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The Slow Downfall of the U.S.A. Imagine that the world has entered into a war with no predictable outcome. Countries fighting against one another with no clear sides or allies. The U.S. is nowhere to be found on the battlefields, in the skies, or even in the sea. What could have happened to the powerhouse with the strongest military in the world? Because of weakening foreign relations, decreases in the protection of America, and the negative effects on the families of those who serve in…

As his government had fallen again, I approached the new governor general, Lord Monck, and obtained a dissolution. Before I could act on it, I was approached by Brown through intermediaries; the Grit leader felt that the crisis gave the parties the opportunity to join together for constitutional reform. Brown had led a parliamentary committee on confederation among the British North American colonies, which had reported back just before the Taché-Macdonald government fell. Brown was more…

In his article, “The Perils of Presidentialism” Juan Linz observe that there are few stable democracies that have presidential systems of government. On the contrary, there are many parliamentary democracies and historically, they have performed better. Three major problems of presidential systems can be deduced from his essay; 1) Dual legitimacy, 2) fixed term, and 3) winner-takes-all logic. After explaining all three problems, this paper argues that winner-takes-all logic is as much applicable…

The Final Say What do I consider to be the most important thing every Canadian should know? Well I think the government is the most important thing Canadians should know. Not just the people in the government, but what is happening in our government, what laws want to be placed, or taken away, or how they run our government, or what they plan to do for the future of our great country. I think all Canadians should know who is running the government, what they do, and how the will shape our future…

Head of state: The United Kingdom (UK) is a constitutional monarchy, the head of state is the hereditary monarch. The monarch is neutral within politics and the powers they have are non political, but formal and ceremonial. Having a democracy gives power to the people, they would vote who they want in power, giving the people sovereignty. Pros of a codified constitution: Arguably a codified constitution gives the people of the State one clear and accessible document, outlining the fundamental…

night where only those who lurk in the shadows resurface to meet with the black man. Or maybe even a person who has something sinful bearing on their mind, is lurking around as well. This exact depiction of night is the setting for chapter 12, The Ministers Vigil; and the man responsible for the creation of The Scarlet Letter is, “the most significant fiction writer of the antebellum period”(Baym603), Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this chapter Hawthorne is able to use imagery and symbolism in both the…

small desk facing the main entrance as she was reading The Sun newspaper and looked at the two men in total silence. The security guard said, “Good morning! His Excellency, Mr. Yusuf Alfalaki, ambassador of Cout has an appointment with the Prime Minister, Mr. Michael White.” The old woman turned to check visitors schedule in front of her and she pressed a button on the phone; she said in a…

What are all the evil things in the world? Well, in all of these stories The Devil and Tom Walker, The pit and the pendulum, the Ministers Black Veil, and Moby Dick all have the theme of evilness and how it can be found everywhere within everyone. In this paper it will explain how these stories share evilness within the character and the obstacles the characters have to go through to fight the evilness. In the first story, The Devil and Tom Walker have evilness within the Devil and Tom Walker…

ecosystem and biodiversity has dramatically risen. The race to slow and possibly reverse the process of the destruction on Earth is one with differentiating views dependent upon beliefs. In “Letter to a Southern Baptist Minister” by Edward Wilson, he writes to a Baptist minister proposing that religion and science should join forces to save Earth’s ecosystem and creation from continued pauperization. Wilson does an excellent job of establishing this unheard of claim with a rogerian approach and…

Grace v Minister of Land Information [2014] Facts: Mrs Patricia Grace, the objector, owned a block of land that had Maori freehold status. On 6 June 2013, the Minister of Land Information, the respondent, signed a Notice of Intention to take a section of Grace’s land to enable the construction of the Kapiti Expressway. Grace then filed a Notice of Objection to the Environment Court. In an attempt to protect her land, she applied to the Maori Land Court to set aside her land as a Maori…