keep reading and you will find out. Voting is important because it’s a way of expressing your voice and it is also about supporting a peaceful and consistent transition of power. It is NOT just about supporting the candidates and amendments or referendums in that specific election‚ it’s about supporting the idea all as a whole! It’s about believing that the will of the people is a driving and important factor in the success of our country. It is also important to vote because once
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structure. Britain was also favourable to the proposal. In 1962 a joint Malayan and British commission under Lord Cobbold concluded‚ after testing public opinion‚ that most people in Sarawak and North Borneo were in favour of federation; and a referendum in Singapore showed a considerable majority for the
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At midnight on June 30‚ 1990‚ the Meech Lake Accord‚ Canada’s first attempt at amending its Constitution‚ died a quiet yet well-publicized death. There was no climactic national vote to mark the occasion‚ nor was there one root cause as to why the Accord failed. As one Meech Lake insider famously remarked‚ “the Accord did not expire from any single wound‚ but rather died a death of a thousand cuts”[1]. While the accumulation of those one thousand unnamed cuts may have ultimately brought about the
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Poli Sci. Meech Lake accord and Charlottetown Accord can be defined as attempts of Canadian government to make Quebec rejoin the Canadian Constitutional family. P.M Brian Mulrooney wanted that Quebec should symbolically rejoin the Canadian Constitutional family. Therefore‚ the new premier of Quebec‚ Robert Bourassa‚ was asked to outline conditions for such reunion. Mulrooney and premiers met at Meech Lake in April 1987 and agreed on a document that addressed Quebec’s demand and was known as Meech
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The Rhetorical Analysis Project gave us a good chance to learn and apply many skills. We did this project as a group me and my colleague Fahad. At the beginning point‚ we studied the concept of this project then we selected our two sources‚ it was an article and a chosen video. Fahad summarized the first source and I did the second one. After that we discussed and analyzed deeply both sources. Our analysis covers all aspects of these sources: rhetorical situation‚ strategies of arguments‚ rhetorical
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British military occupation in 1925‚ Iraqis first constitution entered into force which then formed a monarchy which remained in effect until in 1958‚ the revolution established a republic. Interim constitutions have been adopted over the years but a referendum that took place in 2005 approved the constitution currently being used by Iraqis. On the other hand the American constitution is considered foundation and basis of the legal right to exercise power over another (authority) essential to the existence
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The UK Constitution is no Longer Fit For Purpose. Discuss. [40] The UK constitution has always stood out from the crowd of many democracies around the world due to its uncodified nature. Some see the UK constitution being uncodified as a weakness‚ where human rights are not adequately protected and where power lies in the hands of one institution‚ rather than an irrefutable document. Others see this uncodified constitution as a positive‚ providing an evolutionary and flexible constitution that can
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Robert Gordon Menzies was Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister. He held the office twice‚ from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. Altogether he was Prime Minister for over 18 years – still the record term for an Australian Prime Minister. Robert Menzies was born in Victoria in 1894. He went to primary school in Ballarat‚ then to a high school at Wesley College in Melbourne. He graduated in law from the University of Melbourne in 1916 and became a barrister in 1918. He débuted in court
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Should Scotland be Independent? There has been a wave of nationalistic fever sweeping the country ever since the SNP came to power in 2007. Independence is on their agenda and now there is a referendum set for 2014. But why should we go independent? After all‚ we have been married to England for over 300 years and our country is ‘too poor’ and ‘too wee’ to square up to the economic giants in the global market today and what would happen if the our banks were to self-destruct again
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Serbia’s strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many peoples. Belgrade is believed to have been leveled to the ground by 30 different armies in recorded history. Apart from being under nominal Serbian rule since the 7th century (having been allowed to settle in Byzantium by its emperor Heraclius)‚ through history various parts of the territory of contemporary Serbia have been claimed or ruled by the Roman Empire (conquered the indigenous Celts and Illyrians); the
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