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Author | : J. Benjamin Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2024-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 082036746X |
By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination. This brief and affordable study aid begins with a discussion of the ways that state and local governments, in providing services and allocating funds, affect our daily lives. Subsequent chapters are devoted to - the development of our federal system and the importance of constitutions in establishing authority, distributing power, and formalizing procedures - how the various state constitutions differ from each other, even as they all complement the U.S. Constitution - how constitutions in Georgia have been amended or replaced - Georgia’s governmental institutions at the state, county, and city levels - elections in Georgia, including the basic ground rules for holding primaries, general elections, and runoffs Key terms and concepts are covered throughout the book, as well as important court cases at the national and state level. In addition, helpful lists, diagrams, and tables summarize and compare such information as: - the structure of Georgia’s court system - the number of constitutions each of the fifty states has had, the number of times each state’s constitution has - been amended, and the length of each state’s current constitution - various procedures used by the states to amend their constitutions - Georgia’s ten constitutions, with highlights of their major changes or features - the number of amendments voted on in Georgia from 1984 to 2012 - the executive branch officials elected by the public across states - the constitutional boards and commissions in Georgia, with details on the methods by which members are chosen - the number and types of local governments in Georgia since 1952, including counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts - the major federal cases in which Georgia has been a party, on issues of discrimination, representation, freedom of speech and the press, the accused or convicted of crimes, and the right to privacy - rights and liberties, and how constitutions guarantee and protect them
Author | : Betty J. Hudson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia, Carl Vinson Institute of Government |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : County government |
ISBN | : 9780898542301 |
"Published in cooperation with the Association County Commissioners of Georgia."
Author | : Association County Commissioners of Georgia |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780820346885 |
The courthouses of Georgia's 159 counties hold the keys to the history of individual families and entire communities alike. Internationally recognized photographer Greg Newington captures the prominence and character of these great structures, paying tribute to the community's investment in preserving historic courthouses for future generations.
Author | : Henry Woodfin Grady |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : University of Georgia. Institute of Government |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : County government |
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Author | : Calvin Kytle |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780820320755 |
Nearly one hundred thousand newly enfranchised blacks voted against race-baiting Eugene Talmadge in Georgia's 1946 Democratic primary. His opponent won the popular vote by a majority of sixteen thousand. Talmadge was elected anyway, thanks to the malapportioning county unit system, but died before he could be inaugurated, whereupon the General Assembly chose his son Herman to take his place. For the next sixty-three days, Georgia waited in shock for the state supreme court to decide whether Herman or the lieutenant governor-elect would be seated. What had happened to so suddenly reverse four years of progressive reform under retiring governor Ellis Arnall? To find out, Calvin Kytle and James A. Mackay sat through the tumultuous 1947 assembly, then toured Georgia's 159 counties asking politicians, public officials, editors, businessmen, farmers, factory workers, civic leaders, lobbyists, academicians, and preachers the question "Who runs Georgia?" Among those interviewed were editor Ralph McGill, novelist Lillian Smith, defeated gubernatorial candidate James V. Carmichael, powerbroker Roy Harris, pollwatcher Ira Butt, and more than a hundred others--men and women, black and white, heroes and rogues--of all stripes and stations. The result, as Dan T. Carter says in his foreword, captures "the substance and texture of political life in the American South" during an era that historians have heretofore neglected--those years of tension between the end of the New Deal and the explosive start of the civil rights movement. What's more, Who Runs Georgia? has much to tell us about campaign finance and the political influence of Big Money, as relevant for the nation today as it was then for the state.
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Income tax |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : County government |
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Volumes for 19 - include an issue, published in April, called: Association County Commissioners of Georgia yearbook.
Author | : Donald C. Menzel |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780817308032 |
This state-of-the-art study provides a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of the major issues and problems facing American counties. The American county, an often neglected and maligned unit of local government, has become increasingly important, especially as federal and state governments shift functional duties and responsibilities to local governments. Once described as "a still-forgotten government", the American county now generates new interest, and Menzel and his colleagues significantly expand the knowledge base and identify gaps in our understanding of counties as political and governmental bodies.
Author | : Roger C. Byrd |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1538136619 |
Prisoners released from our bloated American correctional institutions return to a mostly unwelcoming society where they face onerous post-release challenges. No wonder recidivism is near fifty percent, adding tens of billions of dollars annually to the cost of American prisons. Sisyphus No More is a multifaceted argument for increasing prisoner education and training programs to promote the reintegration into society of returning prisoners and increase the likelihood of their securing living-wage jobs. By greatly reducing recidivism, the programs will pay for themselves several times over. Such programs also humanize the treatment of prisoners and help them escape the fate of Sisyphus, the mythological king condemned to a bitterly repetitive fate. The book has two parts. The first provides background on the American prison system and enumerates the tolls incarceration takes on prisoners, their families, and their communities and the costs released prisoners continue to pay that severely hinder their reintegration. In the second part, the authors set forth compelling psychological, sociological, ethical, and financial grounds for increasing education and training to support the reintegration of released prisoners. The final two chapters report on innovative prison education programs and identify steps toward making education and training a priority in our prisons.