Democracy in America

The similarities between Athenian and American Democracy Once a writer said, “History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler”(Glassie). History is a source of information that people can look up to for the modern time. History can also help to solve problems which would not be possible without it. Moreover, if people look into history there were society which created law and values that lead to the modern society. For…

Reflections on Democracy and Civil Society About 200 years ago, a French youth scholar wrote a book called ‘Democracy in America. The man, named Tocqueville, said ‘it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce.’ Thereby, by pursuing its tendency, comprehending its bias, arguing its characteristics and significance, we gained either dreads or hope, during thousands of years. To some extent, the debate is still lasting…

American democracy is under threat as discussed by both Matthew Spalding and William Hudson. In their books, We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming our Future and American Democracy in Peril: Eight Challenges to America’s Future, written by Spalding and Hudson respectively, they list their reasons for this view. One leans more conservative and the other liberal yet the both reached the same conclusion in that American democracy is going through troubling times.…

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…

If it is true that tragedies come in threes, then the death of American democracy is surely inevitable. The trio is affecting this nation is evangelical, paternalistic and sentimental nihilism; a toxic combination of institutionalized practices and behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism and imperialism. The threads of nihilism were woven into the fabric of America since the values of the nation were conceived in the Constitution. The architects of this paramount document set a precedence for…

America has long been praised as being a prosperous country that has a special role on the stage of world politics. There is no doubt that America displays exceptionalism as a nation. However, there is debate over the reason for America’s exceptionalism, and Christians question how the church should respond to America’s exceptionalism. In chapter four of Migrations of the Holy, William T. Cavanaugh explains some of the theories surrounding America’s role as an exceptional nation. One theory in…

The elite theory of democracy is a form of democracy where a small minority of highly influential members of society like wealthy and political elites hold an unequal or more power than the popular majority. Basically, the elite theory of democracy says that in every political system there are only two different groups of participants. The first is the small amount of elites, which exercises a large amount of influence over the democratic system .The second is the large amount of regular…

in the United States Constitution, Americans are able to ensure the government’s power remains limited. A civic responsibility is essentially a citizen’s duty to participate in government activities and other such events in order to maintain a democracy. However, it shouldn’t be confused with a punishment or a task one must do. It is in a citizen’s own interest to participate in civic responsibilities such as paying taxes, voting, and serving as a juror in court. By not taking part in the…

In Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, Paine characterizes America as a country with a heterogenous government whose actions result in societal unison. The country is composed of various groups of people, in terms of race, gender, and socioeconomic classes. The wealthy and poor differ from each other, but live in harmony, all due to a “just government” (2). America’s government is based on the fundamental rights of man, which speak to members of all societies. The government is composed of…

When compared to other nations America is still a very young country, but what it is lacking in age, it more than makes up for in depth and dimensionality of character. The American population is composed of 319 million people with 319 million different backgrounds and experiences which together make up a cumulative American identity. Although the identity of America is subjective to every person who experiences it, certain values and ideas such as the conflict between good and evil, the…