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“Lincoln was one of the most democratic and besides one of the most bossy of presidents. ” Abraham Lincoln was a really democratic president. He believed in the Union and would make anything to maintain it together after the sezession of the South that followed his election as president. However. to recover the entireness of…

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Civil War is rooted in history. Hundreds of years before their civil war, many people were kidnapped and forced into slavery. Ensuring a safe place aboard their own ships from disease and illness, European slave traders would employ the help of local tribal leaders to find people to be…

Silkwood. a film about a Pu works worker. features the battle of a brotherhood worker militant to convey attending to the plant’s insecure on the job conditions and wellness hazards. Based on a true narrative. the film radiances light on civil autonomies issues. It shows the assortment of rights Americans hold that enable them to…

The U.S. Constitution has many strengths such as accountability and contingency planning written throughout the various sections. It also has some weaknesses in that the constitution was written so many years ago, some of it is not pertinent to today, and it is very difficult if not impossible to redact any part of the constitution. …

Despite his age of seventy-five, Old Hickory remained unafraid of confrontations. He continuously engaged in fights and created chaos wherever he went, involving card games, damaged taverns, alcohol containers, and physical altercations, earning the moniker Old Hickory. At twenty-one years old, Jackson became a lawyer in the North Carolina Frontier and eventually migrated to Tennessee…

Communism is an original system of society, quite different from Democracy in many ways. While total democracy is not widely spread, many forms of it are prosperous throughout the world today. One of the first and major differences between a Communist and Democratic government is their contrary economic systems. In a communist government, the community…

Democracy is defined as the government of people, by people, and for the people. It is a government in which all citizens, rather than privileged individuals, have the right and opportunity to participate. The people are the sovereign in a democracy. They are the vital source of authority. In a Constitutional Democracy, the authority of…

DISCLAIMER: If you are planning to vote for Al Gore in November, good for you. Don’t let what I’m about to say change your mind because I’ve been told by all the experts that if you do change your mind based on what I’m about to say, George W. Bush might win the election and…

     The Electoral College system has served the nation’s interests, or so they say, for the last 200 years.  Yet there remain many misgivings about its core principle, especially the disproportionate power it gives to voters depending on their state. This piece of electoral framework also heavily disenfranchises voters from non-swing states like New York or…

Descriptive Representation In politics, descriptive representation entails the elected official representing their constituencies and the interests of their identity groups based on their identity characteristics. As such, in descriptive representation, the elected official is a representative of interests and ideas of his race, geographical areas or socioeconomic group. In this representation, the political candidate does…