It appears that the Diet's lower house was little other than a constitutional nicety, its wings easily clipped by the conservative elements in Japanese politics – the structural makeup as defined by the Meiji constitution made it so. ... Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state meant that the role of the military and imperial court could easily outweigh that of civilian government, any serious questioning of the social order was crushed without mercy, and any liberal measures that were passed 'were accompanied by others that seemed to point in the opposite directio...

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One rationale for online voting is found in the convenience it brings to the voting experience. ... One of these major challenges is the possibility of hackers using hundreds of different attack programs or viruses that could easily corrupt the online voting network. ... When the system is easily understood, people know what to expect. ...

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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). ... As well, there was no need to create a constitution (although many of the pitfalls of constitution-building would have been easily-avoided due to the advantages Germany had), because the leaders of the GDR had joined the Federal Republic by accession and, accordingly, allowed its Ba...

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There is No Such Thing as Freedom of Speech - Discuss The world is like a stage, a platform for people to be expressive, and for most stage plays they are scripted, thus all actions, speech and movements are limited. Where there are rules and regulations in a country, we have to abide by them. Fr...

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He found the controversy not even in economic level but in economic structure. ... As it can be easily suggested, when states make citizens to pay taxes they also develop the organic accountability and self-conciseness of the population. ...

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However, it is quite difficult to conjure up a normative sense of legitimacy that regimes can be judged by, and therefore one in which authoritarian regimes can be easily demonized. ... Yet from a more collective perspective as might be found in some Asian countries, the state is still the protector and server of the people, but the people at large rather than the individual. ...

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In a pluralist country such as America, there are numerous opinions over what society's goals should be, and the best method of achieving them. In theory, every American citizen has an equal say in the political affairs of this county. By participating in politics, people air their voices and thereby contribute to nation through representatives, hence the term representative democracy. It may seem to be beyond argument that political participation is a key objective in all democratic institutions. However, there is room for legitimate disagreement about the health of our democracy, in reg...

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