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    Constitutional Democracy The basic premise of a constitutional democracy is that government has rules and all of the people have voices. Through free and fair elections we elect candidates to represent us. The Constitution of the United States guarantees us the right to do this, and to live democratically. The framers attacked tyrannical government and advanced the following ideas: that government comes from below, not from above, and that it derives its powers from the consent of the governed;

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    United States is a constitutional democracy. A constitutional democracy is a type of government in which powers are limited by a supreme law called the Constitution, and the population has the power to directly vote on a political matter which is a direct democracy. In the United States, this works differently. The population only gets to vote directly for electing our Representatives. They represent the will of the people of the States in the government. In constitutional democracies, people must obey

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    I am going to discuss a constitutional democracy form of government and a dictator form of government. We in America live under a constitutional democracy. First, a democracy, as most know is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people (Constitutional Democracy, n.d.). A constitutional democracy affords protections of the people from those elected to lead the government ensuring their rights are not violated (Constitutional Democracy, n.d.). These protections come from the foundation

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    The United States of America utilizes constitutional democracy as its form of government. This type of government allows to people of its country to directly or indirectly make decisions and is based on the principle of equality and freedom and majority rule (Difference Between Monarchy and Democracy, 2011). In the Unites States, democracy is shaped by a constitution, which allows a clearly defined respect for an individuals and minorities basic individual rights and liberties, including freedom

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    Constitutional democracy was created to insure the rights of the people. A constitutional democracy consists of “ A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free, fair, and relatively frequent elections.” Debates revolved around one big question of “how to protect individual rights?” The founders had intense debates and wars in order to create a government that would be beneficial to the both the country and its people

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    demands a fundamental understanding of the representative democracy that we have. We have a two party democracy, period. Not because other parties do not exist, but because our infrastructure will not allow those parties to govern. Our constitutional framework makes the ascension of a third party essentially impossible, which is why Sanders wisely ran for president as a Dem. Respectfully, a vote for a third party will not change a constitutional structure that supports 2 party government; moreover,

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    Liberal democracy is a form of government that operates under a constitutional system and is ruled by the electorate. The government is representative of the people and regular elections are held. It calls for the freedoms that are stated in America’s first amendment-freedom of press, speech, religion, and assembly. This political ideology has been apart of history. Patriots, such as our founding fathers and Patrick Henry, were willing to risk their lives in order to achieve freedom from an oppressive

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    Constitutional Monarchy Vs. Representative Democracy Should England convert to a different government or stay as a Constitutional Monarchy? Every person believes in a type of government, some people believe in democracy, and some people believe in republican government, and many people believe in many more types of government. What form of government determines your belief in? Well, I postulate England should use the Representative

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    Throughout the rigmarole of political history of the United States of America, the growth of the “fourth branch of government”, the Bureaucracy, has been a prominent, controversial topic. Peter Woll, in his article “Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power”, and James Q. Wilson, in his article “The Rise of the Bureaucratic State”, discuss this developing administrative branch. The Constitution has no written mention of an “administrative branch”, and today’s Bureaucracy is often tedious, corrupt

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    Throughout this essay, a comparison of both Australia’s constitutional democracy and the federal republic system in the United States will take place. Australia and the United States are both a part of the federal system. Within the federal system, the national and state governments divide the power in order to govern (Parliamentary Education Office, 2016). Both Australia and the United States have two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate. Parliament Education office, (2016) states

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