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Political Control of the Bureaucracy the President and the Bureaucracy power of appointments directives Political Control of the Bureaucracy Congress and the bureaucracy legislation creates agencies sets their jurisdiction delegates regulatory power to them appropriation Congressional oversight Main Point! checks and balances (between Congress and President) are replicated in the mechanisms of political control over the bureaucracy in a sense, political control over the bureaucracy is multiplied but, simultaneously weakened bureaucrats can play Congress off the President and vice versa “bureaucratic politics” is an important and visible element of the American political system CIVIL RIGHTS:An “American Dilemma” July 7th, 2003 Race as the ‘American Dilemma’ the dilemma political practice does not meet constitutional principles (e.g. equality) remedies require sacrificing constitutional principles on issues of race, both historical and contemporary, both sides have claimed constitutional legitimacy has greatly complicated the process of solving issues relating to race The Context of the Civil Rights Struggle the American civil war civil rights (1863-1875) the development of legal segregation (1883-1896) Jim Crow (1900-1950) The American Civil War Missouri compromise (1819-21) admit free states and slave states to Union in order to maintain balance in the Senate made slavery illegal in new territories north of the Mason-Dixon line slave states could not prohibit the entry of free blacks The American Civil War – Pushing the South Towards War admission of California in 1850 guaranteed anti-slavery majority in Congress in both houses pushed the South to become more aggressive it would never be more powerful than it was at the time politically or economically The American Civil War – Pushing the South Towards War Southern regional grievances and perception of Northern hypocrisy Southern economic dependence Southern agricultural economy vs. Northern industrial economy