(Houser, 3) The most popularly sought after reform of the Electoral College is to elect presidents solely based on the popular vote, which occurs on Election Day in November. ... Should no candidate have a majority of the vote, there should be a run-off between the two most popular candidates. ... Most importantly, a direct popular election would give way for Americans to truly have their voices heard on Election Day. ... A reason that a popular election has never passed, is that a popular election would mandate that states stopped being the independent entities. ... "Direct popular electi...

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He was the first president to be elected without receiving either the most popular votes or the most votes of the electoral college. ... The South greatly feared these wanted improvements due to the most part that they depended economically on the allowance of slaves. Upon reelection time, JQA lost in defeat against Andrew Jackson who shared more popular beliefs of the majority. ... Many people believed that during this term, JQA displayed the most awesome ability to uphold his beliefs and service to the public. ...

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A nine (9) year term was voted down though most delegates agreed with Madison's apprehensions about equality. ... The Framers did not want a popular election. ... They felt a popular election would arouse public passions. Therefore, the notion of a popular election was rejected. ...

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Many other popular minority group leaders have been prospects for nomination during Bush's term in office such as: Tony Garza, Linda Chavez, Henry Bonilla, and other Republicans. ... These three men considered some of the most basic, simple, principle themes of our government today. ... From 1787 to 1788 Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote these controversial essays to advocate popular belief in the ratification of the United States Constitution. These brilliant minds and the significance of their issues produced the most important piece of political work ever written in the United ...

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Roosevelt is credited most often with ushering in a "modern presidency" that contrasts the "traditional presidency"." ... Before him, the federal government was very out of sight and most employees were postal workers. ... The president has three areas for bargaining, "vantage points, which are the formal areas of the office; his reputation among Washington insiders, and popular prestige, which is based on public approval." ... The president's powers are vague and it is hard to determine which power is most important. ... The president can be the most influential when he finds a way to ...

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Political parties or factions were considered evil as "Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority- Public perception of factions were related to British excesses and thought to be "the ...

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Writing in 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville described the American constitution as the "most perfect in the world" - he was deeply impressed by its ability to deliver a system of majoritarian democracy whilst avoiding the tyranny of the majority. ... However, in an advanced and mature society as the US now undoubtedly is, it seems reasonable to aspire to more than the most libertarian conception of liberty. ... The constitution has been successful in protecting liberty at the most basic level. ... This virtue of the constitution should not be underestimated - in its relatively brief history the ...

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For most of the 20th century, only one political party, the government- controlled Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), played an influential role in politics or in the decision-making process. After it was founded in 1929, the government party monopolized most national political offices. ... The president is elected by direct popular vote every six years and cannot be reelected. ... Therefore, most members of Mexico's congress owe their political careers to the president. ... Members of the president's handpicked cabinet are the most influential members of the executi...

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In 2012, despite the challenges launched by the opposers of the measure, Governor Chris Gregoire signed a bill that legalized same-sex marriage in Washington State and on November 6, Maine, Maryland and Washington state were the first states to approve same sex marriage by popular vote ("Same-Sex Marriage: Timeline"). ... Most world religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity, have at some point in time opposed same-sex marriage because they feel that homosexual acts are immoral for they violate natural law and/or divine intentions (reproduction is between a man and...

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The Framer's realized that there is so much territory in the United States and because of this a democracy would lead to many people participating and the government would be run on popular ideas or passions. ... The idea of representation among the citizens is defined as equal and it is for the most part. ...

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In 1791, the Bill of Rights, consisting of 10 amendments, was ratified into the constitution. The document's purpose was to spell out the liberties of the people that the government could not infringe upon. Considered necessary by many at the time of its development, the Bill of Rights became the ca...

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Second, while in Britain popular sovereignty' is viewed as residing in Parliament, Americans do not consider any body as sovereign' but the law and the constitution. ... It has the following key features: (i) It is a written document which has its origins in John Locke's notion of - Limited government' (a) laws are written and knowable (b) the property rights of citizens take precedent over government (ii) Madisonian Model rests on federal government with three distinctive branches: • the Legislature ...

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There are three main types of media in this world that we hear or see on our daily occasion: television, radio, and newspaper. On such media, violence is presented in a form that anybody may read or hear it. For many years, it has been told that violence in media affects the youths therefore it must...

