Nationalism, Liberalism, and Democracy are three forms of government that are frank in characterization. Nationalism is simply devotion to ones country, Liberalism is liberal principles and theories, and Democracy is government by the people. ... It seems through all forms of government, Democracy would be the best choice. ... It also happens to be the government of America. ... In a democracy, people have a choice of who is going to represent them, where as in other countries and governments the citizens don't have a choice and have no representation or say in what happens in their...

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These mythic principles have a substantial influence on what Americans will regard as reasonable and acceptable, and on what they will try to achieve. ... They became America's common bond and today are the basis of their political culture. ... The related question as to who governs America can be connected to the theories of majoritarianism, pluralism, or elitism. The play of politics in the United States takes place through rules of the game that include democracy, constitutionalism, and capitalism. Democracy is rule by the people, which, in practice, refers to a representativ...

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American Government Study Guide Theocracy - a system of government in which God himself rules personally or through chosen representatives. ... Direct Democracy - The truest form of democratic government in which the people rule directly by popular vote. ... Democratic Republic - The more common form of democracy in which the people rule indirectly through elected representatives. ... Heritage - Democracy - rule by the people, a government in which the people hold the ruling power directly or through elected representatives. ... Great Awakening - The spiritual revival which swept the ...

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In the United States of America, all American citizens are guaranteed their basic civil liberties in the United States Bill of Rights. The United States Bill of Rights, also known as the first ten amendments in the United States Constitution, gives the American people the freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of peaceful assembly by the people, and so much more. Unfortunately, in China, the citizens are not promised "constitutional democracy, freedom, and human rights," (Jian 1). ... "China's government has yet to switch from a communist governm...

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After World War II many Third World countries in Latin America seemed to have some interest in the political system of the Soviets. ... The United States was aware of this happening, and that is when it became more involved in Latin America. ... Once again the communist "virus- created by the Soviets was spreading throughout Latin America. ... Another nation in Latin America that was attacked by communist guerrilla forces was El Salvador, located in between of Guatemala and Honduras in Central America. ... To ensure democracy in Latin America the U.S. has given large amounts of money to f...

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America wanted to spread democracy and capitalism while finding places to trade with in the open market. ... The American view of the Soviet Union was well known. ... Communist's scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. ... One can more easily contain communism when these Western European capitalist democracies are doing well. ...

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The Cold war era was a time of fear and the first time the Americans felt threatened by a country that matched our abilities and power. America believed that right under their very nose conspiracies by communist were taking place, which is the basis for the movie "The Manchurian Candidate". ... In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... These items are placed in the movie as a nifty way of showing good versus evil and democracy over communism. ...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". ... The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ... Had American Democracy been under the same strains I highly doubt we would be in such a system. ... Also, let's not forget the flaws of Democracy (and the Republics such as the U.S.). ...

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Marx's theory was that capitalism and democracy cannot coexist for long if most of the population continues to live in poverty. Either democracy will prevail as people vote out a system that has left them in poverty, or the capitalists will postpone the workings of democracy in order to preserve capitalism. Latin America is a modern example of this. Many Latin American countries try a form of electoral government until too many politicians from the anti-capitalist parties get elected, then military officers step in and restrict democracy in order to save capitalism. ...

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This was especially true when it came to those Americans that were against the war and the U.S, involvement. But, the suspicion and distrust was also directed against German-Americans (Germany was the main enemy of the U.S. and its allies in World War), immigrants, and people who were considered to have "radical"" or extreme political beliefs that were thought to be "anti-American." ... Another factor that led to the Red scare was the formation of worker's unions that fought for better wages and working conditions for the millions of American workers (many of them immigrants or first gen...

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The American superpower was the dominant leading force of democracy between 1945-1962 and seemed absolutely unconquerable in its superior government. However, rising in the east were newly liberated governments as well as the menacing Soviet Union choosing to follow the path of communistic reign, the ultimate evil to democratic America, threatening the existence of the American way(or so they thought) in a variety of methods. ... To control this, America set out to establish the procedure for dealing with communism, a minimalist policy to destroy or control it in the long run; called containm...

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The attempt to create an equal society to the extreme makes many governments more like a dictatorship or communist system rather than a democracy. ... During the time period that "The Unknown Citizen" was written, in the late 1930's, Americans were issued Social Security cards (similar to Canadian Social Insurance Numbers), each with a personalized number. ... It may be inferred that the society that our democracy strives to get closer to is one that is closely linked to a dictatorship rather than our political system of a democracy. ...

