Answer To: Please answer each of the questions below in short-answer format. Write your responses in complete...
Sayani answered on May 28 2021
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1. Explain the controversy over the recall of the judiciary in Arizona’s quest for statehood. Be sure to provide examples.
According to some Spanish historians, Arizona means the native America, which means a place of small spring. Arizona is famous for copper production and the petrified wood is its official state fossil. As stated by Fisher (2018), this native place is well known for five C’s, which are Climate, Cattle, Copper, Cotton and Citrus, which represent the state and help grow its economy. For several years the citizens of New Mexico and the Arizona territories requested and appealed to congress for admission to the Union.
During the late 19th century several Congress members introduced various bills in support of New Mexico as well as the Arizona for statehood, but every time they faced rejection. Despite the widespread concern towards Arizona’s constitutional provision for the recall of the judges, Congress has passed H.J Res. 14 in order to accept the territories of Arizona and New Mexico as a state into the Union. After the arrival of President William Hovard Taft in 15 August 1911, firstly, he rejected the statehood resolution because Arizona’s constitution allowed the recall of the judges, which extremely goes against the need for any judiciary.
The congress then passed another resolution S.J Res.57, to support the territory of Arizona and New Mexico, as the state in Union by providing a condition that Arizona’s voters will adopt an amendment to the constitution by removing the judiciary recall provision. Finally, on 21 August 1911, President Taft approved the resolution and signed the proclamation by allowing Arizona to be in included in the 48th state. As stated by Avelar and Diggs (2017), soon after this, the state enjoyed the economic liberty, which is an example of individual’s own choice and entered the phase new federalism.
2. Define and explain the two forms of direct legislation. In your response, be sure to provide examples of each and reflect on the impact these forms of direct legislation have on Arizona residents.
There are three powers, under which the legislative powers are further divided. They are State List, Union List and finally Concurrent List. Modern legal system defines the law’s basic framework as the statutory system, whose examples are subordinate and supreme legislation. Direct legislation or pure democracy is a form of democracy, in which the citizen of any state or country decides on the policy initiatives directly. As stated by Jaske (2017), soft-direct democracy refers to the non-binding referendum motion as well as the advisory referendums.
The two leading forms of direct democracy are Participatory...