3. Describe one of the five major themes of Progressive Reform outli.docx

•Download as DOCX, PDF•

0 likes•2 views

3. Describe one of the five major themes of Progressive Reform outlined in chapter 20. Please include examples. One of the five major themes for progressive reforms outlined in chapter 20 was election process. Specifically having individual states conduct primary’s for each political party’s candidates. This election process was enforced by the ratification of the 17 th amendment in 1917. This bold and desperately needed reform would help the working class more than some of the other reforms, as it would directly result in the people hand picking who they wanted to represent them and their local government verses having special interest group such as big corporations pay to have elected who they wanted. This was the start of true representation of the people by the people for the people. Just as important in the early twentieth century was the adoption of the initiative and referendum, which allowed local state government the ability to empower local citizens more than just the right to vote a political appointee. This process allowed for private citizens the power to bring up time critical change by posting on a ballot a change or make a new law which would go up for a vote, if passed by public vote it would be law. Without these two reforms such accidents like the triangle fire may have not resulted in new laws on work hours, child labor laws and other laws passed to protect pregnant women in the work place. .

Our 5th Impact Forum was held on September 14, 2016 at Civic Hall, NYC's foremost center for civic technology & innovation, on the topic of Elections. Election Systems are best understood by the rules and incentives constructed around them. Evaluating the United States’ and New York’s Electoral Systems reveals a series of important policy choices that will shape what our electorate will look like in the coming decades. Impact Elections will dig into key question such as: How does money predict elections? How will technology shape voting of the future? Does the current voting system fundamentally fail certain segments of our country's population? What can voting systems from other nations tell us about options for change? Impact Experts composing the panel at Elections included: Ann Ravel (Federal Elections Commissioner), Gustavo Rivera (New York State Senator), James Bopp (Plaintiff's Attorney for Citizens United v. FEC), Richard Briffault (Professor, Columbia Law School), the legal advisor to Stephen Colbert's Presidential Campaign, the President of the NYC Campaign Finance Board, and more. Learn more about Impact Elections here: https://impactelections2016.splashthat.com

19 constitutional amendments

north819

WHAT IS A REFERENDUM

telosaes

Vale StVale Morales

Forum - Voting at 18

diddy98

Citizens United v. Federal Election CommissionFor more than 100 .docx

monicafrancis71118

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission For more than 100 years Congress and the Supreme Court carefully fashioned laws to check corporate power in elections. At first, the restraints were loose, but over the years they tightened. There were de- bates and a few dissents, but the nation never hesi- tated in its direction—until 2010 when five justices of the Supreme Court decided to reverse course. This is the story of their decision. It begins in the nation’s youth. CONGRESS PROTECTS ELECTIONS In the American philosophy of self-government, free elections are an indispensable bulwark against tyranny. The founders believed all citizens should have the right to vote, that their votes should count equally, and that a majority should prevail. The rules in the Constitution bound the young nation to these ideals. The Founding Fathers also believed that if citizens were to vote wisely, they needed full, open debate on candidates and issues. The central purpose of the First Amendment, which directs that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,” is to protect this debate. In the early years of the republic the practice largely accorded with the ideal. The first challenge came right after the Civil War when violence and intimidation kept freed slaves from the polls. Con- gress passed two Enforcement Acts in 1870 and 1871 to protect the freed slaves’ right to vote and these were the first election laws. The Supreme Court eventually upheld “the [constitutional] power of [C]ongress to make such provisions as are necessary to secure the fair and honest conduct of an election.”1 A second challenge to “fair and honest conduct” in elections arose when industrial growth created pools of great wealth. By the 1870s railroads were already spending heavily for political favors. In 1873 Jay Gould, owner of the Erie Railroad, explained his businesslike approach to elections. It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying dividends for the company; in a republican district I was a strong republican, in a democratic district I was democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful; in politics I was an Erie railroad man every time.2 As time passed, the amounts of business money in elections grew. So did public perception of corrup- tion, real and imagined. Standard Oil is reported to have given a check for $250,000 (about $6.4 million in current dollars) to reelect McKinley in 1900. In 1905 an investigation of New York insurance companies inflamed the nation. It revealed they had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars electing state and national politicians. A prominent Republican boss, when asked if these contributions bought favors, re- plied: “That’s naturally what would be involved.”3 The investigation also revealed a $50,000 ($1.2 million in today’s dollars) donation from New York Life to President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Roosevelt, who had s.

The solution is the constitution not artilce v

miscott57

300 words Building healthier cities and communities involves local people working together to transform the conditions and outcomes that matter to them. That civic work demands an array of core competencies, such as community assessment, planning, community mobilization, intervention, advocacy, evaluation, and marketing successful efforts. Supporting this local and global work requires widespread and easy access to these community-building skills. However, these skills are not always learned, nor are they commonly taught either in formal or informal education. The internet can provide an effective means for transmitting skill-building resources broadly and inexpensively. This section describes a free resource for building healthier communities called the Community Tool Box . WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY TOOL BOX? BACKGROUND. In the early days of the World Wide Web (1995), we began work on an Internet-based resource for community change and improvement, the "Community Tool Box" (CTB). Our mission is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. We focused on developing practical information for community building that both professionals and ordinary citizens could use in everyday practice -- for example, leadership skills, program evaluation, and writing a grant application. The emphasis was on these core competencies of community building, transcending more categorical issues and concerns, such as promoting child health, reducing violence, or creating job opportunities. We developed a broad and evolving Table of Contents and started writing, one section at a time. By mid-1999, there were over 160 how-to sections and over 3,500 pages of text available on the Community Tool Box. As of July 2000, there were over 200 sections online and more than 5,000 pages of text. AUDIENCE. The audiences or end users for this site include: People doing the work of community change and improvement (community leaders and members) People supporting it (intermediary organizations such as public agencies or university-based centers) People funding it (governmental institutions, foundations, and others). Use of the Community Tool Box grew nearly exponentially: over 100,000 hits in 1997, over 500,000 in 1998, and well over one million in 1999. Guestbook data confirm that users represent a wide variety of community-building settings and positions and come from all corners of the planet. ATTRIBUTES. Building healthier communities is hard work, requiring frequent adjustments to emerging opportunities and barriers. To be a resource for community work, a "tool box" would exemplify the following attributes: Its content needs to be comprehensive . Since effective community members and practitioners need a variety of skills, sections of the Tool Box would have to reflect a broad array of core competencies (e.g., skills in conducting listening sessions, organizing focus groups, leading meetings, group facilitation and recording). The inf.

300 words APA format, Select a current example of a policy issue t.docx

3. Describe one of the five major themes of Progressive Reform outli.docx

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

More from LyndonPelletier761

More from LyndonPelletier761 (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

3. Describe one of the five major themes of Progressive Reform outli.docx