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discussion of issues that they felt personally about. When reading the rest of Freedman over view it reveals that women for the majority were doing just that same thing. Women running for president worked with minor parties and never ended up on most ballots in the primary. It did not matter because instead they were allowing for their voices to be heard. It gave them a platform to express what they…

The fight for prohibition hindered the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States in the early twentieth century. Women were heavily involved in both the temperance movement and the women’s suffrage movement, which both achieved their goals in 1920. The temperance movement did not significantly provoke women to become politically active. It inspired liquor interests to assemble as major enemies of suffrage, and demeaned women by purposely promoting gender roles. Though historians disagree,…

From the beginning of Rome as an established nation, the struggle between the Patricians and Plebeians was present. What is clear as the Republic continues in growth and complexity, is a well-defined progression of popular representation within the government. The Struggle of the Orders represents a point in which democracy seems to begin to limit the power of the senate. In 494 B.C.E. when the Plebeians threatened to secede from Rome and establish their own state, the Senate was forced to…

running for president, the campaigns for voter registration sprang up. This encouraged both young and more mature people to, if they are not registered, to register to vote and go cast their ballot.…

Ponce de León was one of the most important conquistadors during his time. People knew Ponce de Leon best for going to Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth. However, before he did many other things such as successfully governing the Eastern part of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico and setting up settlements there. During Ponce de León’s time a basic meal for peasants, a majority of the people, consisted of soup or mush and usually some bread. The peasants generally put leftover food scraps,…

Gore and Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, Bush was able to stop the recount of the Florida ballots and thus win the presidency while losing the popular vote. However, many Americans began to lose faith in the electoral college as it did not follow the voice of the popular vote. To fuel the flames even more, the recent 2016 presidential election…

Separation of Power defines as “distribution of political authority that provides a system of checks and balances to ensure that no single branch; Executive, Judicial, and Legislative becomes too powerful or infringes on the rights of citizens” (Click, 2003-2015). Created by an 18th century enlightenment thinker name Baron de Montesquieu, which was first used in ancient Greek, but the United States took this idea and made it part of our Government. Power is separated into two different…

was intended to. There are many reasons constituents may choose not to vote, and perhaps, the issue is not in the voters as much as the system itself. Abraham Lincoln once claimed, “To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary” (Lincoln). But what if there is no “right” candidate? For example, many would argue the 2016…

In many ways, the psyche of Malcolm X and Hobbes are very contrastive. But, there were many clear similarities between the two respective philosophers. Political Legitimacy is elaborated upon by each philosopher immensely in each piece of writing. The main differing idea on political legitimacy between the two philosophers was their opinion regarding the government. Malcolm, who grew up experiencing institutional and personal racism, had many critiques of the government. Hobbes is completely…

The United States, a melting point of ethnicities, was founded as a nation of diverse populations coming together for one central goal: freedom. Years later and the definition of freedom has been distorted and altered. The country has seen racial and gender oppression of many sorts, from Native American residents to Mexican immigrants, that still continues in many ways today. With a surplus of ethnicities, there lie a surplus of cultures. These cultures represent themselves with different…