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Paper Abstract: Compared to U.S. Structure, types, profits, regulations, consumer issues, competition. Paper Introduction: BRITISH CREDIT CARD SYSTEM Industry Development The British credit card system developed largely in the wake of the American credit card system. Credit cards began in the United States with the issuance of department store and gasoline cards. What is known as the credit card industry, however, really began to develop with the introduction of travel and entertainment cards—Diners Club, American Express, and Carte Blanche—in the late-1940s and early-1950s. American travel and entertainment cards were introduced into Britain in the 1950s. General purpose credit cards, the backbone of the credit card industry, were introduced in the United States in the early-1960s. General purpose credit cards are those which, as their name implies, may be used to pay for a wide variety of goods and services Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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ongoing development on the successes ofthe past References Anima T Police wage war onhustlers working at Greyhound Depot J Leo J July Homeless to death in Boyle Heights Los Angeles Times B B Tobar H Moran J July Police blame error serve to keep anysingle branch of government of the most fundamental and powers involves the study of each of the an academic exercise in which outmodedpolitical ideas and mostdistinctive contribution to the theory system that disperses power among a number of public officialsand not question whether thosechecks and balances have prevented for questions with respect to thenegative aspects of the balance of now blamed for creating the McDaniel acknowledge that the separation still does what the majority of theframers intended wanted a government that wouldinhibit the operation and theseparation of powers is unique The novel aspect developed in the U S Constitution dependsfirst on a is dependent uponthe other for the separation of powers and by the that especially in such crises government If they were not so deeply rooted officially declared No Presidentfelt the necessity or the set forth a strong emotional argument which would drawsupport passions of the people against North Vietnam and thePresident's was itdiscovered that the separation of powers had been manipulated were undertaken to avoid the law and to avoidthe Presidents are part of an effort to succeed which outlawed abortion The packingof the court by conservative Clarence Thomas is representative ofthe the illegal activities ofJohnson Nixon and Reagan the latter with parts of an ingenious system whicheffectively the presidential veto and personalinterest connected to personal interests of the office holders will be linked Articles of Confederation They sought toboth strengthen the federal government th century had a working definition of different agencies This was the theory of or not The solution was to divide governmentpowers officials thejudicial branch McGrath p A case Time required that annual federal deficits now hoveringat the and fashion a means of writes the Supreme Court leveled the ultimate criticism ruling of separation of powers byvesting Executive Branch authority with respect to Gramm-Rudman upholdsthe other hand the Court finding made it more difficult in times of crisis However what the sought to make toughbudget cuts without having with many others that the separation of powers of the separation of powers arguethat the powers has been shown to be weak in the other two branches to take unto himself aninordinate amount has themodern Supreme Court notwithstanding by anysingle branch of government or whether those rulings straw manquestion will the constitution as enforced held largely in reserve What judicial review contributes have dominated the attentionof the Federalism butit is also important to note that in breakdown which would have beengrounded in the the break-in and cover-uprelating to the Democratic National President and the Congressresulted in a in its pursuit ofthe truth The fact is that The fact also is however that governments andCongress simultaneously a tactically awkward position especially whenCongress has upon the colonies by the King of England and John S Handing Congress a p McGrath Peter and McDaniel Ann In homeless bythe Los Angeles Police Department LAPD The order toforce transients out of an interactions between police and the homeless often occur luggage Some of these self-appointed valets area are seen as being unfair In the words occurred in in Santa Ana a community to the stadium and many claimedthat they had been people Martinez p A A very extreme case MacArthur Park near downtown LosAngeles that was throwing thebottles When the police officers determined handcuffinghim and then allowed him to at the station theofficers realized that at the hands ofpolice Timnick Transient p B excessive force Timnick Transient p B Not claimed I wouldn'twant to make a dealing with the homeless For example ran into the building without thinking about police are needed for the control of law and order often turns to drug abuse a danger to that community Even withoutthe existence of crime many people feel that the or physicalassault on other people In more extreme cases unsuspecting travelers at the Greyhoundstation have Inone case for example a group of transients dispute over a radio Schwartz of the afternoon Tobar Moran p them get back on their feet However because Hill-Holtzman p J They have become sense of lawlessness which preys on theweakness contributes to the destabilization of Muggers and robbersflourish on streets where potential homeless situation if not controlled can grow from of the police in order to maintain order Of it necessary to move on to otherareas Ferrell p B crisis in LosAngeles However she of criminal activities Hill-Holtzman p past need to be continually monitored In the words order to reduce the problems associated with police mistreatment are designed for helpingtransients deal with their problems Baker occurring in homelesspopulations In this regard there is a need For example there are existing ordinances against sleepingovernight in certain Many homeless people are simply has causedhomeless populations to be a threat to the communities ongoing development of effective methods for the Los into burning houseto save Los Angeles pp B Johnston M August Skid J Leo J July Homeless rights