{"id":9493,"date":"2024-10-13T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:12:03","slug":"discussion-board-7-1-hector-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/2024\/10\/13\/discussion-board-7-1-hector-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board 7.1 &#8211; Hector Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The primary difference in the role of citizens in a government changes between federal, confederation, and the unitary system. Under the federal system, the citizen have both power in the individual state that they live in, as well as the national government as a whole. The two levels of government have their own powers and control different areas. In a confederation, the citizens are controlled by their state and have limited to none  influence on how the citizens are governed. This allows the rules and regulations to be different between every state. Finally, a unitary system has its power centralized in the national government who gets their powers from the states.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The division of power, is a system put in place to distribute the power between different groups to achieve a certain style of government. In our federal government, we have checks and balances that are in place that keep each of our branches of government from overextending their powers. Each of these branches have their own unique responsibilities however still work as a group to run the government. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Federal Government shape the actions of state and local government by providing aid and funding for these government as well as creating mandates. This was seen during the pandemic where the government was responsible for keeping businesses afloat during the economic downturns that occurred during the pandemic. The government gave many benefits to business and families affected by the pandemic to keep people afloat during the time. Additionally, states and local government were forced to abide by mask mandates in public areas and would be susceptible to fines if they did not maintain this rule. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-7-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2024-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}