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Elitists In Democracy
Number of Words: 1352 / Number of Pages: 5
... has not had the chance to develop and flourish completely.
Argentina’s oligarchy revolved around the Conservative Party, and “they were convinced that only the upper class was capable of governing (Snow, pg. 14).” The conservatives restricted suffrage, and condoned fraudulent elections, making it virtually impossible for the masses to gain political power. By the end of the nineteenth century, the conservatives found it increasingly difficult to triumph in an election; they had gone from being virtuously unopposed, to loosing elections at an increasingly steady rate. The oligarchy was further wea ...
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Flaws In America’s Legislative Branch
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... foreign goods, the regulation of business” (pg. 286), and the most controversial, the distribution of power in Congress itself. In order to protect the individual, the founders had to allow for decentralized powers that included “weak leadership, rules allowing for delay and discussion, and many opportunities for committee activity” (pg. 286).
The influence of the electoral system also brings about a conflict within the legislative branch. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Senate was given the nickname “Millionaire’s Club,” due to the rich businessmen and party leaders. It seemed like legisl ...
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Capital Punishment History
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... treason, rape, and murder because of violent nature of
these crimes. These crimes, even today, are still viewed as
violent and should be punished with the highest degree of
discipline available to achieve justice.
After much public pressure, capital punishment was suspended
on a trial run in 1967. This proved to be ineffective, because
even though the law stipulated that crimes such as treason or the
murder of law enforcement agents, were still to be subjected to
the death penalty, the federal cabinet continued to commute those
criminals from death to life sentences, hence the law was not ...
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America's Social Contract
Number of Words: 510 / Number of Pages: 2
... met its obligations with America in the area of separation of powers. The government today is so divided along party lines that many things the American people want do not get accomplished. Important bills that our government has been arguing over for years such as health care have still not been resolved. Although the government has checks and balances, they do not seem to be working. The Congress is often times very inefficient and many believe that the president vetoes important laws that could greatly help the American people.
Finally, the government fails to meet its social contract with taxatio ...
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Driving Drunk
Number of Words: 297 / Number of Pages: 2
... the main one is just pure stupidity. Teenagers most likely will drink in their lifetime. After that happens, they need to know that they are not capable of driving. This knowledge could prevent many accidents. Drinking is not necessarily a bad thing, if you are a responsible drinker. I think that if you know your going to a party and there is going to be alcohol, then you can reserve a ride before the party takes place. It’s all about taking responsibility for your own actions. It seems so ridiculous that people don’t have the common sense to know they can cause mass destruction if they are drunk behin ...
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James Madison's Federalist 45
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... more for their smaller population whereas the larger governmental
bodies cant speak as well for the people as the smaller ones were able to
do. Therefore, the federal government cannot have power over the states
because the states have a larger voice directly from the people, that is,
it is more directly a democratic branch of government.
It is also true that the state governments are a necessary part of
the federal government, but what Madison fails to mention is that this is
true the other way around as well. Just as the states cant make decisions
without the federal government, the federal gover ...
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Natural Law Theory
Number of Words: 641 / Number of Pages: 3
... tries to
determine what the actual law encompassed and he came up with the theory of
Stoicism. Stoicism is an interpretation of the natural law which states that
every, single person is a part of the universe that was created and is ruled by
a divine power rationally. To live rationally and with virtue, according to the
Stoics, was to follow one*s nature and reason. Thus, they deemed emotion and
passion irrational, and therefore unnatural. For Stoics, the wise would be
those who excluded emotion and passion from their decision making
process.(Bainton 21-22) The great Christian philosophers came up ...
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Role Of Mass Media In Politics
Number of Words: 1760 / Number of Pages: 7
... Are we always told the truth by the mass
media? By the government? By the media speaking for or as directed by the
government? Or has the line between truth and lies been so badly blurred in
politics that we will never know what truly goes on in our political system?
The two movies examined, both play in some way on the function of the
mass media in American politics. We can see how much and how heavily we rely on
our televisions, radio shows, newspapers and now the Internet to communicate to
us the latest breaking news, political campaigns, slandering, commercials for
politicians running f ...
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Binge Drinking
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... While many reasons are given, students generally fall into three categories (Kaufman 2). Peer Pressure is one of the main reasons students feel as if they need to binge drink. They do this because their peers are doing it and they want to fit in better.
Insecurity is another incentive as to why students binge drink. College life can be very stressful, and drinking can sometimes become a “crutch” to make up for it (Kaufman 2).
Students also binge drink to help them solve their problems. They turn to alcohol to aid themselves with hiding their feelings and numb their pain for a while. ...
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Battered Womens Syndrome - A S
Number of Words: 3678 / Number of Pages: 14
... Walker, the architect of the classical battered women's syndrome theory, notes the syndrome is not an illness, but a theory that draws upon the principles of learned helplessness to explain why some women are unable to leave their abusers. Therefore, the classical battered women's syndrome theory is best regarded as an offshoot of the theory of learned helplessness and not a mental illness that afflicts abused women.
The theory of learned helplessness sought to account for the passive behavior subjects exhibited when placed in an uncontrollable environment. In the late 60's and early 70's, Martin Se ...
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