There will always be scandal and corruption in government. ... The fundamentals in which their society is based on reminds me of those of any democratic form of government. They have certain laws that form the core of their society; this can be compared to our Canadian constitution. ... The most important law that exists in the Seven Commandments is the seventh commandment. ... This gives the chance for debate in their government. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As well, all of the nations involved shared the common goals of implementing democratic systems of government and moving to market economies. ... While tremendous changes are evident in both the governmental and economic arenas in Europe, these changes cannot be assumed to always be "mutually reinforcing" (Preuss 47). ... Many of the Federal Republic's laws immediately applied in the GDR (Gloebner 153). Article 146 of the Basic Law, put simply, allowed for the annulment of the Basic Law, to be replaced with another governing system, without previously binding the people...

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Truman ordered the dismissal of any government employee whose loyalty appeared questionable. ... Government agencies used the list as a guide to help determine the loyalty of employees and of people seeking jobs. ... Many employees, to keep their jobs, were required to take oaths of loyalty to the government. ... Laws would hold no meanings and innocent people would so easily be accused. ... Which lead young educated people, not to go into the government. ...

• Word Count: 1965
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• Grade Level: High School

Subject: China, a country in transformation; from a communist government to the opening of the Chinese market. ... And a law was created to abolish the domination of landowners: it was the beginning of the collectivization. ... The Chinese government created a Federal Bank and Chinese discovered for the first time Chinese shares and bonds. ... Instead of modifying the interest rate, the government decides some restrictions to limit the speculation. ... The Chinese government has decided to eradicate the corruption. ...

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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. ... The U.S. government also took it into its hands to launch a huge propaganda to raise the Cold War scare and keep ideology the same and uniform. ... The U.S. government violated their rights by interrogating "suspects" and asking if they were communists or ever had been. ... The U.S. got involved with Korea and Vietnam, both communist nations, and tried to occupy and convert them with new governments. ... Martin Luther King and other demonstrators displayed to the public their har...

• Word Count: 1786
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• Grade Level: High School

A country that thrived on freedom and was kept in tact by laws would become a country that was moved by fear alone. Laws would hold no meaning and innocent people would be accused (Feuerlicht, 154). ... The blacklists continued in Hollywood while in the Government offices more than 2,000,000 men and women were subject to loyalty investigations no matter what their status was. ... The government continued its "snooping" by putting wire taps on telephones with no court approval. ... One of McCarthy's victims was quoted saying that "to write freedom into a law is not enough. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Solidarity, an anti-Communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland's Communist government to recognize it in 1980 through a wave of strikes that gained international attention. In 1981, Poland's Communist authorities, under pressure from Moscow, declared martial law, arrested Solidarity's leaders, and banned the democratic trade union. ... The movement simply went underground, and the rebellious Poles organized their own civil society, separate from the Communist government and its edicts. ... In Hungary, the Communist government initiated reforms in 1989 th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Dahl (1971) Page 2) Since it is almost impossible for a government to be responsive to all of its citizens, Dahl calls our everyday conception of democracy Polyarchy. ... Dahl's purpose of Polyarchy is to determine conditions favor or impede a transformation into a political regime in which opponents of the government can openly and legally organize into political parties in order to oppose the government in free and fair elections. (Dahl (1971) Page 2) Now considering the political Regime of Nigeria, I can say that it presents a struggle to institutionalize stable governments. ... (O&...

• Word Count: 2103
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian Shmidt-Hauer states that "the new leader is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his remarkable profile of a Young Communist League member and a Law graduate from the Moscow State University, presented him as the most suitable Party Leader the USSR needs in order to optimize the unstable economic situation he i...

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Yat-sen believed that the Chinese reconstruction would follow a progression of stages: military government, tutelage under the Kuomintang, and popular sovereignty (Palmer 356). ... Between 1913-1916, Kai-Shek helped attempt to overthrow Yuan Shih-kai's government. Sun Yat-Sen formed the Guangzhou government in 1917 and chose Kai-Shek as a military aide. ... In leading the people in struggle against the enemy, the Party must adopt the tactics of advancing step by step slowly and surely, keeping to the principle of waging struggles on just grounds, to our advantage, and with restraint, ...

• Word Count: 1939
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Within these documents were the names of the people involved and their positions within the government. ... Its duty was "to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." ...

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• Grade Level: High School