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DO WE NEED MORE GUN CONTROL?

Discusses pros and cons of gun control in the U.S. while pointing out that the current solutions aren't particularly effective...

America's Democratic History

the Declaration of Independence. While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfl...

The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

the blog sites of Volpac, a conservative political action committee chaired by Senate majority leader Bill Frist. One of the curr...

International Relations and Economics

United States was not always at the center of this development, particularly in the beginning. It came to be at the center, howev...

US-China Trade 2008

Chinas "Exports to the U.S. rose 9.9 percent in the first seven months of 2008 from a year earlier after gaining 8.9 percent in th...

China's Role in the International Steel Industry

and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value of competition...

A Review of The American Civil War The Last Capitalist Revolution

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

Nation States and Development, or Democracy

after close to half a century of communist rule, when communism fell in the Soviet Union, to be replaced by provisional government...

Iraq and Democracy Don't Mix

of the most devout of Islam nations, and so for the people, the notion of equality is ludicrous because a non-believer can never b...

'Computer Professionals and the Next Culture of Democracy' by Shuler

may be agents in the transformation of democracy, but democracy is not something that is inextricable with computer science (2001)...

Power and Policy According to C. Wright Mills

the vast majority to follow in the powerful minoritys lead. The concept of a rational society, one in which the entire comm...

Democratic Historian Alexis de Tocqueville

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

Virginia's Way of Life and American Revolutionaries

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

Middle East, Democracy, and Islam

In Europe, however, greater religiosity tended to be linked to internationalism, European integration, and support for foreign aid...

Dictatorship, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy According to Plato

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

Western Settlement, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

Compatibility of Capitalism and Democracy?

labor power (Wikipedia, 2005). Marx was concerned about what people did with their labor power, how they related to it (Wikipedia,...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Netherlands and Consociational Democracy

claimed that this form of democracy has outlived its usefulness. The question is, has it? If in fact there is something that can b...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Japan's Rise During Prewar and Postwar Periods and Its Problems

catalyst and to some extent the cold war would prod Japan to its ultimate height. Still, turning outside of the general traditions...

Democracy and Human Nature

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

Practicality of Democracy Everywhere Assessed

It states, "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representative...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Democracy and Media Globalization

of "players" in terms of owners and mega-merger conglomerates, such information becomes increasingly homogenized and increasingly ...

Washington Community's Importance According to James Sterling Young

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

Third World Countries and 'Democratic Fair Dealing'

economies was structural in nature (Onis). They believed that implementing a development strategy that relied on free market forc...

Ancient Philosophers on Democracy

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

Russia and Oligarchs as a Possible Force for Democracy

manage Russias vast territory, the awkward administrative structure inherited from the failed USSR, and hundreds of divergent ethn...

Political and Social History of Greece

in ancient Greece comes to us through their stories, their tragedies. "Greek tragedies dealt with universal themes that are still ...