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Kevin McLeod, GOV 348, 4/7/22 I agree with Senator Finistirre. For starters, equating cigarettes with generic poisons is a false equivalence. Cigarettes have some unique properties. The dose makes the poison. How much a person smokes greatly influences their level of risk. Secondly, there’s the addictive nature of nicotine. People vary greatly in their ability… Read more

Kevin McLeod, GOV 356 – Legislative Process, Policy Issue Paper, March 8, 2021 What is DACA and President Biden’s proposed law? The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an immigration relief program that aims to deter deportation of children who are born in America to undocumented parents. Biden’s proposed law is the The U.S.… Read more

Kevin McLeodGOV346, Political Parties She became known as an expert on bankruptcy law and began consulting on policy for the FDIC and Congress. She led the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and President Obama considered her to lead it, but congressional resistance in the GOP led to another selection. She was a registered… Read more

Kevin McLeod, International Law, 6/27/2022 Nanda’s 1990 paper “Trends in International Environmental Law” examines the difficulties of achieving effective cooperation among nations with disparate levels of development, economic conditions, access to resources, policies, and ability to effect change. It points out that both carrots and sticks will be needed to encourage and provoke action, that… Read more

Independent Study, Summer 2022 The artificial divisions of class, civil society and rational choice theory are irritating. They detract from a holistic view of events, causes, actors and results. All three theories make some valid and useful observations. Discounting any one of them because their principal thesis may not fully apply is unhelpful. It would… Read more

3/25/22 Background In the 2nd decade of the 20th century, a pacifist anti-war organization known as the American Union Against Militarism was created in New York City to lobby against American involvement in World War 1. Prior to the start of the war, they had substantial public support, but that began to change in 1917.… Read more

Kevin McLeod, Gov 370 Human Rights, 2019 In the decades before the American Civil War, Hong Kong was a small backwater, a farming and fishing town. At the time China was struggling with a drug problem, with the United Kingdom as the drug dealers. Chinese resistance to the opium trade sparked a war. The drug… Read more