Second Spanish Republic

highland plateau of the Andres, and Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake on Earth, which is shared with Peru. Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable body of water in the world. It is also larger than Puerto Rico and is South America's second largest lake by surface area. Lake Titicaca moderates the climate for a considerable distance around it, making crops of maize and wheat possible in sheltered areas. Since 2001, Bolivia's leading legal agricultural export has been…

John Stuart Mill (1806–73), son of James Mill a famous political theorist, was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century and followed in his father’s footsteps by writing about liberty and the effect that the majority opinion has on an individual’s self-determination. In books such as Utilitarianism (1861) and On Liberty (1859) Mill looks to assert that intellectual and moral pleasure are superior to lesser qualitative forms of pleasure like physical ones…

In Cultural Background the word παιδαγωγός is the word that was studied and it means a tutor or a guardian of boys as they went place such as school. Among the Greeks and the Romans the name was applied to trustworthy slaves who were charged with the duty of supervising the life and morals of boys belonging to the better class. The boys were not allowed so much as to step out of the house without them before arriving at the age of manhood. The use of guardian to refer to the Law would have been…

Monarchy & Democracy Have you ever learned about the Monarchy, and the Democracy governments, my Fellow Ambassadors? Well I will like to talk to you about the differences between the two countries. I will give you details, opinions, facts, about the Monarchy and the Democracy government. In a Representative Democracy the citizens have the rights to elect leaders to represent their interest and their rights in the…

The change of leaders and the type of government was not liked by many people inside and outside of France, and the new Republic had to deal with many threats that endangered their ideals. Countries outside of France, like Austria and Prussia, were not only anxious that the rebellion in France will influence their own people’s views on the government, but, they also were related to the royal family that got overthrown. Their conflict also branched from the fact that the revolutionaries…

Ecuador was the first country in Latin America to recover democracy in 1978, however, its history has been characterized by political instability. In Ecuador, from 1996 to 2006, witnessed the oath of nine Presidents and none Government by the presidential term of four years laid down in the Constitution. This sequence of overthrow and shots of control began in February 1997 when the then President Abdalá Bucaram, after a popular uprising, was dismissed by Congress "to govern mental disability";…

In the United States, our governmental system is comprised of what is known to be a democracy. A democracy is a system of government where power is given to the citizens of a nation who rule through freely elected representatives. Although not many people want to admit it, but here in the U.S., democracy is dying at an absurdly fast rate, and our governmental system is quickly turning into an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a small group of people that have control of the government, rather than…

Over the course of its history, France has experienced many changes in its government. We have seen it go through multiple constitutions, weak kings, absolutist kings, warrior kings, and cowardly kings. In this paper, you will see comparisons between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary French government. The government structure before the French Revolution was the Ancien Régime, and the time following the Revolution was under the rule of King Louis XVIII. During part of the Ancien Régime’s…

What form of government is America using today? A democracy. A democracy is a system of government where power is granted to the citizens. The people can rule directly or by electing representatives. In order for authority to be given to the people in a democracy, a majority of the people has to agree with one another. For example, the public gets heard through the people and government interprets “by the people” by the majority of the people. This sounds extremely similar to the majoritarianism…

Some may argue America is “definitely a democracy” or “definitely a republic” but in reality, most of us really just don’t know. It’s a question that has been more controversial than the issue of abortion, homosexuality, and I would argue even it’s more debated than slavery. Then again, that’s just my opinion. To start with, establishing what a democracy and a republic is, is a good jumping off point. A democracy is simply defined as a nation governed by the people. Within the division of a…