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...Problems in American Democracy is a very detailed, specific explanation of some of the underlying and surface problems of a democracy system of government, particularly of the American form of democracy. Though lengthy, it is a great read for peo...

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...When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his visit, still remain surprisingly relevant today...

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...Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great acclaim in 1880. Though the book avoids dates and the characters are fictitious, the setting is no doubt that of Washington in the 1870s, the age of Presidents Grant and Hayes. The...

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...1 LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS GLOBAL INFLUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features of a Liberal Democracy . . . . . . . . .2 Global Political Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...ant national security implications for the United States. Working in tandem, these allies can promote the American vision for the region by fostering democracy, peace, and free markets in the region....

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...hestionar despre paradoxism: 69 Preface: News paradoxism: 3 Again paradoxism 5 Alex Stefanescu and totalitarianism that installs ȋn Romȃnia: 31 Democracy fittest: 43 Neutrosophy and Paradoxism (Dialog with Rusu MN): 47 Writing on DOS! (Interview with Maria Diana Popescu): 50 "Emigrant to infinity" (Interview with Mihaela Musca): 54 Pros and Cons (Dialogue with Mi...

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... of almost any other nation, could have serious repercussions across the planet. Whether Nigeria is able to grow into a thriving, stable, and vibrant democracy or whether it becomes a failed state, the people of the United States must be ready to support Nigeria as a fellow member of the international system....

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...fer from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that made a mockery of American democracy, and while exhibiting the racist attitudes that made him controversial in the 20th century concludes “It is not good to be a negro in the land of the free and the home of the brave.” G. A. England of Harvard Univers...

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...ives various names, according to the fancies of men, and is sometimes called democracy, but is really an aristocracy or government of the best which h...

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...ore British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but... ...condition? We have to ask precisely the same question about the Ameri- can democracy and the American constitution. Is that latter arrangement going t... ...worlds. The young American grows up into a world pervaded by the theory of democracy, by the theory that all men must have an equal chance of happines... ...merica, works out into a practical repudiation of that equality, political democracy so eloquently asserts. There is a fatalistic submission to infe- ...

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...55. Aftershocks -- 205 -- 56. A Political Legend Joins the Battle Against Hare Coursing -- 210 -- 57. The Campaign Goes International -- . 212 -- 58. Democracy Denied -- 215 -- 59. Muzzling Cruelty -- 218 -- 60. An Anti-Hare Coursing Protest -- On Fifth Avenue -- . 219 -- 61. The Irish Hare Still Cries Out For Protection -- 223 -- Epilogue -- 229 -- Glossary of Words That ...

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...tate is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both t...

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...book is divided into 7 parts: THE COLONIAL PERIOD, CONFLICT AND INDEPENDENCE, FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNION AND NATIONAL POLITICS, THE WEST AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, SECTIONAL CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION, NATIONAL GROWTH AND WORLD POLITICS, AND PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE WORLD WAR. (Summary by TTM)...

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... haughty hectoring of the ubiquitous American missionaries of the "free-market-cum-democracy" church. Americans everywhere aggressively preach the ... ...ve with Grace In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Girl Containing the United States Democracy and New Colonialism The American Hostel Add Me to the L... ...f moral judgment. - Would you rather live under sharia law? Don't you find Liberal Democracy vastly superior to Islam? Superior, no. Different - of... ...he world of the future will be truly pluralistic. The proselytizing zeal of Liberal Democracy and Capitalism has rendered them illiberal and intoler... ... of humanity does not regard materialism, individualism, liberalism, progress, and democracy - at least in their Western guises - as universal or d... ... economic and social upheaval. Enamored with the new ideology of free marketry cum democracy, the West first assumed the role of the omniscient. It... ... very limited - lessons. The first teaches us how seamless the transformation from democracy to military dictatorship appears - when it is gradual ... ...ampant. As internal tensions mount and the centrifugal outweighs the centripetal - democracy is surreptitiously and incrementally eroded and replac... ...s tome, "The Future of Freedom", Fareed Zakaria bemoans the existence of "illiberal democracy" - with all the trappings of one but without its const...

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...ic, and systemic failures in all spheres of policy, even the most resilient democracy develops a predilection to "strong men", leaders whose self- c... ...s" rather than "strong men". Yet, all these polities maintain a theatre of democracy, or a theatre of "democratically-reached consensus" (Putin cal... ...a theatre of "democratically-reached consensus" (Putin calls it: "sovereign democracy"). Such charades are devoid of essence and proper function an... ...he party in power. In most developing countries and nations in transition, "democracy" is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are the... ..., Indonesia, Mexico, and Bolivia. Many nations have chosen prosperity over democracy. Yes, the denizens of these realms can't speak their mind or ... ...Campaign Finance Reform The Athenian model of representative participatory democracy was both exclusive and direct. It excluded women and slaves bu... ...em of the large constituency. Political candidates in a direct participatory democracy need to keep each and every member of their constituency (pot... ...inating information. To restrict these activities would be a disservice to democracy and to voters. Campaign finance reform in its current (myriad) ... .... This can be done only by adopting an indirect, non- participatory form of democracy, perhaps by abolishing the direct election (and campaigning) o...

