He states, "The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual bodies "this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city- (Foucault 228). ... Foucault describes the process in which individuals are become pawns in the panoptical machine as follows: Our society is not one of spectacle, but one of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the met...

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Aristotle also felt that walls and other such defensive protections should guard the town itself. The defenders of the town must always seek additional means of defense by the aid of scientific inquiry. ... The town should be organized in a quincunx (the same pattern used to plant vines), and make sure that the whole city is not laid out in geometric intervals. ... Aristotle later added the need of water to preserve proper health when he declared that "air and water, being just those things we make most frequent and constant use of, have the greatest effect on our bodily condition."" ...

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The micro level refers to districts, towns, counties and other small areas. ... This type of representation is tied very closely to place and space and focuses mainly on small areas such as districts, towns and boroughs. ... The geography of elections has defintiely had its changes throughout our history. ... They have been able to make changes necessary to make our government meet our needs and to make our nation a better place to live and participate in politics....

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In order to protect individuals and local governments Jackson vetoed The Bank of the United States which he saw as not, "compatible with justice, with sound policy, or with the constitution of our country,"" as he stated in his veto message of July 10, 1832. ... She also notes that she had visited a town in which every man was an independent citizen who owned land. ...

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Some experts even believe that in the short time the act has been in effect, it has already prevented further terrorist attacks on the U.S. by broadening our defenses against conventional weapons and biological warfare ("President"), and questioning the intelligence of law officials ("Terrorist"). ... Joe Welke of Bozeman writes, "Insofar I see the Patriot Act as doing away with many of our most precious liberties, I regard it with suspicion and doubt. ... I cannot accept any abridgment of our Constitutional rights as fair exchange for what is wistfully called "greater security"" (A4). ...

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Our hearts bleed and our wallets open at the slightest provocation to help others all over the world to live a better life. ... Meanwhile, we shuffle our homeless from place to place; we illegally deprive them of property and liberty for committing unavoidable minor infractions; and they face dehumanizing discrimination both on the streets that they call home and within our justice system. ... Indeed, our Founding Fathers built our Constitution largely upon certain substantive rights, otherwise known as natural, God-given, or inalienable rights. ... The reluctance of our government to official...

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On July 10, 1832, in his veto message, he stated, "I sincerely regret that in the act before me, I can perceive none of those modifications of the bank charter which are necessary, in my opinion, to make it compatible with justice, with sound policy, or with the Constitution of our country" (Doc B). ... I had seen every man in the towns an independent citizen; every man in the country a landowner" (Doc D). On this short visit, she had seen independent citizens and landowners in countries and towns. ...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...

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