The laws in the Republic were important so that liberty was not threatened by the people masking evil under the cover of good. ... Another major aspect of the Roman Republic which granted liberty to its people and made the empire great was its hunger for conquest. In order for the people to have complete liberty, they must have "military and diplomatic relations with other kingdoms and republics" (Skinner, 73). ... One way is to destroy a rival city so that its citizens are forced to move in with the destroyer. The other is to be hospitable to the foreign party so that they might move as...

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Most of these men and women moved to the cities or went to the United States a few years after. ... 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. ... With the settlement of the West, more people came to Canada. ... It strongly supports that the government should be for the people and by the people. ... The only people left out were young children, legal aliens, felo...

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(McFaul, 2002) This was followed by a very significant phase in the progression of democratization, when most of the countries that were part of the Soviet Union started to move away from authoritarianism and entered what today is called, the transition period. ... All three entered the transition period after the fall of communism and moved towards constitutionalising democracy. ... This involved the raid on the former Prime Minister, Nečas' offices and the arrest of eight people involved due to an extraordinary spying and corruption scandal. ... The (Transparency International, 2014) s...

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These political ideologists illustrate how America moved from its chaotic and nave birth to its grasp on some vague sort of identity whereby liberty has been at its closest to being fully defined according to each author. ... Whether Paine expected his writing to have influenced people to this degree, the result is that it did. ... People had begun regulating the notion yet expanding it so that their lives are better according to them individually. ... Therefore, according to this right, people are free to do as they pleased except for slaves. ... Douglass refuses to acknowledge this tr...

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Freedom of speech is something that people have yearned for, even in democratic countries like Singapore that allows her people to have a say in certain affairs. ... Before we move on, let's take a look into history. ... The media are "owned" by the people as represented by the state. ... Therefore the people of communist countries are being fed and are puppets to the Government. ... Pornography can be perceived as art to some people. ...

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"3 A concept similar to the United States of America, that ended up sounding too good to be true, because the different people living in the region of Central America were all very different. ... "6 This move caused the people of Guatemala to suffer and violated the people's human rights, because the military government formed after the coup stopped the democratic government that was only beginning to give back to the peasants, and was beginning on social reforms. 7 The government of Guatemala during these bloody decades was responsible for many crimes, most of them targeting an...

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The people would replace any "servant" of them when they see a need. ... After all, this is a union of the people. ... The risk of making a wrong move and lose the political career in the active quest is too great when compared to passive waiting. ... As of the freedom the people should enjoy when electing officials, I believe democracy meant people would have the final say. ... But with the term limit, more people would have the ability to participate actively in politics and people would be able to say: "Give me a better choice." ...

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The people would replace any "servant" of them when they see a need. ... After all, this is a union of the people. ... The risk of making a wrong move and lose the political career in the active quest is too great when compared to passive waiting. ... As of the freedom the people should enjoy when electing officials, I believe democracy meant people would have the final say. ... But with the term limit, more people would have the ability to participate actively in politics and people would be able to say: "Give me a better choice." ...

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People, therefore, must fear the consequences of breaking the laws and thus obey them. ... On the other hand, the Athenian rulers could not revoke the freedoms of her people and form a 1984-like society. Athens had to find a balance between preserving the freedoms of her people and allowing the chaos of a barbaric culture to reign. ... In addition, Aeschylus moves the setting of the play during its progression from a distant polis to his audience's very own city. ...

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From the day Russia coronated Nicholas II as Emperor, problems arose with the people. The mass of people were serfs. ... In 1905, the famouse Russian revolution had occured between Czar and his people. ... On one side stood the peasants, the "dark people." ... All moves toward industrialization and westernization had been done without regard to him or even at his expense. ...

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If people obeyed all laws, they would tend to do unjust things. In Thoreau's mind, the American people would be better off without the government. ... The welfare of the State and the interests of the people in power are prioritized over justice. ... What should people do? ... Plato writes: "Do you think that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honourable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? ...

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Many people also chose not to vote: the initial enemy to the Liberal state, Catholicism, divided the country. ... The only way to keep the people happy and under control was by these methods, concluded governments. ... The people were getting incredibly angry with their Governments and system. ... The people and the Government were aiming for both of these respectively as I will show. ... He made moves to increase industry in the North, and this worked to an extent. ...

