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     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…

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…

American democracy was still developing in the 19th century. However, most historians connote that this democracy was defined “the people” in 19th-century terms as white men who pushed for the United States’ Declaration of Independence from Britain. Like their more conservative competitors, the Progressive historians regarded women as politically irrelevant, Indians as doomed primitives, and…

“Freedom” has traditionally been characterized in terms of rigid constraints forced by the demands of propositional truth. But according to Segundo, a better understanding would describe freedom as “precisely the capacity to absolutize what nature and history always present to us as somewhat relative.”(Segundo, Liberation of Theology, p. 176) That is, the proper conception of…

The three philosophers discussed in this paper are Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and bell hooks. Those philosophers’ philosophies are connected to each other. John Dewey said that education should be progressive education, meaning that the teacher should be able to teach students by having them doing hands-on activities based on individual needs. John Dewey believed…

Levitsky & Ziblatt begin by accounting for the rise of other authoritarian leaders in the past such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Hugo Chavez and they explain that many people incorrectly believe that we can keep democracy safe by having the people hold democratic values but that in reality, political parties are democracy’s gatekeepers’. They must…

It is true that in this technological advance society, the media control and defines our lives in every aspect. We depend totally on media for the information regarding our day to day affairs but also what is going on around the world. Moreover we trust the media blindly, without questioning the authenticity, impartiality and accuracy….

What is the Electoral College? The Electoral College is the current voting system in the country we live in. I think that this is not the best system we can have. If we only thought about it, we could do better, the Electoral College is a system of voting for important figures such as the…

The vote of a citizen in the United States is nowhere near effective. We have the Electoral College to thank for this. The Electoral College defeats the purpose of the popular vote and takes power away from the people. The government is too strong and the United States is not much of a democracy as…

In Aristotle’s Politics, he focuses much on the regimes of an oligarchy and of democracy. Democracies exist when the free and poor, being a majority, have the authority to rule, and have an equal share in the city. Oligarchies exist when the few wealthy and better born have authority and grant benefits in proportion to…