Non-partisan democracy

to organize their people. The Athenians, Sparta, and later the Roman Republic are examples of early forms of democracy. There where many systems of government in history some being oligarchy, monarchy aristocracy, and many others with slight variations. Why and how did democracy grow to such popularity, and how has democracy changed since its creation. The exact date of when democracy was first used in society is unknown but historians estimate it is approximately 500 BC in Athens Greece.…

Well into the history of mankind, we see that there was a great power that a white man had many privileges over those of different race, religion, gender, and etc. A white male was most likely dealing with the laws being passed throughout the country and making decisions that gave them the upper hand in America. Most African Americans were targeted for being unable to vote and have the same rights as the whites when they spoke up about inequality they faced the whites did not clearly see the…

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and has had a difficult path to democracy characterized by the ongoing struggles between generations of family dictatorship and civil war. Sean M. Lynn-Jones, an editor for the Belfer Center Studies in Harvard university, defined contemporary democracy as having several common elements. First, democracies are countries in which there are institutional mechanisms that allow the people to choose their leaders. Second, prospective leaders…

In Democracy Declassified: The Secrecy Dilemma in National Security, Michael Colaresi attempts to address the question of how democracies balance the need for both foreign policy and national secrets while maintaining public accountability. Many other theories on the topic address how democracies use secrecy to their benefit. Reiter and Stam (2002), for instance, believe that democracies use covert actions to keep foreign policy decision and actions from becoming public. Additionally, John…

comparing Aristotle’s and Plato’s ideas, realistically Aristotle’s ideas are the only ones that can be applied to the modern United States as they are similar to the democratic system in place. Aristotle, like many Americans, believes that the key to democracy “is liberty, according to the common opinion of men” (Aristotle, 154). America was built on a very similar principle in which the common opinion mattered and the government was established so people could pursue liberty and happiness.…

The ratifications debates were conducted in New York within a period of seven days between June 21st and 28th of 1788. The debates were dominated by speeches from the Federalists and Anti-Federalists regarding the concerns and opinions about how the country should be governed as well as the contents of the Constitution. Among the notable Federalists were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and George Washington while the Anti-Federalists included Thomas Jefferson among other figures. Although the…

convincing a public body to review a decision and to a certain extent force them to take different actions. The power granted to judicial courts has allowed emerging controversy on behalf of many public segments since it is perceived as a threat to democracy and the legitimacy of the government and the according constitution. Therefore, questions like what are the reasons that drive governments to intentionally constrain themselves by…

Analysis Paper #2 After reviewing the background of The Voting Rights Act (VRC) of 1965 from the case files from www.nytimes.com, I will brief discuss the purpose of it. According to the required reading of the New York Times, “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was encated to address entrenched racial discrimination in voting.” Voting was never considered equal when it came to women or people of color. In our history, many states never allowed those two groups to vote. However, they wanted…

but how far does that value extend? Roberts-Miller writes a detailed article discussing democracy’s intricacies and how demagoguery holds an immense impact on democracy. She begins by claiming that an effective democracy requires its constituents to engage in thorough and intelligent deliberation and discussion of the problems in that democracy, thus creating possible pathways towards solutions (Roberts-Miller 459). Behind this claim is her premise that her readers reside in a democratic…

There are many differing views about democracy, but “currently, there are three prominent streams within pragmatic political philosophy: Deweyan democratic perfectionism, Rortyan ironism, and pragmatist epistemic deliberativism” (Talise 2014 123) that provide for the conception of liberal democracy and its implementation. Though each of these philosophical explanations offer their own unique conception of democracy along with how to fulfill democracy’s enactment, pragmatist epistemic…