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    American Electoral Issues

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    There you are, standing in the booth looking at the screen and all the candidates to choose from. You have entered all your votes except for the most important one. Who will you pick to be the president of the United States? You have been thinking about this decision for months. Who do you want to vote for? That is the question that plagues Americans every election year. The problem is most people do not have a complete understanding of the issues our country is facing. As well, they do not understand

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    Being Competitive In Business For this report I have been exploring the Economic Census. I have learned what an Economic Census is and the ways that businesses use the censuses. I gained knowledge on what the NACIS is and how it’s used. I have learned more about the population of America and how business uses this knowledge on the population to their advantages. I also investigated links between the population growth and increased taxes and how technology is impacting businesses. Three major ways

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    "Among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than it's tendency to break and control the violence of fraction" ( ) The federalist paper #10 was written by James Madison and published on November 22, 1787. In this paper Madison discusses how to gaurd against groups of citizens or factions that have interest that conflict with the rights of the public and community and are ulimatly useing their conections with others to get what

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    The US voting system is quite singular. Indeed, this system does not allow the direct vote for presidential candidate. Instead, constituency members in the fifty states and the District of Columbia take part in an election for a slate of electors. They cast their vote for a specific presidential ticket including a candidate president and his or her vice-president. The political parties in each state opt for a slate of electors. The constituents chosen by the party of the candidate winning the good

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    Mexico has a representational democracy; the people of Mexico elect a new president every six years. From 1884 to 1911 Mexico was ruled by Porfirio Diaz who acted more as a dictator than a president. Elections were useless since Diaz intimidated all competition, it wasn’t until a revolution in 1911 that he was removed from power. After Diaz’s rule, there were no longer re-elections in order to avoid another dictatorship. A liberal democracy is one where the elections are fair and all people have

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    Background: The initial composition of the Congress consisted of 13 Congressmen representing all the states. With each congressman having Veto power. This made decision making a complicated process as there were loads of disagreements between the 13 congressman and very few decisions were passed. New Reform: It was then decided to facilitate the decision making that there was a need for a Commander-in-Chief/ President. Disagreement: However, the delegates were split into two sides in deciding the

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    I affirm the resolution that the electoral college should be disbanded Even though the electoral college is constitutional it’s outdated in today's time and and serves as no purpose ,One of the main reasons why it has no purpose of being used is the fact that we have faster ways of receiving results such as the media and internet that allows us to easily vote without the long wait which was the primary reason for its start. The democratic values that our country was born on are not satisfied

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    Minimum Wage Salary

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    website, Washington State reported in 2014, the population was 6,927,889 and the number of people in Washington was 931,619. This means that 13.2% of people in Washington had income below the poverty line and 17% of children under age 18 in related families had income below poverty. Poverty is an issue that impacts many people and makes it harder to obtain the basic needs in order to survive in the United States. Especially living off of minimum wage, which is $9.47, in the state of Washington. This

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    Is the Electoral College really needed in order to decide who will become the next president? The answer is no. Many people probably do not know what the Electoral College is. Well, it is a group of electors who chosen according to the popular vote in each state, and they elect the president and the vice president of the United States. The Electoral College should not determine the president of the United States. Many factors explain why it should be eliminated. For instance, the amount of electors

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    To become a citizen of the United States one is born into the United States, or by legally applying for a citizenship. Naturalization is the process of obtaining a citizenship through established requirements by Congress. The requirements for naturalization is if one is a legal resident for five years if one is married to a citizen and have been a resident for three years, if one has been in the armed forces, or if a child is born to U.S. citizens outside of the United States. Once a resident has

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