The electoral college has created a political divide in America. In this day and age the last thing America needs is a division among it’s people. With pressing issues like terrorism‚ immigration and equality‚ America’s people need to be united but the issue of the electoral college is one of the things preventing that. Today I will be focusing on the electoral college. One of the many problems with the electoral college is the lack of laws supporting the popular candidate which means the college
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Promote Communication in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate Communication is very important and can be non-verbal: making eye contact‚ body language and gestures‚ verbal: talking‚ singing‚ listening and responding‚ and written. People communicate usually to provide or receive information. The information provided can be passed on and used for teaching and learning. It is also used to share our ideas and thoughts
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The issue of electoral reform has become more important than ever in Canada in recent years as the general public has come to realize that our current first-past-the-post‚ winner-take-all system‚ formally known as single-member plurality (SMP) has produced majority governments of questionable legitimacy. Of the major democracies in the world‚ Canada‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom are the only countries that still have SMP systems in place. Interestingly enough‚ there has been enormous
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to decide the next president‚ but most do not realize just how little their vote means. In fact‚ the president is not elected by the people‚ but instead by 538 members of the electoral college. The electoral college should be replaced by a popular vote system because it will allow all votes to be equal‚ cause candidates to focus on more than just swing states‚ and result in a rightful winner that creates a more united country. The electoral college is a complicated system with a multitude of loopholes
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giving the concept that all citizens should have equal say in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone a fair right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a Democracy?". With the Electoral College‚ it is a winner take all system which makes some voter feel that their vote is practically useless. The founding fathers
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Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all‚ many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one‚ technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television‚ we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general. There are
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In this essay I shall examine the meaning of an electoral system and explain how the system of the proportional representation by means of of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) operates in Ireland. To facilitate these aims I will give a brief account of the history behind PR-STV in Ireland and Dáil Éireann. I will continue this essay by discussing the positive and negative effects PR-STV has on the Irish political system. An election is a device for filling a post through choices made by ‘designated’
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According to the department of homeland security‚ Japan accepted one of the fewest numbers of immigrants in Asia in 2015. Furthermore‚ research from the same source shows that the immigrant acceptation rate in Japan has decreased year by year since 2010. From this‚ we can see that Japan accepts less immigrants compared to other countries around the world‚ therefore‚ should start accepting more. Japan can have more workers‚ tax income and decrease the number of illegal immigrants.
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The United States Electoral College is an integral part of America’s political system. In 1787‚ the delegates of the Constitutional Convention decided on the creation of the Electoral College‚ or a system under which a body is elected with the expressed purpose of itself electing a higher body. The College was established by Article Two‚ Section One of the United States Constitution. (Lesson 2: Political Participation‚ n.d.) The Founding Fathers wished to provide the people of each state the ability
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Why an Open List Proportional Representation Electoral System Is the Best Choice For an Newly Emerging Democracy Mike Ramjee Comparative Politics and Government Pol 102 (01) 12/15/2013 For a state hosting its first democratic elections‚ the best type of electoral system would be an open list proportional representation system. This type of electoral system offers many benefits including battling corruption‚ fair representation
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