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Furthermore, the legal issues of the people's right to participate to governance can be supported by the Article 3, where is emphasized that the people shall be the only source of state power. ... As for instance, in 2007, only 7.5% of candidates in local Maslikhats were young people under 30 years old, and only 1.5% of the elected deputies belonged to this age group. This rate is very low, considering the fact that young people in the age range of 16-29 constitute more than one-third of all the adult Kazakhstan population. ... Up till now, 484,000 people with disabilities accounting for...

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Then it will move on to the overview of main preconditions of democratic state and discussion the reasons why some countries could not reach it. ... These representatives must be responsible first of all to people for their actions (Ibid.). It seems logical because this expression reflects the main essence of democracy – actual power of the people. ... All of them involve more people to the process of participation in a democracy. ... As many political scientists say, some people are just not ready for democracy (Linde & Ekman, 2003). ...

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Up until recently this view point has change; Human rights and democracy do belongs together, without human rights society would eventually move towards the extreme left wing of the political spectrum hence a communist society would be formed and living in a communist would not be a very pleasant one. ... Once they are voted into power they forget about these said promises and they might even use these political powers to their own advantages and not for the benefit of the people and the economy. ... Democracy is all about the people and the voices that they have in society and any interferen...

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Up until recently this view point has change; Human rights and democracy do belongs together, without human rights society would eventually move towards the extreme left wing of the political spectrum hence a communist society would be formed and living in a communist would not be a very pleasant one. ... Once they are voted into power they forget about these said promises and they might even use these political powers to their own advantages and not for the benefit of the people and the economy. ... Democracy is all about the people and the voices that they have in society and any interferen...

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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. ... Thus as opposed to Jefferson, Andrew Jackson defined the role of the people as those who "formed the union" while the President and not Congress, was responsible for embodying "the will of the people." ... Embracing the New Freedom approach to progressive reform, Woodrow Wilson moved to strengthen the role of the president as a party leader...

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The notion of 'legitimacy' is too broad to be discussed as one concept, it covers input legitimacy, output legitimacy, legality, will of the people, democratic legitimacy as well as many more. ... Democracy is also supposed (in an ideal world) to be largely meritocratic and so one would hope the best people for the job would rise to the top while the general vote is supposed to represent the aggregate opinion of the people on the policies put forward. ... Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party ...

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The word democracy was coined from the Greek words demos, "the people," and kratia, "to rule." In theory, this was rule by the people for the people as opposed to rule by one (autocracy) or a few (oligarchy), a form of direct democracy in which all citizens could speak and vote in assembly. ... Democracy is now a relative concept; it no longer means the same thing to all people and cultures at all times. ... One popular definition is the one given by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address as, government of the people, by the people and for the people. ... For this reason...

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Political authority is derived from the people. ... Not only could the people choose their own government, but they also had a vote in who led that government. ... Stresemann was a moderate politician who moved against radical parties both to the left and to the right, and adhered to the Treaty of Paris even as he sought to negotiate better terms. ... Horrified people noticed that they can starve on millions we will no longer submit . we want a dictatorship!- These economic problems caused social problems for the German people as explained. ...

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Each of these parties once again reflected its regional base in one of the country's main ethnic groups: The people's Democratic party representing the northern Hausa, the all people's party representing the eastern Igbo, and the alliance for democracy of the western Yoruba.... Only the 200 people who are a member of the Central Committee get to vote where all members run unopposed. ... The public is not allowed to vote, there is no election and hence different people cannot become political leaders and take part in the decision making of the country. In China, the people are al...

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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. ... This type of representation is highly influenced by people voting strictly on the name of the party or platform, rather than the name of the candidate which represents them. ...

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This utopia does not tax people. ... All the decisions are made by the people. ... The ten largest vote getters move onto the next step. ... People are very conscious of their health. ... Friends are people who...

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After the seventeenth century crisis of order, Europeans gradually moved towards the idea of liberal democracy and capitalism, hoping to model their society with the ideals "liberty, equality, and fraternity.... Reevaluation is often overlooked or ignored until there is a revolution by the people forcing the government to change human and individual rights. ... People began to own their own automobiles, symbolizing the freedom of movement and travel. ... New forms of transportation and the collapse of space and time allow for people to migrate to different countries. ... The sudden inc...

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They portray the situation as one of the demonic blood-thirsty west against the poor, defenseless people of Palestine while continuing to fund terrorist and fundamentalist groups whose goal is anything but peace and failing to address the concerns of the other side. ... In this manner the public in the nations most affected by Jihad will look for a more amicable means ending the conflict as a result of more influence and a break from the feeling of worthlessness, helplessness, and anxiety while allowing the country to move in a democratic direction as a result of the common man having a vested...

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