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    systems of government. Mark Twain once said, “Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it” (Twain 10). Today there are many different types of governments that rule countries today, but three imperative one's unitary, confederate, and federal systems of governments. A unitary government “is a system of political organization with a central supreme government which holds the authority over and makes the decisions for subordinate local governments” (Unitary Government

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    the United States government to spy on citizens using NSA and FBI. This became common knowledge when Edward Snowden leaked millions of documents that show the government is spying on the public. The United States government should not keep the NSA surveillance going because it hurts the public more than it keeps the public safe. On the pro side there are many people that believe if you are a good person and do nothing bad then government can get your information. (Debate Central) Watching Americans

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    Advantages and Defects The Chinese majoritarian democracy is definitely more concentrated than the British one, if they are to be compared. The main decisions are made by the CPC Central Committee. From a Western view it is severely against the principle of democracy, which is the division of power. Admittedly the defects are disturbing. However, there are also some indisputable advantages with this model, and the result is significant. The most outstanding advantage of the Chinese concentrated

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    Introduction: China has achieved brisk economic growth since late 1970’s, with an average annual growth rate of 9.8% over the past 27 years. Such economic growth owes not only to economic reform began at the end of 1978, when the third session of the Central Committee of the 11th National Congress of Chinese Communist Party was held and later regarded as a landmark in the existing Chinese history, but also to administrative reform accompanying with economic reform. Administrative reform has been collectively

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    for the population’s heterogeneity, the central government maintain a great amount of power for purpose of holding the nation together. As India has developed, one of its focuses

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    more common these days, with more well known series including The Hunger Games, Divergent, Fahrenheit 451, and so many more. A commonality between all of these is the way their society is controlled by the government. Most of the time, the citizens have no control over anything because the government makes the decisions for everyone. The two short stories used in this paper are both dystopian short stories and show a lot about how modern society acts and what it could turn into. “The Perfect Match” by

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    to a classification of government with no limitations in place from which it can control its citizens. A constitution is a system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed. The U.S. conceived their form of a constitution September 17, 1787 to guarantee certain basic rights for its citizens and in order to establish crucial laws. In essence a government without restrictions would result in a tyrannical form of government. Tyranny is arbitrary

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    Government can be defined as “The group of people with the authority to govern a country or state” (Anonymous, 2014). Within this assignment I shall outline as well as explain the responsibilities of different levels of government and describe the roles of different government departments in relation to the public services, to conclude I shall evaluate the responsibilities of the different levels of government. Initially I shall outline the responsibilities of the different levels of government in

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    the farmers from western and central parts of Massachusetts that it was finally brought to the convention. With the farmers not being paid the amount of money they rightfully deserved, it brought on chaos between the tax collectors, states from New Hampshire to South Carolina, and the state governments.With many failed attempts to establish a government, finally, in a 1787 convention, the Constitution was then created. The constitution gave us the nation's government that is known today and the

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    whole new government. This new form of government is known as the Constitution. The Constitution is still to this day considered the law of the land. So, why is the constitution still in effect today? Because it protects against the main issue the delegates were trying to avoid, tyranny. Tyranny is the cruel and oppressive government or rule. The Constitution guards against tyranny by creating federalism, which separates the powers given to the national government and state governments, checks and

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