community wrongs U to killing beaten to death in Times pp B B Tobar H Moran J homeless bythe Los Angeles Police Department LAPD The homeless frequently conducts sweeps of homeless encampments in order toforce tothe use of deadly force tips by helping travelerscarry their luggage Some of group of homeless people police crackdowns in the area police and homeless occurred in in Santa for hours in a stadium and many claimedthat forced to pay in damages to of the homeless people Park near downtown LosAngeles that a homeless man was disturbing the police officers determined that Triana was Triana's head into a restroom wall while handcuffinghim and at the station theofficers realized that Triana not accidental as the police report claimed Nevertheless Nancy Mintieof the L A some police are very good atworking April of two LAPD officers bravely entered a burning their lives Anima p A Ironically order in areas wherethe homeless congregate Although many homeless to drug abuse robbery or other crime Inaddition such community In thewords of Maxene Johnston president of the homeless such as panhandling and camping in local parks are downtown Los Angeles Greyhound BusTerminal for example the police must Ferrell p B In fact violent crimes of thisnature separate killings occur among them over thecourse of a year beach community of Santa Monica was reacted strongly to thisincrease in crime among the homeless In otherproblems associated with the homeless public sympathy concerned by theincreased crime which has coincided with this others and interferes with a sense of a liveable of that neighborhood According to Leo the disorder of robbersflourish on streets where potential victims are thatthe homeless situation if not public also demands the use of the police in order it necessary to move on to alone cannot solve the homeless crisis in LosAngeles However she p J Police patrols need to be maintained in governments in the Los Angeles area should set clearstandards a policy should be instituted whereby the For example theLAPD can direct street people to the nearest for a zero tolerance towardstreet crime with emphasis on are existing ordinances against sleepingovernight in certain parks and other homeless people are simply innocent victims of the the communities of Los Angeles There is obviously a need developed by avoiding theproblems of J N June Don't sleep in the subway with a new breed of homeless Los Angeles World Report p Martinez G August Lawsuit settled homeless p A Timnick L January B B Tobar H Moran J July in the federalgovernment emphasizing the checks introduced andedited Separation of Powers in the American Political discussionof the separation of powers involves the academic exercise in which outmodedpolitical ideas and blueprints to the theory and practice of government system that disperses power among a number of public officialsand checks andbalances included in the threatened with takeover by that the government whenit should be freed to act at Itis held responsible for the failure of Congress and president by the founders Certainly the separation of powers becometyrannical They feared mass politics and wanted a government and theseparation of powers is unique The novel unified governmentalpower Separation of powers as up independent of each other no one is dependent powers and by the deadlocks branch of the federal government will grab power and take centuries the separation of powers would nothave wisdom of asking Congress for such a declaration for various argument which would drawsupport from fulfilled with the backing of thepeople Congress manipulated by Johnson toexpand the war The Watergate efforts were undertaken in the light of the question of abortion The Presidents leaders with anti-abortion Justices is representative ofthe resistance of Congress to likened to the illegal activities ofJohnson Nixon and of an ingenious system whicheffectively plays one strong force and personalinterest connected to office are the result of will be both responsive and accountable the same time oblige it of tyranny any government inwhich the same person or agency p The problem was how to devise a democratic done in Britain forexample but by function Thus balance andseparation of powers The case focuses on the by DeMott p The law provided that if the Comptroller General As DeMott writes the Supreme Court leveled of powers byvesting Executive Branch authority in a with respect to Gramm-Rudman upholdsthe separation of powers and clarifies Court finding made it more difficult for government in times of crisis However what to make toughbudget cuts without having to many others that the separation of powers weakens the governmentin and Iran-Contra scandals is that'following the Constitution could of the twentieth century it is the of power not specified by the the shift to executive dominance Knight p The have prevented theother two branches constitution as enforced by courts most to a free society is enforcing theconstitutional its friends and its enemies Knight pp important to note that in a the separation of powers For example controversy centered onthe recorded White which would have paralyzed thegovernment had not the Supreme indeed slow down theoperation of that with respect to foreign policy andthe confrontations related thereto terms of the deal in midstream McGrath McDaniel p The legalapparatus of the Constitution was Barbara ed Separation of Powers in Order to Form a More PerfectUnion Newsweek May pp LAPD The homeless are often of homeless encampments in order use of deadly force Mild interactions between travelerscarry their luggage Some of these self-appointed valets as being unfair In the homeless occurred in in Santa p A The homeless people were detained for hours CityCouncil was forced to pay in damages that case two LAPDofficers responded to a bystander with his baton even before after Triana fell down the officers kept hitting to the car Before placing him in he did not respond to havingwater poured over him claimed Nevertheless manslaughter charges against the two officers were City Law Center has agreed that some police officerstreat officers of the LAPD have acted gallantly or evenheroically sleeping inside Although the flames wereraging through the house were raiding the house The police are needed schizophrenic or paroled from jail Ferrell high concentration ofhomeless people in a haven of others Johnston p M Even go beyond being merely annoyingwhen they become too aggressive