Democratic countries consist of either a Parliamentary, Semi-Presidential, or Presidential system of government. While many have the same positions, the power associated with those positions differs. ... Although both Germany and France include presidential positions within their government, the role in Germany is more ceremonial while the position in France plays a more significant role and has more power. ... In the past, Presidents had powers that gave them the ability to annul basic laws as well as rule with emergency law.7 After government reconstruction and unification in 1990 there wa...

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FUSION OF POWER In Zambia, there is no strict separation of power between the Executive and the Legislature. There is, instead, fusion of power. ... There is also fusion of power between the Executive and the Judiciary. ... Rather, it is intended to create a situation where power should be used to monitor and check the governance behavior of another power. ... - Presidential appointments have to be ratified by the legislature...

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However, despite the American ethos of democracy the Presidential election is not democratic. ... The source of this degradation is the Electoral College, a perversion of federalism (the division of power between State and National government). 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. ... Thus encouraging them to abstain from voting based on the premise that their vote does not receive its due apportionment of Electoral College votes a...

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Noelle Musco 9/27/03 SRS on American Foreign Policy Chapter 11 Dating back over 50 years ago, president-Congress relationships have always been strained over the power to declare war. ... Although consultation procedures that developed between the congressional and executive branches led to congressional acceptance of collective security, controversy over presidential use of such agreements instead of treaties sustained. The Cast Act of 1972 stated Congress must be informed upon completion of all presidential executive agreements. ... They are: Individual leaders in both branches play...

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Yet, this presidential power is debatable because it is nowhere mentioned in the U.S. ... A proper custom established by George Washington is that presidential secrecy can only be used in the service of the best interest of the public. Conversely, President Nixon gave executive privilege a bad name when he used this power to try to hide information in the Watergate scandal. ... Bush moved on several fronts to reinstate executive privilege as an expected presidential power. ... And evidently, the power of inquiry is not absolute, whether it is exercised by the Supreme Court or by Congress. ...

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Reduction in party cohesion, the surge in the power of Political Action Committees, and the new found necessity of gaining the Independent vote are 3 factors that have all led Presidential candidates to sever the political umbilical cord that has tied them to their parties for almost 2 centuries. ... The ultimate goal of most Presidential candidates these days no longer seems to be whether they actually out perform their opponent; but whether they can out promote. ... Independents account tens of millions of votes these days and it has become the new imperative of Presidential candidates to wi...

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Combined with a conservative Supreme Court, weak presidential leadership, and political campaigns that focused on issues of personality rather than issues of substance, these factors caused the postponement of decisions on major issues affecting the nation and its citizens. ... Women were frustrated in their attempts to gain the right to vote by the sexist attitudes prevalent in the male-dominated power structures of the era. ... At the national level, Populists, convinced that the "money power- and its imposition of the gold standard on the nation was the root cause of farm distress and the...

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The display of well thought-out Northern resistance to the Missouri compromise, made white males in the South became aware of the importance of politics and it power to protect their way of life. ... Universal white male suffrage ensured all whites in the country had the power to control their individual liberty. ... Prior to Jackson administration, political elections and presidential nominations were held privately by Congress. However, with the advent of Jacksonian Democrats, political elections and presidential nominations began to be held with all the pomp and circumstance of the time...

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Written articles such as the Magna Carta of 1215, the Petition of Right of 1628, and the Bill of Rights of 1689, which were all originally written to limit the power of the English Monarch and promote the concept of due process of law are known as the law of the constitution. All unwritten parts of the constitution are called the conventions of the constitution and these include British customs and practices used by politics, such as the power given to the lower house of Parliament to force the government to resign. ... Britain is ruled by a modern-day monarchy, or constitutional monarchy, h...

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They have also continued to grow to maintain their power base. ... The power base could consist of regulation power, financial resources, information and knowledge possessed by agencies and their employees, expertise of agency officials, as well as the voting power of federal agencies" employees, just to name a few. ... There are always controls - internally and externally - trying to prevent the agencies from getting too much power in order to maintain a balance of power in the government. ... This control of legislative action, however, is not effective and can be costly in terms of bot...

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As James Madison said, "The essence of government is power; and power lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse". ... This document was concerned with limiting the power of the central government, and virtually all power was given to the states. ... This holds with the belief of the founders that power will balance power. ... Examples of this system include the presidential veto power over legislation, the Senate's approval of presidential appointments, and judicial review. ... It is still preventing the tyranny of a powerful central government without po...

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Hitler's seizure of power, consolidation of power, and control of all aspects of German life can be interpretive by only one explanation, Hitler was an astute strategist who was "master of the Third Reich." ... However, it can plainly be inferred that Hitler did not seize power, nor did he win it. ... Understanding that Hitler's presence was too great to be ignored, Hindenburg offered Hitler and the Nazi's a place in his presidential government. ... Hitler knew along with the backing of industry and the military, it would be only a matter of time before he would be appointed ...

