Presidential system

helps the candidate look really, really good until he wins and can focus on what he wants to work on. Last, candidates who zone in on casework, usually get to work with the federal government and get a feel of what is going on and how to play the system. It is almost like a big game of “Who can sneak around and have voters following me faster?”. The ironic thing is that they do this all with looking like respected runners of presidency, and what really takes the cake is that the more…

According to the Suffolk Times, Shelter Island High School advisor James Bocca and senior Nicolette Frasco presented a request to see the presidential inauguration at the March 2016 Board of Education meeting. “Board of Education members approved the trip,” says the article, “...with the speculation that the students might see the inauguration of the nation’s first woman president.” However, when Donald Trump won the election in November, plans changed quickly. Their superintendent “recommended…

interest. Electoral systems are a detailed constitutional arrangements. Voting systems convert the votes from the people into a political decision. Elections are in many forms of government, focusing on the different election system by looking at pre-2010 OECD member countries in the dissertation. Hence all elections vary around the world, even though countries…

an idealistic system. Defined as “a government by the people” by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, democratic rule cannot be achieved without active participation by voters, an increasingly rare phenomenon in the industrialized world (“democracy”; Gray 1092). Without citizens actively undertaking their civic duty, democracy cannot run the way it was intended to. There are many reasons constituents may choose not to vote, and perhaps, the issue is not in the voters as much as the system itself.…

the direct election of the president by popular vote” (Dahl.86) He further states that if no candidate were to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote, a runoff election between the top two candidates would occur (Dahl.86). By adopting the system of direct voting and abolishing the electoral college, it will eliminate all the issues which come with the existence of the Electoral College, including unequal representation and issues between the popular votes and electoral…

States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ...," (Donnelly). The question is however, are new voting laws designed in a way that inherently infringes on the rights of people, or is their purpose primarily to protect the integrity of the voting system? While this issue is controversial, the limits these laws place on some voters infringes on democracy and furthers…

Hip-hop culture has the ability to effect the way people think about politics and how presidential candidates execute their campaigns. This power has been realized recently, especially by President Obama, but we have yet to truly see it reach its full potential. Hip-hop has been around since about the early 1970s, but never had it realized its potential to effect politics until the 2008 presidential election. The starting point of this realization was during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This…

When Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States, I personally, believed that he had little chance of winning and as I addressed in my book, “On the Shoulders of Greatness,” he wasn’t my original choice for President. I was and continue to be a big supporter of Hillary Clinton because I believe she is a strong, extremely qualified and extraordinary woman. Her strengths and capabilities have been reflected on so many levels in both her personal life and in her…

If a picture says a thousand words, so how many words does a meme equal? Numerous people in today’s society are not in favor of the Obama era, so various jokes and stabs in the form of memes are targeted toward our 44th president. The memes listed above are both categorized as amusing because of several unique factors that we will discuss later, and how these details allow them to be entertaining. This paper shall explore how the fun factor is achieved by the history of the allusions featured,…

The race for the presidency in the year 2000 was very controversial. Now after watching the movie Recount it is obvious that George W. Bush illegitimately won the election. Firstly, older voters were confused on how to fill out the ballot, which ended up in a significant amount of dimpled chad that were not counted by the machines, therefore robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the presidency…