The Electoral College The Electoral College was established in a compromise between a direct election system, which was supported by James Wilson, and a system whereby the President would be chosen by congress, supported by Edgridge Gerry, in Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution (Houser, 2). ... Most importantly, a direct popular election would give way for Americans to truly have their voices heard on Election Day. ... It has never rejected the winner of a popular majority" (Quoted on GlobalExchange.org/democracy). ... "Direct popular election solves most if not all ...

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The world-wide environmentalist non-government organization phenomena ( such as the World Wildlife Fund, directed by Prince Phillip ) was created top-down, with a complex web of financing, from the circles of the British oligarchy. ... By the end of the sixties, America's involvement in Vietnam was at its height, and so was the counterculture movement, created and directed from top-down, by Kennedy's assassins, in order to effect a post-industrial shift in the outlook of the American people. ... All currencies become 'free-floating', the value of one against the othe...

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"The Court held that because the decency and respect clause was not mandatory, i.e. the Act does not require NEA to base it's funding decisions on this standard, it merely directs NEA to consider them as part of the funding process, it was not an unreasonable attempt by Congress to regulate artistic content in violation of the First Amendment rights of Karen Finley" (Hale). ... In addition, he cut off the annual funding from the City to the museum which was about $6-7 million, and directed various City agencies to have the Museum evicted from the City owned building in which it was housed...

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Upon the careful of examination and analysis of Bradstreet's first literary work, The Prologue, there are several different quotes that should be discussed due to the fact that they give the impression that they are challenging the Puritan ideals. ... The specific quote is found within the first few lines of the poem and states, Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth didst by my side remain (Bradstreet 119). ... This quote is the ending of the poem, and through these words it appears that Bradstreet is actually downing her work, and accepting the fact that she is ...

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Despite these claims, numerous insinuations, directed towards Bush and his administration suggested that the primary objective in the invasion of Iraq had to do with securing the nation's abundance of petroleum reserves. ... Another quote from the book suggests that the Iraqis seemed fully aware of America's true motives: "Only 5 percent of Iraqis surveyed thought that the United States invaded "to assist the Iraqi people," only 1 percent believed it was to establish democracy, while about half thought it was "to rob Iraq's oil." ... The duration of the war has exposed how manip...

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Roosevelt issued Executive Order, 9066, which directed the secretary of war to begin the mass evacuation of Japanese Residents from Washington, Oregon, and California"" (Gruenewald 21). ... From a Japanese American woman's perspective she quotes, "we stood helplessly when people, who we thought were our friends, came by and said, 'I'll give you $2 for your stove, $1.50 for your fridge'" "(Hansen 63). ... In this quote they are referring to the white privileged men and women who were not getting the job done the right way. ... There was racism still directed towards Japanese...

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Jackson desired to see the input of the people in the process of democratic elections reflecting the actual output of who became the President of the United States; therefore, Jackson desired for the country to embrace a more direct democratic worldview regarding its electoral process. ... Jackson offered limited government to the right wing and more direct power for the people to the left wing. ... Daniel Webster during the nullification process quotes James Madison from Federalist Paper 51 "if the majority is united by common interest the rights of the minorities will be insecure," and ...

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They urged adoption of the secret ballot, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, and the direct election of senators. ... Beyond this, scholars, digesting the mountain of social and economic analysis generated by the Populists, focused on certain colorful characters, such as Mary Elizabeth Lease of Kansas and Thomas Watson of Georgia, and quoted selected purple passages to emphasize the "primitive" or "demagogic" elements that seemed to animate the movement. ...

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Here is a quote from their financial review portion of the report, "Innovation is critical to the success of our company and drug discovery and development is time-consuming, expensive and unpredictable.... Since then, spending on these direct-to-consumer ads has nearly quadrupled. ... Direct-to-consumer advertising has proved effective in motivating patients to ask for the branded product, even when generic equivalents exist. ...

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These three "Asian Tigers- encouraged direct foreign investment and diversified their production plants in places like China and Russia where labor costs less. Quoting Robert Rowthorne and Ramana Ramaswamy, he says that in doing so, they only represent a growing worldwide trend " the natural consequence of the industrial dynamism in an already developed economy- (120) The relationship between Russia and Europe is complex. ...

