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electoral college. The merit of the system can be questioned in todays environment of instant communications, but it was quite ef...
fault was seen to be a personal failing, rather than a condemnation of the US system of government. When terrorists attacke...
citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...
seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...
stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...
In eight pages the U.S. and Indonesia are compared in a discussion of an older democracy with an emerging example of a developing ...
operations. The imposing of taxes on individuals may appear to be a limitation to personal freedoms and a quelling of efforts tow...
unleashed a joining together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in a way they had not been bef...
to be aware of the impacts ones actions have upon the rest of society. THE IDEA OF DEMOCRACY The emphasis placed upon material w...
on to say that "Democracy and capitalism are like a lion and a bull pulling a sled together" (Wallace, 1996). It is a precarious c...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
in history by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democrati...
same name to refer to the worldview of Native American and other indigenous peoples throughout the world who have "understood and ...
In twenty pages this paper examines Thomas Jefferson's approach to democracy in a discussion of the intent and purpose of the Bill...
In four pages this paper examines the identity, character, and theory rooted in U.S. Democracy with references also made to the Am...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
In seven pages this report discusses the relationship between democracy and judicial review in a consideration of the administrati...
world. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle alike all mused on the principles of democratic rule. Even Machiavelli, the Sixteenth Cent...
form constitutional governments that, in turn, formed nations. This great upheaval brought about large economic entities based in ...
as a perfectly legal act, but because the State was made up of "neighobours," who in private conversations with him said they supp...
The student may want to state that the roots of democratic socialism and communism were foreshadowed as early as 1789 when France ...
In five pages this paper examines how democracy is metaphorically depicted in the actions of Achilles and Agamemnon in 'The Iliad'...
In three pages this research paper contends that the playwright conceived of Medea as a character that would inspire sympathy in a...
can choose not to marry, by and large, that is an unpopular choice. While the term spinster is no longer bandied about, certainly ...
In six pages this paper examines how Machiavelli and contemporary writers would regard the Athenian Doctrine or Thesis. Four sour...
In a paper consisting of six pages Athenian society at its peak of popularity and achievementsare considered and include a discuss...
In eight pages this paper examines the Athenian doctrine or thesis in a consideration of Athens' and Sparta's motivations and virt...
by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...
In a paper consisting of eight pages writings such as Politics by Aristotle are used to examine the Athenian Constitution and its ...
This paper consists of four pages and evaluates the guilty verdict Socrates received in terms of whether or not it represented the...