In the United States, the role of the federal government and its relationship with States is determined by the United States Constitution.
Similarly, powers of government officials of all types are constrained by this important document. As a student of emergency
management, you should be familiar with the Constitution. Although the terms “emergency management” do not appear in the document, it is nonetheless essential to understand how the Constitution underlies casual assumptions about the role of government and the
relationship between levels of government (intergovernmental relations). Similarly, in any practical sense, one cannot understand
emergency management unless one understands local government and its relationship with the state government. Disasters generally
start local and end local, regardless of how many resources are mobilized.
For this assignment, you will have to complete the following parts:
a- Read the US Constitution and Enacted Amendments. Discuss what you believe is the most important Article/Section or Amendment
critical to emergency management practice. Justify your position by citing an example from a past or ongoing disaster or emergency (750 words minimum).
b- The concept of the Emergency Support Function (ESF). Choose the most basic unit of local government (sub-County) in your State of
residence. Using the ESF list, align each ESF with one or more local government agencies that would most logically fulfill that function. If
the unit of government you selected does not have that capability, go to the next higher level of government, and identify the branch,
entity, or department that would logically fulfill that function. Produce a table showing the ESF’s primary and secondary local government agencies that would fulfill that function, and where appropriate, the next higher level of government that would fulfill those functions. Each agency should have a citation to its web page and/or mission statement.
**You do not need to acquire the local disaster management plan – this exercise is to get you thinking about the ESFs and
intergovernmental roles.**
In order to complete the Constitutional Applications assignment, you must use the following resources:
US Constitution Annotated (US Library of Congress)
FEMA, Emergency Support Function Annex: Introduction
Other potentially helpful resources for this assignment:
Williams, Walter. (2005). The Constitution and disaster relief. TribLIVE.com. September, 21. https://archive.triblive.com/news/the-constitution-disaster-relief/. Retrieved 1.4.23.
Kreiser, Maria, M. Mullins and J.C. Nagel. (2018). Federal Disaster Assistance Response and Recovery Programs: Brief Summaries. Congressional Research Service, June 20.
McCarthy, Francis X. (2011). FEMA’s Disaster Declaration Process: A Primer. Congressional Research Service, May 18.
Wilson, L.R. and R. McCreight. (2012) Public Emergency Laws & Regulations: Understanding Constraints & Opportunities, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 9(2), Article 7.
When completing this assignment, it is expected that you provide citations to your statements as justification for you reasoning. As such, although some resources have been provided, it is expected that you go and find other for integration. As such, the entire assignment
must contain a minimum of 6 different academic citations that are properly formatted in both the narrative and the reference list of the
assignment.
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