Political Constituencies, United Kingdom, electoral divisions in the United Kingdom from which Members of Parliament are elected to the House of Commons in the British Parliament. ... The area covered by a parliamentary constituency is decided by the Boundary Commission. ... These commissions reassess electoral boundaries every 10-15 years to take account of population changes. ... Political parties are allowed to propose inquiries by the commissions, and may if successful receive an alteration of constituency boundaries in their favour (as the Labour Party did during the run-up to the 1997 ge...

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Historically, women have played a relatively small role in politics. ... This paper will analyze the involvement of women in politics and political positions, what issues are most important to women, and the voting patterns of women. ... As of 1990, women's political participation was at such a rate as to rival that of men. ... The idea of fluid citizenship, brought up by Jane Junn, is just that more participation by women should eradicate the boundaries of race (388). By doing such, not only will women erase some of the boundaries that divide them as a group, but they will also lear...

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Everywhere you turn someone is challenging the norm, pushing the boundaries of the "stereotype". At what point to we set true boundaries at which they cannot be crossed. ... What I think is too much may be enough for another but does not create a sense of ethical boundaries. ... It is not limited to cultural differences, religions, political beliefs, talents, disabilities, class, gender. ... A code of ethics whether corporately or as a culture helps us form boundaries and treat one another fairly. ...

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Democracy is a very important aspect of politics. ... It originally began in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the purpose of "political pluralism and religious and later political toleration" (Wiarda, 22). ... Liberal democracy is a political system which is based on the ideas that the power of the government should be limited and that the government should observe the rule of law and that the rights of the people are protected. ... Liberal democracy reflects a tolerance of ideological pluralism as it is a willingness to discuss alternatives there are specific bounda...

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Gerrymandering is a term used for the deliberate distortion of boundary lines for political purposes. ... The boundary lines can be drawn to concentrate a certain political power or can be drawn to spread up the support of the competition. ... Still in the twentieth century many states refused to redraw their congressional or legislative district boundaries. ... Each state is charged with delineating its own congressional and state legislative boundaries. In many states, the legislature is in charge with district boundary delineation. ...

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Three of the most important political advisors of the renaissance were Patrarch, Machiavelli, and Richelieu. ... While Machiavelli was also a humanist, he was not a traditionalist and stepped outside the boundaries of convention and used contemporary history as his primary subject and source of information. ... The third major topic that they all disagreed on was political unity. ... For Patriarch political unity was a reward, not a goal, in his state. ...

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Soon after, their neighborhood wants a fence to keep people out, creating boundaries not only for the outside, but a shelter for the inside. ... The title of this book is talking about a boundary, but more of a boundary that is private and a boundary that is hiding something on the other side of it. ... After much thought, I realized that this novel is simply about political correctness gone wrong. I think that an important thing to remember about this novel is that all the boundaries that exist in the book are all flexible boundaries, which are continuously crossed by people on both sides. ...

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Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. ... Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramatic escape and eventually traveled along the Portuguese East African boundaries back to the fighting front in Natal. ... "The Dardanelles failure seemed the end of his political career."... As secretary of state for air and colonies, he had a major role in setting the political boundaries...

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Despite the original intentions of the founders, certain branches have found ways to stretch their powers beyond the boundaries laid out in the Constitution. ... In today's political world, the goal has seemingly transformed into taking power from other branches of government in order to accomplish as much as possible despite Constitutional boundaries. ... Political power in America operates through the transfer of power. ... This means that at any given time, the political system will have a sum of 9 pieces of power. When a branch oversteps their constitutional boundaries, the pieces of ...

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This obtained a satisfactory effect for that particular audience, but was never completely successful as the music was composed against a set of conditions, and few works provoked any interest beyond the boundaries of Russia, unlike before the revolution. ... His Fifth Symphony is one of the most debated examples of whether or not music can be political. ... As we can see here, it is very common for the audience not to be able to separate the composer from his works, therefore seeing the composers own views in the music, seeing the music as a political piece even though that cannot be told f...

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The crux of violence lies in this process of creating boundaries and separating thing to make them other. ... In the process of categorizing things we try to create artificial boundaries. All the boundaries try to bring a disturbance to what is "naturally continuous". ... Boundaries and structure create the difference between self and other. ... It also brings with itself another concept of dominance and political structures. ...

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Thus, we find no sovereignty located in the American political system. ... American federalism answers these questions but on a case-by-case basis through intergovernmental politics and court decisions. ... For example, the doctrine of nullification held that any state could suspend within its boundaries the operation or implementation of any federal law it deemed to be unconstitutional. " However, McCulloch v. ... Federalism helps facilitate the mobilization of political activity. ... The people whose aim is to satisfy local interests locally acquire political power. ...

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This political stability increased the prosperity and pride of the ruling classes as well as the military, and helped reinforce the general belief in Augustus as a symbol of the Roman peoples" favor in the eyes of the gods. ... Augustus was able to twist the image of this former republic to his own benefit by allowing himself only to operate within its constitutional boundaries while all the time usurping the authority of previously popularly elected bodies. ... Julius Caesar's seeming disregard for Roman tradition, as well as its constitution, helped Augustus" cosmetic reinstitution ...