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When large, multinational corporations such as Dell Computers, British Airways, and America Online are in search of quality labor at a low cost, workers can be found in developing third world countries. ... The amount made by the Filipino worker in a day is only a couple cents over the American minimum wage per hour; the job, however, opens doors to a previously unattainable lifestyle filled with technology, growth, and knowledge. ... Basic freedoms, like those held by Americans, are guaranteed unconditionally and cannot be abused without the entire world knowing. ... Globalization has shif...

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For generations most American people believe that there is nothing better than Democracy. It is true Democracy is great, however why hasn't our government ever considered Socialism for a change. ...

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Television, newspapers, and the radio all play a major role in a lot of Americans lives. ... Abbie Hoffman was arguably one of the most well known "American Rebels". ... These demonstrations were actually part of a communist plan to destroy the HUAC and weaken the American Democracy. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. Over here in America was another battle. ...

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Democracy Contributed to the Collapse of S.C.,19).This type of pressures,violances and terror on people damaged the systems own foundation and it 'collapsed on its own'. Problems as described above made a basement for West to accelarete the collapse of Soviet Union.To answer the armanent of U.S.A,Soviet Union made big expendurties for buying and researching weapons.U.S.A politicans should see the bad economic conditions of S.U. and they improved the expendurties then S.U tried to follow this race but they could only follow U.S.A to own bankruptcy.West incite The ...

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In the West, the concepts of a market economy and a multi-party democracy were saw as necessity. ... On the other hand, in 1949 the proclamation of a communist government in China make the Americans fear of an advancing tide of communism. To prevent an expansion of Marx system, USA got involved in the Korean and Vietnam wars which show that wherever communism could beat capitalism the Americans would intervene. ...

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Its programme was often summarized as nationalism, democracy, and socialism. ... But Communist China was admitted to the United Nations in 1971, and in 1972 US President Richard Nixon visited China, beginning the normalization of Chinese-American relations. ... With relations between the British and China frosty due to British attempts steered by the last colonial governor, Chris Patten, to give Hong Kong at least some experience of democracy within the limits of its Legislative Council composition agreed with the Chinese in the 1980s, the Chinese boycotted some of the British handover cere...

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We as Americans do not fully realize the liberties that are around us; and more often, we take them for granted. ... Under the leadership of Michael Gorbachev the Soviet Union went through major changes in most of its policies, making progressive steps towards democracy. ... American families, who have always lived in a free society and have been able to exercise their liberty to worship, often do not fully understand my family's appreciation of freedom....

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At this time Kim Il Sung's made a national address in which he stated "The war which we are forced to wage is a just war for the unification and independence of the motherland and for freedom and democracy." The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. "For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea". ... On 30th April ...

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The United States became paranoid that Communists from the Soviet Union were bound to overthrow democracy in America. ... This oath was extremely important because if America did not hold to this promise the worlds view on America could be forever damaged. ... These broadcasts opened Americans eyes that the war in Vietnam was not the only one being fought. ... American troops were unprepared to fight this type of warfare. ... The fear of Communism struck the U.S. like a wave and because of the fear and paranoia the lives of Americans were forever changed. ...

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On one side those countries that supported democracy and capitalism, under the leadership of the United States. ... In 1964 it was becoming clearer that the war would worsen and that Australia would need to send more troops to support the American and South Vietnamese armies. ...

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The Communists took over the countryside and Chiang Kaishek (A nationalist leader and head of the Kuomintang), with American naval assistance, took over the cities. ... The Americans sent Gen. ... First there would be the new democracy; that would change to socialism; and finally, China would achieve what the Soviet Union had not, true communism, classless and with plenty for all. ... The American involvement in this conflict was not very smart. By aiding Chiang and the Nationalists, America set itself up for tense foreign affairs with the future Communist China. ...

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The Americans supported Capitalism, which meant minimum interference of state in economy, competition and individual reward, and the right of voting, variety of political parties and freedom of speech and press among others (liberal democracy). ... In addition, he states that not only the cultural gap between Americans and Soviets contributed to the formation of the war, but also the strict adherence to their respective doctrines in the knowledge that the other abhorred it is further evidence that ideology caused the diplomatic tensions. ... They first confronted one another in the nineteent...

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They started to rebuild their world under the policy of democracy and very quickly became a very prosperous country. ... They were instrumental in the Japanese "economic miracle" by the permitting of Japanese goods into the American market. ...

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