This system is very old; Canada's Parliament reaches back over 800 years to the foundations of British parliamentary tradition. ... When a Canadian election is held, people vote for a local representative who usually belongs to a political party (i.e. the Liberal Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party of Canada, etc.). ... The leader of that party becomes Prime Minister. ... With party discipline, voters can easily draw distinctions between the different political parties. Different political party policies will be maintained, regardless of individual party member's feelings. ...

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Political parties in America are weak due to the anti-party,anti-organization, and anti-politics cultural prejudices of theClassical Liberals. Because in the U.S. there is no national discipline to force citizens into identifying with a political party, partisan identification tends to be an informal psychological commitment to a party. ... In the majority party (the party which controls Congress), the person who has served the longest has the most power. ... Furthermore, most of what the federal government does never reaches the public. ...

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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. ... It lost the presidency for the first time in 2000, when Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) defeated the PRI candidate. ... Presidents acquire tremendous authority because they also control the selection of candidates in their party for elective office at the national level....

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Political parties in America are weak due to the anti-party, anti-organization, and anti-politics cultural prejudices of the Classical Liberals. Because in the U.S. there is no national discipline to force citizens into identifying with a political party, partisan identification tends to be an informal psychological commitment to a party. ... In the majority party (the party which controls Congress), the person who has served the longest has the most power. ... Furthermore, most of what the federal government does never reaches the public. ...

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Jefferson also felt that it was necessary in the American society that freed slaves needed to be removed beyond the reach of "mixture" into the populace (pg. 193). ... Shay's' Rebellion a farmers' uprising named for its leader Daniel Shays, reached its climax when Shays led 1100 men in an attempt to seize the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts. ... In a letter to Francis Hopkinson, Jefferson defends his political position by stating "if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all" (pg. 435). Jefferson felt that because he opposed some of the Feder...

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They ranged from disputes between federal and state governments over the division power to disputes between two parties claiming rights under state law when one party relied on the Constitution to support its case. ... Regulating Business During the Civil War years the Supreme Court reached a low point in public esteem, primarily because of the Dred Scott decision and the fact that four of the Supreme Court justices came from the South. ... If the state Supreme Court makes a decision based on a federal law in the Constitution, then the losing party may try to appeal that decision to th...

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This was particularly evident in the areas of foreign relations, internal discontent over tariffs, and political party struggles. ... Because of the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation, the United States did not reach a peaceful settlement concerning the Mississippi River until the Pinckney Treaty of the 1790's. Political party struggles (or struggles between the beginnings of political parties) also tended to bring about disunity in the early government, thereby weakening its effectiveness. ...

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Eventually the tradition changed into a system whereby these twelve men would listen to evidence presented by both sides in the case and declare a verdict about whether or not the accused party was guilty. ... The Anti-Federalist Party in particular claimed that unless certain rights were spelled out in a Bill of Rights, the government would easily take over these rights and abuse the people. ... Therefore, when the votes were tallied in the election of 1796, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson received the most electoral votes, and the man that was supposed to be Vice President, Thomas Pinckney, ...

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Gun Control essay John Lithgow once theorized on "Third Rock from the Sun" that due to the kinetic energy propelling a bullet and the subsequent friction exerted on the body by that bullet that "guns don't kill people, physics kills people." In Lithgow's argument, physics, the study of matter ...

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"Therefore, logically, politics will be dominated by the rich and powerful -- in fact if not in theory -- since only the rich can afford to run and only parties supported by the wealthy will gain enough funds and favorable press coverage to have a chance" ("What influence does wealth have over politics?"). ... But today the combination of the media industry and traditional corporate power has reached dimensions former generations could not match. ... ...

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For that reason, it became a problem to coordinate the individual state militia under an organized military, so then the problem was to figure out how to reach this goal of writing the Articles without destruction of the power of individual states and alarming the citizens who were still afraid of the State's control over the militia. (Cornell, 30-37) The debate over gun ownership, particularly between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, was regarding both parties having to explain how the gun law would help shape the country. ...

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Question: To what extent has political culture in the United States been influenced by the Constitution and Federalism? Response: The backbone of today's American society is a direct result of the personal freedoms and liberations guaranteed by our nations Constitution. Although society as a ...

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Introduction: "We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done. " The American flag represents more than just symbolic freedom, equality, and strength. We as Americans take pride in red, white, and blue and live for our history. America has created its own history since its discovery with the arrival of Christopher Co...

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