Greeks also visited Rome during the age of colonization. ... Roman Republic started to fall with lots of civil wars for power and came to an end with Julius Caesar's assassination. ... The series of civil wars and plague were the two main reasons of declining the Roman Empire. ... The Islamic people conquer Byzantine. ... Roman Republic then changed to the Empire after facing so many civil wars and the assassination of Julius Caesar. ...

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Civil societies are vital to the prolonged success and development of democracies. ... That increased representation of viewpoints across the spectrum can lead to more complete discussions of important issues, thereby allowing the majority's interests to be better articulated and defined. ... They need to join together, create a civil society and challenge those in power. ... During their forty year reign, the LDP rode the strength of Japan's booming economy to victory. ... The people know best. ...

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The government was unsure but was convinced how important the railway was for transporting troops during the Manitoba Rebellion. ... Europeans, many non-English speaking, came for many different reasons; the Mennonites settled in Canada to escape prosecution and war, the Jewish community wanted exemption from Adolph Hitler, and the people of Iceland moved to Manitoba in hopes of a good fishing industry. ... Allowing the people to have an important part in deciding the fate of the government by voting on their leader, demonstrates how a democracy works. ... After the civil war the fifteenth ...

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In fact Americans have fought numerous wars and thousands of Americans have died in the name of Democracy; Americans even fight wars in the name of democracy where there is no democracy like Kuwait. ... During off-years, barely a third of the electorate shows up. ... After the civil war, the Southern states made it difficult for blacks to register to vote, and only a very small percentage of eligible African-Americans were even registered. Another important factor to be considered is interest in politics. ... Finally, difficulties in registering has been viewed by many political scientists as...

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Having lived in China during the 1920's and witnessed the realities of struggle against Communism, Andre Malraux wrote Man's Fate, an example of how strong Communist strings can be. ... As a young man, he traveled to many places, one of them during his mid-twenties, which was when he witnessed the revolution in China. ... He even accepted Russian aid until 1927, when he reversed his beliefs, and so began the civil war between the Kuomintang and Communists. Malraux's vivid descriptions of happenings during this civil war could only come from firsthand knowledge. ... Therefore...

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As the country grew and people began to move towards the West, so did their views and beliefs on the country's political system. ... These all show how different representation can be and how important it is to society. ... The gain or loss of one House seat can be politically important to the citizens and representatives of the state. ... It continued to dominate the geography of U.S. politics until after World War II. ... During this period, support for the Democrats among white Southerners eroded as the national Democratic Party became identified with civil rights, labor unions, ...

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Thucydides in "The Peloponnesian war " perfectly shows the importance of Athens' democracy and its primary role among Greeks pòleis. The Greek ekklÃsia which represent the model of direct democracy was no more possible during the modern age. It is important to make a distinction: the term democracy should be used only in relation of the kind of government used by ancient Greeks, since the term itself means government by the people. ... With the social contract the men loses his natural liberty but he gains the civil liberty and property of all that he has. ... In the kind of socie...

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And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growin...

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