Republics

Dominican Republic historical stages of democratization To begin with, the main focus for this project is on Dominican Republic transition to its current political system, which is, representative democracy. The Dominican Republic has a fairly new constitution that was enacted in 2010 and it is composed of three different government branches. Similar to the United States, the three branches of government are legislature, execution, and judicial. The president is head of state and government,…

Plato constructs a society in which the wise men, known as the philosophers, hold the highest position in the government. If he gave up this assumption that certain people are intrinsically unfit to occupy certain political social positions, he wouldn’t make this claim. He would instead create a society where everyone’s voice is heard no matter which social status they come from. A society that hears the voices of all the people and doesn’t underestimate their ideas. Also, he would allow the…

Argentina has been a yo-yo when it comes to their democracy standing. Under many umbrellas, they are considered a democratic nation. According to “worldatlas” Argentina is considered a Presidential Representative Democratic Republic (2016, October 13), however, while many blocks could be checked to consider them fully democratic many factors could rebut this qualification. In order to break their government inner workings down I will go through various topics to see where Argentina could be…

become a republic nation rather than being ruled by Britain monarchy. First of all what is the actual meaning of a republic, according to the oxford dictionaries a republic means “a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch” (Oxford dictionaries). So republic is an independent country chosen by the people and this is called referendum. So should Australia become a republic not a…

Rome is the capital of Italy, which is a peninsula. The Latins were the first people to reside in Rome during 1000 BC. Then in 616 BC, the Etruscans took over and helped started Roman culture. Rome started off as a Republic, but slowly transitioned into an empire. Among the emperors of Rome, Octavian Caesar was the greatest emperor Rome ever had. Rome created mankind’s first republican government that was ran by elected officials. It all started with the overthrowing of a monarch king, Lucius…

The roman government, set up after the seventh and final king was assassinated, was structured as a democratic republic that gave elites large amounts of power. This “imperium”, power to command and bestowed by the people was given to the two consuls and praetors after winning an election, was not supreme and the people could take it away. This system on paper looks ideal by giving the people a voice in rome 's politics, but in practice the system was manipulated to favor the patricians and…

Three Messages From Republic 1-5 In depth analysis of three important messages from Plato’s Republic Philosophical texts are very important to humanity. They bring us to question what exactly what we are doing with our day to day lives. How the world affects us to bring change to our routines and why exactly this change is good or bad. Plato and Socrates are no different. Much of Socrates’ work is through the written texts of Plato, despite many historians believing that the dialogues of…

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS – REPUBLIC OF HAITI Kyle Santwan FY.B 20 Background The Republic of Haiti also known just as “Haiti” is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. It is 27750 sq.km in size and has a current estimated population of 10.8 million, making it the second most populated country in the Caribbean as a whole. In 2010 just as Haiti’s economy was starting to grow again due to trade agreements that they had signed with…

Introduction The early Romans were suffered under the rule of Tarquinus Superbus. Therefore, they united their efforts to expel Tarquines (510 BCE) and created a republic, a form of government in which elected official share power (Morey 1901b). However, in the beginning Rome was a aristocratic republic, not a democratic republic, in which only a small group of citizens could sit in public office. This group of aristocrat was the patricians (Morey 1901c). The patricians were the descendants of…

many social issues because of the armistice that ended the war and the treaty of Versailles. One outcome of those things was mass unemployment. Second, German politics were chaotic in a time where other issues needed to be focused on. The Weimar Republic had risen after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Democracy was brand new to Germany, and it was still being figured out. They did not have a grasp on what level of freedom there needed to be in the country. Germany chose a high level of…