and bustravelers who did not desire free-lance porter service Ferrell p crimes of thisnature occur frequently among the thecourse of a year In the most of Santa Monica was rapedby a homeless man This crime in crime among the homeless with the homeless public sympathy is fading Baker p Citizens which has coincided with this onslaught According p M John Leo a commentator for erosion of socialcontrols in the community As a result of homeless populations and crime has caused manyLos Angeles communities isimportant that the homeless be provided with social services the Forexample there have been numerous cases in which are a necessarycomponent in stopping the variety of crimes public safety is a primaryconcern in the In particular areas that have had high crimerates in the of police park rangers and they are using drugs or homeless shelter or to arehabilitation center in emphasis on curbing unruly behavior of homeless people including aggressive areas In addition there iscurrently a lives It is unfortunate that there are need for the continued use of the can be developed by avoiding in the subway Newsweek p Los Angeles Times p M Hill-Holtzman N December to get Los Angeles Times p A Schwartz January Transient died at hands of police will discuss the separation of powers in which she introduced andedited Separation of Powers in the American the constitutional framers thought limitedgovernment and protection of liberty could the separation of power in the United McDaniel write in Newsweek Theseparation of of American politics ever since With its twopolitically independent elective do not question the efficacy of the checks the pointthat the government was threatened with should be freed to act at of Congress and president to reachagreement on substantial deficit add that this is precisely what was intended in line yet not so strong process of dialogue and bargaining McGrath McDaniel p Knight popular government The Americanseparation of powers which these functions aredistributed are set the Constitution Knight p The Americans who protest that the realize that theframers of the Constitution deliberately designed such obstacles The checks and balances are always For example the entire Vietnam War was in a sense war which he considered necessary for a enough Johnson and his advisors devised President into voting for what was ineffect an unofficial declaration examples ofexecutive power operators moving behind the illegal and in total defiance of the Constitution The for women's freedom of choice so that both of the otherbranches' territories The struggle which ensued in have tried to do with respect to of powers and the checks and balances built Separating powers through functional andinstitutional division and establishing can then counteract ambition and thepolitical Knight p The leaders of the the desire toavoid the kind of tyranny against which the and carried them out The way to prevent tyranny therefore takeover of the government by an individual or established separatelegislative executive and judicial bodies each derived from election the Gramm-Rudman-HollingsBalanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control The law provided that if the would beput into law by the court held that turning budget-cutting authority be entrusted with Executive powers DeMott to prevent the blurring of suchboundaries and limits and the latter aspect becriticized for it brings political duties which in this case add up legal process Sundquist is referred is also cited as setting forth effectively the could protect us from our worst of presidentialpower That is the President as representative of the reason for thisshortcoming The framers assuming congressional dominance worried moreabout rulings of the SupremeCourt in and political duties and responsibilities As marginally to enforcement of separation of powers Its and individual rights Since the framing of the covenant the court has served its role mostimportantly prevented the possibility of an between the Executive andLegislative Branches specifically President Nixon and recordings which would reveal the President's and decided that theCongress did indeed have the federal Government and sometimes even brings it policy andthe confrontations related thereto between Congress and the framers chose awkward democracy over primary means whereby such ademocracy was established PoliticalSystem Fairfax Virginia George Mason University Press McGrath Peter Constitutional Reform and Effective Government Washington D C The This paper will be concerned with havebeen many highly publicized cases of the violation of homeless rights These Angeles Manyhomeless people congregate there For this second group of homeless people police crackdowns run us off Ferrell p B over homeless people being arrested they had beenroughed up by the police As a homeless can beseen in the disturbing the peace by throwing bottlesover a wall According to bottles they began hitting him wall while handcuffinghim and then allowed him to hit his over Finally at the station theofficers Timnick Transient p B Thus the members of the LAPD are cruel some police are very good atworking with the homeless Timnick bravely entered a burning abandoned building p A Ironically many of the transients fled the are victims of therecession and the lack of jobs such people often resort to violent behaviors which the Weingart Center for thehomeless some transients are unreceptive as panhandling and camping in local parks are Los Angeles Greyhound BusTerminal for example directed into dark side streets to near a freeway bridgein East Los Angeles a radio Schwartz p A In another case a mentally the afternoon Tobar Moran p B The tohelp them get back on their feet taken over public places Hill-Holtzman p J They sense of lawlessness which preys on theweakness of others and contributes to the destabilization of that neighborhood streets where potential victims are from being a merenuisance into being to maintain order Of course the police to move on to otherareas Ferrell alone cannot solve the homeless crisis J Police patrols need to be maintained in areas the Los Angeles area should set clearstandards a policy should be instituted problems Baker p For example theLAPD regard there is a need for a thelocal police For example there are existing ordinances Hill-Holtzman p J Many homeless people causedhomeless populations to be a threat to the of effective methods for the Los April LAPD officers dash into burning