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Essays 481 - 510
In five pages Ayn Rand and Alexis de Tocqueville's perspectives are applied to the problems of the individual as the result of dem...
themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...
I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...
certain settings, such as prisons or the military (Brennen, n.d.). * Democratic: More people-focused than authoritarian leaders. A...
the vast majority to follow in the powerful minoritys lead. The concept of a rational society, one in which the entire comm...
belly dancer with no political experience, as Vice President (Stevenson, 1998). It quickly became obvious that the aging and aili...
in 1821, but by this time Brazil had seen a change in its perceived status, now seen as a kingdom that was united with Portugal (B...
fundamental operations of a given community, not the least of which includes issues of law, politics and economic strength. In sh...
several of the head governmental officials during the period of Enlightenment (Enlightened Absolutism, 2005). As a respected scho...
in some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blind...
of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...
some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...
a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....
after close to half a century of communist rule, when communism fell in the Soviet Union, to be replaced by provisional government...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...
of the most devout of Islam nations, and so for the people, the notion of equality is ludicrous because a non-believer can never b...
may be agents in the transformation of democracy, but democracy is not something that is inextricable with computer science (2001)...
in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...
parties is hampering Japans progress towards a true democracy" (Anonymous, 1996, p. 12). While some areas have noted considerably...
labor power (Wikipedia, 2005). Marx was concerned about what people did with their labor power, how they related to it (Wikipedia,...
is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...
were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...
In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...
Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....
claimed that this form of democracy has outlived its usefulness. The question is, has it? If in fact there is something that can b...
as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...
way they had not been before. Democracy truly had the ability to empower both the people and the government; the people no longer...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
catalyst and to some extent the cold war would prod Japan to its ultimate height. Still, turning outside of the general traditions...
dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...