Woodrow Wilson was one of the prominent progressive leaders. ... Progressive movement wasn't so much a radical one but it more moderate in trying to fulfill democracy. The progressive movement was without a doubt a radical movement but they didn't completely forget about America's foundation. ... The progressive movement certainly had its flaws. ... Overall, the progressive movement had the success of creating the ideas for the implementation of programs that we use today....

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The leaders in our country, such as the Mayors, Premiers, and Prime Minister, are held accountable to the citizens. ... The movement was founded in 1959, originally as the Boycott Movement, until 1960 when it was named the Anti-Apartheid Movement. The movement campaigned for an end to Apartheid in South Africa. ... This movement shows us how strong the voice of the citizens can be. ... Same goes for the Anti-Apartheid movement. ...

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Martin Luther King was an American religious and civil rights leader who achieved many great things in his life. ... His involvement with the church influenced his approach to the civil rights movement and he based his non-violent ideas on Christian teachings of love, goodness and forgiveness. In USA during the 1950's and 1960's Martin Luther King was the main leader of the civil rights movement. ... The leaders of the organization urged blacks to refuse to use the cities buses; this eventually led to supreme courts decision outlawing discrimination in public transport after a ye...

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In the U.S. the women's-suffrage movement arose from the antislavery movement and the emergence of such leaders as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed that equality should extend to women as well as blacks and organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. In 1850 Lucy Stone established the movement's first national convention. ...

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The Movement from Ancient to Modern thinking has produced one great aspect, that aspect is Democracy. ... In the popular view of the Puritan families, governmental power would be placed in the hands of church leaders and governors who were sanctioned by leaders in the church. ... Leaders were required to give testimony of their faith and their loyalty to God and the Church. ... This idea that no religious test or affiliation was to be enacted showed the movement away from a minority rule. ... We have the President who has a cabinet and leaders who support him and mediate between him and his pe...

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By the mid-twentieth century womens in most Western democracies had been fully enfranchised and the focus of the Feminist Movement started shifting. ... The second Feminist Movement focused on ways in which womens differed from men, but now (for the first time) the differences were seen as positive elements. ... Female leaders may be more patient, more peace loving, less aggressive and more caring - and isn't that exactly what the world needs now? ...

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The implications of this movement have resulted in a global impact that crosses borders, oceans and continents, significantly affecting the social, political, and economic status of each country involved. This movement affects not only the future of those countries, but also the rest of the world due to the changing of fundamental beliefs at a national and geopolitical level. ... The fall of longtime leaders, and the peoples rising demands for a stronger voice in their own governance, have brought new opportunities for civil rights reform. ... In Libya, such a change only occurred after months...

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According to Boston Globe, The people demand for more democracy, including the right to choose Hong Kong's political leaders without interference from Beijing. ... Another issue at hand is that in 2017, the people of Hong Kong are supposed to gain the right to elect their own chief executive, the leader of Hong Kong. ... For example, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, led by black Americans, to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the constitutional ame...

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Although he made this policy famous and a success in his time, other political leaders had their hands in its" success in their times as well. ... 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. ... Unlike a dictatorship, all the citizens have the power to vote on their leader and the ways of living. ... His term as Prime Minister was ironically during the women's suffrage movement in the early 1920's. ... His term as Prime Minister was ironically during the women's suffrage m...

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I believe that increased participation in the unanimous belief of democracy which is the one union that brings all us of citizens together will strengthen our cooperative spirit to preserve our role as the leader of democracy in the world. ... (Implications of Nonvoting, 799) As the leader of democracy in the new world, the US is expected and obligated to fulfill this role to its fullest, in order to show the world what great things democracy can offer a nation. ... Our government leaders validate making decisions that affect the whole world because of the free "democracy" we live in. ... ...

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At the very beginning of the movie the problem the children faced was who would be the leader of the children. ... He is a natural leader and by achieving the role reluctantly by vote he symbolically represents the government, or more specifically democracy. ... Not only did he help guide the rest of the boys by being their leader he also acted as their friend in whom they can trust in. ... Jack agreed to follow the rules that Ralph had set at the beginning of the movie when Ralph was voted leader, but later became annoyed of how Ralph managed the group of children. ... Every nation will al...

