news‚ once a week. To get involved in the government‚ through knowledge and awareness. By June 2012‚ the hotel was set to be shut down and demolished by the state in pursuit of a massive highway reconstruction project on US-31. Walking out of the doors for the last time in 8 years‚ the doors I smeared my fingerprints on as a hyper 7 year old and cleaned as a 14 year old‚ I was set on what I wanted to do as an adult -- public service‚ in the government. I want to serve one day as a representative
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Democracy is known to be one of the greatest institutionalized forms of government in our history. In America‚ democracy is seen as a perfect governmental system that is incapable of corruption due to its legal equality and political freedom. However Alexis de Tocqueville‚ a French socialist and political theorist believed that the democratic system held by the United States had several flaws that if were to come into play‚ would cause it to weakened and eventually collapse. He talked on and wrote
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Title – Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of representative vs direct democracy Democracy is a word known to most persons today‚ in the Western world atleast‚ and almost always has positive connotations associated with it. Indeed from far left to far right‚ democracy has been proclaimed and embraced by political parties‚ indeed for a party to profess democracy is seen as necessary to its claim of legitimacy. The word democracy derives from the Greek prefix ’Demos ’ which could be seen as ’people
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Federal and State Government PPA601 Foundation of Public Administration Leah Raby November 1‚ 2013 . Federal and State Government The current public policy issue that will be identified in the course of this paper causing a great deal of controversy in the news today is marijuana. Depending in what state one is living currently in the United States‚ will depend on what type of consequences if any a person might be facing if caught possessing it. The federal government defines it to
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restrictions that the government would be limited in their powers. The federal government’s authorization is strictly restricted in what the government is allowed to do. The Constitution restricts these powers in the text that it is written in. (Mazurak‚ 2014) Some examples of these guidelines are found in Article 1 of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment. Article 1 simply gives Congress their power and restrictions. Congress is considered the legislative branch of the government; congress is the
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Although Democracy in the United States serves as a model for many other nations‚ it has many flaws that choke its true potential. Some authors‚ like Carl Schmitt would argue that from its outset‚ democracy in America is inherently flawed‚ while others like Thomas Jefferson believe that simple adjustments should be made for a more efficient democracy. It is important for the flaws and challenges that plague democracy in American democracy to be addressed‚ as there are many. It is particularly important
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Athenian democracy and American democracy. Now although many may in fact say that the American democracy is the best‚ many do not know that America government is a derivative from Athens very own government. The city-state of Athens and surrounding territory of Attica was the first government to have a true democracy. Although America did derive its government from Athens‚ Athens is not a representative democracy ‚ it is a direct democracy. The set up of Athenian democracy and American democracy are
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Chapter5) Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights -Freedom from government -Civil Liberty shows the ‘gradual expansion’‚ but not always constant expansion in the case of threat to the nation (War‚ Insecurity‚ 9/11->we need restriction of freedom) -Protection of unpopular minorities against the tyranny of the majority -Court sometimes cannot protect minority‚ they tend to follow American general society’s thought. & Elected branches which want popular position rely on courts to do dirty work.
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individual rights with the desires of democracy to develop collective self-government. The intricate system of checks and balances was designed for the purpose of preserving this sense of equilibrium between liberalism and democracy; however‚ as the nation has matured—through refoundings and periods of crisis—this stability has often vacillated. Today‚ Milkis and Landy suggest that the public faces distinctive challenges in balancing liberalism and democracy resulting from a new sense of factionalism
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Governments range throughout the world‚ whether a country may have a democracy‚ oligarchy‚ monarchy or a dictatorship depends on the head of state and the citizens themselves. Two well-known forms of governments‚ that are both found more often than others‚ are a democracy and a dictatorship. These forms of governments hold their strengths and weaknesses‚ and differ when it comes to power distribution. Whether which governmental system is better depends on the eyes of the person. A democracy can
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