However, it could be the most important college because it helps American society make one very important decision, determining the President. ... The national popular vote is the total of all the votes cast for a candidate, and the candidate with the most votes is the winner. ... The most recent occurrence was in the 2000 election. ... A candidate could focus and win in the eleven states with the most Electoral College votes and this would not show a distribution of votes. ... Advocates of the Electoral College remark that it keeps candidates from focusing all of their campaigns on the most p...

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(Houser, 3) The most popularly sought after reform of the Electoral College is to elect presidents solely based on the popular vote, which occurs on Election Day in November. ... Should no candidate have a majority of the vote, there should be a run-off between the two most popular candidates. ... Most importantly, a direct popular election would give way for Americans to truly have their voices heard on Election Day. ... A reason that a popular election has never passed, is that a popular election would mandate that states stopped being the independent entities. ... "Direct popular electi...

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Most importantly, those who agree with preserving the Electoral College believe that election by popular vote, the alternative to the college, would create numerous deficiencies in the system. ... "The Electoral College system, it is claimed, does not guarantee that the candidate with the most popular votes will win. ... Election by popular vote is much more accurate of an election than the Electoral College. ... Most importantly, election by popular vote permits the citizens to take part in their government denied to them by the existence of the Electoral College. ... The United States has ...

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The Electoral College nullifies the value of the democratic popular vote by conferring the power of the presidency to the candidate who accumulates 270 of the State apportioned Electoral College votes. ... In the Electoral College system each state is given a number of votes apportioned by their representation in congress, one for each member of the Senate and House, in most cases to be cast by electors as a lump sum all to the winner of the popular vote in their respective state. ... Most importantly the noted difficulty of amending the Constitution, which is the only way to permanently insti...

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Olive Tree consists of the Democrats of the Left, the Greens, and the Italian Popular Party. ... The two most popular parties that aren't with the Olive Tree or the House of Freedom movement are the Northern League, and the Communist Refoundation. ...

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This soon lead to the forming of one of the most popular and oldest political parties in US history, the Republican party. ... This was a big surprise because their were many popular and successful politicians who wanted to be chosen but instead Lincoln, with only one congressional term was selected. ... Lincoln had less that forty percent of the popular vote but received 180 of the electoral vote, more than all of the other candidates combined. ... However only congress could do this and when leader of the supreme court Roger Taney rules Lincoln's action unconstitutional and ignored hi...

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The range of independence held by states is a very disputable question which historically raised many conflicts (the most vivid being the American Civil War). ... However this method of judge selection doesn't seem very popular, 28 states authorize governor to appoint judges to fill mid-term vacancies. ... Merit selection is the most professional and just way of choosing a judge in a state court system. ... Merit selection promotes candidates that are the most professional, experienced and trust-worthy. ... As far as appointment method is concerned, candidates who are popular, well-connec...

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The most notable effect, the gridlock experienced by our government officials when the two coteries are at an impasse, results in a compromise, but one that does not always manifest itself quickly or politely. This gridlock occurs most frequently when one faction's impression of the other party's intentions and desired outcome based on dissenting points of interest. ... Can popular government be sustained despite the continuation of war by other means, that is, the critical difference of interest? If our elected officials are able to put the labels (Democrat and Republican) aside and...

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Many other popular minority group leaders have been prospects for nomination during Bush's term in office such as: Tony Garza, Linda Chavez, Henry Bonilla, and other Republicans. ... These three men considered some of the most basic, simple, principle themes of our government today. ... From 1787 to 1788 Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote these controversial essays to advocate popular belief in the ratification of the United States Constitution. These brilliant minds and the significance of their issues produced the most important piece of political work ever written in the United ...

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Firstly, the industry assumes that they are welcomed in these developing nations, where for the most part they are resented by the majority of the people. ... By exposing Indians to this globalized food culture they have drawn Indians away from their own heritage to a more generic "popular" culture. ...

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The basis of the argument for the most part, debates the goal(s) of AA. ... A Brief History of AA in the United States of American Contrary to popular belief, the concept of AA actually began prior to the executive order signed by President John F. ... In my opinion, the initial and most significant policy or law relative to AA was Amendment XIII to the Constitution. ... This forum of mass and popular media brought about an all time public knowledge of racial injustices. ...

