...There are various political parties that have many connections to the Constitution and have many different views. They influence each other, and branch off of eachother. The Democratic-Republican party was one of the most influential parties which has been used to create other parties in the future. It’s founder was Thomas Jefferson. James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson were other leaders that were involved in this party. It was founded in 1792 and dissolved in 1825. The ideology of the Democratic-Republican party are American Republicanism, Classical Liberalism, Decentralization, Jeffersonianism, and agrarianism. American Republicanism is governing a state as a republic. Classical Liberalism is protection...
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...How influential are conservatives in Democratic part? A way that the conservatives are still influential in the Democratic Party is through foreign affairs. Through foreign policy they take a conservative approach in which they intervene in other countries. For example Obama initiated a military surge in Afghanistan, showing that conservative ideologies are still influential in the Democratic Party. However this may be because through foreign policy the president can express more of his powers and position in the party. So actions in foreign policy may not show an influence of conservatism but rather a way in which the president can take more leadership in. Another example of how the Democratic Party holds some conservative values is that some pro-life democrats influence Obama not to allow Federal money to be used to support abortion. Demonstrating that the Democratic Party can be traditional in their views i.e. being pro-life – believing that all life is sacred. Also some democratic supporters hold some traditional conservative views. For example Latinos, who supported Obama in 2008, are not generally pro-choice. Showing that those that support the Democratic Party may not necessarily support some of their policies as they may contradict with their conservative views. Thus conservatism is still influenced in the Democratic Party. However the Democratic Party still hold their liberal values. This is illustrated in the history of Obama’s presidency and Clinton’s presidency...
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...My highest party match is the single-interest group or party such as women’s equality, transhumanist, and working families on most political issues. However, the major party that came into the fourth highest match is the Democratic party, which came from the idea of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. One of the most major component of the platform of this party is advocating social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. Which I further support because the most important issues to me are social, domestic policy, and environmental. Significantly, these three issues have a strong relationship with the top three rankings of my political party. Furthermore, social issues play a bigger role in this modern democratic world, where more...
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...Political Ideology I have chosen the Republican ideological position, commonly referred to as the Grand Old Party (G.O.P). The Republican Party absorbs Libertarianism, fiscal Conservatism, and concepts of Progressivism. I believe in the voice of capitalism, competition, and that the overall welfare of the people comes first before all else. Since the creation of the Republican Party in the mid nineteenth century, the G.O.P has grown to represent social conservatism. Despite misplaced stigma that Republicans do not support the interests of the common people, history has shown that their view directs more to being responsible with government expenditures and justifying government activities with more than just goodwill for all citizens. The Republican Party first gained popularity through the election of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, as well as the Republicans of that time, was a strong anti-slavery activist. Lincoln led the way towards the end of slavery. Republican ideology brought equality to slaves. Republican ideology has also supported the people’s rights to bear arms, which has been an issue of heavy debate that finally found victory in the McDonalds v. Chicago case. The plaintiffs in the case argued that the state of Chicago had infringed on their Second Amendment rights. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Second Amendment and its enforcement in all states. Former Republican President George Bush was a strong supporter of the NRA and Second...
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...solution. However, in recent times, this unified approach to solving the nation’s problems has become a far rarer occasion, which is represented in the political polarization of the two primary ideologies in America: Conservatism and Progressivism. This polarization has lead the citizens of America to essentially coalesce into two major groups, the Democratic and Republican Parties. These groups have been at each other’s throats in recent times, as shown in the congressional...
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...administration was able to reduce the ceremonial trappings of the executive office and simplified the relationship with legislature. Jefferson was an anti-federalist which meant he opposed extensive powers in the federal government and instead believed more power should be given to the states. He ran against the Federalist Party in the election of 1800 and after winning his party would gradually become known as the Democratic Republican party. The Democratic Republican party was the first opposition political party in the United States. Its ideology was based around agrarianism, anti-federalism and Jeffersonianism. The party represented the interests of laborers, farmers, craftsmen and small business owners instead of the wealthy. It was also considered the party of the plantation economy in the South and quickly gained popularity. After Jefferson’s election the party would dominate in national politics for the next 25 years. After Andrew Jackson was elected, the party split into the National Republicans and the Democratic Republicans. The National Republicans became known as the Whig party and the Democratic Republicans became Democrats. The Democratic Party still exists today but the...
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...Head: Ideology Survey Ideology Survey October 26, 2011 1. First, record the exact category results from the both surveys in a Word document. Results from Beyond Red vs. Blue: Based on my responses I am considered to be a New Coalition Democrat. Results from Advocates for Self Government: Based on my responses I am considered Centrist. After reviewing these results I do not agree with the results from Beyond red vs. Blue. I do not consider myself as being a Republican nor do I support their views. As far as the results from Advocates for Self Government, I do agree with me being a Centrist. I like what they stand for and how they support individual freedom. 2. Which political party do your results (regardless of whether you agree with them or not) most closely align with? Please justify your selection. According to my responses to the Political Responses, the party I am closely related to is the Republicans. I have never thought of myself as being a Republican. The Republican Party is a group of mostly wealthy people who I feel look out for the rich and overlook the poor. 3. Which one of these minor parties could you see growing in popularity in future years, and why? Do feel free to select from other minor parties that are not on the list. The third party I see growing in the future would be The Working Families Party. This party is composed of people who I feel has the people in mind when it comes down to democratic views. The Working Families Party works...
