Proxy voting

Your success in both your career and in your family life has proven you to be a role model for young women, myself included. You have proved that having tradition values does not limit a women’s success and, in fact, may enhance it. Keeping your Christian beliefs in your policies, such as your stance on abortion, are admirable. As a young women attracted to politics, I have a desire to mimic your success. Due to only being seventeen, I have not yet be able to vote. I considered my beliefs to…

right-wing parties are typically motivated by religious interest due to contention with left-wing social policies. Both theories could be applicable, however there are a few notable explanations that can be presented for either side. The women that are voting for candidates solely based upon their…

In 1824, America saw its first ‘legendary’ election. With four, very worthy presidential candidates, including John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay. Though it may have been the first ‘legendary’ election, it may have also been the first unjust and corrupt election. This election was a very tight one, John Quincy Adams received 84 electoral votes, whilst Jackson received 99. The reason why many Jacksonians saw this election as rotten was because, although Jackson…

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…

United states. Compulsory voting is defined as voting that is required by law, and voting is freedom of the people. Now, how do these all fit together, well many countries have constitutions and they give freedom to the people, compulsory voting is not freedom it's not intrinsic, it does not fit in democracy, the right of the people. After examining these sources there are many reasons voting should not be required by law. First, one of the many reasons that compulsory voting should not be…

There are many different types of campaign ads. Among them are characters ads, which serve to establish the good character of a candidate, bandwagon ads, which serve to convince the public that a candidate is best choice because many other people are voting for them, and evidence ads, that use facts to convince the public that a candidate is the best choice for office. There is, however, one type of ad that sparks more controversy than any of the others, the attack ad. The attack ad seeks to…

Politics is a part of human nature, an unavoidable part. Even though this is a common characteristic among all human beings, how politics are ran differs among each population. This population could be an entire country or that of a small county in Wisconsin, I attended a Waukesha County Town Hall meeting. I learned a lot from this meeting, but what this meeting specifically taught me about American politics was that there is a severe lack of diversity in those who represent us and also those…

Research conducted by Lyn Ragsdale, Dean of Social Sciences at Rice University, shows that “the occurrence of a presidential speech has a significant, positive effect, relative to other variables, on levels of president’s public support” (Ragsdale 1984, 980). In addition, she maintains, “in making speeches, presidents are able to influence public opinion positively. Republican and Democratic presidents alike improve their popularity by addressing the nation” (Ragsdale 1984, 982). In his book…

Should There be a Limit on Terms a President Can Serve? One of the few amendments that our government has determined to be necessary is the 22nd amendment. The 22nd amendment limits the number of terms that a president may serve. This amendment is based on the precedent that George Washington set when he served as our first president, he only served two terms. Every president after him had only served two terms, until Franklin D. Roosevelt, he served three terms and was elected to a fourth term…