Government Inequality Research Paper

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Tranquility
The USA's government is deceiving and should not be trusted. Instead of being spread out evenly among the citizens as written, voting power in the US government is mostly with the socially elite higher class. Citizen's influence should be equal- the way it was written in the US declaration. In Tranquility, government equality shall be absolute. Tranquility's and the US's government is similar in many ways, but government equality is not one of them. With this declaration, Tranquility shall be a place where government influence will be absolutely equal among all its citizens. In addition, current labor laws practiced in the US shall extend to children the age of ten in Tranquility.
True equality is essential in a direct democracy

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