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The following quote by the former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, seems to summarize the government's perception of this sensitive subject: An Affirmative Action Plan is a "careful, systematic analysis of who you've got, who's out there, and how you are going to broaden opportunity. ... In 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12432, which directed each federal agency with substantial procurement or grant making authority to develop a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) development plan. ...

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The opponent of the Act, who argues in favor of constitutionalism and liberty, might often quote Benjamin Franklin, who purportedly said "those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.... Realistically, this is in direct contrast to the findings of Power (2002), whose work on the establishment of international institutions is far dated from the modern world. ...

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In many ways Twain was correct in summarizing the sentiments of the anti-Imperialists in his quote, expressing the idea that imperialist (such as America) countries should basically keep their hands to themselves. ... By doing so America exploited the rights of the Chinese people by robbing them of the compensation that they would receive in direct trade with America. ...

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George Bush quoted "This nation never conquers, but we liberate". ... If that opposition is widespread and persistent, it could soak up attention and resources that might otherwise be directed toward rebuilding Iraq. ...

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We can describe it with well- known quote from economy- supply equals demand. ... "To each head of family, one- quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one- eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one- eighth of section; and to each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date of order of the President directing an allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one- sixteenth of a section....

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As quoted in the article, "A Call for Truth in the Fashion Pages" by Ashley O'Neil, "The beauty and fashion industries sell consumers, mostly women, products to make them thinner, younger, and more attractive. ... Quoted by O'Neil, the United Kingdom formed a system, called Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which is: "a system of self-regulation of the advertising industry that is run by a nongovernmental regulatory body[that is] based on the CAP Code (Code), a set of rules developed by the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP). CAP has promulgated two diff...

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Even in today's administration the government has seem to have taken the side of Mother Nature "That's why I directed my administration to work with states, utilities, and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump into the air. ... Carbon offset producing programs like tree farms are multi-beneficial to its local environment as we see in this quote "[re]forestation in developing countries is one of the most popular offset schemes. ... Other forms of credit production can be produced by no carbon producing energy site...

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Historically, Huntington describes the transition from "the Peace of Westphalia" (Huntington, 1993) to the French Revolution, quoting R. ... Second, in a world made smaller by technology, there is more direct and indirect interaction with different civilizations, which helps to intensify the consciousness of ones' own corner of the world. ... Indeed, the first war in the Gulf was about oil and the potential impact to the US economy; the second was about a direct attack that did in fact damage the US economy. ...

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He felt the government that was created by the Constitution was well equipped to manage the effects of factions, unlike a direct democracy. ... The quote goes on to say that main members of the convention did not own significant property as Beard had claimed in his writing (Beard, 30). ...

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Thomas Jefferson was a man who would have fully supported todays' famous quote, "It's not always what you know, but sometimes it's who you know." ... The statue guarantees the rights of Virginians to choose their faiths without any type of persuasion or persecution, it separates the church and the state, and concludes that the changing of any of these laws would be a direct infringement of one's natural human rights. ...

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In response to whether or not "gay is the new black" a quote which insinuates that "the civil rights issue of our time is gay marriage," Lewis said, "That's a ridiculous statement! ... Although the violence may not be as direct as Khalid noted, it is contrastingly implicit, and it still exists. ...

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Every war after the Kelogg-Briand Pact was put into action was started because of the direct opposite ideal the pact was striving for. ... By the time that World War Two ended the United States had grown from isolationist to "Big Brother", most of the decisions were created by them, and as it said in the quote "to create democratic institutions of their own choice", which will be monitored closely by who other then "Big Brother" himself. ...

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I quite agree with Siebold's quote, elected officials from all the states refusing to legalize the issue, need to change their biased perspective on physician-assisted suicide and start implementing the laws which will allow individuals the right to do with their dying bodies whatever they want after all they are not causing harm to anyone not even themselves. ... Some states argue that Physicians will be violating their "Hippocratic oath" that they should do no harm, actually by refusing patients the means to end their intolerable and incurable pain and suffering physicians are causing ...

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By 1971, tensions between the US and the USSR were so high, and the distrust between the two Superpowers so keen, it could only be seen, by some, including Kissinger, that direct talks and negotiations with mutual interests as their anchor was the only reasonable course of action. ...

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The Constitutional Convention gathered in Independence Hall on May 25, 1787. On May 29 Governor Edmund Randolph introduces the Virginia Plan to the delegates, and the Convention begins with a bang. The Virginia Plan was the brainchild of James Madison and pertained to the representation of the sta...

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