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The Framer's realized that there is so much territory in the United States and because of this a democracy would lead to many people participating and the government would be run on popular ideas or passions. ... The idea of representation among the citizens is defined as equal and it is for the most part. ...

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In answer to this question, proponents of physician-assisted suicide, most notably, Dr. ... Contained herein are the arguments for and against the legalization of doctor-assisted suicide, as well as where the state courts stand in respect to this most delicate of issues. ... Most states have developed their own laws to, more often than not, make doctor-assisted suicide illegal. ... Although in popular polls, the general public seems to be in favor of active euthanasia's legalization, the courts in all of the states find that the possibility for infraction of the statute supersedes the wis...

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Gun control laws have been around for about 200 years now and are at their most controversial right now. ... As with many social problems, legislating contrary to the popular morality of the society only shifted the problem from dueling to brawling-it did not solve it" (Cramer and Burnett 7). Possibly the most important law though, is the Gun Control Act of 1968. ... On this day, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight were injured when they were shot at by someone, who was most likely James Eagan Holmes (Parker, Bunch, Lee, Ingold, Steffen, and Brown 1). ...

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And they did it by limiting a popular will. ... This doesn"t seem very pleasant for the states that had those claims and yet many agricultural states who had the most interest in the Western land still voted for Constitution, abandoning their own economical interest. ... Mason a delegate from Virginia had the most slaves out of all the delegates on convention. ... Interesting thing is that McDonald states that the most common and important property holdings of the delegates were not those asserted by Beard, mercantile, manufacturing, and public security investment but agricultural property. ...

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As it isn't written in a single document the British constitution derives from five major sources, these are, firstly, Statute Law, which is the main source of the part written element of the constitution, and comprises of Acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation, this is the most important of the five sources and has increasingly displaced Common Law as the most extensive form of law in Britain. ... After the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 came the "launch of a grand revolutionary experiment in popular democracy" (Miroff, Seidelman & Swanst...

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Law: The First Amendment Gone Gray The First Amendment is, perhaps, of all the constitutional rights that American's hold dear, the most precious in our hearts. ... For freedom of expression does not always apply to those ideas popular in our culture. ... But we have the right to just not listen, and most importantly, not to buy their story....

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Even the most ardent proponents of stricter gun laws no longer expect such laws to solve the hard-core crime problem, or even to make much of a dent in it. ... Even the most effective gun control policy would not totally eliminate homicide; this argument could be criticized for not dealing with the concept of "interpersonal hatred" (Nesbit 175). ... Most gun owners can be found skeet shooting, deer hunting, or polishing a gun collection. ... When asked about the Second Amendment, the battle is "to retake the most precious, most sacred ground on earth," says NRA Executive Vice President, Wayne ...

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Since slavery wasn't as popular as it would become later on in history, labor was sought out in different places. ... Most of the reform laws dealt with reconstructing the colony's voting regulations, enabling freemen to vote, and limiting the number of years a person could hold certain offices in the colony. Most of these laws were already on the books for consideration well before Bacon was elected to the Burgesses. ... Chief Justice John Marshall had agreed Marbury had the right to receive his commission but did not agree with the Judiciary act "which he deemed unconstitution...

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Queensland also had a different opinion from most other colonies on immigration and it did not want a federal movement to stop them from employing cheap Kanakas. ... Victoria's John Quick had proposed that the federation movement become a popular movement, with the election of the next convention's representatives to be by the people and the constitution to be approved by a referendum. ...

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Same-sex marriage has been one of the most controversial and divisive topics in the United States since the 1970s. ... This ruling marked the most important victory for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite (LGBT) community in the United States' history. ... Judge John G Heyburn II ruled in February 2014 that "Kentucky's denial of recognition for valid same-sex marriages violates the United States Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law, even under the most deferential standard of review. ...

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To rally up this idea they took a couple notes from Algernon Sidney; Sidney stated that, "In a popular or mixed government the body of the people is the publick defense, and every man is arm'd and disciplin'd.... Shay's rebellion is seen as the largest and most violent uprising in the early American history. ... While the anti-Federalist believed in the state having most of power and saw to it that the militias be under the enforcement of the state government. ...

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Sample Essay 2 Some historians consider the confederation period of American history, from 1781 to 1789, the most critical era in the nation's development. ... In most other domestic policy matters, Congress was thwarted at every turn. ... Discontent was not limited to the popular masses. ...

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