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a concept of which Constant favors the individual independence it offers. As I sit here behind a computer discussing classical politics, I make up a body of individuals that already serve a small part to disprove critics. Our current republican government…

fully U.S. citizens. After reading Invisible Immigrants, I realized that there are many women who cross the border illegally and have to work in a place that doesn’t require Social Security number. Eventually, these women find jobs in a farm or small local place, but face even a bigger problem. Their supervisor or boss rape these women because they have a power of them since they are illegal citizens who can easily be deported. Women who are pregnant face…

Citizenship Citizenship education has become a keystone of democratic governments such as those found in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. Other forms of state government (autocracies, oligarchies, monarchies, theocracies, et al.) impose limitations on the rights of its citizens, so therefore the majority of their population will never need to learn what it takes to actually participate in government, and they just learn to follow the mandated laws or else face the…

Robert D. Putnam establishes social capital as the trivial umbrella that encompasses norms, trust, network, reciprocity, collectiveness, collaboration and interconnectivity. All of these individual components combined are remarkably important for the solidification of democracy. The presence of a concrete social capital indicates that coordination and cooperation for a mutual advantage is conducted (Putnam 384). However, in his article “Bowling Alone:America’s Declining Social Capital,” Putnam…

The task of ranking presidents has traditionally been one fraught with peril; the historian must be assumed to have disengaged all personal political preferences, all deeply held personal beliefs, in order to evaluate those men who so often stood at the forefront of history and who have, to a large degree, shaped the world in which we live. Given that such historians are necessarily human, and thus prone to the very human tendencies of bias and opinion, such perfect lists are indeed almost…

How important has government direction and policy been in the economic development and export success in countries of the Asia-Pacific region? The level of economic development and export success in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region is a phenomenon which many theorists have attempted to explain. Concerning whether or not there exist a significant relationship between government policies and such regional economic success, I argue that government direction and policy has been critically…

failure of the potato crop – something beyond the control of the British Government- their subsequent response, or there lack of, to the crisis greatly contributed to the devastation caused by the blight. As evidenced by Tony Blair’s 1997 apology to the Irish people, the British Government’s policies during the Great Famine toward a country it was, on paper at least, in union with, were unforgivable. Although the Conservative government under Peel’s response early on in the famine could be…

Public policies are the choices local and national governments make on behalf of their constituents (Mintrom, 2012). Comparatively, public policy analysts work to inform elected officials and government agencies of conscious and objective decisions to improve overall society and communities (Mintrom, 2012). Public policy analysts must possess specific experiences and sets of skills that allow them to make fair and clear advising decisions. Moreover, individuals aspiring to work as public policy…

Chris Heldman, His 101 SIN2, Reflective Essay, July 13, 2015. “We the people.’’ These three words are at the beginning of our nation’s first formal document. This document and many others that form our government have their origins in an early city of America and in ancient societies. I visited this city on March 25 this year to observe these documents and to visit the locations of their creations. I attended multiple speeches, presentations, and historical sites. Each of these had a large…

the Federalist Papers view an enlightened and virtuous citizenry as wholly essential to the Constitutional system, but while the federalists build institutions to defend the government against the self-interested passions of the people, Tocqueville sees the greatest benefits of the American political system where the government and the people meet: in the township and in political associations. The Federalists believe that the core of the Constitution system’s success lies in its institutions…