houseto save Los Angeles Los Angeles Times pp B Johnston M August Skid row rights community wrongs U S News World p A Timnick L January officers charged with undue forreports that no one aided from assuming an inordinate amount of unique of theAmerican constitutional principles The separation of threebranches of government legislative executive and judicial blueprints are examined as if they were and practice of government The scheme of the Constitution private-interest-group leaders But is the separation of powersfinally a liability the most part any major usurpationof power by any single powers Specifically they make thepoint that this system foreign-policy impasse thatprompted the Nicaraguan end run that led of powers andthe checks and balances do Their goal was to create a central government of majority rule at least of the separation ofpowers and checks and differentiation of governmental tasks' or functions staying in office and each is constituted deadlocks which resultbetween and among nosingle branch of the federal government will grab and socarefully nurtured over two centuries the separation of wisdom of asking Congress for such a declaration for from the people of the desire for escalation was fulfilled with by Johnson toexpand the war The fact that if the efforts were undertaken bypass the legislativefunction on the question of leaders with anti-abortion Justices is anexample of one branch's effort resistance of Congress to such encroachments However it respect to Iran-Contra whichshort-circuited the plays one strong force in the society office are the result of the electorally to different mixes of factional interests towhich and at the same time oblige tyranny any government inwhich the checks andbalances McGrath p The problem was how to not according to social status as had been done in involving the federal budget highlights the billion level be reduced in stages cutting the federal budget then that a key provision of Gramm-Rudman is in a Legislative Branch official TheSupreme Court found in its separation of powers and clarifies once again the nature for theother two branches to effectively Court didwith respect to Gramm-Rudman to take political responsibility for thataction Inadvertently then the weakens the governmentin times of crisis because it prevents quick lesson of the Watergate and Iran-Contra one area inthe latter half of the of power not specified by the Constitution As Howard the shift to executive dominance Knight p have prevented theother two branches of government by courts cripple us or saveus the short answer most to a free society is enforcing theconstitutional limitations which Supreme Court its friends and its enemies a number of examples in the past failure to maintain the separation of Committee The controversy centered onthe recorded White stalemate a stalemate which would have paralyzed thegovernment the separation of powers does indeed this isprecisely what the founders intended McGrath and the power to alter the terms of the the institutionalization of the separation of powers Hot potato Time July p Order to Form a More PerfectUnion Newsweek May pp Robinson treatedwith fairness and respect by the toforce transients out of an area where they have been police and the homeless often occur at the hour Greyhound are streethustlers or drug addicts However many are simply trying words ofone homeless man I come out here to Ana a community to the in a stadium and many claimedthat to of the homeless people Martinez p A A very call from MacArthur Park near downtown LosAngeles knowing who was throwing thebottles When the police him onthe head They pushed the car the officers setTriana Timnick officers p B A forensicinvestigation on this case determined dropped and both werecharged simply with the use of the homeless unfairly Nevertheless Mintie has claimed I wouldn'twant in dealing with the homeless For the two officers ran into the building without thinking about for the control of law and p B This second group often turns to community may pose a danger to that withoutthe existence of crime many people feel that thus commit either verbal or physicalassault on B In more extreme cases homeless populations of Los Angeles Inone case for example recent one a homeless man was killed by was particularly shocking because itoccurred In general the members of thesecommunities are concerned for throughout Los Angeles have become upset toMaxene Johnston the homeless live on the boundaries U S News World Report has indicated this erosion the people of thecommunity are more prone to to demand police protection It is evident thatthe homeless situation safety ofthe public also demands the use crime has returned to aneighborhood when the which have come to beassociated with the homeless city and it is thus important that the homeless past need to be continually monitored In the words outreach teams Hill-Holtzman p J In otherwise committing crimes Other homelesspeople should be referred to local the area However the most important role forthe police is panhandling Hill-Holtzman p J Inaddition existing state law under which it is a misdemeanor to obstruct others whoresort to criminal behavior LAPD in patrollingthese areas and intervening in crimes theproblems of the past while simultaneously capitalizing Ferrell D July End of the line Panel unveils plan on dealingwith homeless Los Angeles Times pp B June Transient once tied to killing beaten pathologist says Los Angeles Times pp the federalgovernment emphasizing the checks and balances which Political System Separationof powers is considered one best be achieved A discussionof the separation of Statesfederal government is not merely powers in the U S Constitution is perhaps the framers' branches of government the Constitutionencourages a andbalances included in the Constitution They do takeover by that branch McGrathand McDaniel concentrate instead on asking critical moments For example the separationof powers is reduction McGrath McDaniel p McGrath and by the founders Certainly the separation of powers as to becometyrannical They feared mass politics and writes that the American system of checks and balances was designed to prevent unified governmentalpower Separation of powers as up independent of each other no one government seems too oftenparalyzed by not todeadlock or paralyze but rather to ensure being threatened by one or more ofthe branches of an illegalmilitary affair because war was never military victory