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Democracy Models

electoral college. The merit of the system can be questioned in todays environment of instant communications, but it was quite ef...

Democracy Concepts of Jean Jacques Rousseau

citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...

Democracy and the U.S.

fault was seen to be a personal failing, rather than a condemnation of the US system of government. When terrorists attacke...

Comparing Democracies That Are Developed and Developing

In eight pages the U.S. and Indonesia are compared in a discussion of an older democracy with an emerging example of a developing ...

Middle East, Africa, and Democratic Peace Theory

stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...

Vandana Shiva/Earth Democracy

same name to refer to the worldview of Native American and other indigenous peoples throughout the world who have "understood and ...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

International Politics and Issues of Importance

ensure that it survives and operates properly.4 A stable democracy has two sides: "the constitutional aspect, which provides the r...

South Korea Democracy Development

in history by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democrati...

Principles of Democracy and the Autocratic State

differences that exist between these two governmental styles and the autocratic government style. Fortunately, there are ...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

The Divided House of Abraham Lincoln

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

Dred Scott Decision of 1857 and its Impact

hold in favor of Scotts claim (PG). However, the U.S. Constitution did not support Scotts assumption. It was a complicated issue ...

Origins of Civil Society by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper discusses Rousseau's presentation of civil society contexts in his work. There are 2 sources cited in the...

Antebellum South and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the roots of the Civil War in a consideration of Southern antebellum society. Three sources ar...

Equality in Education and the Significance of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In three pages this paper examines how education in America was positively impacted by the civil rights movement in a consideratio...

Rousseau and Equality Between the Sexes

This research pasper discusses the work of Jean-Jacque Rousseau and how his political philosophy was one of the guiding elements ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Liberty

In five pages the teachings of Rousseau and Locke on liberty are contrasted and compared in terms of ideal government, nature, and...

U.S. Constitution and the Rights of States

In six pages this paper discusses the Constitution's awarding of states' rights but how the Civil War, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New...

Analyzing the Society Division of Labor According to Emile Durkheim

In twelve pages Durkheim's text The Division of Labor in Society is examined within the context to lynchings in the American South...

French Revolution and Civility

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

Civil Society Membership and John Locke's Views Upon Consent, Equality, and Freedom

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

Present Day Thailand and Future Predictions

of intellectuals, students and mass media, as well as laborers and farmers, have helped to undercut the militarys power (Pathmanan...

Rousseau: "Second Discourse"

tribes" (Delaney, 2006). And so we cannot know precisely what Rousseau meant by these definitions. The first part of the Discours...

Art of Slavery

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

Utopian Society and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

Russia's 'Great Reforms'

for all of the changes and as the result of the changes and the rise of the populist movement there was the use of paternalist des...