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    clean. Interviewer: Okay, and now we are going to go to our last one and the last one is The Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard, and again, you don’t click on this, but anything this and this. Interviewee: Which publishers released in audio version of The Destiny of the Republic on CD? Books on tape. I would say that is a one. In the electronic version of The Destiny of the Republic, what type of electronic copies can you choose from? I’m just going to look over here and you can…

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    Brazil is a federal republic, consisting of 26 states and the Federal District of Brasília. Each state has its own elected legislature and governor.Brazil's legislative body is the National Congress, which is composed of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. Deputies are elected for a term of four years. Senators serve 8-year terms, with three senators elected from each of the states. From 1964 to 1985, the military controlled the government under a succession of generals, who…

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    Democracy is fairly new to the modern world, and by modern world I 'm talking about post revolutionary war. Democracy first conceptualization was in ancient Athenes Greece, and after then democracy started to fall away. It wasn 't until the late seventeen hundreds did democracy start to come back into play; in the British American colonies. The United states is one of the first nations to become a full national democracy. The United States follow a creed, "a government of the people, by the…

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    Bostonistan Case Study

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    1. Imagine you are a political scientist from India, the U.K., Germany, or Brazil (choose one). You are asked to help the newly democratic country of “Bostonistan” design a new constitution. Bostonistan has a history of conflict among religious groups, which are dispersed throughout the country—not every religious group lives in its own region. Many years ago, Bostonistan was a democracy, but it suffered a coup after military leaders got fed up with legislative gridlock that had paralyzed the…

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    known as the Gilded Age, the system of governance in the United States could most aptly be described as a democratic republic. Under a democratic republic, ordinary citizens elect representatives to support their interests in government. But is that still the case? Recently, a number of academics have made the argument that the United States is no longer necessarily a democratic republic, but is more similar to a plutocracy, or a government structure in which the wealthiest citizens control key…

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    limited powers. The Glorious Revolution led to the formation of a constitutional monarchy in England. Similarly in France, after a tumultuous decade of their own with the Reign of Terror under Maximilian Robespierre and the incompetent Directory a new leader rose in the form of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French empire. Perhaps the most glaring difference is the fact that while the monarchy still continues in a constitutional form in England, France eventually became a…

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    His main goal with the New France was to make a republic out of it, not a monarchy. His new Republic that was called the “First Consul” was “not like Kings…who see their states as an inheritance.” As you see here is that he doesn’t want to be considered to be a king, but continually pasted so called “Constitutions”…

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    like having a leader they can blame. Three men looked at a leader and defined what they thought: Plato, Machiavelli and Aurelius. Plato quite politics and became a philosopher. His new life mission became to share the message his teacher died sharing. He created his own views, but published what is known as the Republic. He started teaching that a leader should be loved. Plato…

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    clergymen in an attempt to overthrow the emperor, Louis XVI. Though they succeeded in overthrowing the emperor and establishing their own government, their success was short. They nominated a political leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, to lead their new republic. He took charge and began to conquer parts of Europe; feeling that he gained enough strength, he crowned himself emperor. He remained in power until 1814, during which he was removed from the throne; he returned the following year for a…

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    Japan Culture Vs America

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    have in common. Not only is the culture different, but so is the government, the problems it faces and their ideals. First and foremost, Japan does not have the same type of government as us. In America, we have a federal presidential republic. In a federal republic, there are partially self governing states or regions with a constitution under a federal government, and the presidential part means that we have a president. Japan has a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. In a constitutional…

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