For millions of people around the world democracy represents the best form of government. According to the Freedom House Web-site (a leading watchdog group on democracy worldwide), at the beginning of the 21st century this form of government is the dominant form of governance within the internationa...
President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, "A house divided against itself cannot stand", come to mind when discussing the current state of affairs within our modern government. It is true that Lincoln's message was originally intended to address the division of slave and slave-free states, but these words ring no less true when applied to the division of American politics between parties of interest. ...
In the modern Internet Era, information is free, quick and explosive. However, right now, journalism is suffering: cameras smashed; newspapers restricted; publishers closed; journalists punished, threaten, and even killed under order of the government. According to Mapping Digital Media Project's (2...
Whigs and Democrats Since the day's democracy began, it has been the fastest growing type of government in the world. Democracy means the people are sovereign, government by the people. Representative institutions derive their authority from the people and are responsible to the people. Democrats...
Over the years, there has been a progressive evolution of free speech. In Great Britain, the Magna Carta was introduced to protect the rights and liberties of ordinary individuals. The totalitarian rule, however, eliminated all forms of freedom in the 20th century but the advent of the English Inven...
Part I: Provide a history of the formation of the constitution and of early American government through Jefferson's Presidency. Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. The history of American government starts several year before there was even an American government with a series of events mainly between the British colonies and Great Britain developing into problems that would cause a change of power to the colonists themselves. Under British rule colonists were required to feed and quarter British so...
