Gerrymandering

Soichiro Honda once said "Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection". So to say what movement was more successful than another, cannot be defined through only one means. I believe success can only measured later down the road, years after an event has happened to truly try and comprehend what they were trying to accomplish. So when comparing two chicano movements, you have to analyze and dig deep too see how much of an impact they had alone trying to accomplish…

contradictory to the idea that a democracy is to be a governmental system where the citizens have power over decisions through their votes, and leaders are selected by the people - not the other way around. By preordaining the election outcomes, gerrymandering makes voting less significant and may discourage voter turnout by the citizens. Another plausible reason why voter suppression may be…

This relates to recent Supreme Court cases that are trying to prevent “racial gerrymandering.” The result of these cases has made it incredible difficult in forming majority-minority district. The solution to these voting rights is proportional representation, coming from the basic foundational standard of fairness to all, which makes…

The vast majority of citizens in the United States, if asked, would say that this country is a pure democracy. Some would go as far as saying that we may even be the definition of a true democratic society. However, what many do not realize is that while the United States tries to spread democracy across the world, our own government does not exactly practice what it preaches. Though citizens have the right to vote, these votes go towards electing officials in hopes that their elects will…

guaranteed win for only two prospective candidates rather than the collective of running candidates. The two-party system is not fair, people should be able to vote for who they want not the other way around. This idea creates the perfect storm for gerrymandering and many other unfair political processes. Furthermore this system does not represent the people and it does not help that our vote does not count in any way shape or form. I believe that a multi-party system would neither decrease nor…

Current day America has become more politically divided than ever before. Politics are becoming more polarized meaning the left wing liberals are moving more towards the left while the right wing conservatives are moving further towards the right. This means that both sides are moving away from the middle of liberal and conservative which would be moderate. As a result of politics deviating from the middle or moderate, politics becomes more difficult because both sides cannot meet a consensus…

Many countries view the United States as a great democracy, however, some may argue that limitations exist in its system of government. In my opinion, the quote is reasonable. Government is not perfect by making everything fair and political parties are continuously clashing. The United States government fails to fulfill its intended role due deficiencies in the three branches of government and political parties. At times, the branches of government are more powerful, but rarely equal. The three…

Revolution. It is a small word with different variations across languages that strikes fear into the minds of all leaders, from fascist dictators to democratically elected presidents alike. For such a powerful word, however, “revolution” has a bit of a paradoxical set of themes in its definitions. For those of us here on this pale blue dot, we imagine a wave of impoverished peasants taking arms and flooding the streets, tearing down fortresses as if they were a child’s sand castle built too…

- “Hating the shit out of the next town over” to me would apply to Brown and Schaffts internal structure v. external relationships. In my opinion the authors would view this as a strong relationship as it relates to “hate” of an outside town due to how urbanism has made it difficult for the local economy to survive if per se, a Walmart comes within 50 miles or so and is perhaps this cheaper alternative to local, farm grown/raised products—so I think here the hate could be from an economic…

He believed the people should have their right to express their opinion through voting because the United States is a democracy and people need to have their vote count. Voter discrimination (gerrymandering) was something he intervened in. For example in the case of, Graves v. Barnes, which was a state legislative reapportionment. This case was about the apportionment of the senatorial districts in Harris County and it was due to racial discrimination…