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...sustainable order in life, we have tried living in clans, slavery, greek democracy, feudalism, capitalism, communism, modern democracy, fascism, an...

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...he expected COMPANY Having someone around For sharing personal ground DEMOCRACY Allowing anarchy To be set right on its own 64 IG...

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...o centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES OF GRASS takes the individual and a young American democracy as its themes and illustrates them with a long-lined cadence Whitman coined his “barbaric yawp” along with all the details that constitute them, a few being sexual love, commonplace American scenes and personalities...

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...'s Shores As Adam Early in the Morning CALAMUS In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand For You O Democracy These I Singing in Spring Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances The Base of All Metaphysics Recorders Ages Hence When I Heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New Pers...

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...r pain of the severest punishment. A body politic of this kind is called a Democracy, which may be defined as a society which wields all its power as ... ... imperia nemo continuit diu.” No one can long retain a tyrant’s sway. In a democracy, irrational commands are still less to be feared: for it is almos... ...hould agree in an irrational design: and, moreover, the basis and aim of a democracy is to avoid the desires as irrational, and to bring men as far as... ... is included. I think I have now shown sufficiently clearly the basis of a democracy: I have especially desired to do so, for I believe it to be of al... ...the Hebrews did not transfer their rights to any other person but, as in a democracy, all surrendered their rights equally, and cried out with one voi... ...l to them through the proph- ets. Just as we have shown to take place in a democracy, where men with one consent agree to live according to the dictat... ...ower, if it exists at all, must belong to a monarch, and least of all to a democracy, where the whole or a great part of the people wield authority co... ...st objections, since it is the one most in harmony with human nature. In a democracy (the most natural form of government, as we have shown in Chapter...

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...he true forms of government? Are they not three—monarchy , oli- garchy , and democracy? and the distinctions of free- dom and compulsion, law and no l... ...ded into royalty and tyranny; oligarchy into aristocracy and plutocracy; and democracy may observe the law or may not observe it. But are any of these... ...ing, that each of the three forms of government, royalty , aristocracy , and democracy , might be divided into two, so that the whole number of them, ... ...stocracy and plutocracy; and democ- racy may also be divided, for there is a democracy which observes, and a democracy which neglects, the laws. The g... ...volutions, and not without parallel in modern times, that the leaders of the democracy have been themselves of aristocratic origin. The people are exp... ...those who have political power. They will often learn by experience that the democracy has become a plutocracy . The influence of wealth, though not t... ...form of government the rule of the multitude, which is called by the name of democracy? 108 Statesman YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly . STRANGER: And do no... ...e names of aristocracy and oligarchy . YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly . STRANGER: Democracy alone, whether rigidly observing the laws or not, and whether t...

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...overnment of the soldier and the lover of honor, this again declining into democracy, and de mocracy into tyranny, in an imaginary but regular order ... ...he lovers of theatricals, or in the fantastic behavior of the citizens of democracy. His weak nesses are several times alluded to by Socrates, who,... ...ly approved, and is a form of government which teems with evils: thirdly, democracy, which naturally follows oli garchy, although very different: an... ..., consider oligarchical man; and then again we will turn our attention to democracy and the democratical man; and lastly, we will go and view the cit... ...maker answers to the oligarchical State? There can be no doubt. Next comes democracy; of this the origin and nature have still to be considered by us;... ..., is our method. Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is it not on this wise?—The good at which such a State al... ... distracted, even when there is no exter nal cause. Yes, surely. And then democracy comes into being after the poor have conquered their opponents, s... ...gistrates are commonly elected by lot. Yes, he said, that is the nature of democracy, whether the revolution has been effected by arms, or whether fea... ...e who has a mind to establish a State, as we have been doing, must go to a democracy as he would to a bazaar at which they sell them, and pick out the...

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... be cause I feared imprisonment and death. This happened in the days of the democracy. But when the oligarchy of the Thirty was in power, they sent f...

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...ture Eu- rope, CONFIRMING their attachment to the principles of lib- erty, democracy and respect for human rights and fun- damental freedoms and of th... ...ember States, whose systems of government are founded on the principles of democracy. 2. The Union shall respect fundamental rights, as guar- anteed b... ...arter; —to promote international co-operation; —to develop and consolidate democracy and the rule of law, and respect for human rights and fundamental...

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...they bad men in the place of the best. From Timocracy the transition is to Democracy, they be- ing contiguous: for it is the nature of Timocracy to be... ...the hands of a multitude, and all in the same grade of property are equal. Democracy is the least vicious of all, since herein the form of the constit... ... The Ethics of Aristotle ship comes to be no longer a fraternal one: while Democracy is represented specially by families which have no head (all bein... ...the doer, the latter to the sufferer, of injury. P . 116, l. 18. In a pure democracy men are absolutely, i.e. numerically , equal, in other forms only...

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...ther country need not have been ashamed to see these foremost men of an actual democracy adopted into the House of Peers, or make the Privy Council of...

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...Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extension of the Suffrage ..................................................................................................... ...

