Pros And Cons Of A Direct Democracy

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Matthew Carney Final Exam Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 6 W1. The United States isn’t a democracy in fact it’s actually a democratic republic. In a contest between a direct democracy and a democratic republic I would have to choose the latter. In a direct democracy people would tend to vote more along the lines of how they feel rather than by law. Electing representatives that can spend their time going over budgets and bills as their job is being more efficient. The paradox of our democracy is that while with the intention to give the power of government to the people it is really the people giving their power to others in power. The…show more content…
The constitution does this with the first amendment allowing for free speech whether it’s popular or not. American society is seen (at least in theory) as a place where you can immigrate to poor and through hard work and determination make yourself into whatever you want to become. This social mobility also has to do with comparing equality of opportunity with that of equality of results. Opportunity is where you believe that everyone deserves an equal opportunity to achieve prosperity and results is where you believe that equal effort demands equal results. With opportunity you have the challenge of reaching the very poor and the destitute with the same opportunities as the rich. With equal results you’re asking to socialize the system and punish those that have worked hard. Heath care reform plays a big part of our current politics. It usually details…show more content…
The fourteenth amendment has been used to successfully used to fight against segregation and discrimination because while states have dominion over those peoples and those facilities within their confines they cannot discriminate against those people because those people are in large, part of the United States, and those in the United States have uninalienble rights granted to them by the Constitution that no state can take away. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent acts of direct civil disobedience held a large impact on the civil rights movement. He showed that you could directly take action against laws you thought were unjust in a civil peaceful manner of descent. In 1896 Justice John Harlan spoke out against segregation saying that “Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among its citizens.” The Constitution should be blind to the color of your skin, to your religion, to your gender, and anything else that tries to label you in a way other than U.S. citizen. In regards to the economy the role of gender should not apply, but it usually does though not usually through intentional discrimination. Economic design making involves both fiscal policy and monetary policy with fiscal relating to taxes, spending, and borrowing, and monetary policy relating to the amount of money coming into the economy. The economy of the United States is measured statically by our Gross Domestic Product (otherwise known as our GDP), our inflation rate which
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