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Presidential campaign laws should be reformed so that representatives can only use funding that originates from public money. ... The Federal Election Commission reported that Presidential and congressional candidates running in the 2012 election cycle received more than $7.1 billion in funding for their campaigns. ... Officials take advantage of the profits they generate whilst in power and combining this with the support of their party, contributing organizations and special interest groups that provides them with a high chance of them getting re-elected. ...

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The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised on behalf of the Queen by the Prime Minister and other cabinet ministers. ... The monarch is an integral part of Parliament (as the ˜Crown-in-Parliament'), summons Parliament and theoretically gives it the power to create legislation. ... The modern role of the Prime Minister is described as presidentialization, because that is the most important person in his/her country politics. ... Prime Minister has a powers of presidential type system with the automatic majority of a parliamentary system. ... His ...

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Rushkroff talks a lot about the government and power. He argues that in order to maintain power the government must control these issues. However the media in almost all its television shows are protesting the power of the government with subliminal messages, which could also be why the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created. ... Douglas Rushkroff seems to break down "Part 2 The Mainstream" into three different parts "TV Forums" and "Presidential Campaigning" for older adults, "Kid's TV" for the young children and "MTV Revolution" for young adults. ...

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So the aim of "Separation of Powers" is not to provide separate institutions sharing power, but each branch is give a specific kind of power. ... Such that a Presidential veto only improves the quality of the legislation. ...

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The Jacksonian Democrats during 1824 to 1840 succeeded in attacking and seeking out special privilege in American life, and much political power was given to the people. The Populists during 1890 to 1896 also attempted to attain power, but were not successful, due in part to ideas such as the "free silver" platform and racial controversy. ... They built on this idea and felt that the common people should have the power to directly govern themselves. ... Unfortunately, in the 1892 presidential election, the Populist nominee, General Weaver, failed to receive a large electoral majority. ......

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In recent global events, successful revolutions have taken place against absolute rulers who had held power for such a great time in Egypt and Tunisia. Throughout 2011, and early 2012, Tunisia had become and electoral democracy and Libya had successfully dethroned their dictator from power. ... The same family line tends to hold power of the government because there is much corruption. The governance is low and the leaders in state work together to ensure that opposing institutions remain weak with no support so they can never gain power. ... Even opposing presidential candidates supported Ben...

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The implied power would also make an economic inequality that Jefferson strongly disagreed with. ... After that, Jefferson was a presidential candidate for the Republicans while "Hamilton, not being a native-born American, could never be a candidate for president, but he would play an active role in the election of candidates for that high post.... Despite the sharp disagreement and conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson, Hamilton supported Thomas Jefferson in the election for the presidential nomination towards Aaron Burr. ... However, Hamilton responded to that Presidential decisions i...

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This leader is Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential candidate, and he is tirelessly working to pick up where Martin Luther King left off, only this time with the full power of the US Presidency. ... As mayor of Cleveland, he stood up to an attempted corporate takeover of the public power company. The power elites fought back by using Cleveland's banks to bankrupt the city, and Dennis lost his reelection bid. 15 years later people realized Dennis had saved them nearly $200 million, and elected him to State Senate and later to Congress. ...

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The spoils system Jackson put into effect allowed him to make his friends part of his presidential cabinet and fire any of the previous employees of the White House. ... In conclusion, Jackson was an ally of the "common man" and really changed things in how power was distributed and in the way that the common man could have a voice in things he once did not. ...

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Unlike earlier forms of society like the monarchy people aren't born into status and power, instead they have to earn it. ... Here in America every election a presidential candidate expresses to the nation how much and what type of governmental programs he or she will introduce. ...

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In addition, he states how Morgan's acquisition of Carnegie and Rockefeller's industrial empires combined would eventually set the stage for financiers to truly control the power of the industries and, along with the rise of poverty in large urban areas & the anger of the discontent rural population, would contribute to the later populist and silverist movements. Through the violent rebellions of the worker unions and the general resentment of the workers against their employers, Brand further asserts that these protests and strikes only further strengthened the power of the business...

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The prime purpose of the government is to maintain order and power over the factions establishing supremacy while still acknowledging the people's rights, representing them in conform to one belief or general feeling, thus instigating even more protest. ... A presidential hopeful must impress these state-separated factions enough to win that state in votes. ... Yet the government must listen, respect, protect, and provide for these groups while still holding power and demanding reverence. ...

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When the founding fathers were organizing the framework of the United States Constitution in the late eighteenth century, the amount of power the national government would possess was an issue that came with much debate. ... While the Democrats favor a large federal government to equalize and homogenize policies across state borders, the Republicans believe governmental power and resources should be kept close to the people, through their state and community representatives. ... President Obama, the incumbent for the upcoming 2012 presidential election, also supports similar views over gun ...

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