Last week we had a guest speaker named Larry Shepard who is a from U.S. Senator Mike Lee's Office. A lot of the things Larry covered was more of a refresher for me, basically things I had already known but I'll discuss majority of what we went over anyways and what I had learned from him while he was here.
We covered the 3 branches of government, what they are and who is in each of those branches. Then he followed up with talking about how each of those branches work together by checking and balancing each other out. Each branch has its own power over the other which I think is a very good way to go about it. I like that they are all equal in some way and have authority to one another.
We also discussed Requirements and Responsibilities of a U.S Senator. The only requirement that still amazes me is that you have to be 30 years of age and as we spoke of in class we couldn't find a valid reason of why you should be 30 over 23.
One of the most important parts of Larry Shepard coming to see us was to tell us to stay active in our community. Just like Holly Richardson had told us the week before. Larry discussed it a little differently and told us the best way to communicate with our executive officials and how. Something that I think that whole class learned from was the a petition isn't as important as you'd think it would be. It's basically just thrown out the window. Same with email and phone calls, they are just to "easy". Play it nice and professional and do the right things to talk to someone and your word can get through easily.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Holly On The Hill
Last week we had a guest speaker in class and her name was Holly Richardson. She spoke for about 3 hours and covered so many topics. One of the main things I learned from her is so stay active in your community when it comes to politics.
Another thing we covered, I feel we covered this more than anything and that was bills. I thought I'd cover what I learned about it and how a bill get passed in Congress. When a bill is brought onto the legislature, it is referred to a committee, then the members of that committee will consider the bill and decide what action to take on it and whether or not it will be passed on. Each committee holds a public hearing on a bill and will consider amendments to it. They decide whether the bill gets passed on to the House or Senate. The House and Senate will follow the recommendations of their committees and take a percentage of the yes or no votes on the bill. When a bill is being voted on, the majority of Yes votes is required to pass a bill. The bill must be passed and is then sent to the President and if he decides to sign the bill it will become a law. However if he decides to veto the bill he has to give his reasons for refusing to sign it and send it back to the house where the bill was first introduced. It is possible but very hard to do, Congress has the power to override a Presidential veto. All in all, it takes a lot of steps and a lot of hard work to pass a bill. If someone wants to introduce a bill themselves its very important that the said person is very active.
Another thing we covered, I feel we covered this more than anything and that was bills. I thought I'd cover what I learned about it and how a bill get passed in Congress. When a bill is brought onto the legislature, it is referred to a committee, then the members of that committee will consider the bill and decide what action to take on it and whether or not it will be passed on. Each committee holds a public hearing on a bill and will consider amendments to it. They decide whether the bill gets passed on to the House or Senate. The House and Senate will follow the recommendations of their committees and take a percentage of the yes or no votes on the bill. When a bill is being voted on, the majority of Yes votes is required to pass a bill. The bill must be passed and is then sent to the President and if he decides to sign the bill it will become a law. However if he decides to veto the bill he has to give his reasons for refusing to sign it and send it back to the house where the bill was first introduced. It is possible but very hard to do, Congress has the power to override a Presidential veto. All in all, it takes a lot of steps and a lot of hard work to pass a bill. If someone wants to introduce a bill themselves its very important that the said person is very active.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Preamble to the Constitution
1. WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES OF GOVERNMENT?
- They are all states in the preamble. Basically the who preamble is to state the purposes of government.
2. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISH JUSTICE AND INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY?
- Fair, unbiased, and logical for everone to have order and allow domestic peace.
3. WHAT IS A SOCIAL CONTRACT?
- An agreement on members of society to cooperate, Basically just allowing us to be governed.
4. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE?
- Basic system of defence by providing the military.
5. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT PROMOTE GENERAL WELFARE?
- By providing public education, health and food standards, as well as consumer protection.
6. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RIGHT AND ENTITLEMENT?
- Rights: Limits of governments power to protect an individual.
- Entitlement: Benefitd that the government has enacted for people of special requirements.
7. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY?
- The government sets certain boundaries while the rest is up to Americans to set up that freedom.
8. WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY?
- A government by the people, A government in which supreme power is vested in the people.
9. WHAT IS THE PARADOX OF A DEMOCRACY?
- Potential for conflict between individual freedom and the majority rule.
10. HOW DO WE RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MAJORITY RULE AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY?
- Fair Trial
11. WHAT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT THAT THE FOUNDERS SUP UP IN THE CONSTITUION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS?
