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    Plumer. "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." To summarize, each state has a group of electors that are the ones who technically do the voting. With each amount of votes excepted by the people, another elector is added to the vote. Overall the group votes on who they want in office. So in all honesty the people are really not having a say in who will be there…

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    Term Limits There have been many proposals to reform Congress in order to increase its effectiveness, reliability, and accountability. One of these proposals include term limits, which are legally prescribed limits on the number of terms an elected official can serve. Although term limits are argued to be the most efficient way to reform Congress, there are many ways in which they can be considered ineffective and even detrimental. In addition, even if term limits are effective, it is often…

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    The Texas government and the federal government work in a different way. I am going to analyze the most significant differences between them, while considering how they affect the way both governments address the popular and elite interests and how they promote participation. The most significant different between the Constitutions is that the Texas Constitution is much more detailed than the U.S. Constitution. Some articles and sections in the Texas Constitution are so detailed that they look…

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    very little about their Presidential Candidates. I feel that America should do more research about their candidates and get to know more about who they are going to be voting for. Americans should be comparing and contrasting values, beliefs and many other factors between candidates and know who or what it is that they are really voting for. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump share many beliefs and have much in common. Some of the following things that these two presidential candidates have in…

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    Theodore Arrington and Saul Brenner both had compelling arguments and supportingarguments. In the Article, Brenner was for the Electoral college, stating how it let people expressthemselves, it has impacted presidents to attend regional concerns instead of regarding nationalsand how some votes can count more than others. Arrington was against the Electoral college, hisreasoning was, members of the third party will most likely not be able to do mischief underelectoral college, there will be an…

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    When a person wants to run for president election, they announce it before the primary elections. The primary elections help decide the future president and the vice president. There is a convention held in the summer of the election year, where the party would choose its candidates. Once the candidates have been chosen, that is when the they go around the country meeting people, making speeches and making promises about what they will do for the people while they are in office, they usually…

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    elections to select judges. Judicial selection begins with partisan elections and significant amounts of money for campaigning in order to win the election or reelection. Partisan elections influence the electorate in a consistent party label for the voting process. Another problem that the Texas judicial system lacks is the minority of representation on the bench. Most of the judges in a court according to the Texas Politics Profiling Project states that the typical Texas judge is a…

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    elections is when majority of Canadians joined forces and chose to remove Stephen Harper as our prime minister. Elections important because everyone’s voices are heard and we as Canadians work together to decide which leader is the best for the country. Voting helps fulfill our needs and wants some of which include: more funding for better education, increasing jobs, and having to pay fewer taxes. However according to the democracy theory elections can be a flawed process which means not…

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    The Constitution has inhibited the growth of America, so I would side with the Anti-Federalist. I believe that the elites are the only people that truly benefit from the constitution. The elite citizens in society, seems are the only people that benefit from the rights that the constitution. This is shown throughout things, such as, the electoral college, and to be honest one of the biggest issues with the constitution was considered a citizen, and who was included in the actual document of the…

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    I believe that during Andrew Jackson’s election and time in office he was democratic. The definition of a democrat is a person who believes in the political or social equality of all people. I would identify Jackson as a democrat because of the electors in the election in 1832, What his supporters said at his inauguration, and because of a veto he made. Jackson first showed signs of being democratic in the election of 1824 when only 6 of the 12 states had the people elect the electors and the…

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