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Voting District Delineation in California

Some 46.7 percent are white, 34.4 percent are Hispanic, and 6.7 percent are black (Coleman, 2004). More and more of those citizen...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

The Relationship Between Israelis and Arabs

not everything is black and white. Landau (1993) suggests that there are a variety of viewpoints within Israel and amongst the Je...

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Anesthesiologistsm and Drug Abuse

to are not likely to be illicit drugs but rather the same prescribed drugs with which they treat their patients (Texas Medical Ass...

Voting for John Kerry

are in big business, are supporting Bush because it does them good to have him in office. In all honesty, these are the only re...

October 2001 Patriot Act Passage

provision. The objections that required this were due to the impact that the powers would have in terms of freedom and libraries. ...

Ex Convicts and Voting in New Jersey

police arrest and charge more black people with crime. It seems that white people get away with crime, or that false allegations a...

Joseph Chamberlain and William Gladstone

can be of benefit, increasing diversity and as such bettering political decision with constant challenges. It was the challenges p...

U.S. Presidential Elections and the Impact of the Minority Vote

allow the potential electoral success of racial minorities" (Richie and Hill 1998, PG). President Bushs plans regarding th...

Overview of the 1980 U.S. Presidential Election

to think much of President Reagan. In fact, he says that Reagan gave the people "a sense of direction and moral purpose, but not o...

Presidential Elections, Voting Patterns, and Civil Rights

of civil rights had something to do with the win. Boller puts it this way: "Truman...waged the kind of campaign, according to jour...

Voting and Legal Immigrants

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...

American Political Changes

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

German Elections of 1932 and 1933

Party. While some may argue that his intentions were well documented in his book "Mein Kampf" published in 1925, the book was not ...

System of Electronic Voting and UK Law

as voters as well as the clerks and election officials. This was an easier system to set up than that of Florida, however, as a pa...

Critical Analysis of the First Past Post Process

member of Parliament, he/she has to gain more votes than anyone else in their district(Past the post 2002). This simple sounding s...

E-Voting and a Compromised Democracy

is, is rather frightening. Yet, e-voting has received much acclaim throughout the world. French MP Andr? Santini claims that E-dem...

The Electoral College

the state legislators could elect the president but that would lead to the president being obligated to the states; popular vote c...

Ethical Leadership: Bill Clinton and Colin Powell Compared (First Person Essay)

mistresses or notorious affairs. As far as my own ideas about ethics are concerned, the fact that a leader has had personal indisc...

Are Democratic Priniciples Universally Applicable?

by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democratic principle...

Against the Constitution

will keep many of the rights to itself that should in actuality devolve upon the states. However, as I write this I hear that Mass...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Palestinian Election of 2006 and Hamas

choose to enter the 2006 elections? The answer lies in the history of the organization and the changing picture of politics in the...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Be...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Congress therefore authorized extraordinary federal interventions for five years. But the deadl...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

The October 2007 Ontario Election: A View of Electoral Reform

C gets 4,000 votes, only 45 percent of the voting population elected the winner (FPTP, 2007). Supporters of the FPTP system m...

Spain's General Francisco Franco

write about the war and the long Franco dictatorship (1937-75), they often ignore the subject of caciquismo. During the first dec...

Determinate Proposal on Death Penalty Propensity and a Juror's Gender

juror was a woman. Although only one woman serving on the panel of one jury in only one of the many criminal cases tried daily th...

Public Goods and Efficient Production

In two pages this paper considers if public goods can be efficiently produced through majority vote. Three sources are cited in t...