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Throughout history, the political map of the world has changed repeatedly dividing the world into several groupings of nations. ... Today, a political map of Europe created in the mid 1980's is used, showing twelve basic qualities that are measured for each European country. ... This European political map works today because it gives us a clearer understanding of Europe using regionalization. ... This shows that there are no direct boundaries, but instead zones of transitions which create the boundaries. This is why the border between Canada and the United States is not considered a s...

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Introduction Over the past decade, China's political and economical growth have been the center of attention to various -not to say all- countries all over the world; it's almost as if China's success has become the "Brangelina" of politics. ... Statism, in simpler terms, refers to states being the key actor and ultimate authority in the political stage (D'Erman, 2012, Jan 20 lecture). ... The Rise of China: Liberalism Liberalism, contrary to realism, has a more positive view on the world of politics (D'Erman, 2012, Jan 24 lecture). ... For instance, a commun...

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Within the response to my chosen article, aside from gender, I will cover the social boundaries and grounds of ethnicity, community, and the colonial state, as well as participation in the church, and female sexuality. ... Incidents of community boundaries being at stake were a very relevant concern of this time. ... Rendered the access to political offices, there were separate societal commitments in genders. Women were still a figure in society though, with the involvement of production and trade, religious life, and political administration (643). ... "Colonial native women, living in...

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Key terms, such as 'politics' (within the context of popular music), will at first be explained. ... However, politics in music is not exclusive to party politics, as it can also be used in the socio-political sense. ... The irony of the BNP using folk music for a racist agenda is that folk has often been used in an attempt "to reach across racial boundaries" (Roy 2010, p.x). ... Although the examples of the BNP and LMHR have been used due to their lack of ambiguity in their political messages, Shuker argues that all music is political as "every aspect of the product...

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It has reached every domain from cultural to economic, political, legal, military and environmental. ... Regional countries break the national boundaries and move towards the way of to becoming a part of the international community. ... Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that political and the national unit would be congruent. ... As globalization development goes beyond the national boundaries, nationalism seems to be inhibited. ... (Held & David, 2003:85) In the political field there is a global consciousness enhancement. ...

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They do not question the idea that maybe society, culture, and politics shape the very things they know to be true. ... This Marxist study questions everyday things such as science, politics, and religion. ... The sociology of knowledge tells us to break these boundaries that we have made for ourselves. ... So in order to understand the truth the boundaries of knowledge need to be restructured. ... Time zones are drawn up along imaginary boundaries to regulate daylight and we even shift an hour during daylight savings. ...

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A term indicating theatre used for political purposes, commonly as part of a campaign or movement, and sometimes as part of the work of a political party. ... Each country has its own tradition of political theatre. ... By doing this it allowed the imagination of alternative political realities and possibilities to happen. ... Off- and off-off-Broadway groups served up caustic political commentary, and groups such as Julian Beck's Living Theatre combined radical politics with a revolutionary breakdown of the boundary between spectator and performer. ... She also studied radical politics ...

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America politics have come along way for the time of its youth. ... Americas" transition from ancient to modern political thinking has caused physical growth as a nation but has caused spiritual decay. ... Another ancient thinker would take a step in the direction of a modern political way of thought. ... The transition form Ancient to Modern political thinking is one which has stemmed rapidly from the time of Americas founding. ... Article six of the Constitution affirms the separation from church and state, not in a way that tears the two apart, but rather in a way that defines the boundarie...

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Globalization is the topic of 21st century that we cannot forget to mention in political science. ... The question of whether globalization should be continued or stopped has been an interest to many political scientists for generations. ... Therefore, it is not uncommon to see that the U.S does not have an official language to draw a political boundary using language. Boundaries are socially constructed and when countries, for example the United States, break the boundary, cultures and ideas flow freely within the country and between nations. ... When nations decide to disregard boundaries dr...

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By moving ahead of official inhabitation and settling early on land west of America's boundaries, these Americans were hoping to sell the land at high prices to farmers, plantation owners, and the like. ... Believing the boundary was the Rio Grande, President Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor to the region between the Rio Grande and Nueces Rivers, at which point Mexican forces attacked. ... In truth, the Mexicans had believed that the boundary was the Nueces River and that the Texans were on Mexican soil. ... By gaining another slave state, especially one as large as Texas, th...

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In the past decade, globalisation has become one of the greatest driving force or dominant economic political and social theme. It involves the process of breaking down the international boundaries which will increase integration between different countries and have an international influence on all aspects of life. ... Globalisation refers to the development and deepening of world markets in capital goods and services by increasing occurrence of commercial exchanges across national boundaries. ...

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Identity is constructed through social, political, legal, scientific, and other practices. ... Traditional notions of identity are explained in depth in Jorge Duany's article entitled, "On Borders and Boundaries: Contemporary Thinking in Cultural Identity." ... This notion is challenged, and I believe that "structuralist thinkers view the construction of cultural identities as a process of erecting symbolic boundaries and narrating stories to represent the self and the other." ...

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