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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Opinion President Trump recently claimed just prior to the midterm elections that he has the authority to issue an executive order to do away with the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision for natural born citizenship presumably to discourage illegal immigration for the purpose of affording a U.S. birth. That claim is simply false. It reflects a serious lack of understanding of what constitutions do or how our constitutional order works. A constitution is a social contract between the people to create a government. The U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1788, replaced the prior Articles of Confederation, which was seriously deficient in resolving interstate problems. The new Constitution provided for a central government with separate legislative, judicial and executive branches and specified the range of each branch’s authority. The Articles had only provided for a Congress to act unanimously and as a result could seld...

Juniper Publishers-Social Sciences Opinion “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action” -Herbert Spencer. Education is vital to development, empowerment and strengthening of the country and its citizens. It is one of the most powerful weapons to fight the evils of widespread poverty and inequality and thereby ushering a path to sustained economic growth. The world is witnessing the rapid expansion and diversification of Higher Education sector owing to academic, political, and commercial developments associated with globalization, such as the rise of market forces in Higher education sector and the umpteen opportunities for the skilled professionals and graduates. The privatization of higher education has increased the enrollments in the Higher educational Institutions (HEI), thereby increasing the flux of the graduates in the labour market. But the irony is that not all graduates are employable. The data is evident that the 14 percent of the gradu...

Juniper Publishers-Social sciences Opinion President Trump recently claimed just prior to the midterm elections that he has the authority to issue an executive order to do away with the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision for natural born citizenship presumably to discourage illegal immigration for the purpose of affording a U.S. birth. That claim is simply false. It reflects a serious lack of understanding of what constitutions do or how our constitutional order works. A constitution is a social contract between the people to create a government. The U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1788, replaced the prior Articles of Confederation, which was seriously deficient in resolving interstate problems. The new Constitution provided for a central government with separate legislative, judicial and executive branches and specified the range of each branch’s authority. The Articles had only provided for a Congress to act unanimously and as a result could seldom get things done. The specifi...