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During the history, people obey to leaders, kings, dictators. ... For example, In Gezi park movement, similar problems occur between people who different idea about this protest and people were decomposed from each other. ... As a result of these, It ıs true to say that civil disobedience is an undemocratic movement because of causing violation. ... In some situation civil disobedience can be legally true nonviolent movement. ...

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India and the United States of America are among the two largest countries in the world. They are located in two different continents and on the other side of the earth from each other, but the United States of America and India have some similarities. The two countries" history is alike. Both I...

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It took the hearts of many citizens, as well as courageous leaders, to help the blacks gain equality. Similarly, both countries had illustrious leaders who guided the Civil Rights movements. ... Both leaders demonstrated the perfect image of courage and perseverance; they never gave up, even when it seemed as if there were no hopes of ever achieving equality for the blacks. ... In both cases the reason for the creation of apartheid were the same, and both involved revolutionary leaders and revolutionary citizens. It is important to notice that the works of these people during the Civil Rig...

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Unfortunately, improper leader and elected officials will make some disadvantages in the society such as political conflict, war, discrimination, tension between different ethnicity, high tax rates, or internal corruption. ... The leaders of this campaign did not always agree with one another–in fact, sometimes their disagreements threatened to derail their movement–but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women." ... As a result, an improper and irresponsible leader might be elected. ...

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As the "leader" of this group, it was important for Jackson himself to support these ideals through his actions. ... Jackson wasn't the only influential Jacksonian who was responsible for the movement towards equality. ... When the Women's right movement first began Jackson was a supporter of the cult of domesticity. ...

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In 1914 the war broke out causing the Women's movement to suspend their campaigns and become involved in the war effort. ... However Sylvia Pankhurst, one of the leaders of the Suffragettes said that she believed strongly that the violent campaigns were the reason women got the vote, or the fear that the violence would return. ...

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Most modern societies have a representative democracy where the citizens elect their leaders to represent them in making decisions about laws and other issues. ... As a citizens in modern democracy we have the freedom of lifestyle, press, speech, association, movement, and right to live, to own property, to be protected. ...

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1) Most decisions made in politics are difficult. It is almost never completely straightforward, and you almost always have to give something up to gain something. This is never more evident then when we discuss China and granting it MFN trade status. Going into this decision President Clinton was f...

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Madison who originally had been the leading federalist in the country became the leader of a more antifederalist Jeffersonian Republican party who embraced parties and factions in order to protect and preserve the future of federalism and the separation of powers. ... Embracing the New Freedom approach to progressive reform, Woodrow Wilson moved to strengthen the role of the president as a party leader. ... Wilson redefined the role of the executive as a strong party leader who would work together with Congress as a prime minister works together with Parliament. ... The New Deal was a more rad...

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" While Europeans have not been fully successful in reaching their envisioned ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity the human and individual rights, equality, and violence can be examined to show the continuous movement of societies towards these goals. ... Fascism was also a common governing style, with a leader ruling under the notion that all sovereignty is located in the organic nation. ... They limited their movement of jobs by implementing workbooks telling a person's job history, clearly limiting an individual's right to work where they please (Hansen 11/2/12). ......

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Up to the end of the 19th century, Russia was an autocratic(Leader having total power) country. ... The strong autocracy tried to stop it by implementing its power to the leader and keeping the autocracy tradition that Nicholas (I) has brought. ... For the first time in the history of Russia, millions of people in the cities and in the villages took part in a revolutionary movement. ...

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The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The beginnings of democracy can be credited to the Greeks of the sixth century BC. The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." These two words are joined together to form democracy, literally meaning, "rule by the people" (Pious). The Greek system of government was perhaps closer to a true democracy or rule by the people than any other in history. ...

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We often considered that socialism was hand in hand with democracy. But reviewing the past century in which socialism developed so rapidly and fiercely, we maybe will get difficult conclusion. What is the democracy? There were so many great thinkers that talked about democracy, such as Plato, ...

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In "The Working Men's Declaration of Independence," (Doc A) George Henry Evans, a leader in the American Workers" Movement, basically states that he feels that the working class is treated in a much worse way than the upper classes. ...

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