This assembly of all male members was authorized to pass the new laws and administer the foreign and financial affairs. ... All the members of this assembly were males over the age of eighteen, who made all the final decisions on war and laws about foreign policies. ... This assembly was responsible to pass the laws and elect the chief magistrates. ... Roman Empire was on its heights in the age of Augustus, but it came near to collapse by the 3rd century A.D. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first path is a vigorous law enforcement response, and the second is a change in the U.S. foreign policy. ... To try to help understand the current state of political culture, Jensen refers back to his favorite radical Americans Scott Nearing. There are three principals that Nearing used to guide his life and they are the quest "to learn the truth, to teach the truth, and to help build the truth into the life of the community. " Because these principles guided his teaching it got him into some trouble. ... A lot has changed since Nearing's time. ... Jensen feels that people were more ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dedicated to the tradition of self-government Jacksonian Democrats defended political parties as "indispensable allies of local democracy" because of the connection that they were able to foster between he people and the fundamental laws of the country. ... This ardent defense was demonstrated in 1832 after South Carolina declared a new tariff law "null and void" and threatened to secede from the Union if the federal government tried to reverse its decision. Jackson rejected South Carolina's claim of a right to nullify a federal law because their actions contradicted the Constitution and ...

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My initial thought after reading Dahl was that his theory of polyarchy gives a very clear definition of how a near perfect democracy should be and his strategies of Polyarchy " definitely helps to understand the political system of different countries, however, his concept of polyarchy according to me is not the best approach to compare political regimes. ... And by applying Dahl's concept of broadened participation and political contestation, we can say that it is due to this lack of participation, contestation and representation that people in China have so many reformist movements for ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Not only is it improbable that our nation is a democracy, it is also very near impossible to govern it as such. ... This keeps the power always flowing so that every person has the same amount of input into public policy, the laws and codes that govern us. ...

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In both cases the commitment to uphold the rule of law is what creates a strong governmental accountability. ... This kind of commitment to enforce the rule of law on politicians as well as the citizenry is consistent in the Prosecutor General's Office. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

He continued, stating that "the poor, instead of forming the huge majority of the nation, as always happens in aristocracies, are few in number, and the law has not bound them together by the ties of a wretchedness which has no remedy and passes from generation to generation" (Tocqueville 738). ... They see it from close enough quarters to know its charms without getting near enough to enjoy them and they die before fully relishing its delights" (Tocqueville 625). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. ... But the problem became even worse when in 1923 French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr which was a heavy industrial area for Germany, the French and Belgians were perfectly within the law to do this under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles since Germany had been late in making a payment. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate