Essays on Government

Definition of terrorism remains a task to many organizations and agencies. This is due to the fact that there is no one definition which has been agreed by all agencies. It will be realized that different organizations and agencies have different definitions of terrorism. Based on the Department of Defense,...

The actions of Officer Jones The actions that Officer Jones portrayed are unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the American Constitution sets the constraints on warrantless searches, stating that the rights of individuals to remain secured within their houses shall not be violated, and that no warrants shall...

Upon examining the court’s decision as it relates to cell phone searches incident to arrest, I agree with it. I understand that cell phones contain private information about individuals and they have the rights to hold such information. However, there are situations whereby, it is critical for the police to...

Terrorism has become a threat to the lives of many people, resulting in mass killings and loss of property across the globe. The creation of counter-terrorism governmental agencies and international bodies is a big step forward in ensuring that the surging terrorism activities, as well as emerging new forms of...

Government's honesty and sense of accountability are essential to running a country.  By virtual of accountability, the government is mandated to make it easier for the public to have access to the correct and accurate information of all government's involvements. Through giving the public the precise report, the government enhances...

Bauhr, Monika, and Marcia Grimes. “Transparency to Curb Corruption? Concepts Measures and Empirical Merit.” Crime, law and Social Change, vol. 68, no. 4 ,2017, pp. 413-458, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-017-9695-1. Accessed 4 May 2018 Summary: The authors are keen on defining what transparency is and they definite it as a condition that helps to...

Globalization is putting increasing pressure on the and strains on the resources, coherence, sovereignty and principles of self -governance on the nation states.  As result to this, the rate of emigrants and immigrants has tremendously increased making some of the nation states adopt the principle of walling their states for...

The Congressional Gridlock The congressional gridlock entails a situation where the Congress cannot perform its constitutional duties because of political differences between the two leading political parties in the United States; the Democrats and the Republicans. Moreover, the situation is made worse by radical political affiliation to each opposing sides to...

The Trump administration's decision to rescind the DACA program The Trump administration on September 5th, 2017 decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that was initiated by Obama administration to protect close to 800,000 children that were living illegally in the country. These children, commonly referred to...

by George Orwell and Eric Blair and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury are dystopian fictions. The two fictions have a number of glaring similarities in the plot and character development. Evidently, protagonists in the two novels lead meaningless and bland lives, but the appearance of a woman in their lives...

Community Policing Community policing can get defined as a philosophy that focuses on promoting strategies that support the utilization of problem-solving and partnership techniques to proactively address matters that result in public safety issues like social disorder, fear of crime as well as crime (Cordner 149). Community policing concept in the...

A snapshot of a better performing economy A snapshot of a better performing economy of the 21st century, on global ratings, takes into consideration the immense economic, military as well as diplomatic advances that the Peoples Republic of China has accumulated in less than a decade. It has nuclear weapons; military...