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...e government, what is meant by power? Not thews and sinews; otherwise pure democracy would be the only form of polity that could exist. To mere muscul... ...merely to one knot of public men or another; where the idea entertained of democracy is merely that of opening offices to the competition of all inste... ..., as 62 Considerations on Representative Government in a pure monarchy or democracy. This is the portion of truth in the opinion of the ancients, rev... ...sity of some provision corresponding to this was felt even in the Athenian Democracy, where, in the time of its most complete ascendancy, the popular ... ...rably with the vacillation and shortsightedness of even the most qualified democracy. These propositions, however, are not by any means so well founde... ...hy, when it is really such, and not aristocracy in disguise, far surpasses democracy in all the forms of incapacity supposed to be characteristic of t... ...lectual attributes of a government has to be made between a representative democracy and a bureaucracy; all other governments may be left out of the a... ...ess at all can be made towards obtaining a skilled de mocracy, unless the democracy are willing that the work which requires skill should be done by ... ...at the work which requires skill should be done by those who possess it. A democracy has enough to do in providing itself with an 83 J S Mill amount ...

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...rm 11 Republican Tax Policy 11 Illicit Sex 12 Section I 20 ROOPA Theology 20 ROOPA Theology 21 Greater the Vice; Greater the Price 21 Economic Democracy 21 Premise 21 Net Result 22 Benefit 22 Advantage 22 End Result 22 Example 22 The Difference: Greater Cooperation 23 Public Policy Formula 23 True Free Market 24 Economic Democracy 25 Cost: $3.00 26 How t...

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... Section 8 169 Chapter 9 169 The Deflation Tax: Part II. The ‘Taxes to Risk Ratio’ 169 Section 8 177 Chapter 9 177 Real Story Behind Middle East Democracy: ‘Citizens of the 21st Century’ 177 Section 8 181 Chapter 10 181 The Feds Brilliant but dangerous game of currency brinkmanship with China 181...

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...o wait before you're willing to do something?" "In the words of the Greeks, 'Democracy runs best when the streets run red with blood'," Nolan respo...

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...Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and particularly in A...

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...book is divided into 7 parts: THE COLONIAL PERIOD, CONFLICT AND INDEPENDENCE, FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNION AND NATIONAL POLITICS, THE WEST AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, SECTIONAL CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION, NATIONAL GROWTH AND WORLD POLITICS, AND PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE WORLD WAR. (Summary from Wikipedia, Journal of History, and M.L. Cohen)...

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...n. H. G. tried to make clear how the current social order was disintegrating without preparing another to take its place. He then traced the roots of democracy, which in its present state he saw as unworkable. Instead, he proposed a new republic. He also critiqued modern warfare. (Summary by Bill Boerst)...

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... Stuart Mill Revolution. I learnt with astonishment that the principles of democracy, then apparently in so insignificant and hopeless a minority ever... ...r any of the phrases, more or less significant, by which, up to that time, democracy had usually been defended, but as the most essential of “securiti... ...rnment as a scientific theory; though I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle, and regarded it as a question of time, ... ...g to render the people more powerful for throwing off the yoke: but if the democracy obtained a large, and perhaps the prin cipal share, in the gover... ...ianism, the doctrine of circumstances, and the attaching any importance to democracy, logic, or political economy. Instead of my hav ing been taught ... ...ed Socialism, and on the other, a shifting of my political ideal from pure democracy, as commonly under stood by its partisans, to the modified form ... ...ts commencement from my reading, or rather study, of M. de T ocqueville’s Democracy in America , which fell into my hands immediately after its first... ...ly after its first appearance. In that remarkable work, the excellences of democracy were pointed out in a more conclusive, because a more specific ma... ... the most enthusiastic demo crats; while the specific dangers which beset democracy, con sidered as the government of the numerical majority, were b...

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... to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling as to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy top wrest, by...

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...Eu ropean society to whose real or supposed interests On Liberty — Mill 6 democracy is adverse, has had no difficulty in es tablishing itself; and... ...ps each within the limits of reason and sanity. Unless opinions favorable to democracy and to aristocracy, to property and to equality, to co operatio... ... government of mediocrity from being mediocre government. No government by a democracy or a numerous aristocracy, either in its political acts or in t...

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...mes needful. From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citize... ...ich we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the effi... ...t must derive from the Union. The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in t... ...e, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large ove... ...we its rise and prevalence chiefly to the confounding of a republic with a democracy, applying to the former reasonings drawn from the nature of the l... ...en these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion. It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a repu... ...ic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may b... ...s been an easy task to transfer to a republic observations applicable to a democracy only; and among others, the observation that it can never be esta... ...omprehensive system now under her consideration. As the natural limit of a democracy is that distance from the central point which will just permit th...

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...f their own ap pointing, and then the form of the government is a perfect democracy; or else may put the power of mak ing laws into the hands of a f... ...lth. 133. By “commonwealth” I must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of govern ment, but any independent community which...

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...ng it to be nothing higher) of a Democratic Republic, shows even unlimited democracy to be a better thing than many Englishmen have lately been in the...