Everyone has the right to free speech in America, so it is necessary to have pluralism to allow every faction and group be allowed the opportunity to voice their opinion. ... Madison provides many examples of why we have a pluralist society in America, because the public interest is the sum of all group interests. ... Brandeis University's well known professor, Peter Woll, states that, "[Madison's] view that the natural diversity of interests would prevent particular groups from dominating politics found a later incarnation in American social science of the 1950s and 1960s" (Woll...

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According to the federalism principle, the American government is separated by lines of policy, where the national government centralizes the views, policies, and responsibilities of the entire country. ... So, unfairly, democracy is undermined in the name of efficient government, primarily because of the Electoral College, which embodies the American precedent that federalist comes before democracy when it should be the other way around. ... According to documents A and D, however, show that the United States' method of choosing the president doesn't reflect the population accur...

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However, interest groups today do not properly represent average American's as intended, and oppositely, pose a threat to American Democracy. ... With so much campaign contributions coming from interest groups, legislators are forced to vote for legislation that favors the interest groups giving the most money, not what is best for the entire population. ... Only about 40 percent of the population joins an organization other than a labor union, and only 52 percent join any organization at all, leaving half of Americans unrepresented. ... Significant inequalities also exist in terms of th...

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Ghana should mechanize a system where, the less privileged yet resourceful could participate in our legislature, at least we can operate a double chamber parliament like the American or Nigerian parliament where one chamber is filled by lot and the other by election; since participation through the normal means of constituency elections may not see such useful persons elected to parliament. ...

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