MEASURING SOCIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Which of the two countries is more socialist, Canada or the United States of America? ... We must then find data that would help indicate the variable of democracy. ... The representation and support of diverse political views as well as a high level of public participation in political decisions are two social characteristics that would indicate a high level of democracy. ... Let's now take a look at the second variable that will be used to compare the degree of democracy ...

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers, " Aristotle observed in his Politics. "If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons share alike in government to the utmost"" (Aristotle 60.) The media coverage on our elected officials is a constant factor in how well our leaders are maintaining democracy. ... This affected the laws which go into place and how things are conducted in government both on the federal and state levels and is by far not what democracy should include. ... This creates a field d...

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Introduction & Background The United States of America was founded by what many consider the social elite of their time. This socially elite group which included George Washington our nations first President, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin contributed to help create what is one of the most respected and well known written documents ever produced, the Constitution of the United States of America. ... The use of this principle is illustrated by Judith Best when she says, " ..the electoral vote system is a paradigm, the very model, of American democracy. ... Many supporters of the Ele...

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Constitutionally speaking, since people cannot be property (not by governments nor by other people) , that by virtue of democracy they should be citizens of the place they inhabit, that because the people of Guam are now U.S. citizens, and that they inhabit U.S. territory (Guam), one would reason that Guam should be a state of the Union -on "equal footing" with other states. ... As American citizens, a dichotomy of identities exists for the colonized people of Guam. On the one hand, Guamanians have the freedom to take part in the American experiment -to practice self-governance and hence self-...

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