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Ajaypal Gill
Period 3
Mr. Marr
April 9, 2007
1. Charles Guiteau shot President James Garfield because the president would
not offer him a job. To avoid a similar situation, President Chester Arthur
signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act. This Act created the federal Civil
Service.
a hierarchical authority structure, in which power flows form the top down
and responsibility from the bottom up; it uses task specialization, so that
on the merit principle, in which entrance and promotion are awarded on the
behave with impersonality so that all their clients are treated impartially.
acquisitive because they are busily maximizing their budgets and expanding
police protection –and their piece of the government’s total budget pie is a
good measure of how highly their product is valued. They are monopolistic
because they are free from competition, being the sole supplier of some key
good. It can afford to exact high prices and behave inefficiently. In general,
Only wealthy people really have an alternative to the local school system, the
4. All regulation contains these elements: (1) a grant of power and set of
directions from Congress, (2) a set of rules and guidelines by the regulatory
authority over environmental matters may pass rules that restrict the rights
may pass rules that affect how much tax a person pays; and local housing
agencies may set and enforce standards on health and safety in housing.
They are also quasi-judicial because they interpret the law and hold hearings.
issues concerning Social Security contributions and benefits, but it may not
decide any other issues, even those related to Social Security benefits such
following factors: (1) a faulty program design, (2) a broad policy goal lacking
7. The case, Munn v. Illinois, involved the right of the state Illinois to regulate
the charges and services of a Chicago warehouse. During this time, farmers
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Commission (ICC), and charged it with regulating the railroads, their prices,
and their services to farmers; the ICC thus set the precedent for regulatory
policymaking.
The President and the Congress share two powers to control the
bureaucracy. First of all, the person the president appoints to head the
about who should and who shouldn’t be running the agencies. Secondly,
both the President and the Congress can tinker with an agency’s budget.
Through the OMB, the president has an authority over the budget. However,
These orders carry the force of law and are used to implement statutes,
goesto the very committee that created a program; the committee thus has
Congress has the ability to rewrite this legislation and make it more detailed.
Though the average American citizen cannot control the bureaucracy, the
Congress and the President try to have some hold over it. Whereas the
President can generally take action, Congress most often must approve of it.
bureaucracy.