Rumsfeld's Expansion Of The Bureaucracy

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As stated by Rumsfeld, the bureaucracy is run by the executive branch within the government. To be more specific, people picked directly by the president have the most control of the bureaucracy because they are the ones with the power to approve. Rumsfeld is also a bureaucrat, which is why he is assigned to as the Secretary of Defense. A bureaucracy is very important as it is able to help the government to not misbehave. The bureaucracy has a certain way of dealing with most common circumstances and making them permanent, also having a book of rules that the government needs to follow. Also, the bureaucracy is a type of way to help the government move faster and clarify. Furthermore, a bureaucracy helps to form an official hierarchy of authority …show more content…

One example being that if Obama were to make the overall size of the bureaucracy larger, he would be able to pick Democrats and put them into new spots. Now if a republican were to take office, the bureaucrats would be able to impede the republican schedule. This only happens because bureaucrats don’t have any limits on their terms. And because of that, the bureaucracy was able to grow the power of their party. When Ronald Regan was running for the presidency, he stated that larger government was not a good government. Therefore, reducing the bureaucracy was a main subject that he kept as part of his agenda, also reducing the number of work inside the bureaucracy. Most people voted Reagan as president because the larger a bureaucracy is, the more bothersome it is to the public. The DMV would be a prime example of this. Certain things that can be done in an easier way, like getting your picture for your driver’s license, turn out to be more difficult than it needs to be because of the bureaucracy and its strict …show more content…

If you give more power to one party over another, it would create an unbalance and would lead to hate among the parties. The party with the most power would be to full of themselves while the others would build up hatred towards the main party. The constitution helped promote political parties through the disagreements that Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson had with each other. Thomas Jefferson had always believed in a conservative political belief system, which means that he fully supported what the Articles of Confederation stood for. The articles of confederation restricted the federal government to such an extent that there was no official military due to it not being unified. This is how the ratification and shays rebellion came to be. Thomas Jefferson had also thought that an agricultural economy was a great thing. He thought that it was going to help preserve people’s freedom from big government and business. On the other side of the spectrum, Alexander Hamilton believed in big Industry and Government. All of which went against Thomas Jefferson’s beliefs. Alexander Hamilton always believed in a modern