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. ... Price of Socialism - Freedom Communism - an atheistic, totalitarian dictatorship that advocates the violent, revolutionary overthrow of the existing economic, political and social order, and sets up a tyrannical state that dominates the person, property, and thought of all citizens by means of physical and psychological force and ter...

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In democracy, representatives in the government are chosen bye the people. ... The government sets up laws to prevent monopolies. They also set up laws to prevent the things that can injury the common person or to prevent fraud. The government under a democracy protects and serves the people. ... People get help from the government to enter and exit the economy. ...

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Nationalist government was trying to suppress the communists and eliminated them. ... Chiang gradually lost his support as the government seemed to be corrupted and dictatorial. ... In 1949, Mao took over China and the Nationalist escape to Taiwan and set up a government in Taipei. ... Women didn't really gain equality with men under the Nationalist government. ... The immediate effect was that the government changed from Republic to Dictatorship. ...

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Demonstrators took the opportunity to set up their own Provisional Government, forcing Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate his thrown and ending centuries of Romanov rule. In October, the Provisional Government was itself overthrown by socialist radicals under Vladimir I. ... An ideal is "an ultimate object or aim of endeavor,"" one that politically is used to change the government of the country. Under Lenin, the Bolshevik revolution was an attempt to change the government of Russia to that of Marxism, or communism. ... Lenin's opponents, the White Army, were also being dealt with in an attempt...

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The American political culture centers on a set of core ideals--liberty, equality, diversity, self-government, and individualism--that serve as the people's common bond. ... The United States is a nation that was formed on a set of ideals that include liberty, equaliy, self-government, individualism, unity, and diversity. ... Democracy is rule by the people, which, in practice, refers to a representative system of government in which people rule through their elected officials. Constitutionalism refers to the rules that limit the rightful power of government over citizens. Capita...

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Australia has a minimum wage set to $640.90 per week; this improves our quality of life. ... Australia has a minimum wage set to $640.90 per week; this keeps an average to our net income per capita. China on the other hand does not have a set minimum wage for the nation. Each province or local towns set their own minimum wage to address unequal distribution of wages. ... Therefore Government intervention helps consumers by using taxpayer money to satisfy needs....

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Any government-ran organization is a direct example of socialism. ... Our government benefits greatly from these markets because of one simple fact; they do not have much competition. ... An excellent example of a government that functions like this one is modern Sweden. ... The U.S. government offers checks and balances to avoid these kinds of leaders, while previous communist governments have not. ... Socialism will also be paired with a political belief system in order to set the system in place. ...

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The misery of the proletariats would set off a world revolution. The proletariats would triumph over the bourgeoisie and set up a new classless communist society. ... People are often more satisfied when they have a say in the government and how it is run. ... With a voice in the government now, the working class could push for more reforms to make their lives even better. ... The government outlawed child labor, limited work hours, and improved safety conditions. ...

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It was the government's hands off capitalistic policies that kept this "depression" alive for quite some time. The real problem was the majority had little power to speak up, and the government wasn't intervening to help them. If another form of government were to be put into operation the lifestyles for everyone would increase for the better drastically. ... A good Idea on How to approach this is to eliminate owners and bosses of companies, this way workers can get the profits they make, set their own work hours, and benefit from their hard works as they please. ... All shall pas...

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Mao Tse-tung set up the first communist government in China in 1949. ... In Shensi, they set up their headquarters and founded a new soviet. ... The Nationalist government of China was the "legitimate" government, recognized by the Big Three powers and sanctified by the United Nations. ... The Chiang government brought about inflation, unemployment, high taxes, and overall economic disaster. ... Chiang, realizing this, took over Taiwan and set up in exile, the Republic of China government that still exists today. ...

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In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... The films shows viewers what could happen if these communist were not weeded out of the government and in a sense justifies McCarthy's fear. ... Iselin can be compared to Joe McCarthy, accuser of government officials as communism; his costume symbolizes his attempts to being like Lincoln. ... The story is well made; it sets the viewer up perfectly for a great, yet unexpected, climax. ... I believe that the set of actors scheduled to be in the movie along with added sound ...

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However, while the U.S. faces major challenges, China also faces considerable obstacles in its upward economic trajectory, particularly given its low levels of personal spending, dependence upon exports and with political concerns about its human rights record and government corruption. ... But despite the political divisions riddled through its government, the U.S. commands a great deal of influence thanks to its history, its stability, its strong democratic tradition, and its current military and geopolitical influence. ... China also remains a communist state with antidemocratic values th...

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The description of Communist party leadership is set forth in the constitution. ... Government Structure: National's People Congress is the legislative branch, and State Council performs as the executive branch. ... NPC has extensive power including the amendment of the constitution, passage and amendment of legislation, approval of economic plans and government work reports, and appointment of top state and government leaders. ... Party Bureaucracy: the party has its own set of bureaucratic structure, managed by the Secretariat. ... Party core groups are the mechanisms to promote party l...

