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__Unit 1__
Do Now: The cabinets of the united statesa are the sections or branches of the goverment which are specifically designed to handle a specific aspect of political,military, or social life in and out of the country,assigned by the president, made up of the head of departments.

Daniel Gould___ Date:__2/7/12___ Period:_____1___

** Executive Departments of the United States Government **

(include at least 7 of interest to you) || The Drug Enforcement Administartion. INTERPOL U.S Parole Commision. Civil rights Division. Office of the Attorney General The Criminal Division SMART(office of sex offender sentencing, monitoring, apprehending, reigeistring, and tracking) || Parole Commision: to promote public justiceand fairness in its supervision of convicts. INTERPOL: In chzarge of handleing international criminal justice. ||
 * **Department**: || The Department of Justice. ||
 * **Date created:** || July 1st, 1870 ||
 * **Current Secretary:** || Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. ||
 * **Purpose** of Department: || The main purpose of the department of justice is to enforce the laws that America has written into law, it does this by the use of the judiciary branch and the law enforcement such as police and or lawyers. ||
 * **Agencies** included in department:
 * **Describe** the purpose of three of the agencies you listed. How do these **agencies** enforce laws? || Civil rights Division: Is made to uphold the civil rights of american citeczens and upholds desegregation and not having segregation of diffrent sexes, races, disabilities, and reiligions.
 * How does this **department** enforce laws? || This department enforces its laws through the use of the crimninal juystice system like courts and has an impartial jury hand out decisions on criminals and what they should be. They can avry from jailtime to the death penality. ||

- The sotry about how Obama is tryin to push that reiligious insittutions such as hospitals, schools and etc would be required to ionclude contraceptive acre ino thier helathcare plan free of charge, the system of checks and balancxes wouldf be key here because since its the executive braqnch that is proposing the idea it could fall to the legislative branch to veto it and if that fails then it would be the judicial parties repsonsibility to declare the law nconstituional due to the seperation oif church and state, this is a big issue because it has raised alot of controversy over how much authority the president has other institutions and it has alot of catholic voters angry at him.
 * THE Checks ans Balances**

__Public Advocacy__ Do Now: Advocacy is the promotiuon of an idea or cause to a group of peoiple in hopes of raising awareness towards the issue and to get people beghinbd your belief in that said issue. One hugfe advocacy group Gay Startight alliance in Mhs, they adovcate the nacceptyanc eof gay and lesbian students and the friendships made between them and straight students.

MADD(Moithers Against Drunk Driving) this advocate group fights to keep the drinking age at 21 and to help keep the ,mortality rate of teens involved in drunk driving accidents lower. They beleieve that it is the responsibilty of the parent as well as the community tom keep thier teens safe.\ I can honeslty say i disagree with thier views oin the age loimit of alcholhal, i nfeel like it dosnt maztter what the age of the kid is, onced you nhit 18 you should be allowed to have alcholhal becuase a drunk accidsent can happen to anyone nand iut is almosat impossible to opredict when, iut dosnt matter if your 21 or 16, an accident can happen and saying its all dpending on age is not a powertull arguement becaause with that llogic, why not just make the age 30?

__Consumer Action__ __This agency is created to help proetct the rights of consumers from frauyd or from being mistreated when handleing buisness.__ __The orginization has been around sinc 1971 and has many surveys and polls on thier website that you can view and see what real people can say__

Summary: I belive that tjhe main diffrence betwen public advocvacy and anopther sector isd the fatc that these groups dont force you to abide by thier beliefrs or rules unlike say the banks. There there only to voice an opinion of a majority of people and are thier to advocate thier ideas so that they can be passed, but they dont have to be forced upon people. I think that this is the 4th branch of goverment becvause these advocacvy groupsvocie a major mopinion that infoolicnece the minds of the federal goverment and play just as key of a role in inbfluenceing what laws and guidelines get passed and which do not. I think tthis is neccesary because in a democratic goverment the people rule, and so to make that tryue you have to have the peoples opinions make a diffrence in what the goverment does. If tyhis didnt happebn then there would be no pooint in being a democratic society because the peoopl still would have little to no voice in politics.

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