... can have a voice in setting the rules that they must abide by. This theme of, in a sense, being one of the rulers (participating in government) instead one of the ruled (as in a dictatorship) is the central concept that is supported and upheld by the other principals of democracy. In ancient Greece, where the term democracy was coined, all of the members of the city-state would gather in ... carried out and the term-lengths and positions that the politicians serve, but in order to be a democracy they must preserve the representative rights of the majority of the people in that society. Th...

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... of a thumbnail and has as much computing capability as the earlier ENIAC. 1975 Xerox markets Alto, the first personal computer (a "microcomputer"). Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft. MITS Corporation's Altair 8800 arrives on the scene. It contains the Intel's 8080 microprocessor that Intel developed a year earlier to control traffic lights. 1977 Apple II, Commodore's PET, and Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 go on sale, setting the ... carried telegraph , telephone, and other communications for more than a hundred years, has given way to glass, in the form of fiber optic cables. The digit...

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... helped need housing more than they need other things. The government does not give these people the right to choose. Public housing has not at all increased housing for people, since the number of buildings destroyed surpassed the new ones built. The minimum wage law is also ineffective. Its purpose was to reduce poverty by setting a minimum wage but since the minimum wage was higher than the wage people were getting ... efforts. Something has leaked out of the real income and output of all taxpayers. The cost of tax collecting and running income transfer programs is another source of i...

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