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The government continues to only know its citizens by these numbers therefore the people begin to expect, and accept a larger government role in their lives. ... Rather than personal information, the important facts are the things the citizens do which conform to the standards set forth by the state. ... The state government that Auden describes is that of communist system. ... People should not always expect nor accept every government decision. ... Some countries in Eastern Europe are still under such systems of government. ...

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When Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba from 1959-present, declared the government Communist in 1961; President of the U.S. ... The economy was real bad, unemployment rate was high and the people were ready to try a different type of government that would benefit them. Nicaragua came to know a different type of government in the late 70's. ... "Once in power, the Sandinistas quickly set about building their armed forces and transforming their rag-tag guerrilla army into a well-equipped professional military."" ... Because of the lack of having a large militia, they began to forcedl...

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.: Pigs- Politicians; Horses- Laborers; Sheep- Gullible People; etc. ) This book shows how a government that is set up to serve the people turns against them, just like communism did to the Russian people. ... He creates a government ideology called animalism which represents communism. ... The government may have been set up to serve the animals, but when a corrupt leader came along he pressed the animals into basically slavery for his own power and glory. The government then served the ruling class not the rest. This book shows the true nature of a totalitarian government. ...

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George Orwell obviously despised Communism and showed it in his descriptions of the society that was set up in the book. ... Several commandments were set up to establish early laws in the Animalism system. ... While the people of Russia were dying in poverty, most of the officials and leaders of the Russian Communist Government were living the high life off of the deceasing lower class. ... Stalin's tyranny mirrored this almost perfectly, as hundreds of Russians died at the hands of Stalin's government officials for treason. ...

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The government allocated goods and resources and determines prices. ... Some of them are retired from an important government position, so they have many personal relationships with the government organizations. ... Besides, government leaders change due to the period or tenure of the position. ... Although China has reform its economy for 30 years, communistic government may suddenly announce some new policies for protecting government's benefits but against the rules in capitalist free market. ... The wages structure should be set up by a low basic wage plus high bonus for motivating ha...

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Socialism is an economic idea that states the government or state should be in charge of economic planning, production, and distribution of goods. In other words, the businesses are owned by the citizenry and government, rather than by individuals. ... In Socialism, competition is not prevalent, seeing as there is no one to compete with, the government being the sole owners of any businesses. ... This can also be defined as "free enterprise" in which the government does not interfere in business. ... He goes on to say that just because socialist institutions are set up, everyone will not i...

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While Xiaoping's way was very similar to Gorbachevs, personal freedom was obviously part of his plan but especially not his main focus,instead he set certain limits when it came to people's freedom. ... Mikhail knew that when a community is less controlled by the government they become happier with their ruling system, and that gave him the idea of keeping business controlled by the population without the government managing every type of matter. ... He believed he could come up with a government that everyone could get along with, offering the opportunity of having commercial excha...

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A statement in Hannah Arendt's Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government, in this essay she outlines and defines totalitarianism. Her explanation includes many variables that can be misrepresented as those ideals set forth by Niccolo Machiavelli in his 1513 working The Qualities of the Prince. ... In this lawless government, a single individual will have power that is provoked in his own interest rather than that of the people. ... It is the ultimate deterrent to the enemy state and is "the essence of the total government", states Arendt. ...

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Althusser then stated to sets of apparatus in which it has help the mode of production. ... He defined the RSA as a group ( government, administration, the army and etc.) who maintains a total control of the means of force and applied to support the capitalist structure. ... The other set, the ISA (family, church, schools and etc.), is defined as a role player in sustaining the capitalist structure. ...

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In all forms of government, there is always the working class citizen that is improved by said government. ... Communism is one of these kinds of governments; it looks good on paper, but does not work out in the end. ... The goal of the Bolshevik party was to overthrow the Provisional Government after Czar Nicholas II was dethroned and create a proletariat government. The death of over 11 million Russian Citizens caused by the Czar not pulling troops out of WWI due to them not being prepared set the stage for a revolution to spark. ... In the end, the Provisional Government had fallen to the B...

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On their last legs and desperate for help the government pursued the support of the social democrats. ... In order to make needed changes, civilians were set on creating a better Germany, indeed were the government. ... When we review other revolutions that had occurred before that time, revolutions involved complete changes in political systems, a new state, new ideas (generally not liked by the government) and a fast change altogether. ... The essential framework of Germany had to remain simply to keep peace with the armed forces, the old ruling elites stayed in power, which by it self ...

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However, though many people in the SEZs had been infused with a get rich quick' mentality, this was not as popular throughout China, the students weren't seeking a more affluent lifestyle so much as a more just political system or government. ... In March 1985 the government reneged on its promises, reimposing the state control they had removed from 400,000 state owned enterprises in 1984. ... The expectations bred in the earlier years of success were left tragically unfulfilled, undermining faith in the government's competence and a desire for a fundamental reform of the gov...

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