state of emergency

(noun)

A government decree that a particular situation requires the implementation of pre-arranged responses on a large scale.

Related Terms

Examples of state of emergency in the following topics:

  • Emergency Powers

    • The president of the United States, as head of the executive branch, has the authority to declare a federal state of emergency.
    • A state governor or local mayor may declare a state of emergency within his or her jurisdiction.
    • The president of the United States, as head of the executive branch, has the authority to declare a federal state of emergency.
    • At least two constitutional rights are subject to revocation during a state of emergency:
    • Explain how states of emergency apply to the Executive Branch of the U.S. government

  • History of the Welfare State

    • A welfare state is a "concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens.
    • The United Kingdom, as a modern welfare state, started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith .
    • Roosevelt's New Deal welfare state policies of the 1930s.
    • The United Kingdom, as a modern welfare state, started to emerge with the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914 under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
    • Discuss the historical origins and principles of the welfare state as a concept of government and identify its features in the United States

  • Employment Policy

    • United States labor law is a heterogeneous collection of state and federal laws.
    • These federal laws do not apply to employees of state and local governments, agricultural workers and domestic employees; any statutory protections these workers have derived from state law.
    • Federal law permits states to enact their own statutes barring discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin and age, so long as the state law does not provide less protections than federal law would.
    • The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, better known by its acronym, the WARN Act, requires private sector employers to give sixty days' notice of large-scale layoffs and plant closures; it allows a number of exceptions for unforeseen emergencies and other cases.
    • This graph of the minimum wage in the United States shows the fluctuation in government guarantees for minimum standards of labor.

  • International Humanitarian Policies and Foreign Aid

    • Humanitarian intervention is a state's use of "military force against another state when the chief publicly declared aim of that military action is ending human-rights violations being perpetrated by the state against which it is directed. "
    • Humanitarian aid or emergency aid is rapid assistance given to people in immediate distress to relieve suffering, during and after man-made emergencies (like wars) and natural disasters.
    • Foreign assistance is a core component of the State Department's international affairs budget and is considered an essential instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
    • The 2010 United States federal budget spent 37.7 billion on economic aid (of which USAID received 14.1 billion) out of the 3.55 trillion budget.
    • Analyze the emergence and justification for humanitarian intervention in world politics

  • Campaign Financing

    • Campaign finance in the United States refers to the process of financing electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • Campaign finance in the United States refers to the process of financing electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.
    • Modern democracies operate a variety of permanent party organizations.
    • This method has grown in popularity with the emergence of the Internet and its use by US presidential candidates like Howard Dean and Ron Paul .
    • Describe the nature of and uses for campaign finance in the United States

  • Providing National Security

    • National security is the protection of the state through a variety of means that include military might, economic power, and diplomacy.
    • National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
    • There are a variety of governmental departments and agencies within the United States that are responsible for developing policies to ensure national security.
    • The Department—headed by the Secretary of Defense—has three subordinate military departments: the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
    • The Central Intelligence Agency is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

  • Types of Media

    • Media in the United States has taken multiple forms and grown in power due to its for-profit nature.
    • Media in the United States comprises several different types of widespread communication: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based websites (especially blogs).
    • Further deregulation and convergence are under way, suggesting more mega-mergers, greater concentration of media ownership, and the emergence of multinational media conglomerates.
    • In 2011-12 the United States was ranked 47th out of 179 countries, which was a setback from the preceding year.
    • The United States has a score of 47.

  • The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

    • The contention was whether there would be equal representation for each state regardless of its size and population, or proportionate to population giving larger states more votes than less-populous states.
    • Each of the states would be represented in proportion to their "quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants."
    • In addition to dealing with legislative representation, the Virginia Plan addressed other issues as well, with many provisions that did not make it into the Constitution that emerged.
    • The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation.
    • This position reflected the belief that the states were independent entities, and as they entered the United States of America freely and individually, so they remained.

  • The Two-Party System

    • The United States is an example of a two-party system in which the majority of elected officials are either Democrats or Republicans .
    • The Third Party System stretched from 1854 to the mid-1890s, and was characterized by the emergence of the anti-slavery Republican Party, which adopted many of the economic policies of the Whigs, such as national banks, railroads, high tariffs, homesteads and aid to land grant colleges.
    • The Fifth Party System emerged with the New Deal Coalition beginning in 1933.
    • Breakdown of political party representation in the United States House of Representatives during the 112th Congress.
    • Discuss the historical origins of the two-party system in the United States and its advantages and disadvantages

  • The Budgeting Process

    • Each year, the President of the United States submits his budget request to Congress.
    • The Budget of the United States Government often begins as the President's proposal to the U.S.
    • Some budget experts argue that emergency supplemental appropriations bills do not receive the same level of legislative care as regular appropriations bills.
    • The United States public debt is the money borrowed by the federal government of the United States through the issuing of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.
    • Describe the key components of the budget process and the current fiscal position of the United States