"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 any form of governmental change. ... For example, Rigorberta Menchu, a Mayan woman who was born poor and in one of the Mayan communities, has been working with the Catholic Church to help out the upbring...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United Stated Constitution gives individuals the right of being free and equal regardless their ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or gender. ... People can tell lawmakers and elected officials what they want and what they feel about some important matters such as social security, gay marriage, healthcare, public safety, or education. ... If we go to polls and choose a decisive leadership, everyone access education regardless their financial status. ... In our history, there were many fighters who fought for asking the right of voting to every individual regardless people' race, nation...

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And also from my point of view, the population of Kazakhstan more worries about the problems of material well-being, social order and security, rather than democratic principles and the human rights. ... Today Kazakhstan supports such rules of the game, when it is safer and more profitable for economic and political elites to keep a status-quo, even if it is strategically ineffective, rather than to bear the costs and risks of transition to a true democracy model. ... But its introduction is also related with definite problems from the side of state and political elites themselves, who are int...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Additionally, the education level and social status of interest group members and lobbyists give them an immediate advantage in influencing Congress. ... The stable hold of power by the elite upper class seen in lobbyists and interest group members restrict lower status citizen's equality in the legislative process. ... People with high levels of education and social status have an edge over those who don't, which is unequal opportunity for ordinary people to have an impact on government. ...

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Education had been universalized, and social mobility seemed to be on the increase. The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ... Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state meant that the role of the military and imperial court could easily outweigh that of civilian government, any serious questioning of the social order was crushed without mercy, and any libe...

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This was not brand new though, as the war(s) and Latvia's previous self-governing status are not to be forgotten in the equation recognized in the Constitution of Latvia. ... The leading role of the Communist Party was taking away the right of social and political initiative. ... Once the fear induced by years of political terror began to dissipate, independent social and political activity flourished. ...

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Hansen's Democracy as an Ideology points out that equality did not extend to the economic and social sectors, and therefore equality was not a natural phenomenon. ... The ideal of equality before the law is a strength because it affords society a notion of equality despite social or economic status. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mind of Tocqueville, the American democracy had the potential to flourish both economically and socially, but in order to achieve this, political and financial power could not be distributed too heavily in favor of a distinct ruling class, because then America would simply become another France or old European kingdom, and therefore lose its unique sense of equality and independence from old world philosophies. ... In theory, the system allowed the poverty-stricken to have the chance to rise out of financial and social mediocrity without being bombarded by rules and regulations, which ...

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Having specified threshold for democracy and determining Mexico meets its criteria, the nest step of determining the status of the regime's consolidation can be considered. ... Mexico also encompasses a civil society that allows its people to manifest various social movements and is a part of the International Trade Union Confederation. ... Behaviorally, the higher social classes are able to achieve their objectives because they have the money to finance governmental oversight while the impoverished 50% of the nation cannot afford to pay for the same services. ... Throughout all social c...

• Word Count: 1920
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They have come to a conclusion that the percentages of voting groups can be directly related to the social economic status of citizens. In hopes of uncovering clues behind the mysterious participation rates, voter turnout can be investigated through comparison of social groups. ...

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Page 7 of Robert A Dahl's book "Polyarchy-Participation and Opposition" (1971), provides a figure conceptualizing liberalization, inclusiveness and democratization with the help of which countries can be termed as either inclusive or closed hegemonies, or competitive oligarchies or polyarchies. On t...

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They were to find a very receptive audience in thousands of soldiers and insurgent workers, tired of growing poverty, misery, cruelty, squalor and the Tsar's blind adherence to the status quo. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example the, the judicial branch's responsibility is to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals where the legislation branch has to make laws to tackle down social issues (Maclvor 142). ... The Ontario government responded with Bill 5 which made 67 amendments to provincial legislations by giving common law status to same-sex couples (Maclvor 153). ...

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The Paideia Propasal: an educational Manifesto by Motimer Adler, in my opinion, is a very well written book. It contained easy, well flowed text. It enlightened me in more ways than one. According to this writter this book sends out a message about how our schools are in dire need of reform, to ...

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Many governments misinform their already undereducated public of the situation in-order to maintain the status quo. ... Fourth, there should be a redistribution of the national resources towards public welfare and social security by means least intrusive to the elite. ...

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Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. ... More directly, it arose out of the profound social and economic changes of the early nineteenth century. ... Beyond position-taking, the Jacksonians propounded a social vision in which any white man would have the chance to secure his economic independence, would be free to live as he saw fit, under a system of laws and representative government utterly cleansed of privilege. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. ...

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