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Those three presidents being so closely involved with the new government helped choose the Congress members, so there was very little difference of opinion between the two branches, other than two amendments most of the government policy remained static. ... Presidential politics became national and very popular, and as a result it gave way to changes in the nomination process that gave more local control to the average voter by having national nominating conventions, and replacing the caucus system of the previous era. ...

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One of the contentious issues was that while Gore won the popular vote, Bush won the electoral college; the more troubling issue ultimately became the Supreme Court's decision that the Florida court-mandated recount was unconstitutional. ... The inaugural speech was replete with sound bytes, yet never really addressed some of the most significant social issues that characterized that period in modern American history such as capital punishment and abortion. ... In fact, when Bush said that the United States would "build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge" he w...

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The presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are two of the most prominent and famous of all time. ... He is most well remembered for his policy of "Three C's, Conservation, Consumer Protection, and Control of Corporations". ... Perhaps his most popular target in the fights against large companies were the railroads. ... He was most concerned with America's liberty in the use of the country's national resources. ... President Woodrow Wilson was one of the most scholarly presidents ever to enter office. ...

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Iran is a nation surrounded on all sides by some of the States deemed most threatening to World order in recent years, its decline from democracy to an extremist Theocracy earning strict UN supervision, economic sanctions and a place among George W. ... In just years, Iran had ceased to be the "Island of stability in the troubled Middle East" that US President Jimmy Carter proclaimed, and instead became a nation near the top of the most threatening to World Order. ... This dialogue proved effective, initiating the most progressive negotiations between the nations in their motley shar...

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Roosevelt's most significant contribution to the debate was the recognition and acceptance of this new cooperate economy, and he continued to sound this theme. ... Another belief of Roosevelt was that changes in the political process, including the initiative, referendum, recall, popular primary and direct election of senators, could increase individual political power, effectively checking the potential power of the corporations without restricting their economic efficiency and advantages. ... Wilson believed that an economy made up of many small, independent economic procedures would l...

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The "great Emancipator" the tenacious the humble the human Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president to the United States of America one of the most distinguished presidents that saved the country and gave new birth to freedom. ... In the year 1858 Lincoln gave his most distinguished speech "House Divided" speech whish indicated several points, but what mostly important is stopping the importance of slaves from Africa, and holding slaves in free states automatically sets them free. ... Abraham was not convinced yet that he is eligible for presidency but he ran for that election in 1860 and he ...

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The popular sentiment showed that the public wanted the Sandinistas. ... The Central Intelligence Agency was the agency most involved. ... The United States armed Iran, including its most radical elements, but attained neither a new relationship with that hostile regime nor a reduction in the number of American hostages. ...

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The most accepted definition for the word democracy is "government by the people." Merriam-Webster's dictionary even uses those words to define the word democracy. This, however, gives a broad definition of democracy and leaves one wondering whether America is a democracy. It is a fact that Ameri...

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Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, economic imperialism became a popular method many European countries used, in which power was gained through wealth. ... The land covered all or part of the following states: Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota west of the Mississippi, most of North and South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, part of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Louisiana. ... The law would be a major step forward to making sure that everyone has health insurance, which is the case in most advanced Western nations, e...

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For Wilson these immigrants had ''neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence'' and looked as if Southern and Eastern countries of Europe'' were shedding the worst and most sordid elements of its population'' (Woodrow Wilson; 1901; Page 88-89) The change in his policy can be observed when he presented his candidacy to President of the United States in 1912. ... One of his most famous speeches supporting immigration was on St. ... As a clear example we can see his meeting with Gezea Kende, redactor of one of the most important Hung...

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By informing the American people of the atrocities ISIS has committed, President Obama is not taking the popular way of shielding the American public. ... In the article, the Colombian government was looking to offer aid to refugees in military camps located in the most troublesome areas. ...

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" So why can we not allow illegal immigrants escape the immense poverty, disease, or cruel government of their country of origin and let them pursue the American dream that most of us take for granted. ... It is power that is not clearly stated in the United States Constitution but is used by most presidents. ...

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