Participatory Democracy In The United States

It is important to have different types of citizens in a colonization. There are three types of good citizens in a colony they are Participatory citizens, Personally responsible citizens, and Justice oriented citizens. Different types of citizens contribute in different ways and it is important that the right mix of citizens are in a colony. Participatory citizens are kind, caring, and considerate. Personally responsible citizens are responsible, supportive, and self reliant. Justice oriented citizens are concerned, problem fixers, and identifiers.

About a year ago i was going into town on a sunday afternoon. I went to walmart to do some shopping. When i walked in and seen this guy asking for some change. I had asked him what it was for, and he said food. Then he had mentioned he was a veteran. He was a pretty old guy too i felt super bad, we should not treat are veterans like that so here's what i think we should do.

In layman’s terms, “the government ought to do what the majority of people want” (Ch. 1 Pg.7). This theory has a pejorative connotation due to the idea that the minority would be ruled out, allowing the majority to further advance their bias agenda. Many political scientists see this theory prevalent in modern society. In this circumstance I am unable to see the majority rule, therefore I do not agree with the idea the Majoritarianism sufficiently depicts American

There are two types of democracies, direct democracy and representative democracy. As one would expect, the two are very similar. Direct democracy and representative democracy are both systems of government in which power lies with the people whom are govern though the power of voting. The power of voting is how both systems emphasis the importance of people’s rights. There is also a common sense of self-empowerment to the people being govern in both types of government due to this right. Furthermore, there is a mutual prominence towards majority rule in the two systems.

In a democratic government also depends on freedom of press and freedom of assembly. Freedom of press is the occurrences that happen every day that are informed or detailed through television, newspaper, internet, magazines or speech without adding or removing any type of information that do not benefit a particular sector. And also is that the people have the right to have their own type of press to express their ideas. Today, freedom of press is a utopia because every country has their own secrets, and covers important information to their citizens. With freedom of press, the countries will have a perfect government not so perfect but the people need to know the truth. The democratic government is a form of government in which the people, either directly or indirectly, take part in governing. “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.” This is because there is no system that can perfectly order society. Usually the purpose of democracy is to prevent tyranny (the accumulation of

Along with the majoritarian democracy, there is also relationship in the models of pluralist democracy. Everything slightly revolves around one another; elections, majoritarian, and pluralist democracies. As said in Dr. Overton’s PowerPoint, “Majoritarianism is growing in the Congress due to the rise in party unity. Problem is: they hate each other!” (Overton). The pluralist democracy can be defined as the top of a pyramid

This means it doesn’t protect the rights of each citizen and his or her property. Also, Democracy is not practical for large countries. In larger countries, there are simply too many people to vote on everything.

Majoritarian government is a good idea in theory but this system would not last. When you think about a government ruled by majority, you tend to think that it would be a good thing because it is simpler than the electoral college and it would be what the majority of America wanted. However, you have to think about the downsides of this idea. It would not create a lot of stability in our government. It is no secret that we elect our president and the idea is that the majority of America favor that presidential candidate. Still, you see all the time that people are not happy or satisfied when their preferred candidate is not elected. I believe that majoritarianism would make this problem worse. It would allow for minorities to be excluded easily because if they did not have the majority support then they would never be able to win representation in government. Quickly, the government would end up being overtaken by a specific party. A big danger would be a political party becoming too powerful if they continue to control representation in election after election. The reigning majority could end up just becoming like a monarchy if they stay in power long enough.

If we were a part of a majoritarian democracy, the majority would rule no matter what. Because our legal system has set I place checks and balances, no law can be passed through one majority ruling.

America was founded on the basic principle of democracy…right? Isn’t that the freedom we were searching for when the voyagers left Europe to form the US in the first place? The irony in this is that we are often taught to believe that the United States uses a true democracy. Over the years the United States has contradicted many of their basic ideologies and principles that we were founded on. For the most part, our Constitution has remained basically intact, other than minor exceptions here and there. However, our founding documents are extremely open ended and leave much room to change and interpret throughout time. Due to the flexibility of the United States founding documents the country practices a representative democracy rather

A well developed democratic state in my perspective is focused on the representation of each and everyone of the constituents in the land. This means that perhaps it takes longer to implement new ideas on a national level, but ensures that all of the individuals are accounted for. An institution design of a large populated state will require a well established regime and a government that can correctly represent of all the constituents, rather than be controlled by the voice of the majority. It will be a government that allows for the minorities and majorities to have the same opportunity for their voice to be heard rather than only the people wealthy enough to have power. This representation of the minorities will be at the cost of efficiency.

The United States has an unstable democratic standing. What has happened in the United State shows the US not fully democratic. Issues that the US had been unfair treatment of people who aren’t white, voting rights not being given, and relocation towards a certain race, which has done nothing wrong. People also faced issues that couldn’t be avoided with rights. The United States is not democratic as everyone thinks. Equality and voting rights are something for all and within our amendment. Imprisonment or relocation of a race that has done nothing wrong. Americans also were faced the government for something that many didn’t wish for. The US has to change to be a better place for all.

We live in this country for the land, and the for the free as Americans we rely on many attributes in this world in order for us to live our lives. Our government has supplied us with many great things for us to be proud of. Our government is “the institutions and processes though which public policies are made for society.” (Edwards, Wattenberg, and Lineberry, p. 7). With all these institutions which includes the President, Congress, the courts and all the federal administrative agencies. These are the institutions that make up public policies for us, and to shape the way we live as Americans. The way this system has been operating through all the years has been

In the reading “ Patterns of democracy” Lijphart states there are five different dimensions of the majoritarian-consensus typology which are based not only on characteristics of the party system, electoral system and government coalitions, but on federal vs. unitary traits as well. The first characteristic of Lijphart’s five dimensions is closely related with the majoritarian system in that it consists of a one party cabinet concentration of power versus a multiparty sharing

It has also been suggested that a basic feature of democracy is the capacity of eligible voters to participate freely and fully in the life of their society.[14] With its emphasis on notions of social contract and the collective will of the eligible voters, democracy can also be characterized as a form of political collectivism because it is defined as a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.[15]