The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. ... Once again it is ok for Democracy to spread but not Communism, thus creating a feeling like we as the American people have been lied to. ... If Communism and Democracy are so similar and one doesn't work then the other must have similar flaws. ... At the similar time the United States was trying to spread Democracy to other countries, so why is one looked upon as bad and thus leads to war, while Democracy is the ty...

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US applied pressure to Korea to by F-15, which were made by America Boeing Company. ... Particularly, Europe companies are actively challenging America's military industry. ... The security guarantee that American alliance represents is very important to Australia. America always values having allies."" ... I have some understanding of the European point of view, but I'm more understanding of the American position, because I look at what has happened over the last several decades, and the heavy lifting has been done by the Americans."" ...

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Tocqueville's well-known study of Democracy in America primarily focuses on American society, not its governmental or political system. ... The answer, he concluded, was in the commitment of Americans to the idea of democracy and self-government. ... By utilizing a jury system among peers and engaging in a discourse with the exchange of ideas, democracy still had its flaws. ... These were the true advantages of democracy. ... It was the consciousness of victory over a false theory of government or self-dominion which affected mankind for ages, that gave joy to the true American. ...

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It is often used to refer to countries or regions within countries, for example, the United States of America. ... Arguably the most influential of these was Robert Dahl an American who believed that decision making in America should be and in many cases was pluralistic. A case of pluralism being thought about and expressed in America was shown when the framers of the American constitution feared the power that could be wielded by organised interests. ... The Elitist theory argues that the important decisions in liberal democracies are taken by a single ruling elite rather than being the outc...

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The first of which was a study of Pre-Revolution politics in the American colonies. ... (x) The topic of early American politics was remarkably obscure especially for a topic of such importance. ... It was this uncompromising English policy that eventually led to the American Revolution. ... "Americans" at this time had only about one century of their own history and most living in the colonies had not been there for the whole century, they were for all purposes British - not American, at least not yet. ... England had it all: "an element of monarchy, the king, an element of aristocracy, the...

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The article used as reference for the majority of this paper was written by Patricia Springborg in 1984, titled "Karl Marx on Democracy, Participating, Voting, and Equality". The 1980's was the last decade of the cold war between the United States of America and the Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. ... She specifically singles out Marx's theory on participatory democracy. Marx, unlike democratic reformist critics such as Plato and Aristotle, believes that democracy should be a community activity and not an individualist one. ... Springborg criticizes this point and stat...

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Democracy had been spreading throughout the world for the preceding two decades, but with a very important difference. ... Preuss notes that when the constitutional state gained favor in North America, it was founded on the principle of the unitary state; it was not designed to address the lack of national identity which is found throughout Europe - and which is counter to the concept of the constitutional state (48). ... According to theories of modernization, the higher the levels of socioeconomic achievement, the greater the pressure for open competition and, ultimately, dem...

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A third factor of this theory is that democracies are more susceptible to viewing countries with similar governing styles and policies as peaceful, as oppose to as a threat. ... A fourth factor is that democracies often times possess greater wealth than other governing countries, and therefore avoid conflict to preserve their resources. ... Both of these are well known democracies. Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. ... It was a boundary set up as a surrender of the Japanese to the Americans on th...

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Comparisons of the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and in America enable us to look in some detail at their attempts to vanquish two of the strictest regimes in Eastern Europe and in Northern America . ... Not all of the first American settlers were loyal to the British crown. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. ... They sent British troops to "protect Americans" they said. ...

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Comparisons of the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and in America enable us to look in some detail at their attempts to vanquish two of the strictest regimes in Eastern Europe and in Northern America . ... Not all of the first American settlers were loyal to the British crown. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. ... They sent British troops to "protect Americans" they said. ...

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They were formed in 1912, with Sun Yat-sen as the leader, with their original plans being to achieve parliamentary democracy and moderate socialism, goals that sound good on paper. ... These principles were nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. ... Communism---a well-planned act designed to do away with Chinese attempts toward capitalism or democracy. ... On the other hand, the Kuomintang's Principles of Democracy mean a democratic system shared by all the common people and not privately owned by the few. ... The Three People's Principles of the old democracy,...

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The United States created policies to stop the spread of communism out of the fear that it will one day overthrow democracy throughout the world. Americans believed that everyone in the world freedom and liberty in their country. ... They had an understanding of what communism was, and how it threatened democracy throughout the world. ... The finally movie viewed was the 2002 version of the Quiet American. ... American involvement in Vietnam is still controversial till this day, many Americans believe that South Vietnam was lost before troops were even sent. ...

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The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. ... Because of the Cold War, the United States believed that the Soviet Union was responsible for any communism in any country, and that the goal of this was to envelope the entire world in communism and wipe out capitalism and democracy. ... Even being dressed as an American soldier made one a target. ... As news of the tragedies occurring in Vietnam spread, American ...

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The students did it non-violently by many of them walking in one at a time insisting that some historical documents that shaped our country on democracy like An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, On Liberty, and Common Sense, be available to them. ... As shock to Buckley, many people applauded Zinn's opposition and he did not understand his criticism of the American government. ... The Unites States was and still is on a global spread of their so called democracy, but Zinn has seen first hand on how it fails especially during the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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With the discovery of America and the following expansion of economic markets, a new manufacturing class arises. ... (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." ... In America capitalism was based on a laissez-faire economic system. ... These laws allowed the American working class to bridge the gap with the upper-class bourgeoisie running government. ... Afterall, the examples of 19th century Britain and America after the Great Depression prove Marx's...

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The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confronted by an implacably hostile foe for which no amount of Western conciliation would satisfy its global ambitions, came to the defense of freedom and democracy, saving the world from the spread of communist rule.8 This was the fortification needed that would generate policies towards dealing with the Soviet Union such as the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, to which Keenan would also be involved with. The US Government used the scare of Soviet plans for world domination to put the ...

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The meaning of "communism" according to The American Heritage Dictionary, is: "A social system characterized by the absence of classes and by common ownership of the means of production and subsistence." ... Also, the kind of democracy practiced in Utopia is not accepted in the totalitarian Soviet states. ... In a Utopian society a true American would commit suicide after realizing that they could no longer be individuals. ...

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