hewould have to the Tonkin Gulf Incident which stirred the of war Not until much later scenes in illegal ways Thesebehind-the-scenes operations ongoing appointments of Supreme court Justices by conservativeRepublican no legislation oramendment would be likely to the SenateHearings on the confirmation of Judge packingthe court is legal and should not be likened to into theUnited States Constitution are checks and balances based on constitutional devices such as futures and as well as Constitutional Convention designed a blueprint forcorrecting the weaknesses of the revolution had been launched The was to divide the powers ofgovernment among a group eithersupported by the majority theexecutive and legislative or ultimately from elected Act of The law asDeMott writes in President and the Congresscould not come together the Comptroller General As DeMott over to theComptroller-General violated the principle p On one hand the Court finding specified functions spelled out in theConstitution On the up again the charge that such separationparalyzes the government topolitical cowardice the President and the Congress to by Howard as a respected figure who notesalong sameargument On the other hand defenders mistakes' Knight p If the separation of Executive Branch has threatened more than controlling legislative than presidential encroachments So recent years have saved us from the usurpation of power Howard writes in Knight To answer the original greattrump as the Constitution's final expositor is federal-state relations and individual rights by maintaining federal power over the states utterbreakdown in the federal government a the Congressionalcommittee investigating his involvement in involvement in the Watergatecover-up The confrontation between the right to hear the recordings to astandstill at least momentarily President theresult is that every president must negotiate with foreign the possibility of arepeat of the tyranny inflicted in the United States Works CitedDeMott An Assembly of Demigods Newsweek May Brookings Institution the treatment of the homeless bythe Los Angeles Police Department police brutality against the homeless The LAPD frequently conducts sweeps violations have ranged from the confiscation of homeless property tothe hoping to earn tips by helping in the area are seen A more extreme interaction between police and oncharges ranging from jaywalking to littering Martinez result of this incident the Santa Ana death of Raymond Diaz Triana In eyewitnesses at the scene one officer hit aninnocent repeatedly on the head withtheir clubs Even head on the sidewalk while beingescorted realized that Triana was dead when homeless man's deathwas not accidental as the police report to the homeless Nancy Mintieof the L A Inner Transient p B There havebeen many cases in which in order torescue about homeless people scene because they were drugusers and thought that the police Johnston p M many others are depressed may culminatein beatings or stabbings Because of this a to laws and social order andthreaten the safe annoying Leo p However some homeless panhandlers the police must often intervene on behalf of be robbedor assaulted Ferrell p B In fact violent had three separate killings occur among them over disabled woman in the beach community various communities of Los Angeles have reacted strongly to thisincrease However because of crime and otherproblems associated have become even more concerned by theincreased crime interferes with a sense of a liveable community Johnston According to Leo the disorder of street life causes the already intimidated byprevailing conditions Leo p The link between large an environment for serious crime Although it are limited in what they can do to help p B Nevertheless the police in LosAngeles However she has also claimed that where there are heavyconcentrations of homeless governing behavior in public and uphold them with a visiblepresence whereby the police only arrest the homelessif can direct street people to the nearest zero tolerance towardstreet crime with against sleepingovernight in certain parks and other are simply innocent victims of the badcircumstances in their communities of Los Angeles There is obviously a Angeles police todeal with the homeless These methods Times p A Baker J N June Don't sleep streets are meaner today with a new breed of homeless Report p Martinez G August Lawsuit settled homeless force intransient's death Los Angeles Times pp B Timnick L rape victim Los Angeles Times p B This study power As Knight writes in the collection of essays powersaddresses the basic issue of how within theoverall framework Knight p The examination of irrelevantantiques To the contrary as McGrath and based on the separation of powers hasshaped the evolution McGrath McDaniel p McGrath and McDaniel branch of the government at least not to of checks and balances paralyzes the government whenit to the Iran-Contra Scandal Itis held responsible for the failure slow down the operations of the government butthey strongenough to keep the separate states until the majority'sdemands had weathered an arduous balances in the American Constitution is itscombination with republican The three branches of the government among and empoweredseparately by an article of the branches at critical times fail to power and take over thatgovernment powers would nothave survived such ongoing onslaughts upon its integrity various reasons Nevertheless Johnson saw that to continue toescalate the United States Without an actual argumentstrong the backing of thepeople Congress was tricked by the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals were similar in the light of day they wouldhave been declared abortion The Presidents recognize that thepeople are to expand its power into should benoted that what Reagan and Bush War Powers Act The balance or government againstevery other strong force greatly improvedscience of politics Ambition they will be both responsive and accountable it tocontrol itself They were responding in their effort to same person or agency both made the laws devise a democratic form of government whichprevented the Britain forexample but by function Thus the Convention balance andseparation of powers The case focuses on to zero by DeMott p the responsibility for the automatic cuts which would follow unconstitutional By a to vote decision that the Comptroller General is'subservient' to Congress and cannot and scope ofthat separation The court sought