National Question #3 Alexander Hamilton stated‚ “It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.” A democracy‚ also known as a republican government‚ has been implemented in many societies. It grants every
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Absolutism is the view of thinking that there is a single standard in terms of assessments that can be made‚ and that standard is usually their own. In a clash of cultures‚ they often see the other culture as simply wrong insofar as it deviates from their own. Relativism sees each culture as correct in its own world and they deny any exhaustive standard in terms of which conflicting cultures can be judged. Philosophical flaws involved with two notions in relation to the concept of tolerance can
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Chapter 6: Jeffersonian Democracy * In April 1802 Jefferson urged Minister Livingston to attempt the purchase of New Orleans and Florida or‚ as an alternative‚ to buy a tract of land near the mouth of the Mississippi River where a new port could be constructed * Jefferson appointed his friend nd disciple James Monroe minister plenipotentiary and sent him to Paris with instructions to offer up to $10 million for New Orleans and Florida. * For 60 million francs- about $15 million- the United
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Darkness across Europe The Black Death‚ Crusades‚ and unequal rights were three reasons that support the idea that Europe was in a dark age from 500 to 1500 AD. The Black Death caused a lot of chaos across Eurasia‚ leaving towns empty and many died . According to Document B: Ibn al-Wardi (M)‚ "The plague began in the land of darkness.” The plague sent Europe into the shadows‚ and it took many years to recover. Another reason Europe was in a dark age was the Crusades. Stated in Document B - First
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Introduction to Political Studies (POLS1007) Tutorial : 13:15 Mr. Hudson Dimpho Ramalose 717071 18 March 2013 THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIBERALISM TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY “A political arrangement that promotes the liberty of the individual citizen from arbitrary government” ‚ ( Gamble‚ n.d.) . This is a political ideology that seems to put great emphasis on the protection of the individual through key principles such as individualism‚ freedom and equality (Heywood‚ 2007). Principles that are
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Elzara Akhmedov September 11‚ 2012 HIS 107; European History‚ 1500-1815 Response Journal #2 The opening of the New World was aroused by traveling into diverse geographic areas and by discovering different ways of life. Discoveries of the Europeans created new ways of cultural exchange‚ conversion‚ and generally expanded their cognition of the world and its inhabitants in its great diversity. Let me‚ perhaps‚ explore the Imaginary World‚ as described by “fables about the east” in Mandeville
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Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to see how given amounts of sodium bicarbonate reacts with acetic acid and see how it creates different amounts of new compounds. Procedure: In this lab‚ we were going to be reacting 12.5g sodium bicarbonate with 7.4mL acetic acid. Before we began‚ we turned on the hot plate to a medium level‚ allowing it time to heat up. While the plate was heating‚ we gathered 1 1/4g sodium bicarbonate onto the balance. Next‚ we measured 7.4mL acetic acid by pouring it into
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Fascism Geographic distribution of Fascism Italy Benito Mussolini began as a socialist. He started moving to a more nationalist ideology and in 1922 formed the first fascist regime. 1939‚ teamed up with Hitler. He was killed in 1945. This marked the end of fascism in Italy. Germany The local variety of fascism in Germany is known as National Socialism (nazi). Adolf Hitler won the largest share of the voted in election in 1932 (33% of the vote)‚ so the president of Germany asked him to form
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Life for a woman in the middle ages was an endless pregnancy- the lady of our manor is always lying in bed with her swollen abdomen making a strange bulging lump under the covers. My two older sisters are both expecting their third children. I am to be married soon. My parents are choosing the right suitor for me to spend the rest of my life with. It is my duty to marry whom they choose with no complaints otherwise I will be punished‚ flogged skin always attracts the flies in summer. I hope it will
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US AP – Old Book -- CHAPTER 9: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY I - “Democratizing” Politics -Jackson’s inauguration symbolized the triumph of “democracy” -the achievement of place and station by “the common man” -Jackson felt that everyone was as competent and politically important as his neighbor -difference between Jeffersonian democracy and Jacksonian was more of attitude than of practice -Jefferson believed that ordinary citizens could be educated to determine right from wrong
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