As none is different from his fellows, none can exercise a tyrannical power: men will be perfectly free, because they will all be entirely equal; and they will all be perfectly equal, because they will be entirely free. ... The authority of the majority, thus, is the threat we should be concentrating on in answering this question, for it is the one most specific to modern democracies that Tocqueville analyzes in "Democracy in America", and as we will see, the one most powerful because of its means. ... As Melvin Richter notices, there were three ways in which Tocqueville delineated l...

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Put differently, Chandran Kukathas claims, "we live in an age of democracy fetishism" and "global political phenomenon of 'democratization.... Thorley (2005) posited that, of these three bodies it is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power since the assembly and the courts were regarded as the people and that no power was above them. ... The principle of free and fair elections which characterises an advance democracy was also upheld in the ancient Athenian democracy. ... Ghana regularly holds relatively free, fair and peaceful elections to elect into...

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Before diving into the pros and cons of home schooling, one must first grasp the basic concept as well as the reasoning behind the huge influx of the home schooling population. Home schooling can simply be defined as parents educating their children in non-traditional environments, such as in the home or the surrounding community, rather than utilizing the free public education system. In 1985, approximately 50,000 children were being home schooled and today it has been estimated that nearly 1.5 to 2 million children (about 3 to 4 percent of school-aged children nationwide) are partaking in t...

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Archaic Globalisation is believed to have occurred before 1500, although the years leading up to the sixteenth century play a significant role in the shifting global economy. ... These mini-globalisations were episodic and ruptured, with empires often overreaching and needing to retract. ... Led by Christopher Columbus, the Americas were discovered, subsequently introducing the Old World to the New and sustaining interaction by exchanging goods between the two. ... Science shaped how people saw the world, leading to modern forms of classification we use today. ... The Post-Colonial Period ma...

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With the advent of feminism, the organized and self-conscious movement of the 1830's emphasized that women assume a stand against authority and attack the preconceived notion that they were the less of the two sexes. ... In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... Furthermore, a women's tradition in writing to this point, had only just reared its head, thus women were generally viewed with skepticism in contemporary society as true literary artists. ... For this reason, most outside experiences were learned through the eyes of a...

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Systems thinking helps us see how our own actions have shaped our current reality, thereby giving us confidence that we can create a different reality in the future. ... Peter Senge (1990) described learning organizations as "those organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together, p. 99". ... Edwards Deming, "father of the quality movement" were scoffed at in ...

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In this paper, inclusion will represent all adults having the right to vote in free and fair elections. ... Therefore, this essay will only concentrate on horizontal accountability as we assume vertical accountability as a natural indicator of the scope of inclusion of a state. ... (Freedom House, 2014) This suggests the notion of returning a favour to Klaus as he supported Zeman before the presidential elections. ... Further corruption was indicated on a local governance level when European Union funds for infrastructure improvement were accused of mismanagement in two regions Karlovy Vary an...

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