The most important step and process of the Meiji government was the process of sending their own ministers overseas to see the awesome power of change. ... Russia's ability to imitate ideas from western influence led them through their industrial revolution. Following the thoughts of the Minister of Finance, Count Witte, many western investors built factories with advanced technology in Russia. The Russian people using this technology greatly advanced their ways of production. ... So with Russia's capability to imitate the west it developed ideas in technology and government that...

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The American superpower was the dominant leading force of democracy between 1945-1962 and seemed absolutely unconquerable in its superior government. However, rising in the east were newly liberated governments as well as the menacing Soviet Union choosing to follow the path of communistic reign, the ultimate evil to democratic America, threatening the existence of the American way(or so they thought) in a variety of methods. An overly aggressive Soviet Russia influencing lower European countries even spanning as far as China, Korea, Africa, and even Vietnam which was one of the main reasons f...

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The government spends about eighteen billion dollars a year to protect the borders of the nation yet individual still attempt to break the law and succeed. If these immigrants are lawless even before entering a country, what strides must the government take in order to prevent further criminal activity? ... Americans feared that communism would spread from Russia and Eastern Europe to the United States. ... The price to allow immigrants to become full citizens in present times would cost trillions of dollars, as they would receive more government benefits than they would pay in taxes. ... Taki...

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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness". ... The people have the power that they can choose to hand it over for the creation of a legitimate government, however if the people feel betrayed th...

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President Truman then made a rather offensive statement to the Soviet Union claiming them to be just like Hitler's regime was, "There isn't any difference between the totalitarian Russian government and the Hitler government they are all alike. They are police governments- police state governments" Such claims may be true, but the United States should have respected the diversity of politics. ... e hand at Russian cities and industrial centres. ... This Revolutionary government caused great concern among the American government, because they had 60 years of investment and trade...

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The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution of 1917 are all examples of successful and significant changes in the societal, economical, and political status of a large group of people. ... Post-Civil War Reconstruction, on the other hand, was not a successful revolution, as is evident in the continued oppression of black Americans, the factors surrounding the rebuilding of the South, and the conflicts regarding reunification and deciding who would hold governmental power. ... As mentioned earlier, Blacks were "free" in the sense that they could legally vote and...

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During this time period, Germans used the plant to treat convulsions and ease childbirth; Poland, Russia, and Lithuania threw seeds on hot coals and used the vapors to cure toothaches; Czechoslovakians used it to relieve fevers and dress wounds; and Russians used the plant to treat rheumatism and jaundice, which was a condition caused by the excess of bile pigment in the bloodstream and was characterized by yellowness of body fluids, mucous membranes, and the whites of eyes. ...

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There was a systemic setback to intelligence gathering and sharing among government agencies. ... Government agencies like FBI, NSA and CIA had created walls around themselves. ... The government should reach out to other countries, listen to them and work with them in combatting this menace. ... The federal government must offer good example of moral leadership to the rest of the world. ... PSI should have open membership for non-NATO countries and also China and Russia were encouraged to join (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, 2004). ...

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Such instability left countries such as the Philippines going through a cycle of instability where new governments would be established with little to no knowledge of how to govern the country. When the Philippines were finally granted their freedom they were able to establish a relatively sound government only because of the years that were spent under improper American rule. ... Had America spent its years in both countries setting the foundations of democracy and freedom, than both the Philippines and Cuba would have been able to have a smooth transition into an independent American type go...

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After Chinese government's announcement, more countries chose to ban homosexual adoption. For instance, in, 2014, Russia's legislation explicitly banned international homosexual adoption. In order to eliminate the possibilities that homosexuals successfully adopt children from Russia by concealing their sexual orientations, Russian government even prevents single-parent adoption for individual living in countries legally recognizing homosexual marriage("Russia Anti-LGBT adoption", 2014, para.1). 3. ...

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The Declaration states that governments "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." ... The Corollary was imposed, purportedly, in an attempt to protect the people of the North, South, and Central Americas from corrupt leaders and foundering governments, as Roosevelt himself said in his annual address to Congress (Doc F). ... This action of the American government, however unsuccessful, was characteristic of Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policy of forcibly moving pieces on the board of international affairs. ... Within two years after hostilities ceased, the ...

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Meanwhile, the government funded Medicaid and Medicare programs fail to offer the same quality of care as private insurers. ... On the other hand, relying solely on a single-payer system to deliver universal coverage would lead to higher government expenditures and deterioration of the quality of care. ... Since neither level of government is interested in expanding their single-payer programs, a coordination problem arises. While the aggregate amount of single-payer expansion is clear to bureaucrats at all government levels, federal politicians try to assign more responsibility to state...

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The argument is that in reality, power is concentrated in the hands of a few, a very small group of people (an elite ) who manipulate the masses through control of the media, visible government leaders, with a right wing conspiracy version which argues that the elitist ideology is subversive, anti-capitalist, anti-individualist, anti-patriotic, pro-welfare, and pro-one world government, with the sole aim of undermining traditional American values. ... Mills ) argue that the corporate, executive, and military run the government elite. ... It exercises control by financing candidates, its contro...

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According to Lind, political correctness sprung out of the Marxist ideology, which engulfed Russia in the early 1900s. ... "Marxist theory said that when the general European war came the working class throughout Europe would rise up and overthrow their governments ", but this never occurred, he asserted (para. 12). ... Welfare transfers, for instance, a corrective policy, which was intended to undo the ill-justices caused by slavery, have actually created government dependency amongst Blacks, promoted family breakups, and decelerated their living standards in America. ...

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The government, social scientists, and other politicians and professionals have studied these tragic incidents to search for the possible correlation between the availability of guns and gun violence. ...

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Criminal organizations have flourished in other countries as well such as the Yukuza of Japan, the Chinese Triad societies, the cocaine cartels of Colombia, and the brutal Russian Mafia. ... Bootleggers smuggled in liquor from over seas and Canada, stole it from the government warehouses, and produced their own. ...

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His murderous regime has denied the Iraqi people a democratic government, and crushed those who fought to get one. ... Some question what gives the west, in particular America, the right to "police" the rest of the world and to attempt to control governments in other far-off countries. If indeed Saddam has the weapons that America claims he does, then the weapons are no different to those already possessed by America, Britain, France, Russia, China and several other countries. ...

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