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    The federal government is a body of individuals at the corporate level that addresses and carries out public policy, utilizes executive and political power through laws within a country. This is a form of government that accounts for the maintaining order in society, providing for national defense, providing public goods, regulating society, transferring income, and protecting individual liberty. The federal government maintains order in society. In any society, individuals are not allowed to…

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    into power. Another is Democracy has many political parties whereas Authoritarian government has only one. These governments are very different in every perspective. One of the big differences in these two governments is how the leaders get their power. In a democracy which is what the U.S. is the people vote for the leaders. This way people have a say in what their leader will say and do. With an Authoritarian government the leaders are not voted on. They inherit or take leadership by force…

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    The government of Aragon was in many ways modeled after the system of government found in the Roman Republic. It consisted of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. A balanced, constitutional government consists of legislative, executive, and judicial functions. In a monarchy, all of these would be included under the king. He decided how the kingdom would use its money, how that money would be raised, what the laws were, how they would be executed, and oversaw that they were…

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    different structures of power, different favored types of government, and different types of classes. Where Plato bases his ideas off of a faux society, Aristotle uses examples of past civilizations to discuss several different theories and explanations. Though Aristotle was a student of Plato, he had a very different approach to the ideal state than his teacher. According to Plato in his piece of work, The Republic, everything decays. Government is not exempt from this, which is the basis of…

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    With any system of government, there will be flaws. Although, there are many benefits to the pluralist form of government, there, of course, exists flaws as well. The meaning of the quote, “the flaw of the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus signs with an upper class accent,” is that, the pluralist ideology is good in theory, but the influences of wealthier and higher class groups are greater than those of the middle and lower classes thus creating more inequality than plurality…

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    There are many different philosophies of government in China. This paper will be focused on the philosophies of earlier governments in China’s history, specifically the Qin and Han dynasties. This will also focus on the structure of their governments as well. Many questions will be answered about their structure and ideas, such as what do these philosophies address? How do these philosophies apply to governing a nation? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? Other questions will be…

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    Canadian Governments The public sector has several unique features that differentiate it from the private and tertiary sectors. It defines, enforces, and realizes collective values according to its own missions and responsibilities such as the implementing the aspirations of the public masses. Financial performance is an inadequate evaluative tool for its success and it delivers a range of goods and services that are not part of the market including social services (Moore, 2000; Nelson, 2011).…

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    was comprised of small city-states that had many different forms of political government. The country was not unified it was organized in a polis – Greek name for city-states and most cities were very small fewer than 10,000 residents. Two of the most powerful political governments were Athenian and Sparta. Athenian was interested in ruling by the people while Sparta was built on military. Each political government was formed and ruled by different Greek political structures. Monarchy was…

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    Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as, “government for the people, of the people, by the people.” In essence, people participation is the core of the democratic system of government. One way to participate politically is by joining interest groups, which seek to pursue and protect its’ members and in some cases, public interests. They seek to influence policies of government along these interests. One way interest groups contribute to the democratic process is through campaign funding for a…

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    The governments in Fahrenheit 451 and in our real life society suppress knowledge because they want the people they have control over to think that the government that they’re living with is an okay government so the citizens won’t revolt and rebel. They also would like to keep the ones living in their nation stupid so they can manipulate the occupants to their will whenever they want without question or even the people’s differing opinions. In Fahrenheit 451, knowledge is suppressed to the…

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