The Baldrige National Quality Program was established by the Congress to encourage the American firms to focus on quality improvement in order to improve their global competitiveness. It was developed by the Department of Commerce in the late 1980s and presented annually by the President of the United States.
Knights of Labor by its first leader, Uriah Smith Stephens, it originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations. Secrecy also gave the organization an emotional appeal.
The goal of this political cartoon was to unite the colonists to combat the French and their Native American allies, and to convince the British government to support a unified colonial government in America.
Popular sovereignty is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (rule by the people), who are the source of all political power.
