by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law
What is law?The common understanding of law is that it consists of rules and regulations established and enforced by a governing body or social or communal group. For example, in the United States, the governing bodies empowered to pass laws are a combination of...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law
What is an Autocracy?A system of government in which one person has the supreme power to make all kinds of decisions and rules. In modern times such leadership is referred to as dictatorship or absolute monarchism. Back to: GOVERNMENT, THE LEGAL SYSTEM,...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law
What is the 5th Amendment to the Constitution? The 5th Amendment contains a number of protections for US Citizens. Specifically it protects against self-incrimination by individuals (not corporations). That is, an individual cannot be compelled to testify against...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law
What are Administrative Agencies? Federal administrative agencies are bodies impliedly authorized by the US Constitution and created by Congress to enforce statutes and develop regulations in furtherance of those statutes. That is, administrative agencies assist the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law
The US Constitution provides for the existence of the Federal Government. The 10th Amendment also allows states to create separate independent governments. For a dual system of Government to function, there must be some manner of regulating the relationship between...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law
Does the Government have the Authority or Power to Make a Law? The government does not have unlimited authority to make laws. The US government’s authority to make a law must dervie from the US Constitution. Similarly, the US Constitution grants states the...
