Sovereign Grace Ministries

David Hume and John Witherspoon each raise interesting, yet contrasting, views on civic virtue and its relationship with political well-being. While Hume articulates that through proper checks and balances liberty and government will be protected from an amoral statesman; to the contrary, Witherspoon states that without a proper moral footing any government is destined to fail. Witherspoon’s assertions are supported by the French philosopher Montesquieu. In contrast, Price makes statements…

Is sovereignty necessarily absolute? Sovereignty is a term used to describe the uncontrolled power through which an independent state is governed (Krasner, 2001). Sovereignty also calls for the supreme political will and authority that a state has in its administration and the control of the constitution (Krasner, 2001). In other words, Sovereignty provides the states with the power to do just about anything that pleases the states without being accountable to different nations. For…

Watson attempts to create a historical survey of the states systems that were formed in Europe and then spread to the “civilized” world. This states systems was challenged after World War II by the anti-colonial revolution and the demands of the Third World states for a new international order. Watson tries to move beyond on the mechanistic and sterile concept of international system to the more focused and perhaps more complicated concept of international society. Watson focuses on the global…

As defined, American Exceptionalism is split by three different, yet related ideas. One idea is that the United States is different from other nations. Second idea is that America has its unique idea of how to transform the world. And third, the idea that how the US has made history gave it its power to the world. In Frederick Jackson Turner’s essay, he argued that the western settlement had an incredible impact on the United States’ political, social, and economic development. He argued that…

bringing about the end of state sovereignty as states are losing the ability to effectively govern their own societies and economies. (Ohmae 1995, Scholte 2000 in McGrew 2014: 16) This essay however will attempt to reaffirm the importance of the sovereign state despite globalisation, initially through examining some arguments for the proposed idea, and secondly through adopting a realist perspective on the issue. Sovereignty is defined by Heywood (2014: 4) as the “supreme and unquestioned…

“What 's gone on is still going on” (Professor Ambruster, lecture Oct. 6, 2014). History repeats itself over the years in different circ The Mexican lower-class society has gained rights throughout the years. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 was an almost perfect document where the people were given rights and they gained free elections. Even though this document was established, the promises were not actually put to practice. The population found itself in the same problems that had existed…

rights and liberties of their citizens, promote the common good, and that governments were to be republican and endorsed by popular sovereignty. The Anti-Federalist feared a consolidation of the states, whereas the Federalists feared the anarchy of sovereign states. In regards to popular rule the Anti-Federalists believed this would be best obtained from state governments, as they were closest to the people and best reflected…

In recent years Mexico has been trying to fix the corruption that is infesting their government for decades. In 2012 Mexico elected a new President, Peña Nieto, who is proving people’s optimistic views wrong so far. In the last 3 years that the Peña Nieto government has been in office his government has suppressed people’s write to freedom of speech, cause a teacher’s strike, there seems to be no improvements, despite studies proving there is a way to decrease the amount of corrupt acts. First,…

Introduction The project on which I have chosen to conduct research is the case of Ghana where in 2009 it sought financial aid from the global economic doctor the IMF for its economic ailments. All the findings on the IMF-Ghana case in this essay are based on a report carried out by ActionAid Ghana (Addo et al, 2010). I cite all the following ideas, information and claims made in the following paragraphs related to the IMF –Ghana case as being from (Addo et al, 2010) in order to prevent…

Once diamonds were found in Sierra Leone, they were sought out in many other countries. This proved that a certain resource can be anywhere large or small, but the concept of how and why the diamond industry or any concept, such as cotton, will erupt and diffuse if profit is evident. Yet again raising the question of why are there so many more diamonds as a resource in Sierra Leone that any other country. Scientists have proved that diamonds come from the rock kimberlite, which is stored in…