- Right to a free trial.
- They are all states in the preamble. Basically the who preamble is to state the purposes of government.
2. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISH JUSTICE AND INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY?
- Fair, unbiased, and logical for everone to have order and allow domestic peace.
3. WHAT IS A SOCIAL CONTRACT?
- An agreement on members of society to cooperate, Basically just allowing us to be governed.
4. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE?
- Basic system of defence by providing the military.
5. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT PROMOTE GENERAL WELFARE?
- By providing public education, health and food standards, as well as consumer protection.
6. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RIGHT AND ENTITLEMENT?
- Rights: Limits of governments power to protect an individual.
- Entitlement: Benefitd that the government has enacted for people of special requirements.
7. HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY?
- The government sets certain boundaries while the rest is up to Americans to set up that freedom.
8. WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY?
- A government by the people, A government in which supreme power is vested in the people.
9. WHAT IS THE PARADOX OF A DEMOCRACY?
- Potential for conflict between individual freedom and the majority rule.
10. HOW DO WE RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MAJORITY RULE AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY?
- Fair Trial
11. WHAT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT THAT THE FOUNDERS SUP UP IN THE CONSTITUION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS?
- Right to a free trial.
Declaration of Independence
Q1: PREDICTION:
- King George & The Candid World
Q2: ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IN WHAT SENSE ARE "ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL?"
- Meaning all free, property owning males are created equal.
Q3: DURING THE 1700S, MANY KINGS BELIEVED IN "DIVINE RIGHT", AND CLAIMED THEY GOT THEIR POWER TO RULE FROM GOD. ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WHO GRANTS KINGS/GOVERNMENTS THE RIGHT TO RULE?
- Governments are instutited among men.
Q4: WHEN SHOULD PEOPLE REVOLT? SHOULD THEY DO SO OFTEN?
- If the government makes a long line of poor decisions dealing with diminishing security for the people then a revolt is necessary, and should not be done often.
LIST OF GRIEVIANCES & SUMMARIES
1. This charge relates to the King's opposition to colonial laws passed to encourage immigration to America. The British government feared that such encouragement would reduce the population of England and lure away workers who would otherwise be employed in its domestic industries.
2. This charge refers to additional customs officials and military courts established by the British government in the colonies, in an effort to enforce trade laws and prevent smuggling.
3. This refers to the fact that at the end of the Seven Years' War with France, English troops were not withdrawn from the colonies. Indeed, the Quartering Act, passed by the British government in 1765, made the colonies liable for supporting the troops.
4. This charge refers to the Navigation Acts.
5. This charge refers to the Stamp tac of the early 1760s and other major causes of the quarrel between the Ameriicans and the British. It occasioned the first strong articulation of the principle "no taxation without representation", and was soon extended to the whole conduct of government. No just taxes, but all actBs of government must be by "the consent of the governed."
6.This refers to the Sugar Act of April 5, 1764, which entrusted military courts with enforcing all acts of the British Parliament pertaining to commerce and related revenues. In 1768, the British government, partly in an effort to stop smuggling, increased the number of these courts. All trials by such courts were conducted without juries.
7. This charge quotes parliaments repeal of the stamp tax in 1766; although the tax was repealed, parliament asserted its authority to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
8. This charge points to the fact that King George had declared war on the Americans. It refers specifically to the burning by British troops of several American towns. The British considered that the Americans were open rebellion against their lawful rulers. But for the Americans, their "lawful rulers" were the very colonial legislatures and town meetings that were declared closed by British decrees and under attack by the British troops.
10. This charge refers to a 1775 law authorizing the British navy to capture the ships and cargoes of other countries trading with the American colonies. In addition, the law authorized that anyone captured in the taking of these ships was to be forced to fight for the British.
11. This charge suggests that the British encouraged slave and Indian revolts against the colonists. For example, in 1775, Lord Dunmore of Virginia, swore to members of the Virginia House of Burgesses that if "any injury or insult were offered to himself" he would "declare Freedom to the Slaves, and reduce the City of Williamsburg to Ashes."
Q5: WHAT DID THE COLONISTS DO TO TRY TO AVOID DECLARING INDEPENDENCE?
- The Intolerable Acts were placed by the Colonists in 1774. Colonists also called the first continental congress to consider United American resistance to the British.
Q6: BASED ON THE LANGUAGE IN THIS SECTION, DID THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CREATE A NEW COUNTRY OR 13 NEW STATES?
