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    Wealth Gap: Why America is threatening Democracy The democratic ideal that “All men are created equal" is the basis of The Declaration of Independence and is deeply rooted in American history. However‚ this ideal is not as realistic when looking closer into American society. For instance‚ the idea of equality is never actually mentioned in The Constitution. The United States is known for being built on freedom and foreigners look to it as the possibility for the American dream‚ but there have been

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    Religion, Poverty and Wealth

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    Religion‚ Poverty and Wealth All Christians believe that the world and everything in it have been created by God. They believe that the world is holy‚ special‚ divine‚ worthy of respect and honour. ’The earth is the Lord’s‚ and everything in it‚ the world‚ and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.’ Psalm 24:1-2 Because ’the earth is the Lord’s’‚ Christians believe they are stewards or caretakers. They should be committed to the proper

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    The British Democracy

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    (termed the Westminster system after the Palace of Westminster‚ the seat of the UK Parliament) is a series of procedures for operating a legislature. It is used‚ or was once used‚ in the national legislatures and subnational legislatures of most Common wealth and ex-Commonwealth nations‚ beginning with the Canadian provinces in 1867 and Australian colonies in 1901. Important features of the Westminster system include the following: • a sovereign or head of state (the monarch) who is the nominal

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    Russian Democracy I find Russia to be an interesting democracy because it transformed from a communist country living underneath a series of dictators for the better part of the twentieth century to electing their first president ever by popular vote in such a short period of time. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the Soviet Union began to rapidly collapse. By 1991‚ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first ever president by popular vote. On December 8‚ 1991 Yeltsin and leaders of the Ukraine and Belarus

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    a tyrant. According to Socrates a tyranny degenerates from a democracy when a popular charismatic leader gets power and naturally does not want to give it up so he takes all

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    AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith (Chapters I-VIII Summary) Submitted to: Sir Lemuel P. Del Rosario Submitted by: Rian Karlo Z. Punzalan Section:2B-G2 CHAPTER I THE DIVISION OF LABOUR. When a work is broken down into much smaller work and distributed into individuals that specialize in that work‚ we can achieve maximum productivity. For example the work of making a computer program can be divided up into these assignments. 1. The main programmer

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    Course Name: “Past and Present of DemocracyDemocracy is a form of government where the supreme power lies in its subjects‚ gaining authorization to exercise such authority directly or indirectly through regular fair elections. Active participation of citizens in the choosing the agents to exercise the authority on their behalf is a common element in true democracies. Citizens are all equal in the practice of law and its regulation having no distinctions or class privileges. Human rights

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    balled of worldly wealth

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    The Ballad of Worldly Wealth is a depiction of how money can bring pride and corruption into a society. The subject of this poem is about money. In this poem‚ the author describes all about money and what it meant to people. The tone of this poem is an overall negative feeling that the author has about money and how he feels that only sometimes money can be good but mostly it causes evil. The speaker of the poem is the author and it seems like the audience are maybe people in his town. It seems

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    While democracy in the Asia and Pacific has been growing rapidly‚ maturity of its democracy is still being questioned. Maturity of democracy is determined by high quality of democracy through where three main areas are in place including law enforcement‚ economic development and consolidated democratic institutions. The problem with third wave of democracy (Huntington‚ 1991) is that the change of political system from authoritarian to democracy does not automatically follow with the change in

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    To explain the difference between Direct‚ Representative‚ and Constitutional Democracy you must first know what each one means. Direct Democracy according to the dictionary “is a form of democracy in which people decide policy initiatives directly”. For example‚ in Switzerland‚ federal laws and changes to the national constitution must be voted on by the citizenry (Rainer Benz‚ 2003- 2015). Representative Democracy is a Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called

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