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One Man, One Vote?
... area.
It will probably make people not want to vote because many of them would think
that their vote will not mean as much to the election. It would make the people
who are familiar with the candidates want to vote because they would have a
bigger say in who gets elected. It would be very hard to decide who know what
about the running candidates and issues that are being addressed. They would
have to give some kind of multiple-choice question test that you had to fill out
while voting. It would take a long time for each person to vote and I think that
would make people less encouraged to come and vote. Since the only way to link a
vote with a test is to have ...
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Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
... to the Supreme Court. After hearing their case,
the Supreme Court agreed with the Tinkers. They said that wearing black
armbands was a silent form of expression and that students do not have to give
up their 1st Amendment rights at school. This landmark Supreme Court case was
known as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District.
From the case of Tinker v. Des Moines Ind. School Board obviously came
some conflicting viewpoints about the armbands. The school board said that no
one has the absolute right to freedom of expression, where the Tinkers said that
only banning armbands and not other political symbols was unconstitutional. The
school board said tha ...
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Why Do Governments Find It So Hard To Control Public Expenditure?
... public expenditure, I will look at the post 1979
conservative government as it in particular targeted controlling expenditure
upon taking office.
Under the societal system approach one reason why a growth in public
spending can be seen to have occurred is due to Wagner's ‘law of increasing
state activity.' Wagner's claim is that as per capita real income increases in
particular nations, they will spend a higher proportion of national product
through government. As Wagner's reasons for increased public expenditure tend
to be centralised around industrialisation and its associated effects it is not
surprising to find that he thought the density of urban living ...
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Acceptance Of Homosexual Marri
... of society. Interracial marriage was prohibited, and unacceptable in the United States, until the Supreme Court ruled such bans unconstitutional in 1967. There is no reason that the federal government, or anyone for that matter, should restrict marriage to a predefined heterosexual relationship. Because it is the right of the homosexual legally, socially, and economically, matrimony between lesbian and gay couples should be accepted in the United States. Because our country has been founded on the Constitution, in which all men are created equal; we cannot deny the basic human and legal right of marriage to a class of individuals due to their sexual preference. ...
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Facism
... as a whole against perceived oppressors or enemies and to
create a nation of unity. The elitist approach treats as putting the
people's will on one select group, or most often one supreme leader called
El Duce, from whom all power proceeds downward. The two most recognized
names that go along with Fascism is Italy's Benito Mussolini and Germany's
Adolf Hitler.
The philosophy of Fascism can be traced to the philosophers who
argue that the will is prior to and superior to the intellect or reason.
George Sorel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Georg Hegal are main philosophers
who's beliefs and ideologies greatly influenced the shaping of Fascist
theory. Sorel (1847-1922) w ...
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A Direct Democracy
... voter’s home.
In there is no particular party and no party can help campaign, support, or oppose a nonpartisan candidate. Registered voters will have the privilege to vote an elected official out of office after one year. If voted out of office, another election to replace that individual will occur. Within four years of adopting this amendment, direct democracy will be enforced by means of secure networks of interactive electronic devices hooked up to every voter’s home, or convenient voting center. Registered voters will be able to vote for all state, county, city offices and governments. The voters will be able to advise their representative by a majorit ...
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Dual Executive/President
... only torn between domestic and
foreign responsibilities, but s/he must find time to campaign. A dual presidency
with a domestic and foreign leader could divide these campaigning duties. In
addition, a dual presidency is better adapted to handle simultaneous crises. A
dual presidency is a modern day answer to the realities of the American
presidency.
Essentially, the idea of a dual executive is rooted in the concept of a
plural executive. Back in the time of the writing of the Constitution, some
anti-federalists wanted a weak executive. This weak executive was called a
plural executive or an executive council. (Storing 49) The purpose of such a
plural executive was ...
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Individual Advancement Vs. Dem
... be able to do everything by yourself. In other words, you'll need others and this is where the democratic community comes in. However during the 18th century, this was not the point. The freedom of self-government we had struggled so hard and long for had become no more than a night's dream erased by the morning sun. Democracy and self-advancement were in a race for the gold as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne thought. Benjamin Franklin's ideas begged to differ. He felt as though the democratic community and growing the ideology of individual advancement (Individualism and/vs. Community, 1306) could coexist together. Franklin, having risen from poverty, ...
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Banning Books
... is indeed very widespread. One of the most controversial books is Huckleberry Finn, which is currently under fire by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the NAACP because it contains the word “nigger” 39 times in the first 35 pages. They feel that the liberal use of such a derogatory word is detrimental to the self-esteem of young African-American children. The NAACP says that they want the book removed from required-reading lists, but they are not out to censor it (Campbell, par. 4). Large groups such as the NAACP are not the only people pushing for Huckleberry Finn's banning in America's schools. Small groups of parents have protested the book's status as required readi ...
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Education In America
... away for later use. Freire contends that when knowledge is passed vertically from teacher to student in the banking concept the knowledge is stored in the brains and cataloged away. An inefficient way to learn that holds us back from reaching our full potential.
We, the students, never question the validity of the information. We simply understand that the teacher is right and we take for granted what the teacher gives us. Who says that all information is actually valid, how do we know until we, the students, actually do it. If a student reads in a text that a certain plant when eaten tastes sweet and another tastes bitter the students are then supposed to take f ...
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