But with the agreement that personal liberties would be addressed in the form of a bill of rights all states agreed to the new form of government. ... As far a government structure at that time it was relatively new and with the exception of the bill of rights and two additional amendments it remained static and can be described by a copy of the document itself. ... Carolina but those requirements were abolished before the Civil war. ... The party quick to seize in time for the Civil war was the modern Republican Party, which was mainly favored in the northern states. ... In this era relig...

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The implications of this movement have resulted in a global impact that crosses borders, oceans and continents, significantly affecting the social, political, and economic status of each country involved. This movement affects not only the future of those countries, but also the rest of the world due to the changing of fundamental beliefs at a national and geopolitical level. ... Background The Arab Spring is the name that has been given to the recent wave of protests, civil wars, and political unrest in the Arab region of the world. ... The fall of longtime leaders, and the peoples rising dem...

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This paper will aim to analyze the challenges that Cambodia has faced on its road towards democracy by giving a brief historical insight before focusing more specifically on issues dealing with corruption, civil liberties and political freedom, as well as the lack of rule of law within Cambodian society. ... The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). ... The Khmer rouge movement led by Pol Pot, also known as, "Broth...

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The United States has a history of restricting the rights of certain groups to vote. ... For many years, voting rights were reserved only for white males who owned land. ... Through the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, most of these practices were diminished, and in 1962 Congress passed the 24th Amendment, which made it illegal for a state or the federal government to charge any fee for casting a ballot in a federal election. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to solidify the voting rights of all Americans, and gave the Department of Justice the power to sue states that limited th...

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It is hard to imagine a world without rights and freedom. ... It is not just political freedom that matters, but also general freedom, which supports additional rights and liberties, "the freedom we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life- (Pericles 431b.c). ... The difficulties that post-communist states had to face when they began the transition to democracy were innumerable, among the main ones, their problems included: there was little civil society in the countries- the democratisation process of post-communist Europe is sui generis, because it occurs in a situation w...

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Cicero suggested that all people have certain rights that should be preserved. ... Later, the Petition of Right (1628) set that the King could no longer tax without parliament's permission and the Bill of Rights (1689) provided freedom of speech and banned cruel or unusual punishment. ... Locke's book, Two Treatises (published in 1690), stated that under the "social contract," the government's job was to protect "natural rights", which included "the right to life, liberty, and the ownership of property." ... Jefferson borrowed a little from Rousseau as well when he said that a...

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There democracy is described with competition, political participation and civil and political liberties (Sa-rensen, 1993: 13). ... Finally, civil and political liberties imply liberties like the freedom of expression, press, and forming and joining organisations, which links democracy again with liberalism. ...

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