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The Importance of Voting in the American System

collective goals". Obviously, it is wise to guard against special interest groups who pursue their own wants and desires at the e...

Significance of Nineteenth Century Women

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

The Performance of Great Northern Iron

an annual salary of $250,000, is an attorney with a great deal of commercial experience in trusts and estates and was the CEO and ...

Political Systems in Japan, Canada, and the UK

The original Constitution Act of 1867 set up a system of government which differed in many respects from that in the...

Qantas Early Development

Arthur Baird joined the pair - McMaster as a source of funding and a link to wealthy potential investors, Baird as aircraft mechan...

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

Act: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages...

Strategic Voting Uses

In five pages this paper discusses how the effectiveness of strategic voting among different groups can vary. Six sources are lis...

Voting and its Significance

In five pages this paper discusses the post 1960 decline in voter participation in this consideration of voting and its significan...

U.S. Politics and the Impact of Technology

In five pages this paper discusses the problems associated with the U.S. presidential election of 2000 in this consideration of th...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Congress therefore authorized extraordinary federal interventions for five years. But the deadl...

The October 2007 Ontario Election: A View of Electoral Reform

C gets 4,000 votes, only 45 percent of the voting population elected the winner (FPTP, 2007). Supporters of the FPTP system m...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Be...

Against the Constitution

will keep many of the rights to itself that should in actuality devolve upon the states. However, as I write this I hear that Mass...

Palestinian Election of 2006 and Hamas

choose to enter the 2006 elections? The answer lies in the history of the organization and the changing picture of politics in the...

Are Democratic Priniciples Universally Applicable?

by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democratic principle...

The Electoral College

the state legislators could elect the president but that would lead to the president being obligated to the states; popular vote c...

Ethical Leadership: Bill Clinton and Colin Powell Compared (First Person Essay)

mistresses or notorious affairs. As far as my own ideas about ethics are concerned, the fact that a leader has had personal indisc...

1960s' America

In this paper that is comprised of brief essays the America of the 1960s is explored through such references as Martin Luther Kin...

Voting Methods in America and What is Wrong with Them

(BR), the alternative and repeated alternative vote (ALV-RAL), and the single transferable vote (STV). In terms of two general an...

Campaign Rhetoric in the 1992 Presidential Race

most powerful men in the world. Those who seek the seat are willing to go the limit to obtain it. The United States presidential...

Examination of Cybervoting

"some familiarity" (Searle PG) with the "fragile nature of individual freedom and democracy" (Chess 259). Indeed, the very concep...

Comparative Analysis of Voting Democracies in Europe and the US

the past is staging a comeback, and its presence is not comforting" (Jackson 50). This slow but steady fascist reawakening has be...

Australia and Compulsory Voting

not know the candidates nor how they feel about a particular issue. Votes derived from some citizens may not be as desirable as th...

Economic Theory of Democracy by Anthony Downs

In three pages the voting theory introductory text is analyzed. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography....

2000 U.S. Presidential Election

In twelve pages this paper discusses the swing vote in a consideration of the U.S. presidential election of 2000 and the results o...

Public Goods and Efficient Production

In two pages this paper considers if public goods can be efficiently produced through majority vote. Three sources are cited in t...

Determinate Proposal on Death Penalty Propensity and a Juror's Gender

juror was a woman. Although only one woman serving on the panel of one jury in only one of the many criminal cases tried daily th...

Spain's General Francisco Franco

write about the war and the long Franco dictatorship (1937-75), they often ignore the subject of caciquismo. During the first dec...