Developments in both constitutional and social areas from 1860 to 1877 can be considered to have been a revolution. The Civil War was‚ obviously‚ the first revolution that occurred during this time period. With the election of Lincoln in 1860‚ South Carolina announced its secession from the Union. They seized the federal Ft. Sumpter which lay off their coast and Lincoln ordered federal troops to protect the fort. This set off a chain reaction of secession which finally resulted in the formation of the Confederate
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confederate‚ and federal systems of government. The unitary government is often described as a centralized government. It is a government in which all powers held by the government belong to a single and central agency. The central government creates local units of government for its own convenience and needs. Most governments in the world are unitary. Great Britain is an example of a unitary government. The Parliament holds all the power of the British government. Local governments do exist but
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To what extent is the EU now a ‘superstate’? What obstacles are there to further European Integration? (45 mark) To some extent the EU has become a superstate due to federalist features that combine the member states of the European Union closer together. For Eurosceptic British who oppose the further integration between the states have defined the EU’s superstate to be a huge‚ centralized Brussels Bureaucracy limiting the sovereign authority of member states. This can be controversial as
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To what extent has the Labour party moved away from its traditional roots? The Labour party believed in more traditional principles post the 1997 reforms where Labour was rebranded as ‘‘New Labour’.’ Prior to this‚ the party communicated in a ‘left wing’ approach with socialist ideas. They believed in core values‚ where some were emphasised more than others. Equality was significant as there was expansion of the welfare state e.g. they introduced the ‘free’ health care system and taxation in favour
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economic system is an organized approach to producing and distributing goods and services. It is scarcity (in economic theory‚ the limited availability of resources and goods; the excess of wants over needs)‚ which creates a need for economic systems. There are different types of economic systems in which all are believed to be the correct solution when it comes to scarcity. Capitalism is based on an approach to economics that promotes private enterprise. In a private enterprise system‚ you will see profit
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As soon as taken office‚ any government tends to come up with new ideas and projects that they tend to realize in order to affect the social economic conditions of the population to serve. In the United States‚ speeches from new elected presidents always tend to make people believe that we are about to start a new kind of life with a fresh machinery of government. This is the case of the reinvention movement for democratic governance that is still largely a source of explanation of the American public
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sure that no single branch became too powerful‚ they put rules in place to allow the other two branches to keep it in check. The first branch of government is the Legislative Branch‚ which consists of the House and the Senate. This branch can do a lot of things like having ideas for new laws‚ being able to declare war‚ control taxing and spending policies‚ and they also control interstate and foreign commerce. The legislative process is how laws are made. Laws are just ideas made by a representative
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The Soviet Union had a huge impact on many different countries‚ ranging from neighbouring east European states‚ to as far as Africa. This extended essay discusses the effects the Soviet Union had on Ethiopia (located in the Horn of Africa) from 1977 – 1991‚ and the extent in which the collapse of the USSR influenced the fall of Mengistu Haile Mariam’s military regime. Therefore‚ answering the question “To what extent did the collapse of the Soviet Union contribute to the fall of Mengistu Haile
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To what extent have the parties in coalition remained committed to their traditional principles? The formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010 has affected each party’s commitment to their traditional principles which would remain intact in a single-party government. However‚ the two parties have generally reached sensible compromises through peaceful negotiations to stay relatively attached to their traditional principles. The Conservative party has largely
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Singer’s principle of equality appears intuitively practical and convincing as it favours the dismissal of many types of discrimination based on innate characteristics such as gender and ethnicity. However‚ it can have radical consequences deeming it far less attractive than its prima facie appeal. Singer’s moral concepts and ideologies have often been termed useful for normative ethics as they are founded on presumptions that are simple and universally acknowledged (Schaler‚ 2009). Nonetheless‚
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