Ruling under the authority of a king and ruling under the authority of a president are obviously two completely different ways to rule. Though they both have things that could be improved on, there are also things that make them superior to the other. Despite…
Essays on Forms of Government
This essay will focus on democratic politics, the core issues it currently faces and how they are manifesting in the macro and micro sociological political arenas. It will examine the nature of the perceived problems in both politics and democracy using empirical data to underpin…
On Tyranny Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder, depicts how dictators have disassembled twentieth-century republics and supplanted them with authoritarian systems, and it also displays the dangers to majority rules systems that still technically exist today, which are incorporating in America. Snyder…
Abstract With great power comes great responsibility. Being powerful does not mean you should, or you can control people. Though, in tyrannical government administration, abuse of power is exercised as a single person rules due to the extent of his/her supremacy. In this case, a…
America, as a nation, has seen a lot to grow its democracy and be a nation that is a home for the many. Since the time of exploration by the Europeans, tyranny has divided people based on their social and economic statuses. Because of the…
Within the archaic Greek world, from roughly 700-480BC, before the rise, and perhaps resulting in the rise, of democracy, tyranny was seemingly common place, according to the evidence we have today such as the writings of historian Herodotus and philosophers like Aristotle. There are clear…
The idea of tyranny may bring up thoughts of a strong and indestructible system, however, it can crumble from an individual acting out within the truth. In Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny, he explains through lessons how both standing out and believing in truth can…
Federalism is explained as a combination of ‘shared’ and ‘self’ rule whereby, the politics and people unite for common purposes while at the same time maintaining separate integrities of all parties. Scientists indicate the two components; ideological as a perspective that can guide action and…
Napoleon Bonaparte is widely considered one of the greatest conquerors to ever live. Born the son of a noble off the coasts of Italy, it just took him a few decades to rise to prominence during the French Revolution, which began in July 1789. Throughout…
Democracy is system by which it allows the people to have a say on how the country is ran. ‘Its a system of the people, for the people, by the people’. Government has the authority and to make decision for the people of country, this…
“A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” These were the words of Marcus Garvey a civil rights movement activist who was an integral part of events which have moulded the world we live in…
After the Revolutionary War in 1783 everyone there was going to be peace and leaders would have all the business for leading the country taken care of. Instead, the leaders never had to worry about the country because they were under the British laws and…
The above sketch of the relationship between democracy and modernity suggests how successful the idea of democracy has become over the past two centuries. But despite the apparent victory of liberal democracy worldwide, a major fault line in the debate around democracy in the twentieth…
Ricardo Herrera analyzes the republican ideology in times of war and peace through the citizen-soldier viewpoint in For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861. As a work of historical non-fiction and a historiography, Herrera uses a wide range of primary sources…
Democratic Socialism and Libertarianism are two ideologies that occupy space near the edges of the ideological spectrum with legitimate representation in U.S. politics. Both ideologies recognize a certain level of individual freedom, and a role for the state while having significant disagreements on the size…
