Direct democracy

Over the past half century, there has been an increasing globalized trend towards democratic decentralization. Decentralization can be defined as the transfer of governing power, authority and fiscal control from central to local government, and is a highly contentious process of governance (Stren 2011). Within this overarching process, there are many forces that work in conjunction with one another in order to make decentralized governments function aptly. Deconcentration of governing power,…

a Legislator had changed his party by crossing the floor and moving to the other side i.e. the opposition or when he moved from the opposition to the Ruling’s side. Therefore, the prodigy of Defection was not at all a new concept in many of the democracies. There were many political stalwarts who managed to change their parties and this incident not only happened once but a couple of times. Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the USA…

Conform The phrase “actions speak louder than words” comes into play when a just leader focuses their actions towards protecting the city and the civilians within. If a ruler struggling for the loyalty of their subjects, because of a lack of trust, creates a reason for the people to have to trust the leader in order to survive then the ruler has gained loyalty from their subjects. Based on this reasoning, the Party creates a fear of rebellion by forming a war with Oceania. The war convinces the…

In the introductory paragraph of “Narratives of Fear in Syria,” Wendy Pearlman argues that “Popular demonstrations generated a new experience of fear as a personal barrier to be surmounted. When people or a population are fearful—whether that be induced by a political entity or otherwise—this personal barrier, often called the barrier of fear, the start of demonstrations, and the collapse of fear, functions as an intangible obstacle between inaction and action. The Middle East has historically…

The French Civil Code established under Napoleon I in 1804 focused much of its structure and efforts on equality, equality in the eyes of the law that was. This meant that the written law would be available to everyone, and it was also thought that privileges would not be a problem because social classes would not exist or be of importance. However, it is known that this was not entirely true. This was only true under the written law but in practice it was very much different. Equality did not…

Choose One: Power Happines Freedom For all of history there has existed the struggle between the strong and the weak. The establishment of government gives the power to a particular group to decide the amount of freedom the majority is allowed, however, though not ideal it provides necessary order. The benefits of security that limitations on freedom provides must be balanced with the individual's pursuit of happiness for citizens to be content. To prevent the governed majority from…

A fourth progressive that had a lasting impact was Mother Jones. She was born in Ireland and was known for coordinating many strikes and marches, the most well-known being the children’s march, the goal of which was to get child labor laws. During this march, Mother Jones walked with children who were working in the mills from Philadelphia to New York to see President Theodore Roosevelt. The President stays out of town during the march, however, as a result of this march, child labor laws…

Thomas More would advise me to not take the important government position that was being offered. In this book Utopis, Thomas More is ablibe to expresses his true feelings about the government through Raphael Hythloday a masked and a fictional character. The charactor Thomas More in the book is towards working for the government while his unlter ego is not. In this essay I will be focusing on the scenarios Hythloday offers More and Giles to prove his point that being an advisor to a king will…

Freedom and Security “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” This statement by Benjamin Franklin (1818), one of the founding fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, shows the sacred character of freedom which should not be altered for any reason. On the other hand, Rand Beers, the current Deputy Homeland Security Advisor of President Obama, thinks that the precondition to freedom is…

the way in which Plato’s Socrates defined four different types of unjust governments and the manners in which each form government tended to devolve into the next form. Freeman (2016), near the end of this lecture, after discussing the nature of democracy and tyranny extensively in both modern American and Ancient Greek contexts said something that seemed to resonate…