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Government
Title: Government
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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Government
The U.S. - a Legitimate Democracy?
In any system which claims to be democratic, a question of itslegitimacy remains. A truly democratic political system has certaincharacteristics which prove its legitimacy with their existence. Oneessential characteristic of a legitimate democracy is that it allowspeople to freely make choices without government intervention. Anothernecessary characteristic which legitimates government is that every vote must count equally: one vote for every person. For this equality to occur, all people must …showed first 75 words of 1328 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1328 total…and energy and effort for the power and celebrity that comes with public office"(Dye, 58-59). The legitimacy of the United States government is limited, but in a system of government which was designed not to work, complete democracy is most likely impossible.---BibliographyDye, Thomas R. Who’s Running America? The Clinton Years. EnglewoodCliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.Lind, Michael. The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and theFourth American Revolution. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
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