Deliberative democracy

Civil Disobedience “That government is best which governs least”, (Jacobus 305) is the opening line of Henry David Thoreau famous writing called Civil Obedience. Thoreau wrote about how a good government should not have control or power over its people. But what he really believed in was that there shouldn’t be a government because people have the ability to self-regulate and be independent on their own. Letting the government have too much power turns it into a machine, as Thoreau called it,…

1. In your opinion, please discuss the “pros and cons” of the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan. (Please include the advantages and/or disadvantages of partisan judicial elections and whether, in your opinion, is a better system for choosing state judges. When talking about a state judge selection, the best way to elect a judge is by the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan. But there are many pros and cons to each side of this choice! The main pro to the Missouri Non-partisan Court Plan is…

According to J.R. Mallory’s paper, “Cabinet Government in Canada,” the federal cabinet of Canada roots from the British governmental system. In many ways, Canada has kept British traditions, but as it developed, the governmental systems grew more different. In this paper, Mallory discusses how the Canadian federal cabinet compares to the British system, how it came to be and the role of the cabinet in Canada. Because Canada’s governmental system somewhat stems from Britain’s, there are many…

Once every four years, many of the standard television advertisements are replaced with something much worse: political campaign ads. There are many different types of campaign ads. Among them are characters ads, which serve to establish the good character of a candidate, bandwagon ads, which serve to convince the public that a candidate is best choice because many other people are voting for them, and evidence ads, that use facts to convince the public that a candidate is the best choice for…

The Censors: Argentina in the 1940s From 1940 to 1949, Argentinians suffered through the tail end of the Infamous Decade, a revolution, the start of the Peronist years, and a war. Censorship and propaganda were rampant, and it affected the country's citizens greatly. Vice president Ramón Castillo took leadership of the Argentine government in the dawn of 1940. President Roberto Ortiz still technically ruled, but due to his poor health, Castillo managed everything behind the scenes (Finan).…

According to Norman Ornstein in “What’s Wrong with Washington? Tribalism” there have been many dysfunctional periods throughout history in politics and congress. Ornstein feels we are currently at the most dysfunctional point in history, despite his previous claim in 2011 saying the congress in that time period was the worst. However, he admits we may be in the top five worst rather than the worst. According to Ornstein political function or dysfunction is determined not just by the president…

Politics is a part of human nature, an unavoidable part. Even though this is a common characteristic among all human beings, how politics are ran differs among each population. This population could be an entire country or that of a small county in Wisconsin, I attended a Waukesha County Town Hall meeting. I learned a lot from this meeting, but what this meeting specifically taught me about American politics was that there is a severe lack of diversity in those who represent us and also those…

In the context of ancient China, much can be learned about actions which were deemed virtuous, or proper, by exploring historical literature. Whether an individual was an emperor or a farmer, he or she was expected to conform to a set of behavioral rules that appears to have varied little. Indeed, it appears that those with higher positions of prestige were held to a higher standard than those of common laborers. This difference was possibly used as a method to ensure the stability of the…

Direct popular vote could cause for a series of problems and there is a reason for why it is not used in order to decide the constitutional amendments. The biggest reason can be found in the fact that if an idea can catch onto the public, it will capture and convince the opinions of over fifty percent of a direct popular vote. In the situation that this scenario does occur, it would cause for major threats across the United States as a whole. A similar effect could be seen early on in the essay…

An important theme of the story Flatlands is the idea that people are unable to accept the truth or change their perspective, and as a result, they do anything possible to reject it. Also, the people of Flatland believe that women and irregular figures should be treated disrespectfully. However, I felt that Abbott simply wanted the readers to find that to be absurd, but then realize that their reality isn’t a whole lot different than that. In other words, he wanted people to find that Flatland…