The Strengths and Weakness of the American Presidency The American Presidency is a puzzling aspect to most Americans. ... The forefathers chose a mixed government that represented three existing forms of government: a monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. The president would represent the elected monarchy, the Senate would represent the aristocracy, and the House of Representatives would represent the democracy. The American presidency has a great deal of strength and weakness, which I will discuss in this paper. ... A weakness that the American Presidency holds is that the president c...

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The American government expect from us to keep laws and be worthy people of its country. ... Every American person right to know the law-without paying a lawyer-is a cornerstone of our democracy. ... In the America people have rights to be free. ...

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America's desire to establish an economic empire determined most of its foreign policy between the Civil War and the end of World War II, and fueled the U.S. into three wars: the Spanish-American War, WWI, and WWII. ... In doing this, the Cubans would allow American investments to continue in the country and Spain would have no right to shut America out. ... Secondly, America's economy rested on foreign markets. ... "American diplomats and businessmen worked hard to make sure that when the war ended, American economic power would soon be second to none in the world." ... During ...

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The problems between America and Iraq have caused a great deal of hardships for both countries. ... President Bush signed a bill passed by Congress for funds to secure Iraq and rebuild Afghanistan after touting a new policy to spread democracy through the Middle East. Many people agree with this attempt to scatter democracy for a greater good. ... I think continued attacks on Iraq with this suspicion could increase anti-American sentiment, and therefore increase acts of terrorism against the US or American citizens traveling abroad. ... The citizens of America are being affected greatly by ...

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The system of democracy that is currently in place allows individual Americans the right to vote for certain representatives whom make and carry out the laws that the vast majority live by. ... How else would the American public gain knowledge of such projects like "Weed It Now!" ... In fact, 30% of Americans think that politicians are corrupt and 33% mistrust Congress. ... For a democracy held by a foundation of policies for the people by the people, public indifference is a dilemma that can not be tolerated. ... As long as representatives keep their own seat status in mind ahead of that of...

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Origins of Democracy: The Athenian system of government is usually considered the model for direct democracy, because the citizens of that community debated and voted directly on all laws. ... Representative democracy: Form of government in which representatives elected by the people make and enforce laws ans policies. Fundamental values of the American political culture 1. ... Events that led to the Revolutionary War: Conflict between Britain and the American colonies began in the 1760s when the British government decided to raise revenues by imposing taxes on the American colonie...

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In the mid-1778s, a depression struck the new nation of America. The depression asked questions that related to the nature of the democracy of America. To the conservatives, the answer to the question on the nature of the democracy lay in a stronger states government. ... Since independence, America has worked with two constitutions. ...

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With Americans these days, I can bet many cannot name their Senators or Representatives of their state, but I would go as far as saying that when it comes to the similarities and differences between them, they can't even pick the two apart. ... Both houses serve a very distinct and integral part in our American Government, and it is important to be able to see the differences in both. ... The Senate is a continuous body, meaning that not all seats are up for election at the same time, so it is harder to be elected into the Senate as opposed to the House of Representatives, therefore the...

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Without that we will no longer be a representative democracy, we will be an elected dictatorship. ... We must have one official who we can all say, speaks for America. ... Lind overlooks is that the American people like it this way. ... The president is viewed as America by most other countries, one man speaking for 285 million. ... We saw just how much Americans value the presidency last Tuesday. ...

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Woman suffrage is the right of women to vote. Today, women in nearly all countries have the same voting rights as men. But they did not begin to gain such rights until the early 1900's, and they had to overcome strong opposition to get them. Reading Jailed for Freedom has been like peeking into a w...

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Japanese-American citizens were forced in isolated camps beginning in 1942 by the U.S. government and didn't get any recognition of wrong doings until 1988 when Congress granted them monetary compensation for $20,000 dollars to each of the 60,000 internees. ... According to the Center for Voting and Democracy: Women have made up an extremely low percentage of general election candidates, particularly for higher office. ... Women need to run for office more to force the American public to become accustomed to seeing competent women in positions of power. ... The suffrage and oppression...

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The last myth that I will be exploring here is the myth that DC is entirely public land, is the capital, belongs to all Americans, and should not therefore need representation in Congress. ... In fact, of world governments calling themselves democracies, the United States is the only one who denies representation to the people of the capital city. ... This is by no means an exhaustive list of myths and arguments that promote the denial of representation to American citizens, but it is an introduction to the three most used (and most flawed) lines of reasoning used by people too lazy to think...

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The Hunger Games takes place in a fictional futuristic North America, but upon further exploration it may not be so fictional after all. ... According to (feedingamerica.org), 48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households in 2014. ... Unfortunately, only 5% of women naturally possess the body type often portrayed by Americans in the media" (dosomething.org). ... Is our form of democracy turning into what is described in the book? ...

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Constitutionally speaking, since people cannot be property (not by governments nor by other people) , that by virtue of democracy they should be citizens of the place they inhabit, that because the people of Guam are now U.S. citizens, and that they inhabit U.S. territory (Guam), one would reason that Guam should be a state of the Union -on "equal footing" with other states. ... As American citizens, a dichotomy of identities exists for the colonized people of Guam. On the one hand, Guamanians have the freedom to take part in the American experiment -to practice self-governance and hence self-...

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Teddy Roosevelt devoted his adult life to civil service in order to make life for American citizens better. ... He himself called America, "the police man of the world." ... He spent two months on Rutherford Hayes" tour of America campaign. ... He said in 1895, "Very many friends of the reform movement, and very many politicians of the party to which I belong, have become frightened at the issue thus raised and the great bulk of the machine leaders of the Democracy profess to be exultant as it, and to see in it a chance for securing their own return to power. ... He went back to New York as a ...

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