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Human Service Reforms

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Since 1789, the founding and ratification of the original thirteen state constitution of the United States has revolutionized its government in order to protect its citizens as new advancements are made to benefit inhabitants of the recent New World. Since then the constitution was amended in order to gratify the needs of the people. Throughout the paradigm shift on the ideal of government, it is crucial to expound any modifications by means of bureaucracy. One of the difficulties of the shift that is directed toward the 21st century is the understanding the transition of improved government and its benefits for the delivery of human services. The government uses power, democracy, and politics to exercise their control by establishing new laws, …show more content…

The U.S Constitution gives congress authority to provide general welfare on the nation. The network provided assists thousands of citizens find employment, shelter in a safe home and community, have access to sufficient health or behavioral care, and obtain food. Both federal and state levels share governance in the federal system, to provide the funding of human service programs. In the human services sector, the Supreme Court has rule over ensuring federal funds and confirm the capital is spent in the intended manner. The conditional grant of funds to states allows the government who is eligible to receive the certain benefits, how it is administered throughout the state’s proceedings, how long one can receive the benefits and if states have to provide any further funds needed. Congress appropriates capital for numbers of national interest ranging from education, federal courts, policing, environmental protection, national security which all approach to the objective of meeting to the people's …show more content…

As members of a society we have obligations to confront to these societal values in order to contribute to an orderly and peaceful society. By means, a country would elect men and even women from and through a process of election, by the people for the people. “The government should do for the people only what the people cannot do for themselves,” a direct quote from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address justifies that the government is the spokesman of a nation to provide any needs or what it is desired by the people for the nation's people. At the heart of these universal founding principles is the belief that people are free by possessed inherent rights and nature, thus being the reason why the constitution granting limited power of a government and the active population should contribute toward the elections of these spokesmen. One purpose of the Constitution’s, three branches of separation of government is checks and balances, the reason why it divides and limits power, is to restrain the ambition of the powerful Constitution, to make sure that government genuinely promotes general welfare.
The Constitution has stayed intact throughout over 200 years and as of today it is used and has not been modified. A concern to the american leadership in the world, and it's protection from the United States enemies abroad, shall never cause to forget that power to lead flows from our unique combination of

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