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Maine passes Government Transparency Bill After Receiving Low National Grade For Corruption Risk

Tweet This http://goo.gl/mhpgyp While I was researching the University of M, I came across a thesis written by Shelby K Lane: State-Level Government: An Evaluation of Maine's Conflict of Interest Laws and Amendments to Improve Transparency Through Financial Disclosure The paper is dated 5/1/2013 . It became the basis for a bill passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor Lepage on 7/3/2013 Co-incidentally during 7/2013   I was researching the statute for the Department of Economic and Community Development , which led to further questions about the Maine Technology Institute. During the process, I contacted the State Ombudsman, Brenda Kielty, at the Attorney General's Office where there is a published introduction promoting government transparency . I suggested that if the government really wants to be transparent and keep things honest they should have the database online and allow the public to search the database themselves and create their own repo

Madison VS Marxism - Part One- Karl Marx

In contradistinction to the class warfare and collectivist ideology marketed by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto and Barack Obama in his never ending political campaign , the United States of America was founded in an ideology rooted in the balance of power aimed at protecting individual freedom as expressed in the words of James Madison It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority -- that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of