Essays on Federal Legislation

What is the background information provided by the author?

The current environmental regulatory regime led to widespread dissatisfaction. This is because the centralized command-and-control environmental regulation does not offer a reliable method for determining the optimal amount of pollution or finding the most efficient means of achieving the desired pollution level. This has resulted in various reform proposals and policy changes to increase environmental quality. One of the proposed reforms includes abandoning most of federal environmental regulation and returning to the common law environmentalism. This proposal has however received harsh criticism from most stakeholders in the environment sector who believe that the failure of state common law is ...

Gay discrimination occurs when an employee is subject to harassing or the demeaning environment due to their sexual orientation. It happens when a gay in a workplace is subjected to negative employment activities which include denial of benefits which other people who are not gays are provided with, harassment, or use of discriminative words against them because of their sexual orientation or the sexual orientation of people they are close to. For several decades, there have been several instances of sexual orientation discrimination in workplaces in America. However, the Federal government, as well as the state governments, have not ...

Public or community health can be defined as an array of measures, both of private and public nature, that are targeted at preventing diseases, fostering health and trying to prolong life in general as well as make it more healthy. The goals of these activities are creating healthy conditions of life for the entire society which can positively reflect on personal health of each given person, focusing on overall trends in the health stance of the entire population of a given state or globally (Public Health). This leads us to the idea how public health differs from private health. ...

Introduction

The internationalization and the globalization have changed the business strategies from trading, exporting and investing to the incorporation of the alliances, managements, business activities and operations. The transformation is resulted in the impacts and affects the human resources and management practices. Now, the firms have the employees from different countries of the world. The global workers are mainly categorized into three types include host country employees, expatriates and third country nationals (Sims & Schraeder, 2005). The paper is going to argue about the pros and cons of the global talent and supporting the restrictions from the U.S. federal legislation for ...

The callous opinions of unmoved minds regarding the value, or legitimacy, of Affirmative Action policies in the country today have always been controversial. While a most imperative requirement to sufficiently examine such an issue demands a strong evaluation of the historical conditions that brought affirmative action to bear in the first place, this research paper must remain within the confines of time and length constraints. How has affirmative action changed since the 1960s? Of course, the short answer might be that its policies are no longer exclusively applied to black ...

Introduction:

Billy’s Bar-B-Q is considering the establishment of a new Texas style restaurant in the North. They have realized that certain things like taste, work ethic, and compensation expectations are different here as compared to South. This research paper aims to explore different compensation policies. The advantages and disadvantages of different compensation systems will be discussed. The article will explain comparable worth and how the companies attempt to compensate their employees without violating federal legislation.

Compensation system:

Compensation is a systemic approach which provide an award in exchange for services to the employees (Compensation, 2012). There are different types of compensation system which ...

According to the article, the impact of federal legislation on crime has had four major impacts on the rate of crime in the United States. An overlook of the four impact of the legislation show that, over the past few decades, the numbers of crimes in the United States that carry criminal penalties have increased. Second, the rate at which the United States congress increases the number of offenses is unprecedented. Third, many of the enactments are concerned with environmental issues (Baker, 2004). The increase of the number of crimes that warrant a federal sentence has only caused more ...

Introduction

According to Alpers et al. (2013), for every 100 adults in the U.S., there are currently 101.5 guns privately owned (both legally and illegally), which puts the U.S. at the top of world rankings for gun ownership (178 countries). In the last decade or so, the number of deaths in the U.S. from firearms has risen from almost 29,000 to over 32,000, equating to over 10 per 100,000 people. So does that extent of gun ownership and homicides mean that more laws are needed to control not just gun ownership but also their use? And ...

Introduction

The United States of America is a federal government. In that aspect, the Constitution anticipates the sharing of power between the states and the national government. Ideally, that is what informed the Federalists spirit towards the creation of the United States of America. This paper is based on the federalism envisaged by the United States Constitution. U.S. Constitution governing and affecting intergovernmental relations The United States Constitution expressly provide for the precedence that ought to take place in cases of clashes between the national and state government. According to the Constitutional supremacy clause, the Federal Government is given ...

The difference between Civil Law and Common Law is that Civil Law is governed by statute, and Common Law evolved over the course of millennia from judicial tradition, earlier legal codes, tribal laws and mores and written and oral traditions. Common law is derived from customs and civil law by statutes. Under Civil Law, the main source of the law is legislation and under Common Law, prior judicial decisions are the determinant. In the United Kingdom, Common Law is the general standard and predominant form of justice and court proceedings. There is a body of Civil law as well it ...

Gay marriage is a controversial social practice within the United States. Jost, an editor at Sage Publications, explains in his article entitled “Marriage Showdowns: Will Voters Bar Marriage” that “seven states have legalized gay marriage while more than 26 states have had either constitutional amendments that prohibit gay marriage or statutory bans (Jost 3). Friedman's book entitled Gay Marriage explains that the existing policy on gay marriage is based on the provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that was passed by the federal government in 1996 (Friedman 31). DOMA defines a marriage as a union between a man and woman and ...