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Essays 271 - 300
ensure that it survives and operates properly.4 A stable democracy has two sides: "the constitutional aspect, which provides the r...
to produce was shaped primarily after the ideologies of John Locke but that system also diverged from Lockean ideology to one exte...
as well. These will be 1. competition 2. political party representation 3. accountability Each index will be evaluated on a sc...
James Madison and John Jay (Federalist party, 2005). Opposition to a strong federal government was known as anti-federalism, and ...
continent, and once again we will not rest until victory is Americas and freedom is secure" (Kyodo World News Service). His point...
otherwise availing and equitable pursuit of modern society, others support its continued presence and believe capitalism is meant ...
a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...
differences that exist between these two governmental styles and the autocratic government style. Fortunately, there are ...
in history by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democrati...
Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....
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 ...
seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...
were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...
way they had not been before. Democracy truly had the ability to empower both the people and the government; the people no longer...
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...
operations. The imposing of taxes on individuals may appear to be a limitation to personal freedoms and a quelling of efforts tow...
world. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle alike all mused on the principles of democratic rule. Even Machiavelli, the Sixteenth Cent...
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...
countrys blossoming authority. The two incidents that prompted such a drastic stance toward foreign policy dealt with Russi...
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...
cruel autocrats; guarantees citizens certain fundamental rights that non-democratic systems are unable to grant; insures citizens ...
one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...
by critics, encouraging readers to conjure up huge armies divided by race, language and religion, moving forward across thousands ...
turns on anything and everything that is not ethnically "pure" (Ignatieff, 1993). This can quickly lead to war. What happens is...
stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...
and if they were not happy with the political leaders they could do something about it. This all sounds incredibly powerful and...
color and female people were patently excluded. Despite the many changes that have taken place in Americas democracy, especially i...