Non-partisan democracy

I think the voting age should remain at 18, for a few reasons. Among these are that older voters are more aware of the issues, younger voters barely if at all are interested in what is going on in the country, and at the age of 16, I don't believe people are mature enough to truly grasp the impact their vote can have in bringing about change. Older voters are most likely plugged in to the day to day issuses that effect the…

The Founder Fathers judiciously established the system of check and balances to avoid any of the three branches of government (legislative, executive, judicial) from having too much power. Checks and balances allows each branch to check up on each other, limiting their influence and power. When the new Constitution was written in 1787 the Founding Fathers did not wish to have a government system like the British, which the prime minister had the majority of power. Instead they preferred to have…

Katherine Lam 1 September 2015 AP Euro, 1st Period Mr. Viviani AP Euro Study Guide Questions Odds Questions for Critical Thought: As applied to the early modern period of Western civilization, the term Renaissance means rebirth. This is because the Renaissance was a time period that followed after the Middle Ages. This brought up the rebirth of the classical arts that symbolized nature and Christianity instead of death. The areas of life the Renaissance affected the most were the nobles.…

find academic sources relating to numbers pertaining specifically to Canadian party systems and the dominant religious institutions within Canada. In this paper the lack of specific research was circumvented by employing data relating to Western democracies across the world to provide a more holistic view of how cleavages impact the left-right spectrum rather than party choices, although parties were used where data was…

I think that there is a big difference between being a farmer and being a president. However, these jobs are both important in modern life. President’s life isn’t as easy as many people think. Of course, a president can’t make decisions on his own, his team always helps him, but he still feels pressure. He is responsible for the whole country, and it’s really hard to satisfy each citizen. Moreover, a president needs to travel around the world very often to negotiate or visit important meetings.…

more domestic focus now, that could change quickly, possibly derailing any notion of a long-term ideological shift in grand strategy. Variability of public opinion causes policymakers to act hesitantly when supporting or taking up major change. A non-committal political arm can also cause theorists to limit their thought to only operational ideas and implementation rather than attempting the perceived futile effort of examining political feasibility strategies. Operational strategies such as…

In this article, Gary Remer (2000) explains the idea that during the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the speaking was done in more of an oratory way than in a conversational way. The government wanted the deliberation to be more conversational between the representatives from the states, making them believe they had a say in decisions. The ratification of the Constitution was more told, than making a decision inn a conversational method among the representatives. The…

America’s Gift To My Generation We can all justify that we as citizens are “free” but are you sure we are really free citizens I mean sure everyone can prove a thing or two that shows that there is freedom, but no one really knows what freedom is we just think what the government tells us,to go with it. If we are really “free” then why don’t we all have equal rights I mean it’s just common sense. People aren’t seeing it and it’s affecting the way we live not just here in America, but all around…

Should the voting age be lowered to 16? As the 2016 Presidential Election debate season comes to a close, many teens have been more involved than ever in their political views. Many leaders in today's government believe that the youth have a unique perspective and they’ll never have those experiences again. Another idea often thought of is that if we let uneducated adults vote, why not let smart youth vote. Overall, many leaders in today's government want to lower the voting age in order to…

I know far too well the dangers of being surrounded by people who agree with me. In general, my life is based within one small bubble, which is my school. My current high school is incredibly small with only about 490 students in both middle and upper school. My graduating class is one of the largest in recent years and we only have around 69 people. My school has a reputation for being more “liberal” than the other private schools in the city. The majority of people at my school don't have…