ways American media and government are interrelated?
Regulation, adversarial relationship, and elections
Which system involves total government control of a nation's economy?
Communism is the political system that called for government control of the economy.
A choice that government makes in response to some issue on its agenda is called?
its a public policy
What non-voting people had lands taken by the government during the early nineteenth century?
Native americans/ American Indians
What is government furnished equipment?
There are two components to this.
1. The Federal Acquisition Regulation at 45.101 gives you the definition of Equipment: A tangible item that is functionally complete for its intended purpose, durable, nonexpendable, and needed for performance of a contract. Equipment is not intended for sale, and does not ordinarily lose its identity or become a component part of another article when put into use. Equipment does not include material, real property, special test equipment or special tooling.
2. The Federal Acquisition Regulation at FAR 45.101 gives you the definition of Government Furnished Property: Property in the possession of, or directly acquired by, the Government and subsequently furnished to the contractor for performance of a contract. Government furnished property includes, but is not limited to, spares and property furnished for repair, maintenance, overhaul, or modification. Government-furnished property also includes contractor acquired property if the contractor-acquired property is a deliverable under a cost contract when accepted by the Government for continued use under the contract.
What describes the strategy of delegating a policy program to a lower level of government?
The strategy is time management. You can get more people to share in the workload which makes it get done more quickly.
Should Government and military personnel should have the right to strike?
Federal law forbids the military and government employees to strike, and the military is further forbidden to form unions. Similar to police and fireman being declared essential employees and not allowed to strike, government employees and the Armed Forces are equally 'essential.'
