Voting Rights Act

How would you feel if your vote in deciding the next president of our country didn’t matter? Well, this is true for many people due to our broken Electoral College system of voting. I strongly feel that we should get rid of it for many reasons. My first reason is that it doesn’t give equal representation to certain states. My second reason is that it doesn’t match up with the popular votes that were taken by the people. This two reasons alone are more than enough to show this system needs to be…

The article, “White-on-White Voting” by Thomas Edsall, discusses the idea of large majority white cities and towns being the reason that Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Trump won in the areas that are some of the whitest in the nation, many of whom did not vote as strongly for McCain or Romney in the previous two elections as they did for Trump. These, almost 100 percent white, suburbs were all so extremely pro-Trump because they felt they had a reason to worry about their…

One of the strongest areas of Smith’s book is his critical analysis of the governor general's role. Smith anylises the democratic nature of the governor general. He argues that the governor general is not as symbolic as most Canadians have a tendency to believe. Smith states that the nature of the governor general's position lack accountability to the public. Smith argues that “the governor general, the representative of the sovereign , is no mere figurehead as is, say, the president of Germany”…

The 23rd amendment gave the residents in the District of Columbia the right to vote for the country’s president and vice president and representation for D.C. in the Electoral College. Before the 23rd amendment people who lived in the District of Columbia were not able to vote because they didn’t live in a state. Even though the District has the right to vote for president and vice president, they still don’t have the right to vote for members of the House of Representatives or Senate to…

Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivation, or behaviors. In business, persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person’s (or a group’s) attitude or behavior toward an event, idea, or objects, by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings or reasons. Persuasion, often used as a tool in the pursuit of personal gain, such as election campaigning or as a sales pitch. Persuasion can…

the permanent campaign has been used for decades as a part of the American politics. Permanent campaign is when elected officials after getting elected use methods like the ones they used before getting elected such as hosting rallies, media campaign, and raising money. Therefore, the indicators and the characteristics of the president’s Permanent campaign are, traveling around, discussing initiatives and issues he plans to fix, holding rallies, and registering for reelection very early. The…

College is Failing and should be Abolished Every four years, Americans elect a president and vice-president. Voters are not given the rights to vote directly for the presidential candidates.They actually vote for an elector in their respective state, who had pledged to cast a ballot on voters’ behalf in the election that actually chooses the president. This voting system is called the Electoral College. In the Electoral College system, different In states are allotted with different number of…

should be discarded or saved. Smaller states like Rhode Island and Maine never even lay eyes on any campaigning. Why is that? It is because politicians don't believe that they hold a high enough electoral vote count. This being not only against the right to vote for the people of those smaller states, yet it merely shows how unjust and irrational the electoral college is. These smaller states plea to have a system that will allow them to have a vote that counts. The best way to achieve such a…

Term Limits There have been many proposals to reform Congress in order to increase its effectiveness, reliability, and accountability. One of these proposals include term limits, which are legally prescribed limits on the number of terms an elected official can serve. Although term limits are argued to be the most efficient way to reform Congress, there are many ways in which they can be considered ineffective and even detrimental. In addition, even if term limits are effective, it is often…

The Texas government and the federal government work in a different way. I am going to analyze the most significant differences between them, while considering how they affect the way both governments address the popular and elite interests and how they promote participation. The most significant different between the Constitutions is that the Texas Constitution is much more detailed than the U.S. Constitution. Some articles and sections in the Texas Constitution are so detailed that they look…