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Essays 511 - 540
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 ...
after close to half a century of communist rule, when communism fell in the Soviet Union, to be replaced by provisional government...
a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...
and perhaps within nations will act as springboards to the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), su...
apparel policy" ("Court cites landmark student free speech case in finding district unlawfully suspended students for protesting s...
that of Britain. In France, there is the idea that the power is with the people, but in Britain there is a sense that one institut...
information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot" that was given by The Digital Network; which is a...
it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
chosen, and the people give over their will, that is good too (Herodotus 185). It suggests that others can have democracy, but the...
the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...
Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...
were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...
claimed that this form of democracy has outlived its usefulness. The question is, has it? If in fact there is something that can b...
In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...
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 ...
"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...
labor power (Wikipedia, 2005). Marx was concerned about what people did with their labor power, how they related to it (Wikipedia,...
may be agents in the transformation of democracy, but democracy is not something that is inextricable with computer science (2001)...
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...
Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 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...
catalyst and to some extent the cold war would prod Japan to its ultimate height. Still, turning outside of the general traditions...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
a system of checks and balances. It is designed to meet the needs of as many people as possible (Montgomer, 2003). It seeks to avo...
as being possible to do. Hobbes distinguishes between a right and a law. A right, according to Hobbes, "consisteth in libe...