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Write a three to four (3-4) page answer which addresses the following three (3) items using headers to separate each response:
- Congressional Ethics. Identify one (1) member of Congress who has been charged with ethics violations. Briefly discuss the reason for the charges and provide two (2) reasons why you agree or disagree with the verdict and any penalties. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: Consider how the verdict and penalties impacts your trust of the members of Congress.
- Third Party Candidates. Discuss two (2) political reasons why a third party candidate has never been successful in winning a presidential election. Provide examples to support the answer. Note: Consider the political impact of the Republican and Democratic Party if a third party was successful.
- Federal and State Authority. Identify one (1) current issue facing the United States today. Analyze the respective roles of Federal and state authorities in addressing the issue. Determine whether the U. S. Constitution constrains the Federal and state responses to the issue. Explain.
In your research, you cannot use Wikipedia, online dictionaries, Sparknotes, Cliffnotes, or any other Website do that do not qualify as an academic resource.
Your answer must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
A satisfactory answer for this question will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
- Thoroughly identified Identify one (1) member of Congress who has been charged with ethics violations.. Briefly discuss the reason for the charges and provide two (2) reasons why you agree or disagree with the verdict and any penalties
- Thoroughly discussed two (2) reasons why a Third Party candidate has never been successful in the presidential election.
- Thoroughly identified one (1) current issue facing the United States today. Thoroughly analyzed the respective roles of Federal and state authorities in addressing the issue. Determine whether the U. S. Constitution constrains the Federal and state responses to the issue.
- Consistently uses reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
- Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, using in-text citations
- At least 3 sources and the quality of sources is good
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Congressional Ethics
In the recent past, transparency accountability and credibility have taken the course in our
political scene. Therefore, morals and virtues with our society are deemed to of high standards.
Politicians are taken into book on a violation of any law when it comes to matters pertaining
ethics. It is in this regard that the Democrat representative Charlie B Rangel was taken into
account for breach of ethical rules. Rangel was from the state of New York. Despite the
existence of the political divide in the house, that is the democrats and the republicans, the
democrats were not blackmailed by the party affiliations when it came to matters of ethics. Such
actions have led to the loss of credibility in the house.
As a member of the Congress, he was deemed to face the ethics committee in the house
before the case was forwarded to an advanced level. Investigations done showed that Rangel had
committed the following mistakes he failed to disclose his financial affairs to the public hence
creating barriers in undertaking a lifestyle audit; he housed political committees in his
apartments. This was contrary to the New York City rules. Furthermore, Rangel participated in
evading payment of taxes. This is because he failed to pay taxes for his villa based in the
Dominican Republic. He also misused the staff allocated to him in Congress. He raised funds for
the New York College and made one of the college wings named in his honor. He had various
accounts of misconduct which amounted to eleven. The punishment was to either censor him or
expel him. Despite his long service (two decades) to the government under various capacities,
the House of Representatives opted to censor him (Menzel, 2015).
My take on the verdict given to Charlie Rangel is quit too gross. By the offenses that he
had committed he did not deserve such a harsh penalty. However, the fact that he was a
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congressman make me understand why the sentence was given to him. From the analysis, it
seemed that censuring was the best penalty for such offenses committed by con...
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