Issues with our two party democracy
As we learned and discusses in class, the American form of democracy created by our founding fathers centuries ago is the longest …
Lecture Tuesday
Taking from the lecture that professor gave class Tuesday I learned a deeper meaning of democracy in American government. Democracy was not …
Democracy in America
I remember my first exposure to democracy. It was 2005, and I was a young kid on a cold winter day in …
Does the U.S.A strive for equality?
The readings for this weeks topic, Our Unique Experiment, covered everything from what the definition of democracy is to John Locke’s social …
Benchmarks of Democracy: Is the U.S. Falling Short?
Democracy has become the most important form of government globally due mostly to the United States’ wild success in implementing this new …
Education and Democracy
In the United States, a child’s zip code can determine their professional future. Educational inequality is vast, with white students surpassing their …
Is Democracy Able to Preserve All Human Rights?
In class, we discussed the basic principles and goals of democracy, as well as its functionality in the United States. While there …
A Unique Experiment
The question “What is Democracy?” is very intriguing because of the variety of possible answers. Many of these can be very complex …
An Imperfect Compromise
Growing up as children, we are constantly told the stories of the heroic American founding fathers overthrowing the tyrannical King George and …
Sample Post ch. 1 “Is everyone really created equal?”
Within the first chapter of the reading Greenberg and Page layout three main benchmarks by which to grade a representative democracy: popular …