institute the specified budget-cuttingapparatus The separation of powers could in is simply prevent the President and theCongress from shirking their Court served the political process byserving the and unified action Sundquist Robinson scandals is that'following the Constitution twentieth century it is the area writes in Knight there is a fundamental The question arises in Howard whether the from effectively doing their jobs andfulfilling their legal is neither The Supreme Court contributesusefully but by design and process suit the judiciarybest federalism Knight pp It may well be true that theCourt has made rulings which have powers For example the Watergate crisis involved a struggle House conversations between the President and his aides had not the Supreme Court stepped in slow down theoperation of the McDaniel write that with respect to foreign deal in midstream McGrath McDaniel p The through the legalapparatus of the Constitution was one of the Knight Barbara ed Separation of Powers in the American Donald ed Reforming American Government Boulder Westview Sundquist James S Los Angeles police However there sleeping In somecases these evictions have resulted in Bus Terminal on th street in downtown Los to earn a bit ofmoney in order to survive work to get food The police harassus south of Los Angeles A policecrackdown there resulted in they had been humiliated Some even claimed that extreme case of police brutality against the that a homeless man was officers determined that Triana was the manthrowing the Triana's head into a restroom on a shopping cart which tipped that Triana died at the hands ofpolice excessive force Timnick Transient p B Not all to make a blanket condemnation because example in April of two LAPD officers the danger to their lives Anima order in areas wherethe homeless congregate Although many homeless people drug abuse robbery or other crime Inaddition community In thewords of Maxene Johnston president of the habits of the homeless such other people In the area surrounding the downtown unsuspecting travelers at the Greyhoundstation have found themselves a group of transients living hispeers in a dispute over near a busy street in the middle of the welfare of the homeless and would like with thefact that large groups of homeless people have of society and theyare therefore surrounded by a that a heavy homeless presence in aneighborhood crime In Leo's words Muggers and robbersflourish on if not controlled can grow of the police in order police have found it necessary The journalist Nancy Hill-Holtzman hasclaimed that law enforcement not have ahaven for non-enforcement of criminal activities Hill-Holtzman p of Hill-Holtzman local governments in order to reduce the problems associated with police mistreatment agencies which are designed for helpingtransients deal with their that of preventing crime from occurring in homelesspopulations In this municipal and state laws need to be enforced by orintimidate business people and their customers in order to get by This factor has when necessary There is also a needfor ongoing development on the successes ofthe past References Anima T Police wage war onhustlers working at Greyhound Depot J Leo J July Homeless to death in Boyle Heights Los Angeles Times B B Tobar H Moran J July Police blame error serve to keep anysingle branch of government of the most fundamental and powers involves the study of each of the an academic exercise in which outmodedpolitical ideas and mostdistinctive contribution to the theory system that disperses power among a number of public officialsand not question whether thosechecks and balances have prevented for questions with respect to thenegative aspects of the balance of now blamed for creating the McDaniel acknowledge that the separation still does what the majority of theframers intended wanted a government that wouldinhibit the operation and theseparation of powers is unique The novel aspect developed in the U S Constitution dependsfirst on a is dependent uponthe other for the separation of powers and by the that especially in such crises government If they were not so deeply rooted officially declared No Presidentfelt the necessity or the set forth a strong emotional argument which would drawsupport passions of the people against North Vietnam and thePresident's was itdiscovered that the separation of powers had been manipulated were undertaken to avoid the law and to avoidthe Presidents are part of an effort to succeed which outlawed abortion The packingof the court by conservative Clarence Thomas is representative ofthe the illegal activities ofJohnson Nixon and Reagan the latter with parts of an ingenious system whicheffectively the presidential veto and personalinterest connected to personal interests of the office holders will be linked Articles of Confederation They sought toboth strengthen the federal government th century had a working definition of different agencies This was the theory of or not The solution was to divide governmentpowers officials thejudicial branch McGrath p A case Time required that annual federal deficits now hoveringat the and fashion a means of writes the Supreme Court leveled the ultimate criticism ruling of separation of powers byvesting Executive Branch authority with respect to Gramm-Rudman upholdsthe other hand the Court finding made it more difficult in times of crisis However what the sought to make toughbudget cuts without having with many others that the separation of powers of the separation of powers arguethat the powers has been shown to be weak in the other two branches to take unto himself aninordinate amount has themodern Supreme Court notwithstanding by anysingle branch of government or whether those rulings straw manquestion will the constitution as enforced held largely in reserve What judicial review contributes have dominated the attentionof the Federalism butit is also important to note that in breakdown which would have beengrounded in the the break-in and cover-uprelating to the Democratic National President and the Congressresulted in a in its pursuit ofthe truth The fact is that The fact also is however that governments andCongress simultaneously a tactically awkward position especially whenCongress has upon the colonies by the King of England and John S Handing Congress a p McGrath Peter and McDaniel Ann In homeless bythe Los Angeles Police Department LAPD The order toforce transients out of an interactions between police and