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    slave. You are bound by codes and conventions whether you like them or not. The only good government‚ therefore‚ was an almost purely democratic one. One where the people made the laws and everyone had some influence‚ even against the tyranny of the majority. This also is the answer to the conundrum Rousseau poses in his inttroduction: A master is a greater slave then the slaves he owns because the slaves are free to act in any manner that they can get away with‚ up to and including killing

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    time taken to pass a bill can be anywhere from a few weeks to many years. Many bills though do not get pass. The ease in legislation is due to the structure of this system whereby the majority grouping in the lower house i.e. the direct representatives of the people forms the executive. Thus the executive have the majority support and votes to pass legislation. This is important as it usually prevents legislative gridlock especially in passing the government budget and provides quick response in national

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    The thought is that the powered would be empowered to act by positive laws. Since the majority ruled the choices of the society‚ no one saw any danger in joining; they would all get a say in their ’partial freedom’. The conclusion to man giving up their freedom is indeed to preserve their property. Property was very important to the people

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    komedya‚ were performed in the regional languages for the illiterate majority. They were also written in the Roman alphabet in the principal languages and widely circulated. Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar‚ generally considered the first major Filipino poet‚ wrote poems in Tagalog. His best-known work‚ Florante at Laura (Florante and Laura)‚ probably written between 1835 and 1842‚ is an epic poem that subversively criticizes Spanish tyranny. This poem inspired a generation of young Filipino writers of the

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    the Republican Party The Republican Party was formed in Ripon‚ Wisconsin when members of the Whig party met to establish a new and better party. The Whig party opposed to slavery spreading to the west. The Republican party was also opposed to the “tyranny” of Andrew Jackson. The Whig party successfully introduced the Kanas- Nebraska act of 1854. The Kanas- Nebraska act ultimately dissolved the Missouri Compromise and it also allowed slaves of free status to be decided in territories by popular sovereignty

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    American Congress responded in April 1776 by opening colonial ports showing their Independence from England the Declaration of Independence‚ 1776‚ “n.d.”). Furthermore‚ majority of the immigrants came to New World to leave their old country because of political politics‚ religion freedom and financial gain and the thought of sending majority of your economic resources back to the country you left didn’t set well with most immigrants. In fact‚ in my research I learned that the colonist grew tired of following

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    install a better society grounded fundamentally in pure equality. Different from Marx‚ the first of Tocqueville’s “Hero” doesn’t consist of people necessarily but institutions that should be brought up to prevent the mutilation of democracy by the majority. Such as a large but separate judicial system and a small legislative branch. The second of tocqueville’s “hero’s” would be the people themselves. Understanding the power of enlightened thought to aid in the preservation of a free republic. “Americans

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    society only reflects the will of politically active members of the society; this goes back to his criticism of a government with the tyranny of the majority. To sum up‚ Mill’s understanding of freedom as allowing people to "pursue their own good in their own ways" results from his emphasis on individualism and harm principle while rejecting the idea of the majority rule.

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    characteristics of U.S.A. Constitution. Check And Balance: it was hoped that making each branch accountable to different groups would cause a variety of interests to be reflected. checks and balances prevent official tyranny and even more important‚ to prevent a single segment of the population‚ majority or minority‚ from gaining complete control of the government. Sepreration Of Powers: The basic feature of the constitution of America is the distribution of national powers among three departments‚ which

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    is also know dictatorship‚ which he took over nearly every aspects of life. Hitler’s plan was to exterminate everyone that was a jew because mostly every german thought of themselves more superior than the jews which they seemed inferior to them. Tyranny spreaded all over europe that caused the germans to persecute and murder as much of millions of people. In addition‚ forced human labor in poland were civilians are in really bad conditions to work where they also usually die because of starvation

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