Liberal democracy

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…

American democracy has been the most sought after breed of government in the world. Democracy is a means for the people to choose their leaders and to hold their leaders accountable for their policies and their conduct in office. The government is not necessarily the one governing the people. Instead, the government are the ones giving the power to the government. However, this type of system only works through a majority take all system. The winners are not always winners and the losers are not…

Few events loom as large within the consciousness of the United States as the American Revolution. It has been endless debated and mythologized from the moment of its occurrence. By the same token, here are few topics as studied as the American Revolution. This seminal event has been examined and deliberated by generations of historians to the point there are few historiographies as extensive as that of the American Revolution. This has led to endless biographies of the founding fathers,…

Many have concluded that the Electoral College should be taken away completely or just in some states. There have been cases where Electoral College has actually been bad for us, but there has also been equal amount of times were it worked in are favor. There have been a few cases where they try to abolish the Electoral College and even just remove it state wide. For example, in 2004 Colorado almost passed a bill that uses popular vote instead of the electoral votes. Another, case was in 2000…