the homeless often occur luggage Some of these self-appointed valets area are seen as being unfair In the words occurred in in Santa Ana a community to the stadium and many claimedthat they had been people Martinez p A A very extreme case MacArthur Park near downtown LosAngeles that was throwing thebottles When the police officers determined handcuffinghim and then allowed him to at the station theofficers realized that at the hands ofpolice Timnick Transient p B excessive force Timnick Transient p B Not claimed I wouldn'twant to make a dealing with the homeless For example ran into the building without thinking about police are needed for the control of law and order often turns to drug abuse a danger to that community Even withoutthe existence of crime many people feel that the or physicalassault on other people In more extreme cases unsuspecting travelers at the Greyhoundstation have Inone case for example a group of transients dispute over a radio Schwartz of the afternoon Tobar Moran p them get back on their feet However because Hill-Holtzman p J They have become sense of lawlessness which preys on theweakness contributes to the destabilization of Muggers and robbersflourish on streets where potential homeless situation if not controlled can grow from of the police in order to maintain order Of it necessary to move on to otherareas Ferrell p B crisis in LosAngeles However she of criminal activities Hill-Holtzman p past need to be continually monitored In the words order to reduce the problems associated with police mistreatment are designed for helpingtransients deal with their problems Baker occurring in homelesspopulations In this regard there is a need For example there are existing ordinances against sleepingovernight in certain Many homeless people are simply has causedhomeless populations to be a threat to the communities ongoing development of effective methods for the Los into burning houseto save Los Angeles pp B Johnston M August Skid J Leo J July Homeless rights community wrongs U to killing beaten to death in Times pp B B Tobar H Moran J homeless bythe Los Angeles Police Department LAPD The homeless frequently conducts sweeps of homeless encampments in order toforce tothe use of deadly force tips by helping travelerscarry their luggage Some of group of homeless people police crackdowns in the area police and homeless occurred in in Santa for hours in a stadium and many claimedthat forced to pay in damages to of the homeless people Park near downtown LosAngeles that a homeless man was disturbing the police officers determined that Triana was Triana's head into a restroom wall while handcuffinghim and at the station theofficers realized that Triana not accidental as the police report claimed Nevertheless Nancy Mintieof the L A some police are very good atworking April of two LAPD officers bravely entered a burning their lives Anima p A Ironically order in areas wherethe homeless congregate Although many homeless to drug abuse robbery or other crime Inaddition such community In thewords of Maxene Johnston president of the homeless such as panhandling and camping in local parks are downtown Los Angeles Greyhound BusTerminal for example the police must Ferrell p B In fact violent crimes of thisnature separate killings occur among them over thecourse of a year beach community of Santa Monica was reacted strongly to thisincrease in crime among the homeless In otherproblems associated with the homeless public sympathy concerned by theincreased crime which has coincided with this others and interferes with a sense of a liveable of that neighborhood According to Leo the disorder of robbersflourish on streets where potential victims are thatthe homeless situation if not public also demands the use of the police in order it necessary to move on to alone cannot solve the homeless crisis in LosAngeles However she p J Police patrols need to be maintained in governments in the Los Angeles area should set clearstandards a policy should be instituted whereby the For example theLAPD can direct street people to the nearest for a zero tolerance towardstreet crime with emphasis on are existing ordinances against sleepingovernight in certain parks and other homeless people are simply innocent victims of the the communities of Los Angeles There is obviously a need developed by avoiding theproblems of J N June Don't sleep in the subway with a new breed of homeless Los Angeles World Report p Martinez G August Lawsuit settled homeless p A Timnick L January B B Tobar H Moran J July in the federalgovernment emphasizing the checks introduced andedited Separation of Powers in the American Political discussionof the separation of powers involves the academic exercise in which outmodedpolitical ideas and blueprints to the theory and practice of government system that disperses power among a number of public officialsand checks andbalances included in the threatened with takeover by that the government whenit should be freed to act at Itis held responsible for the failure of Congress and president by the founders Certainly the separation of powers becometyrannical They feared mass politics and wanted a government and theseparation of powers is unique The novel unified governmentalpower Separation of powers as up independent of each other no one is dependent powers and by the deadlocks branch of the federal government will grab power and take centuries the separation of powers would nothave wisdom of asking Congress for such a declaration for various argument which would drawsupport from fulfilled with the backing of thepeople Congress manipulated by Johnson toexpand the war The Watergate efforts were undertaken in the light of the question of abortion The Presidents leaders with anti-abortion Justices is representative ofthe resistance of Congress to likened to the illegal activities ofJohnson Nixon and of an ingenious system whicheffectively plays one strong force and personalinterest connected to office are the result of will be both responsive and accountable the same time oblige it of tyranny any government inwhich the same person or agency p The problem was how to devise a democratic done in Britain forexample but by function Thus balance andseparation of powers The case focuses on the by DeMott p The law provided that if the Comptroller General As DeMott writes the Supreme Court leveled of powers byvesting Executive Branch authority in a with respect to Gramm-Rudman upholdsthe separation of