Dissecting Democracy (Democracy in America)

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This is due to three factors: The people of the United States, how their government handles its' power, and how the problems of democracy have helped the US (to a certain extent). Technically one can boil this down to circumstance and luck.

Americans love their freedom, so much so that they have even created habits because of it. Freedom is "something one must feel and logic has no part it. It is a privilege of noble minds which God has fitted to receive it and it inspires them with a generous fervor. But to meaner souls, untouched by the sacred flame, it may well seem incomprehensible." The union workers that strike, the parades, the many political asylum victims, and the serving under the military services, represent the feeling. The diverse population cherishes freedom, for many of them had experienced the absence of it. One thing especially important to the concept of freedom is the crucial idea of religious freedom. Religious freedom is what which gages the workings of a person. Without it, freedom seems useless, for it is the driving factor behind the creation of freedom itself. For "freedom sees religion as the companion of its struggles and triumphs...Religion is considered guardian of mores and mores are regarded as a

The freedom of the press is imperative for any good democracy for it is the epitomes of exchanging ideas. Ideas are the currency to which democracy is spread. The freedom of the press is "the constitutive element in freedom" and therefore must never be limited. The spread of ideas is what makes the democracy in the US thrive, and as the mediums we use to communicate get better, the more dependent we are getting the news when its happening.

Democracy in America also has a government that not only has a place for it citizens, but it also self-regulates. Creating three branches, and having none of them more powerful than the other, does not create an aristocracy within the government. An aristocracy within a government leads to "butt-kissing" and inefficiency. Realizing that even with these three branches, our forefathers found that the legislative branch had quite a large portion of power. Thus the two houses were formed with "the principle of state independence prevailed in the shaping of the senate, the dogma of national sovereignty in the composition of the House of Representatives." Thus allowing smaller states to effectively fight the 'tyranny of the majority' by blocking bills in the Senate that had passed in the House. This effectively gives the minority equal footing with the majority. This creates laws that benefit nearly all, which means the democracy, is doing the greatest amount of good, without kneeling to the majority. This shows that "the Union is free and happy like a small nation, glorious and strong like a great one." The combination of majority and minority politics allows democracy to flourish.

Democracy in America is a unique set of circumstances for the people and the government with its problems have evolved together in such a way that they effectively cancel each others power. Our democracy is the "most perfect democracy that ever existed," and though it may be hard example to follow, it just goes to show that democracy in America is not as complex as it seems.

Municipal government plays as large a factor as federal by making sure that

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