Essays Tagged: "constituents"

Why Tocqueville believes that equality leads to a love of centralized authority.

ed authority is a simple political system requiring little intellectual or time commitment from its constituents.Another reason is a love of well being and peace. With democracy comes a fear of distur ...

(1 pages) 59 0 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Tension Between Majority Rule and Minority Rights Throughout History

AmericaThroughout history, there has been an understanding between the government ofstate and it's constituents. From the times where such philosophers as Thomas Hobbesand John Locke put forth their ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Tension Between Majority Rule and Minority Rights Throughout History

AmericaThroughout history, there has been an understanding between the government ofstate and it's constituents. From the times where such philosophers as Thomas Hobbesand John Locke put forth their ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

3. Discuss three theories that purport to explain why members of Congress vote as they do. Chapter 11: Congress. Wilson Textbook.

l is based on the assumption that members want to get re-elected and therefore vote to please their constituents. Organizational is based on the assumption that since most constituents don't know how ... of their own beliefs.The representational view has merit under special circumstances, like when the constituents have a clear view on some issue and a legislator's vote on that issue will draw much at ...

(2 pages) 70 1 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Cogressional Term Limits

by long-term careerists in both parties who seemed to have more loyalty to the system than to their constituents. As Thomas Jefferson put it, 'Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rotte ... ger public. This fact is not surprising. If most of a persons time is spent meeting with lobbyists, constituents, and bureaucrats, that person may actually come to believe what these influential peopl ...

(7 pages) 95 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Analytical Chemistry

nces in very small amounts.Qualitative chemical analysis is used to detect and identify one or more constituents of a sample. This process involves a wide variety of tests. Ideally, the tests should b ... ple of this is mass spectrometry.Quantitative chemical analysis is used to determine the amounts of constituents. Most work in analytical chemistry is quantitative. It is also the most difficult. In p ...

(4 pages) 116 0 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

A synopsis of the similiarities and differences of the emergent theory and the reductionist theory in explaining the world

of its parts. The emergent theory argues that properties and laws cannot be reduced to those of its constituents. Rather the world is structured into layers each with their own properties and laws. Ma ... the brain, the main difference is in whether or not the brain can be reconstructed solely from its constituents. According to reductionists it can, but what this view fails to realize is that somethi ...

(2 pages) 62 1 3.0 Sep/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Sociology assignment on primary and secondary groups

on the goal at hand. An example of this is secretary and boss, student and teacher, or senator and constituents.Some experience I have had in primary groups would be of course, my first primary group ...

(6 pages) 170 1 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Times of Harvey Milk: The political and social issues surrounding the first gay elected official in the U.S. The essay uses the documentary "The times of Harvey Milk" as a springboard.

him. It was momentous that he was the first openly gay elected official. He represented all of the constituents of the Castro area well. Milk was a kind of "everyman" mixture in an area where there w ... ifestyle. But the success Harvey Milk has with using the political system to further his causes and constituents' causes is also apparent. I wonder just how far Milk could have gone if he had not been ...

(3 pages) 66 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

The Legislative Process.

t a bill is actually started when an idea for gain and or profit for big business, interest groups, constituents, and Congressman/Congresswoman political advancement are thought of. Sometimes, an inte ... es, an interest group and Congressman/Congresswoman, big business and Congressman/Congresswoman, or constituents and Congressman/Congresswoman conjointly conceive legislation. Once the idea of the pro ...

(22 pages) 239 0 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The life of Ernest Hemingway.

prised of the same elements- war, sports, drinking, brawling, traveling, and loving. However, these constituents did not keep him from mounting the zenith of his craft. Hemingway was the most colorful ...

(6 pages) 61 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Are Religion and Science One?

different paths, both try to find the basic stuff2. The goal thus in both cases is to determine the constituents of what form the reality. The routes though may not seem similar.In the essay, The Dyna ...

(3 pages) 146 3 4.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Mark Udall, political science, election process, constituancey, qoutes from Richard F Fenno, Jr.s 'The American Political Science Review.

strict, he can then begin to shape his presentation of self, and form the bonds of trust with their constituents which are central in building a stable, supportive, re-elective constituent relationshi ... " In addition to these established similarities brought forth, perhaps what gives Mr. Udall and his constituents the deepest sense of identification is his strong environmental support and love for na ...

(8 pages) 26 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Causes and Disadvantages of Air Pollution

rgon, and other gases; and varying amounts of water vapor. Any other particles, gases or unoriginal constituents hanging in the air which are not part of its original composition are called 'Pollutant ...

(4 pages) 25142 1 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles - Fate vs. Free Will

because he is human. Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of physical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such imp ...

(2 pages) 75 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Modern perspective of American government and politics.

e duties that it has toward its respective city, state, or country. On the downside, a government's constituents also possess their own self-interests and egoistical motives which hinder the progress ...

(6 pages) 169 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

A Case for Direct Presidential Elections ---It is written from the POV of a congressman who must vote for or against a constitutional amendment for direct elections.

turnout. By convincingly arguing these points, and refuting some of the claims of my opponents, the constituents of my district would understand my decision and in turn also vote in favor of the amend ... n also vote in favor of the amendment.The polling data from my district shows that a majority of my constituents want the Constitution amended to make presidential elections direct. These data show th ...

(7 pages) 37 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

What Are Students' Difficulties In Understanding The plot?

ce perrine in Literature: Structure,Sound and Sense in details deals with the nature of plot and itsconstituents. In fact, plot resembles a map which leads us only to thelocation of the places we want ...

(1 pages) 46 1 3.2 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Organizational Improvement

ed...Systems thinking, in contrast, focuses on how the thing being studied interacts with the other constituents of the system-a set of elements that interact to produce behavior-of which it is a part ...

(8 pages) 201 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Should representatives make decisions based on their own judgments or according to the wishes of their constituents?

uld representatives make decisions based on their own judgments or according to the wishes of their constituents?The principles of democracy came from the combination of Greek words demos (the people) ... s democratic government system representatives should make decisions according to the wishes of the constituents.The Canadian democratic process is slightly varied from the original process of people ...

(2 pages) 19 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > European Union