Governments are created as a means to establish rules and laws as a guide to solving conflicts, and for the protection of the citizen's liberty and security. ... Individuals must take responsibility for the continued protection of their rights through political participation. This paper will argue that the concept of majority rule can be reconciled with respect to individual rights for the following reasons: how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within the Constitution Act protects individual rights from majority rule, and how citizen participation can ensure preserving the protection ...

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With all of the troops staying in these colonies they did not offer much in the way of service as a military in protection against Native Americans and other policing duties. ... All of the tax acts of the day (sugar act, stamp act, Townshend acts, etc.) were cockamamie labels for purposeless taxes imposed on the colonists. ...

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Throughout the novel "Lord Of the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses ...

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He believes this Leviathan to be but an "artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defense it was intended".... He wrote "it is true governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it."...

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• Grade Level: High School

Machiavelli believes that a Prince's main duty is the preservation of his country and the protection of his subjects. ... For both fox and Founder have virtu through their personal, individual autonomy, understood as needing no others, having ties to no others, acting without being acted upon. ... "When individuals realize this, they act together to pursue the shared public good and thereby sustain it. ... Machiavelli disqualifies any interference from private citizens in enforcing the rule of law because of the notion that the citizen, given the opportunity, will act with malignity in...

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An example of its ineffectiveness can be seen through a provision, which constitutes that any whistleblower accusing a government official or institution of a corrupt act will face imprisonment if the police are unable to find substantial evidence to support the accusations made. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Canada has repeatedly been named the best, or among the best places to live on earth by the United Nations. Renowned for its peacekeepers, advocacy of freedoms and liberties, and multicultural society, Canada has become an admired and respected democracy the world over. Despite this image of democ...

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China has seen much political change in the past few centuries. Changing from being ruled by monarchs, to imperialists, with a short lapse of democracy before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, and ongoing from the 1970s a blend of socialism and capitalism introduced by Deng Xiaoping. ...

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The reclamation project was environmentally ruinous but the regime wanted to portray the natural landscape (which was actually more of a man made environment populated by alien plant species) as beautiful and worthy of protection because of its utilitarian value and economic potential in terms of employment. ...

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Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DEMOCRATIC PEACE THEORY 2 3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS 4 3.1 HOW TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY 4 3.2 SECURITY INTERESTS IN SEEING DEMOCRATIZATION SPREAD 5 3.3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROGRAMS 6 4 REASONS FOR NOT SPREADING DEMOCRACY 8 4.1 INTRODUCTION 8 4.2 POLITICAL ASPECTS 8 4.3 E...

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