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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In addition, expanded government surveillance allows the FBI to demand information from third parties. This is a violation of the third parties" rights, because they are forbidden from revealing that this has occurred (ACLU). ... Additionally, the FBI has the right to demand that third parties provide personal information about the individual. ... If the individual has a lawyer, the government has the right to monitor communication between the two parties, which violates the confidentiality of the attorney-client privilege (ACLU). ...

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The very fragmentation of the parties is seen to limit the influence of a President over them. ... Also, although the President has the power to make treaties, such treaties must be approved by a two thirds majority of the Senate. ... The check on his veto comes in that it is not an absolute veto, but a qualified veto, subject to an override by a two-thirds majority in each house of congress. ...

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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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Thirdly, the law must not be arbitrary - it must be possible to know what the law is that applies in a given situation and the law must be universal in application. ... The President in America is the direct elector; his political party may be not the majority in the Congress. ... It depends on how many seats the party have in the Parliament. If the party has the majority seats in the Parliament, the leader of the party is the Prime Minster. ...

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In our stubbornness to make ourselves the exception to the third Geneva Conventions we have made a mockery of both our justice system and the United Nations jurisdiction while under mass criticism of the entire world. To begin, let's have a quick summary of the third Geneva Conventions regarding to prisoners of war: A) Prisoners of war MUST be: • Treated humanely with respect for their persons and their honor • Enabled to inform their next of kin and the Central Prisoners War Agency (ICRC, the International Red Cross) of their capture • Allowed to correspond reg...

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During their presidencies, the most dominate political parties were the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Federalists. ... The Federalist Party was led by Alexander Hamilton. ... The Jeffersonian Republicans were a weak political party before Jefferson and Madison's presidencies. ... Although Hamilton of the Federalist Party argued that the power to create the national bank was implied in the Constitution, the Republicans argued that the power was not explicitly written in the Constitution and therefore had no right to create the bank. ... "No new state shall be admitted into the Unio...

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THOMAS JEFFERSON Born in Virginia, 1743, to Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph, Thomas Jefferson became a philosopher, a politician and the third President of the United States of America. ... 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 Federalists ideas and many more of the Anti-federalists ideas that he could not be grouped with either party or in between the parties. ...

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It is a group of "electors" who are nominated or appointed by each party within each state. ... In order to ratify an amendment, it is essential that it be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. ...

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Amendments could be made only by unanimous consent of all thirteen states--a rather rare phenomenon--and even national laws required a two-thirds majority, also somewhat improbable. ... This was particularly evident in the areas of foreign relations, internal discontent over tariffs, and political party struggles. ... 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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The third amendment protects the right of civilians' privacy concerning soldiers. ... This amendment has changed so the trial must take place unless both parties sign a waiver to their right and then they can see a judge privately who will then make a decision on the case. ...

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Gun control "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep bear arms, shall not be infringed". These few words in the second amendment of the United States constitution have been interpreted in many different ways. Gun contro...

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(Ellis 288) The third power is that of Chief Diplomat, meaning the President can make treaties and nominate ambassadors, but only by advice and consent of the Senate. ... These outside forces are: Congress, the courts, political parties, interest groups, society, mass media, and conditions of the country including National Security and the economy. ...

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"Article V states that there are only two ways to adjust the Constitution, one is by an amendment that is proposed by the states, or when congress proposes an amendment by a two thirds vote. ... Virginia (extended) In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia state law prohibiting parties of different races from marrying (and similar laws in 15 other states) was unconstitutional and violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. ... Texas In the year of 2003, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law that proscribed certain sexual conduct between adult parties of the sa...

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The Louisiana Purchase and national health care legislation were two historic events in the history of the United States. Both were huge steps forward for the county in different ways and both raised questions and controversy about the authority of the President of the United States or Congress. For...

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Thirdly there are Conventions, which are the least tangible source of the constitution and constitute "rules of behaviour that are considered binding by and upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in the Houses of Parliament" (Jones et al. 1994, 281). ... In contrast to this Britain's unitary constitution centralises power both in the Westminster Parliament in London, with local authorities being clearly subordinate to the national government, and in the Executive, which dominates the Legislative, allowing the Party tha...

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Members who simply decided to go home, rather than run again, used to account for more than two-thirds of the turnover in every election. ... The leader then gives the money out to members of his party who need it. ...

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The third common thread between the political culture of eighteenth century and today's is the quest for liberty and equality. While both parties had different goals to satisfy, they both ultimately wanted the same thing. ...

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This "pork-barrel" spending has been so highly publicized by the mass media in recent years, that it has now become a major party platform issue (Anderson 33). ... Brent McGoldrick of Third Millennium describes this relationship as a mutual indifference in which the campaigns ignore young voters, and the young voters thus ignore the campaigns (Lee 27-8). ...

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held, "the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees more than the Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial " United States v. ... This definition works in both parties favor however. ...

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The report points out that ranked gun violence is the third leading cause of death in the country, following road accidents and poisoning (Siegel 144). ... However, both parties provide valid, accurate, and factual evidence to substantiate their claims. ...

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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." ...

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