While the American government is often admired for its democratic policies and freedoms established there, there are still problems that exist. In terms of civil liberties, the United States of America represents a great system, but it's when these freedoms are compromised to ensure the nation&...

Trunble low-security prison, located in a backwater of Florida, is home to a trio of former lawyers. The self-styled Brethren, comprising a Federal Judge, a Justice of the Peace and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, arbitrate on behalf of the jail's inmates. Their daily meetings in the law libra...

Similar to my experience with stricter airport security rules, the United States Senate has approved of the creation of a massive Department of Homeland Security that will transform the way the federal government responds to emerging terrorist threats. Many Americans have argued against the creatio...

Ungoverned spaces have two dimensions; the first is that they are "rugged, remote, maritime, or littoral areas not effectively governed by a sovereign state (Whelan, 2005)" and the second is: "areas created by the inability of a government to monitor or control certain illicit or fac...

National ID Cards In many countries all over the world governments keep track of everything their citizens do from what they watch on television to where they shop and for whom. And in some cases who they marry and how many children they can have. These kinds of governments are called communist...

John Adams was educated and thoughtful; he was more of a philosopher rather than a politician. He had thoughts about how to run the United States government that provoked the nation. Adams believed in a government that would promote happiness and security, as well as a government that gave the ...

The Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes What Hobbes says in the chapter titled "Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery" of The Leviathan is that man are equal and none can declare he is superior to others. He continues that, the weakest have means to destroy...

Politics have a profound affect on the core of American culture. Culture encompasses all the aspects of life: values, work, trade, education, travel, right to worship, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, as well as a vast number of other key issues. Governmental policy is extremely crucial ...

The United States of America was once a symbol of liberty and a gateway of opportunity for oppressed citizens of the world. Today this idea of "one nation under God" is slowly being torn away into a more intrusive government, taking away our Civil liberties and God-given rights. Since the ...

In Ann Stoler's article, "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power," various categories of "colonizer" and "colonized" have been secured through forms of sexual control that defines the domestic arrangements of European and the cultural investments by which the Europeans identify themselves. Having this...

“Democracy Restrained: The Great Threat of the Constitution”The fundamental point of contention between the Federalists and anti-Federalists in their debates over ratification of the Constitution surrounded the question of what powers were necessary in order to insure the security of the...

David Jack 646987 History 114 1st Exam Politics in the Italian Renaissance In The Prince, Machiavelli is attempting to win the favor of the prince in Tuscany. He tries to do this by giving him the only thing that he feels could benefit a new prince, his knowledge. Most people try to win favor ...

Core democratic values are the fundamental beliefs and constitutional principles of American society, which unite all Americans. These values are expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and other significant documents, speeches, and writings of the nation. These ...

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian aristocrat from Florence who lived from 1469 to 1527, during the Renaissance in Europe. During this era, Italy lacked the stability and security of a unified nation; the country was made up of powerful city-states, without the guidance and authority of a government...

The rise of absolute monarchs in the seventeenth century was a result of numerous unrelated things and events. The development of the idea of the "Divine Right of Kings," and the publishing of Thomas Hobbes' work, Leviathan, provided the justification the Monarchs needed to further t...

Given that political obligation may be defined as an obligation to obey the rules and laws set by the state, although aside from this obligation, one would not feel obliged to do so, we find many explanations as to the motives of political obligation as set forth by David Gauthier. In his essay &qu...

Core Studies 3 Casilda Adames Take-Home Exam November 16, 1999 The ruling ideology dealing with welfare is a negative view among the majority of Americans. It states that welfare recipients are lazy people who have lots of children and collect checks for a long period of time. ...

How would you characterize the contemporary international political system? Today no matter where you live, you are threatened by global environmental changes, spread of infectious disease, opportunities and dislocations associated with the globalization of the economy and human security. We are...

"Freedom" is often an ambiguous concept for Americans. While America is considered the home of the "free" the idea is not meant to encourage citizens to do anything they please or desire. If this were the case, then there would no form of structure and organization, which allow...

Globalization and the National Sovereignty During the 1990s, the globalization emerged as one of the central terms in political conflict and political analysis around the world. In political science, globalization became perhaps the most widely used phrase to characterize the social, economic, and ...

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan illustrate the workings of an absolute government. While Machiavelli focused on the leader, Hobbes wrote about the government itself. Although they focused on different aspects, they shared the common goal of providing secur...

The patriot act as a document is appalling in its entirety. However to discuss the document and what is wrong with it, in its entirety, would take fifty pages. I have decided to discuss one specific provision, discuss its impact and suggest an alternative provision. In the wake of the September 11th...

English Civil War and Glorious Revolution followed the Dutch revolt against Spain as the second of the Western Revolutions that ended absolute monarchy and finally led to democratic representative government. As tradition had it that the English leaders in 1641-49 and 1688-89 that their acts we...

Rhetorical Analysis of "The Founders' Freedoms" In the July 4, 2004 issue of Orange County Register, a columnist by the name of Steven Greenhut wrote an article for the Commentary section titled "The Founders' Freedoms." According to the view of Steven Greenhut, our country has steered away from o...

"The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" Bentham is remembered both as a pioneer of social science and as an advocate of administrative and legal reform. The reforms in which he pressed for were directed towards his four ends of good government: subsistence (a means of providing on...