Non-partisan democracy

The judicial selection systems in the United States are different all over the country. All fifty states have one of the basic patterns of selecting judges. There are partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, appointments, and appointments with retention election. Partisan elections, like the system we have in Texas currently works by each candidate having to run under a party affiliation. In a partisan election candidates first run in a primary election and it also incorporates straight-party voting. The good thing about partisan elections is that they allow people of that state some control by being able to have a say on how the judiciary should be set up. By citizens being able to link the candidate to a party, it helps in the decision…

Congressional approval ratings have proven to be dependent upon the partisan lens in which the public views their legislative decisions. The public tends to have higher approval ratings when Congress approves legislation that aligns with their political views and lower approval ratings when congress approves legislation that does not. However, in “How Partisan Conflict in Congress Affects Public Opinion: Strategies, Outcomes, and Issue Differences” Flynn and Harbridge examine how approval…

Page feels today’s way of communicating politics makes it hard to find consensus. Douglas says partisan rhetoric is the new civil discourse. He feels that “candidates have tossed aside civility” (Douglas 105), and Page gives an example of this when talking about a verbal/physical fight that broke out during a debate. Resnick says “congressional hearing are… [just] opportunities for politicians to grandstand rather than talk” (1), and Douglas feels “politicians focus more on blaming their…

I. Leokadia Jaromirska Leokadia Jaromirska lived in the Warsaw suburb of Bialoleka. 1942, while on her way to work with another woman, they heard the cries of children and saw a little girl and an eight-month-old baby abandoned near the fence of a convent. Leokadia convinced the other woman to take the girls home with her. After work she hurried back to the other woman 's home, where she found out that the woman had panicked and brought the older girl to the police station. Leokadia took the…

peoples, who treated him as a national hero. To understand Tito’s rise it is necessary to explain historical events occurring between 1941 and 1945. In early 1941 the Communists were extremely unpopular in the kingdom ruled by Alexander. However, WWII raging all over the Europe reached Yugoslavia and in April 1941, the Nazis attacked the country. With the government armed forces surrendering after 11 days of struggle, the Communist partisans were the only soldiers, who continued to fight the…

Fighter and Defiance are both films that portray a story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Each of their stories present similarities in their representations of Jewish resistance. For example, they both involve characters that first find the desire to fight from their thirst for vengeance. They both also inadvertently make non-resistors seem less heroic than those who did fight. However, there are also differences and I will mention one; Fighter goes into further depth on establishing…

people were too scared to fight back, but not everyone; some were eager to rise up to the occasion. Resistance groups were determined to stop at nothing until they punished the former Nazis that inflicted so much pain. Nakam, a Jewish partisan resistance movement from Palestine, was one of these groups. They had one ultimate goal: to avenge the lives lost during the Holocaust. It was Nakam’s incentive for their actions that drove their extreme efforts of…

accents. However, “Defiance” doesn’t quite fit this mold. This seldom-explored story of Jewish rebels is instead a film crafted with visual and emotional conflicts. This theme of conflict runs throughout the film’s; (at times, distracting) dual plot lines. But even with the perfect backdrop for gut-wrenching tragedy and dramatic wartime battles, “Defiance”’s script can’t quite decide whether to let the audience come up with their own opinions, or to spell it out for them. By the end of the film,…

representatives of the civil society, legislators & governors to limit the role of politics in the selection of state judges. These actions were motivated by the recognition that an independent judiciary is crucial for the maintenance of public confidence in the bench. The judicial system however remains imperfect. While some states chose to appoint their judges, as a way to preserve the independence of the bench, most surprisingly chose to elect their judges. This unique practice, only…

American Democracy in Peril, Hudson discusses the reasoning and application of the separation of powers stemmed from the Constitution, and the impact it has had as well as the failures that came as a consequence of it. Due to the changing meaning of the Jeffersonian model, one of the failures Hudson argues is that the separation of powers in a partisan, party-based system falls apart once both parties are to blame. It is also argued that the same system creates a political minority “biased…