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    In order to have a successful organization of any sort there must be rules to live by. Before the United States had been established the future colonials were living in New England still under the British rule. The people were ruled by King George the III from about 1760 to 1783. The British people were started to get upset about the new kings policies and acts he would put into place. Around the early 1770s he passed a tax on tea. The people were very upset and decided to rebel by throwing all…

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    The purpose of this paper is to analyze and assess the arguments and normative framework posited by White in his article “The ‘Centre’ of the Democratic Deficit: Power and Influence in Canadian Political Executives”. Furthermore, the reformative solutions put forth by White will be examined and weighed to determine their viability. White’s argument is that there is no means of identifying the democratic deficit produced by the centralization of power within the top tiers of the executive branch…

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    Form Of Government

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    In conclusion, to create the ideal government there must be big changes made to the courts, elections, political parties, and both the executive and legislative branches. It is clear that the current system of government in the US is not effective in all areas. However, it is equally clear that there is no prefect form of government anywhere else in the world. Combining various systems and modification of the current US government would help to create a more complete and better functioning…

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    Government Composition Brazil’s government is classified a presidential and federative republic with traits of both federalism and democracy (Brazil - Structure of Government, 2016). Brazil is broken up into states, but still has a federal government that oversees the entire country. In Brazil voting is mandatory for all literate citizens from ages 18 to 69. Anyone who is illiterate, between 16 and 17, or older than 69 years of age can choose to vote, but is not required to do so (Brazil…

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    believe that there are 4 plausible democratic systems of government that you can adopt: Westminster-style parliamentary governance with plurality elections, parliamentary governance with proportional representation, presidential government (i.e. separation of powers), or semi-presidentialism. These forms of governance, although quite different, all aim to provide stability and democratic rule; in this sense, you cannot choose incorrectly. However, what you will need to consider is that in…

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    right in the sense that the law and the Constitution, as we see them, compel the result.’. The vast majority of the work of judges is not deciding important social or political issues, but enforcing clearly set out laws or debating highly technical legal cases. Landmark cases such as abortion policy are in the small minority of cases decided. The courts are not acting as a ‘counterpower’ to democracy by creating policy outside the democratic sphere of influence but merely…

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    a power to securing the blessing of liberty which means it would make sure that all the future generations will have at least the same freedom as that generation had. Because of this, founding fathers created the government with the idea of the separation of power. The Framers of the U.S constitution, in need of securing the blessing of liberty, laid the foundation of this government and affect the future generations successfully in building their political culture. Society has changed…

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    1. Representative Assembly is best defined as a legislature that is composed of individuals who represent the population. The way that this assembly helped to set up for further colonies is because the representative assembly are individuals that represent a population. They had settled in Plymouth (Massachusetts) and knew that some sort of civil obedience had to be established. So they came up with the Mayflower Compact as a way to establish order in their “society” and as a way to submit to…

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    Without it where would we be today in life if it was not for you? What would the outcome be of violence? How would we resolve situations dealing with the government? Does it even bring peace in today’s society? Would we still be allowed to voice our opinions or how we feel? I thank you for the Constitution. What is the constitution? Is the government still allowed to make decisions based on the constitution? Is the constitution keeping the Americans stable? I found myself asking myself these…

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    Judicial discretion refers to the powers conferred to a judge in the legal system of a given country to determine the direction of a matter presented to them without the interference of preceding or strict regulations that are established by statutes (Bushway et al. 2012). Judicial discretion is assigned by the legal apparatus within a given jurisdiction, meaning that court decisions may be subject to contest through the utilization of higher powers. Judges are supposed to practice the…

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