- "That these United Colonies are, and of Right out to be Free and Independent states" Basically says that the Declaration of Independence created 13 new states.
- King George & The Candid World
Q2: ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IN WHAT SENSE ARE "ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL?"
- Meaning all free, property owning males are created equal.
Q3: DURING THE 1700S, MANY KINGS BELIEVED IN "DIVINE RIGHT", AND CLAIMED THEY GOT THEIR POWER TO RULE FROM GOD. ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WHO GRANTS KINGS/GOVERNMENTS THE RIGHT TO RULE?
- Governments are instutited among men.
Q4: WHEN SHOULD PEOPLE REVOLT? SHOULD THEY DO SO OFTEN?
- If the government makes a long line of poor decisions dealing with diminishing security for the people then a revolt is necessary, and should not be done often.
LIST OF GRIEVIANCES & SUMMARIES
1. This charge relates to the King's opposition to colonial laws passed to encourage immigration to America. The British government feared that such encouragement would reduce the population of England and lure away workers who would otherwise be employed in its domestic industries.
2. This charge refers to additional customs officials and military courts established by the British government in the colonies, in an effort to enforce trade laws and prevent smuggling.
3. This refers to the fact that at the end of the Seven Years' War with France, English troops were not withdrawn from the colonies. Indeed, the Quartering Act, passed by the British government in 1765, made the colonies liable for supporting the troops.
4. This charge refers to the Navigation Acts.
5. This charge refers to the Stamp tac of the early 1760s and other major causes of the quarrel between the Ameriicans and the British. It occasioned the first strong articulation of the principle "no taxation without representation", and was soon extended to the whole conduct of government. No just taxes, but all actBs of government must be by "the consent of the governed."
6.This refers to the Sugar Act of April 5, 1764, which entrusted military courts with enforcing all acts of the British Parliament pertaining to commerce and related revenues. In 1768, the British government, partly in an effort to stop smuggling, increased the number of these courts. All trials by such courts were conducted without juries.
7. This charge quotes parliaments repeal of the stamp tax in 1766; although the tax was repealed, parliament asserted its authority to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
8. This charge points to the fact that King George had declared war on the Americans. It refers specifically to the burning by British troops of several American towns. The British considered that the Americans were open rebellion against their lawful rulers. But for the Americans, their "lawful rulers" were the very colonial legislatures and town meetings that were declared closed by British decrees and under attack by the British troops.
10. This charge refers to a 1775 law authorizing the British navy to capture the ships and cargoes of other countries trading with the American colonies. In addition, the law authorized that anyone captured in the taking of these ships was to be forced to fight for the British.
11. This charge suggests that the British encouraged slave and Indian revolts against the colonists. For example, in 1775, Lord Dunmore of Virginia, swore to members of the Virginia House of Burgesses that if "any injury or insult were offered to himself" he would "declare Freedom to the Slaves, and reduce the City of Williamsburg to Ashes."
Q5: WHAT DID THE COLONISTS DO TO TRY TO AVOID DECLARING INDEPENDENCE?
- The Intolerable Acts were placed by the Colonists in 1774. Colonists also called the first continental congress to consider United American resistance to the British.
Q6: BASED ON THE LANGUAGE IN THIS SECTION, DID THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CREATE A NEW COUNTRY OR 13 NEW STATES?
- "That these United Colonies are, and of Right out to be Free and Independent states" Basically says that the Declaration of Independence created 13 new states.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
What I Know about The Constitution
The Constitution is a document that is supposed to bring people together, considering is it structured as a "We the People" document. The Constitution is an inevitable document so a lot of people say, but times are consistently changing and our Constitution should change with us. When we read it today a lot of ideas and concepts of the Constitution actually seem odd to us today. I think that is strange considering the Constitution is supposed to be based on us, then we shouldn't see it as some foreign document.
Introduction
Hi, my name is Jasmine Chaltron!
This blog is for my History and Political Issues class.I'm going to The Art Institute of Salt Lake City and I'm now in progress of my sixth quarter. I'm in the progress of earning my Bachelors Degree for Graphic Design. I knew I wanted to be in Graphic Design when I was a Sophomore in high school. I'm 20, I live with my boyfriend, and I work as a hostess at a local restaurant named Angie's. I've been working there since January 2011.
I don't do much in my spare time because I don't have much of it but I usually just read, spend time with my boyfriend, spend too much time on Pinterest, or doodle on the computer.
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