PSCI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hoover Commission, Bowling Alone, Brownlow Committee
30 Dec 2017
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The machinery of government involves all the interconnected structures and processes of government at the federal, state and local levels. The machinery of government questions have both a policy and political content where one influences the other, and compromises result: The constitution of the us begins with the opening phrase, we the. People this puts decision-making control into the hands of the citizens. The executive office of the president is a term that includes top presidential staff agencies which provide advice in a variety of administrative areas. The president"s cabinet includes fourteen executive departments that advise the president. The tenth amendment to the constitution provides that: The powers not delegated to the united states by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. The constitution does not specifically mention local governments. Hence, their powers are derived from state law.
