What principle is expressed by the Latin phrase e pluribus unum? What does the phrase mean in English?

Briefly describe the city manager form of government. Why is it used more and more often?

What is a plea bargain and what is it good for?

The phrase e pluribus unum expresses the principle of federalism. Each state and local government has its own power under a central government with limited powers. The phrase means "out of many, one."

The city manager form includes a city manager with a city council. City managers are professionals trained in urban management. The city manager and his or her staff run the city or town, but the manager answers to an elected town or city council. City managers are used more and more as urban problems have grown more complex.

Trials are expensive for a state or locality. Plea bargains avoid the time and expense of a full jury trial. In a plea bargain, a person charged with an offense may agree to plead guilty to a lesser offense. The attorneys for the defense and the prosecuting attorneys determine what the lesser offense is.

The Latin phrase "E Pluribus unum" means in English "Out of many, one". The principle that it expresses is basically union. This union refers to the Union formed by the separate states. It is clenched in the eagle's beak on the Great Seal of the United States.

In the Council-Manager form of Government, the City Council is the governing body voted by the citizens. The Council hires a City Manager to be the chief executive of the city government. The tasks that City Managers develop have to do with being in tune with the elected officials and directing the city's bureaucracy. They also advise the City Council on decision-making and carry on his wishes. Currently, this type of government is one of the two predominant forms of government and this is due to the fact that is a way to get rid of the abuses of the spoils system found in municipalities of the political machine.

A plea bargain refers to any type of agreement or deal that has to do with a criminal case between the defendant and the prosecutor in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a charge. the benefit of doing so could be that by pleading guilty, the defendant gets in return a more lenient sentence. In other cases, when there are multiple charges, the defendant may plead guilty to only one of the charges, to get all of some of the other charges dropped or dismissed.

A plea bargain also allows both parties to avoid a lengthly trial.