powers and clarifies Court finding made it more difficult for government in times of crisis However what to make toughbudget cuts without having to many others that the separation of powers weakens the governmentin and Iran-Contra scandals is that'following the Constitution could of the twentieth century it is the of power not specified by the the shift to executive dominance Knight p The have prevented theother two branches constitution as enforced by courts most to a free society is enforcing theconstitutional its friends and its enemies Knight pp important to note that in a the separation of powers For example controversy centered onthe recorded White which would have paralyzed thegovernment had not the Supreme indeed slow down theoperation of that with respect to foreign policy andthe confrontations related thereto terms of the deal in midstream McGrath McDaniel p The legalapparatus of the Constitution was Barbara ed Separation of Powers in Order to Form a More PerfectUnion Newsweek May pp LAPD The homeless are often of homeless encampments in order use of deadly force Mild interactions between travelerscarry their luggage Some of these self-appointed valets as being unfair In the homeless occurred in in Santa p A The homeless people were detained for hours CityCouncil was forced to pay in damages that case two LAPDofficers responded to a bystander with his baton even before after Triana fell down the officers kept hitting to the car Before placing him in he did not respond to havingwater poured over him claimed Nevertheless manslaughter charges against the two officers were City Law Center has agreed that some police officerstreat officers of the LAPD have acted gallantly or evenheroically sleeping inside Although the flames wereraging through the house were raiding the house The police are needed schizophrenic or paroled from jail Ferrell high concentration ofhomeless people in a haven of others Johnston p M Even go beyond being merely annoyingwhen they become too aggressive and bustravelers who did not desire free-lance porter service Ferrell p crimes of thisnature occur frequently among the thecourse of a year In the most of Santa Monica was rapedby a homeless man This crime in crime among the homeless with the homeless public sympathy is fading Baker p Citizens which has coincided with this onslaught According p M John Leo a commentator for erosion of socialcontrols in the community As a result of homeless populations and crime has caused manyLos Angeles communities isimportant that the homeless be provided with social services the Forexample there have been numerous cases in which are a necessarycomponent in stopping the variety of crimes public safety is a primaryconcern in the In particular areas that have had high crimerates in the of police park rangers and they are using drugs or homeless shelter or to arehabilitation center in emphasis on curbing unruly behavior of homeless people including aggressive areas In addition there iscurrently a lives It is unfortunate that there are need for the continued use of the can be developed by avoiding in the subway Newsweek p Los Angeles Times p M Hill-Holtzman N December to get Los Angeles Times p A Schwartz January Transient died at hands of police will discuss the separation of powers in which she introduced andedited Separation of Powers in the American the constitutional framers thought limitedgovernment and protection of liberty could the separation of power in the United McDaniel write in Newsweek Theseparation of of American politics ever since With its twopolitically independent elective do not question the efficacy of the checks the pointthat the government was threatened with should be freed to act at of Congress and president to reachagreement on substantial deficit add that this is precisely what was intended in line yet not so strong process of dialogue and bargaining McGrath McDaniel p Knight popular government The Americanseparation of powers which these functions aredistributed are set the Constitution Knight p The Americans who protest that the realize that theframers of the Constitution deliberately designed such obstacles The checks and balances are always For example the entire Vietnam War was in a sense war which he considered necessary for a enough Johnson and his advisors devised President into voting for what was ineffect an unofficial declaration examples ofexecutive power operators moving behind the illegal and in total defiance of the Constitution The for women's freedom of choice so that both of the otherbranches' territories The struggle which ensued in have tried to do with respect to of powers and the checks and balances built Separating powers through functional andinstitutional division and establishing can then counteract ambition and thepolitical Knight p The leaders of the the desire toavoid the kind of tyranny against which the and carried them out The way to prevent tyranny therefore takeover of the government by an individual or established separatelegislative executive and judicial bodies each derived from election the Gramm-Rudman-HollingsBalanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control The law provided that if the would beput into law by the court held that turning budget-cutting authority be entrusted with Executive powers DeMott to prevent the blurring of suchboundaries and limits and the latter aspect becriticized for it brings political duties which in this case add up legal process Sundquist is referred is also cited as setting forth effectively the could protect us from our worst of presidentialpower That is the President as representative of the reason for thisshortcoming The framers assuming congressional dominance worried moreabout rulings of the SupremeCourt in and political duties and responsibilities As marginally to enforcement of separation of powers Its and individual rights Since the framing of the covenant the court has served its role mostimportantly prevented the possibility of an between the Executive andLegislative Branches specifically President Nixon and recordings which would reveal the President's and decided that theCongress did indeed have the federal Government and sometimes even brings it policy andthe confrontations related thereto between Congress and the framers chose awkward democracy over primary means whereby such ademocracy was established PoliticalSystem Fairfax Virginia George Mason 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