Since the beginning of Democracy, the United States have had normal occurrences with problems as like many other countries, but the problem is that the United States is unjustly spreading this so-called perfect government, and forcing others countries that we have "freed" to adopt Democracy. ... I believe wrongly in the fact that the United States would come in and remove the cultures and religion of the former country, and then proceed to force the "democratic institution" of the United State's choice. ... With this argument stated and Russia feeling threatened because they know how the ...

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Thinkers like the Un-American Filmer would lead you to believe that there must be a sovereign ruler and that obedience to him brings liberty. He believed that this idea of Democracy has too many sides, when many rule the government who then would be sovereign. ... This tie between the church and the state would ultimately cause some problems in the community. ... It reads," The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or a...

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It started as a popular or direct form with the state in a size of a "city". ... These are the legal processes by which the sovereign people are presented with the alternatives (candidates) from whom they shall choose the best that would represent them in government. Only those who are legally qualified vote, and the majority of the votes cast determine the "titular sovereign" representing the "real sovereign" (people). ... So, how Democratic is the United States government? ... In his book, he says, "Wealth and Want in the United States (are)Getting More Extreme". ...

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Let us suppose that all the members of the community take a part in the government, and that each of them has an equal right to take a part in it. ... To this ideal state democratic nations tend"2. ... In the United States, Tocqueville notices this stable equation of liberty and equality that transcends the social towards the political into democracy - etymologically translated to 'the rule of the people' – and materializes into a system where "it is the majority that governs in the name of the people"4. However, since he, like many other political philosophers...

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