Government of Illinois

Democracy is defined by broad values involving participation and formal rules about procedures such as elections. But for most persons most of the time these are removed from daily life. That is not true for the police, the agency of government that citizens are most likely to see and have contact with. All industrial societies use police to control crime and to contribute to public order (e.g., mediating and arbitrating disputes, regulating traffic and helping in emergencies). But the…

Yes. In my opinion the ‘debate’ H.L.A Hart (1917-1992) and Ronald Dworkin (born 1932) over whether or not judges has ‘strong’ or ‘weak discretion’ has relevance in this particular issue as its stated by Lord Justice Jacob that ‘conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more while Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like…

surveillance technology and as time goes by they are creating more. George Orwell explains how Big Brother has strict control over society just by the use of technology, in today’s society everyone is so revolved, who knows what is being exposed to our government. Surveillance/ Limitations II “ The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously any sound that winston made, above the level of a very low whisper can be picked up by it.” Telescreen was a type of surveillance,…

employ a re-modern, traditional form of authority within its government, while simultaneously using the highly modern concept of a “cult of personality,” in which a government uses wide-spread propaganda to idealize a ruler. The application of these two political methods has created a powerful hybrid form of governance that relies on the strengths of one another to form a new, evolved form of leadership. In North Korea, the communist government claims to place power among its workers, however,…

with the influence of governments, media, and religion on modern society. The song suggests all of these sources of information are biased and self-concerned, thus deceiving the individuals to blindly believe only one point of view. I chose this song because it can relate to the issues faced in the modern society. The main message of the song is that a big part of today's world is moving in the wrong direction, but that is justified by religion, media, greed and governments. They have managed to…

Part I : The Introduction, The Rulers, The conspiracy The illuminati is a secret religion found in May 1st, 1776 that follows the conspiracy theory thus meaning they are a group of secretive people that operate behind the scenes to govern the entire world in secret. In a developed context, the Illuminati are extremely powerful people that work in the financial, industrial and media world based in Western Europe and North America and some of their most important names are Rothschild,…

One way to address whether Athens was a real democracy is to examine if it was a ‘good’ democracy; what were the citizens’ powers in terms of being able to check and evaluate the government (Badie, Berg-Schlosser and Morlino, 2011). Ober (1993) shares that democracy was of utmost importance to the Athenians, the political power citizens’ could access was exercised both collectively and actively, unlike the political participation of…

Core of Consciousness The world today is anthropocentric, in which we assume that the most essential and central entities in the world are human beings. This is why we will be dissecting section by section the fractions of what we call “human beings”, including what makes one such, and what makes one deviate from being a “human being”. I, being a human being myself and a citizen of this democratic state, will help you explore how the latter concepts are linked, and probably the main cause of…

A more effective tactic invented by the Party is doublethink; it resides in the minds of every citizen and party member, influencing every action and decision unconsciously and destroying one’s ability to understand the truth of their reality. Doublethink is an insidious tactic the Party designed to betray the thoughts of the individual. The Party convinces the citizens of Oceania to accept all ideas originate from the Party, and they use the ever-present threat of survival to bring the…

the concepts between the three spheres namely, politics, government and governance, it is very important to discuss the concept of state because without a state, none of the three spheres mentioned above would exists because they all function within a state. A state, according to Cloete (1993:147), is an independent territory with clearly established boundaries that are recognized by the people of that territory, and the people and governments of other recognized states. A state has permanent…