Democracy grows best when begun and incubated in a country that possess institutional mechanisms such as the acceptance of rule of law, a functional civil society and culture, impartial administrative bodies, open news media, and a viable education system. ... Complicating Factors In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen "in that order" undemocratic leaders were ousted and replaced by popularly elected bodies or, in the case of Yemen, a transitional government. ... Although the Arab Spring's main goal was to improve the livelihood of Arab citizens, the economy of the Middle East has ...

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He says " the Sovereign, being formed wholly of the individuals who compose it, neither has nor can have any interest contrary to theirs; and consequently the sovereign power need give no guarantee to its subjects, because it is impossible for the body to wish to hurt all its members.".... Differences arise to even a greater extent when you start to look at how these political theorists apply their basic idea to the actual creation of a government. ...

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-Aristotle Democracy: a form of government that makes political decisions directly exercised by the whole body of citizens, under procedures of majority rule. ... Aristotle proves the difference between old forms of government and the new democracy in his writing in Politics.(1279b34-80a4) "The argument seems to show that a number of the governing body, whether small in oligarchy or large in a democracy, is an accident du to the fact that the rich everywhere are few, and the poor numerous. ...

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The inhabitants on its part become more unsatisfied with their living conditions and they start to protest against the national government. ... In democracies it is necessary that the majority of the people, or in a representative democracy rather the majority of the ruling body, vote to go to war. ...

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Instead, they ruled themselves directly; each man was a life long member of the decision making body. ... After the trend of democracy was started by the Greeks and carried on by the Romans, it has been seen in many later governmental systems throughout history. ... Nobles forced King John to sign this "Great Charter" that created the English "Parliament", or law-making body, and stated that the written laws held a higher power than the king, thereby limiting the power of the Royal family and giving some of that power to the people. ...

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When the boys are isolated with no adults present, they are the beginning of civilization on the island and have to create a new society, just like how the bible says that Adam and Eve are the start of the human race and its civilization. ... The author describes the situation as, "The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea" (154) and enables the reader to compare it to something angelic or Christ-like. ...

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An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens...

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Clearly the transition from communist to democracy would be beneficial, however, perhaps not evident at the very start, but overall prosperous. ... It was these factors that gave Poland an immediate head start in the troubled game and which made the transition easier for Poland. ...

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Discrimination is naturally regarded by reasonable people to be something that is wrong and should be forbidden, and when a document is created to start naming specifies of rights protected from discrimination, it runs the risk of excluding some people's ideas of rights to be protected, since many individuals have different ideas of what their rights are. ...

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