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Daisy alcaraz Patricia Andrews State and Local Government March 19, 2019 Chapter 6 State legislators   Next to the president the next easily best known political figure in the country is the Governors, which tipiculay are 60 year old white males. But they do all not all fall under this category seeing that governor Jerry Brown is the oldest one who turned 78 on April 7th. He is not the only one who did not fall under the category of typical governor, we have had 6 women who have held that position along with that we have had one indian america, one pacific islander, and two latinos who have held that position. As a legislator most of the time they do not vote on raising taxes seeing that it may decrease political popularity. Unlike the president the governor is elected directly by the people and is considered the chief executive. But as governor you do not have to deal with all of the problems, they do not only get help from their own cabinet of department heads and mo...

Daisy Alcaraz State and Local Government Patricia Andrews February 19, 2019 Constitution vs our dating life The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was added on July 9, 1868. Which is now being looked at one of the most consequential amendments to this day. The amendment talks about  citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was created in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. ... The 14th amendment is a very important amendment that defines what it means to be a US citizen and protects certain rights of the people. Loving v. Virginia (12 Jun 1967) ―By 1967, 16 states had still not repealed their anti-miscegenation laws that forbid interracial marriages. Mildred and Richard Loving were residents of one su...

Daisy Alcaraz Patricia Andrews State and Local Government February 19, 2019 CH.3 Chapter three talked about the constitution. In this chapter we learned about a practice called judicial interpretation. Judicial interpretation is a practice in which judges modify the force of a constitutional provision by reinterpreting its meaning which is interesting because I always believed that the constitution was supposed to be followed to the t. In addition to not having to follow the constitution to the T, there is also a new judicial federalism. Which is the practice some state courts use where they will use the bill of rights in their state constitution to provide more protection to some rights which at times is not provided by the supreme court’s interpretation of the bill of rights which is in the constitution. These states constitutions have taken on more meaning because the state judges are looking to state constitutions for support rather than to use the constitution. This isn...

Daisy Alcaraz Patricia Andrews State and Local Government February 14, 2019 S&LG Ch.5 In chapter five we take a look at what a political party is, it is an organization that nominates candidates to compete in elections and promote policy ideas. Even so the actions of the elected official play a major role in the operation of government which is also decentralized. We learned that with each political party their will be a group of ideologies that they tend to follow. The ideology of the political party is the core beliefs about how the political system should run. The two most famous political parties are the republicans and the democrats. The republicans tend to be more conservative while democrats tend to be more liberal in comparison to the republicans. Throughout centuries we have gone back and forth between these two parties since no one party is perfect, developing this common practice called ticket splitting which is voting for one candidate of a different poli...

Daisy Alcaraz State and Local Government Patricia Andrews February 12 Blog Topic #4 Subsidiarity the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level. Devolution by definition according to google means, “the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.”  both these terms mean basically the same thing devolution is just a bit more specific. Devolved systems and governance is a form of decentralization. Devolution is a more substantial and solid transfer of both political and economic powers from the national to lower levels of governance. It is also the process of transferring decision-making and implementation powers, functions, responsibilities and resources to elected local governance structures. When governments devolve functions, they give authority for decision making, in finance, and management to self sufficient units of local government with corporate status. Devolution usu...

Daisy Alcaraz January 19, 2019 P. Andrews State & Local Government Community Partner w/ effects on the community The community Partner that I wanted to partner up with is Potrero Nuevo Farm. This Non Profit is not just a farm but it also partners with other groups and organizations to help and better the community. They partner with a group called, Abundant Grace Coastside Worker. This other nonprofit then works to help the justice of food go in full circle. This program allows the people that are suffered greatly from homelessness and people that are a part of the low income get jobs. They do not only get a job there but they also get taught about healthy food and how to properly grow your own food. Not only did they give them jobs in farming but also with street clean up, paying them and also beautifying the community and helping the environment. But they do not stop there. This program also then donates the food that they farm to the same workers but also to local foo...