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    Economic causes in the 1700, France faces financial ruin. Louis XIV, who died in 1715 had left enormous debt created by wars and luxurious living. France’s debt continues to grow. Further European wars as well as aid to colonists during the American Revolution emptied the royal treasury. Both Louis XV and Louis XVI borrowed heavily from bankers. They still spent lavishly on luxuries and on gifts for favourite nobles. France’s inefficient and unfair system of taxation made it impossible for the…

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    The healthcare-based organization that I chose is the American Medical Association. The American Medical Association (AMA) is an association of physicians that seeks to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. It also is dedicated to empowering physicians to continue to provide safer, higher quality, and more efficient care to patients and communities all over the world. For many years, the AMA has had unlimited commitment to using its diverse position and…

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    Electoral Process Fair

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    works is: each state is given a number of electors equal to the number of its U.S. senators and House of Representatives. It is a “winner take all” system where a candidate wins by gaining a majority of electoral votes not the popular votes. The delegates, being able to vote however they choose to, does not have to go with the popular vote. This system is considered effective as it gets the work done efficiently. However, it especially makes the process unfair. In…

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    I look forward to working with you in the upcoming presidential election. We will share many great successes together on the path to the nomination and the White House. Section One: The Nomination I know that you’ve been through the nomination process before with your husband Bill Clinton and with your last attempt for the nomination, but it will obviously be different this year because you’re polling so incredibly high, and you are the Democratic front runner! In this section, I’ll remind you…

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    Many people don’t vote because it’s just psychologically inconvenient for them for the simplest, and even laziest, of reasons. A 2015 Washington Post article featured a survey conducted by the US Census Bureau on the reasons why registered voters didn’t vote on election day in 2014, the election day whose voter turnout was classified in the article as, “The worst turnout since 1942” [10]. 25% of the responses in the poll could be classified as the person being unable to make it to the polling…

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    World's Fair Thesis

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    The World’s Parliament was a contradictory event. Asian delegates, or “Orientals” defined as “followers of Brahma and Buddha and Mohammed” (62), at the Parliament were given a warm welcome and were even referred to as “The most gorgeous group [of] delegates” (64) at the fair. However, just seven years prior, The Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States, making it one of the most significant restrictions of free immigration in US…

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    the Wyoming Constitution. Constitutional Conventions The U.S. Constitutional Convention was the meeting in which delegates from the existing states formed to try and better the U.S by creating laws. The US Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania State House (Wiki) ) on May 25th 1787. There were 55 delegates there. The 55 delegates are from every state except Rhode Island. Rhode Island didn’t attend the convention…

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    assembly, this person was Ceasar Rodney. He was charged with revising and printing the laws of the province of Delaware. That year he was elected a delegate to the Assembly, and was re­elected for seventeen years despite a six year residence outside the commonwealth. He served as a trustee of the provincial loan office. In the year of 1775 he was the delegate for the Delaware Stamp Act Congress in New York. McKean also served on the national…

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    elections. Over 90 percent of voters in Texas are made up of republicans or democrats which contributes to the lack of influence from Independent parties. For this reason, the process discussed focuses on these two parties. In order to select which delegate will represent their party, they hold elections with registered voters. The voters choose between the registered candidates the outcome is counted. There are two types of primary elections. One of them the voters vote within their party…

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    rebelling from Great Britain. This is a primary document as Dickinson was present during the drafting of the Articles. There are a total of 13 articles. The majority of the colonies had their own constitution, which was not a sign of unison. The delegates at the convention decided on various issues. The Articles provided a weaker central government, as people were wary of a monarchy creeping its way to the colonies. The Articles called for the colonies to be collectively called the United States…

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