age 51 Menifield provides a list of budget maximizing strategies adapted from other scholars. Considering contemporary politics and based on experience in an organization in which you participate or follow (or just good old common sense), discuss the following:

Which two strategies do you think would be most consistently effective? Is there a strategy that seems absolutely essential?

Which strategy seems the shadiest and most likely to fail?

What was need for the 14th Amendment, why were southern states required to pass the amendment and why did many resist, and what year did it finally become law?

Who did the Amendment help and how did it help them – and who did it leave out? Why were women upset?

What issues from the document are still controversial today? How does it relate to current situation with immigration?

Also, how is the style and content of the original document different from the secondary account provided in the textbook?  Which is more important, or do they complement each other

Regionally based grievances, such as Western alienation and Quebec separatism, are a defining feature of Canadian politics. Identify and explain 3 features of Canadian political institutions that contribute to these regional rifts. (Considerations may include Canadian federalism, theories of confederation, representation in the legislative branch, and the electoral system).

Canadian federalism: Federalism is a political system in which government power and responsibility is divided between a federal legislature and state or provincial legislatures.  The Canadian federalism has brought the differences in Canada by considering smaller parts not sovereign and therefore cannot legally secede. It has swung between the extremes of centralizing control and decentralizing it.

The federal government has jurisdiction over the entire country and each provincial government has jurisdiction over its portion of the population and region. Both levels of government get their authority from Canada’s written Constitution but it includes features that are incompatible with a strict approach to federalism. Canadian federalism has been tested throughout the country’s history and remains a subject of great debate.

Theories of confederation in Canada: The Canadian Confederation was the process by which the three colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were united into one federation called the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. Over the years since Confederation, Canada has seen numerous territorial changes and expansions which has resulted in the current number of ten provinces and three territories. There has been an extensive scholarly debate on the role of political ideas in Canada confederation. For example, most traditional historians regarded Canadian Confederation as an exercise in political pragmatism that was essentially non-ideological.

In the 1960s, historian Peter Waite derided the references to political philosophers in the legislative debates on Confederation as “hot air”. According to him, Confederation was driven by pragmatic brokerage politics and competing interest groups. Again in 1987, political scientist Peter J. Smith challenged the view of the Canadian Confederation as one that was non-ideological.

Smith argued Confederation was motivated by new political ideologies as much as the American and French Revolutions and Canadian Confederation was driven by a Court Party ideology. In 2000, a journal article and  historian called  Ian McKay argued that Canadian Confederation was motivated by the ideology of liberalism and the belief in the supremacy of individual rights.

McKay described Confederation as part of the classical liberal project of creating a liberal order in northern North America. This has caused regional differences as some regions are in support for the confederation while others are against it.The Canadian electoral system: Canada naturally adopted

British institutions of electoral democracy. Elections in Canada use a first-past-the-post system, whereby the candidate that wins the most votes in a constituency is selected to represent that riding. Elections are governed by an elaborate series of laws and a well-developed administrative apparatus.

They occur at the federal, provincial, territorial and municipal levels. Canada’s federal election system is governed by the Canada Elections Act and administered by the Chief Electoral Officer while provincial election systems, governed by provincial election acts.

The Canadian electoral system creates regional rifts in that some electoral positions in some regions are contested through parties while others are contested by individual.  For example, federal and provincial campaigns and that of Yukon, are party contests in which candidates represent political parties while municipal campaigns  and those of Northwest Territories and Nunavut, are contested by individuals, not by parties.

explain the one of the stanzas of Jose Rizal last farewell. Write it with precision and clarity.

“I die just when I see the dawn break,

Through the gloom of night, to herald the day;

And if color is lacking my blood, thou shalt take

Pour’d out at need for thy dear sake,

To dye with its crimson the waking ray”

Conducting  a leadership analysis on Hannibal. What were the key leadership actions, qualities, styles….etc. that directly resulted in his success as a leader? In other words, what was his legacy as a leader?
Briefly explain, with evidence, how one modern counterpart was successful by learning lessons from Hannibal of Carthage.
Briefly explain, with evidence, how one modern counterpart failed by not learning lessons from Hannibal of Carthage
You must think deeper in terms of being more specific when using evidence/examples; not to be too general when supporting your argument/concept—use specific examples.  One example is: when you discuss making better relations (this is too general), state specifically how he made better relations.