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expansion of political power.” Fukuyama, also, argues that there are three basic political components constitute the modern political order: the state, the rule of law, and mechanism of accountability. In light of theses arguments, there is one common that the modern political institution should be based on the strong, authoritarian, centralized government that holds a monopoly on legitimate force for defending unification as well as has capacity to enforce the policies over a defined territory.…

federal system is the form of government all United States citizens are living under today. Sense this governmental system came to form, the strengths and weaknesses of our democracy under a federal system have become clear. Two advantages to this form of government are that the smaller forms of government on state and country levels created by federalism are more equipped to make decisions on behalf of the needs of local communities then a singular central government; the second advantage is…

Edward Snowden is a government contractor who leaked information on the NSA surveillance network. Alerting the public to the fact that the NSA was conducting untargeted gathering of information on average American citizens. Public opinion on Snowden is divided; John Cassidy, writer for The New Yorker hails Snowden as a hero, (Cassidy) while his fellow New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin calls him “a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison” (Toobin) By releasing this information, Snowden…

I went on a road trip to Lake Tahoe with my friends the week after graduation in June. We rented a cabin near the lake and spent four nights kayaking, hiking, and exploring different scenic spots throughout the area. My favorite (and scariest!) part of the trip was working up the courage to jump off a 20 foot cliff into the lake. The trip was a great way to wrap up our time at UCLA, and it gave us a chance to hang out together one last time before we went our separate ways. I would donate a…

of. Edward Snowden is a 30­year old ex contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) . In May 2013, Snowden moved from his home in Hawaii to travel to Hong Kong. He was traveling there to reveal his secrets to the journalist Glenn Greenwald. At the time…

The President of the United States is elected to a four-year term by electors from every make up Congress. The citizens of each state vote for electors who then vote for the president on the prescribed day, selected by Congress. “According to Maier, Pauline, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, Executive Orders are legally binding orders given by the President, acting as the head of the Executive Branch of Federal Administrative Agencies. They are not legally binding on…

championship for a stronger central government, with the view that it would lead to a more powerful nation. As a party, Federalists generally frowned upon democracy as they thought it would give the opportunity for poor leadership to arise in states. Various arguments were presented in favor of the Federalist ideology. In keeping with the activities of a strong national government, the Federalist Party…

tyranny. There must be guards against tyranny in a proper democracy, such as the United States of America (US). The Constitution of the US (COTUS) was created in 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, with fears of tyranny in mind. So, what are the guards against tyranny in COTUS? Tyranny is a situation in which all power is placed in the hands of a single entity and typically used in reference to government. COTUS guards against tyranny in four ways which are federalism,…

among the different parts of the government. Federalist could be better referred to as “nationalist” because they believed that the majority of the power should lay within the national government. The anti-federalist believed that the national government should not receive the majority of the power because it would be at the expense of states and the people. The federalist party…

To me, it is a defining moment of the century because it changed the role of and the conception of the government in economies and resulted in a new and modern macroeconomics era. The depression as portrayed by Watkins was an experience that affected the Americans, both psychologically and economically. Through the use of stories of Odie Stallings and Gordon…