Political compass

The philosophy of liberalism is the best motivating force for bettering the human condition because it emphasizes the individual over society as a whole. Its central focus is the hope of freedom, individual expression and equality. Other popular terms regarding liberalism include free market, democracy and civil rights. The argument for liberalism grew popular with the coming of the Age of Enlightenment as people longed for more individualism over the tradition authority of monarchs. Of course,…

“Shouting” in the dark all those photographs have a meaning behind the photographs of journalist to takes those photos. Like those pictures means a lot how one person is being injured and they need help. According to that movie those picture had a political impact in it shows that the Birahian government went after their own people for betraying their government. There citizens wanted change in their government. The Journalists who were video recording and reporting those scenes shows how…

John Locke, Adam Smith, and Thomas Hobbes are some of the most influential authors that lived during the 17th century. The 17th century was a time when democracy began to get its roots. During this time people were becoming get fed up with the way their government ran, and the way they were being treated. These authors spent their time writing very informational works about their thoughts on the government, its workings, and what was needed to make it successful. However, it takes more than…

Locke, and Jean-Jaques Rousseau the first major modern political philosophers. They would write work through the enlighten period, that covered a span of 150 years. The three philosophers set the groundwork that is modern day political thought. All three philosophers pull ideas, from one another but none of them are the same. The evolution of this way of thinking lead to individual liberty, unalienable rights, natural equality, primacy of political content and the notion that we are capable of…

Randall Harold Cunningham (“Randy”) was a Vietnam war hero and a Republican Congress member who represented the 50th Congressional District from years 1991 to 2005 (Stern, 2005). Moreover, he held a spot on the House Intelligence Committee, the House Appropriations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee (“DAS”). DAS is responsible for making drafts of bills that set appropriations for defense programs (Stern, 2005). On November 28, 2005, in federal court at the age of 64, Randy…

A city is never going to be perfect. You will always have the criminals that take justice into their own hands or those that take over the city without being just to the people, for example the government. They take over the poor who are known as the minority and they strip them from their labor earnings through taxes. The reenact the robber barons in the 19th century although they are not unethically tormenting they are breaking this class down.We see this every where in our country and its…

Throughout human history, the subject of philosophy has produced countless philosophers who have, in turn, created countless theories and terms influential to western society. For example, could the founding fathers have produced the U.S. constitution without the philosophical works of Hobbes and Locke? Probably not. In a similar fashion, there have been many philosophical works that have been used in the foundation of other works, such as the Sovereignty of the State. The Sovereignty of the…

Inclusion is defined by five features, which if applied correctly in the communities of racial minorities would properly include them in political and legal representation. Racial minorities should mobilize themselves through the institutions such as the church, vote for representatives similar to themselves in descriptive form which they can hold accountable, and assess the factors necessary to achieve the highest levels of democratic inclusion. Inclusion is defined by a “full access to…

If men are equal, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims in the preface to his discourse on inequality (40), why do some men live in large lavish houses, while others struggle on the street, unsure of their next meal? The distance between the rich and the poor has been increasing steadily over the last decade, but in reality it has been expanding ever since man separated from Rousseau’s original state of nature. The state of nature is different than that which is natural, and within Rousseau’s state of…

fairness” serves as the basis for the liberal approach to citizenship: Justice as fairness is intended as a political conception of justice. While a political conception of justice is, of course a moral conception… justice as fairness framed to apply to what I have called the ‘basic structure’ of a modern constitutional democracy. By this structure I mean such a society’s main political, social, and economic institutions, and how they fit together into one unified system of social cooperation.…