... was the failure of its official outlet. It appears that the Diet's lower house was little other than a constitutional nicety, its wings easily clipped by the conservative elements in Japanese politics – the structural makeup as defined by the Meiji constitution made it so. The ambiguity surrounding ... of the Japanese people. Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state meant that the role of the military and imperial court could easily outweigh that of civilian government, any serious questioning of the social order was crushed without mercy, and any liberal measures that ...

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... ) joined forces with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and became the known as the Popular Democratic Front (PDF). The outcome of this bold move quickly became realized as the PDF easily won a February municipal vote in Pescara with a ten percent increase in popularity from their previous vote in 1946, adding insult to the democratic cause the Christian Democrats finishing a distant second ... for families to ever be united in the United States. If this wasn't enough of a deterrent against joining the communist cause, the Justice department also laid claim that any Italians found to have ...

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... to a Western mind. However, it is quite difficult to conjure up a normative sense of legitimacy that regimes can be judged by, and therefore one in which authoritarian regimes can be easily demonized. Whichever way the situation is examined, it is always examined through the prism of a mind which has grown up and been socialised into thinking that their system of government ... state exists to protect and serve the people but not at the expense of the rights or liberties of any one citizen. Yet from a more collective perspective as might be found in some Asian countries, the state is st...

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... when the popular vote, where the citizens of the nation directly express their preferences for candidates to hold presidential office, indicates one thing (the democratic principle), the Electoral College could easily prove to support federalism more than democracy. One of the avenues of expression and attempts at policy change that the democratic principle supports is the flexibility to allow a third candidate ... parties. Parties that exploit the combination of too-evenly distributed power of the states in the Electoral College and too-unevenly distributed population among the states....

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