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...Tilghman Mrs. Coker RWS October 17, 2014 Democratic vs. Republican “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future”. (J.F.K) Political parties have been around since the 1700’s, although they are not a part of our constitution they just sort of evolved. Democrat and Republican are both major political parties with a different set of beliefs and policies. Many political parties base their system on ideologies. An ideology is a system of ideas, especially one that forms political theories and policies. The main ideology for the Democratic party is liberalism and left-leaning. Liberalism is a political philosophy founded on ideas of liberty and equality. Left leaning ideologies are the rights of the individuals. Where as the Republican party tends to be right-leaning meaning power to the government. The Republican party's main ideology is conservatism which is a person who is opposed to change and holds to traditional values....
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...America: A Nation Divided. In George Washington’s Farewell Speech on September 19, 1796, he warned against political parties as follows: The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty (J.E. Quidam, 2008). This ideology seems to have evolved and held truth for the past 227 years as now Americans are even more divided by political parties than any other stature. According to Edward S. Greenberg and Benjamin I. Page’s “The Struggle for Democracy”, political ideology is defined as a system of interrelated and coherently organized political beliefs and attitudes, which include conservatives, liberals, populists, and libertarians (145). Greenburg and Page further describe that the “two dimensions” that Americans generally divide along are government’s roles in economy and society (147). Conservatism can be defined as the disposition to preserve or restore what is established...
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...potential. We want an America that is still the world's strongest force for peace and freedom. And we want an America that is coming together around our enduring values, instead of drifting apart.". (DNC) This is the modern Democratic national committee platform. The democratic party has changed vastly since its creation over 2 centuries ago. In its early stages of life the democratic party's beliefs were much different than they are today,with the ebb and flow of time they have evolved alongside the people who claim democratic allegiance. For instance during the civil war, the democratic party's political platform revolved around the tension between the south and north. Democrats opposed civil rights and tolerated slavery in an attempt to conjure the votes in the devastated south.( Britannica ) Today however, through political reform of an entire parties beliefs the modern democratic party is born. Whether democrat or republican citizens of the united states have faced challenges and adversity, through this struggle we as a people can come together and create a entity that reflects our core beliefs in matters of all aspects of life. Democrats champion preservation of the environment, Economic responsibility, and affordable healthcare. "Today's Democratic Party believes we have a duty to preserve God's earth and American quality of life for future generations.”(DNC) The issue of the environment is essential, it involves more than if we should or shouldn’t dump oil in a lake...
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...Conservative or Liberal: My Choice Angela J Flemister Liberty University Conservative or Liberal: My Choice A political ideology is a closely linked set of beliefs about politics. Political ideologies offer their adherents well organized theories that propose goals for the society and the means by which those goals can be achieved. (Americian Government pg.18) The two most common ideologies that come to my mind are the conservatism and liberalism, to in nonprofessional terms Republican and Democrat. The two parties differ in what they believe. The beliefs of one are totally opposite to the next. George Lakoff (Moral Politics) penned this book which simply asks “How Liberals and Conservatives think. In my reading of some of the book I was able to easily identify my personal political ideology immediately. Professor Whitham instructed class to research the elected officials in my district. Phil Gingrey and David Scott. The two could not be anymore different than they actually are as Congressman Gingrey is white and Congressman Scott is black. The color of the skin really should not matter but honestly we all know that at some point in time when an issue is presented and needs to be addressed by a vote there is some wrangling be it truth or not, race intervenes. The voting records of my elected officials provided an insight to their ideologies. By viewing the many interest groups it became evident that there is not a non-partisan accumulation of the facts. Many issues...
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...the Republican victory over both houses of Congress and will surely result in gridlock; stalling the country from progressing successfully. Demographics may have contributed to the enormity of democratic loss in this past election. The populous, liberal, diverse cities that would increase the Democratic vote had one of the lowest voter turnouts, whereas southern states that would vote Republican came out with the highest voter turnout. A vast majority of these southern voters are old, white Republicans. The young students, the post- generational college students, the minorities – these are the ones that share the same political ideologies as the democratic party, but yet they’re the ones that didn’t vote. Voter turnout for the 2014 Midterm elections was the lowest in 70 years – only 36.4% of voting-eligible Americans went out and voted on November 4th; of those voters, 75% were white (Alter, 2014). Liberal states like New York and California had a decrease in voter turnout while Southern states saw an increase, “Democrats were hindered by their inability to persuade members of the coalition that delivered the White House to Mr. Obama — young voters, women and minorities — to turn out at levels seen in presidential elections” (Parker, Weisman, 2014). One reason for the loss of democratic seats in the senate is caused by the decrease of liberal voter turnout. Although there are other underlying factors such as long lines, people’s carelessness and inability to travel to polling...
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...not believe in sending their daughters out of the town to get a higher education, including my father; because as girls their role was to get married and have kids. It might sound like this ideology belongs to my great grant parents but sadly it belonged to my me 19 years ago. This is a clear example of how a poor ideology puts women in disadvantage in comparison to men. Women have faced more discrimination since the foundation of our constitution where little by little women have gained some rights but the gap between men and women still exists. In my thesis I am going to talk about events that took place, so women could get the right to vote, the right to make reproductive decisions, the issue that women is currently facing for equal pay, and two groups that are in pro and against the passage of the paycheck fair act. Many rights that women have today are the result of big efforts made by past women leaders who showed their inconformity of not having the same civil rights as men. As Shea mentioned in the book Living Democracy “The nation’s founders simply took it for granted that women need not to participate in political affairs; they were viewed as being destined for such roles in society as cooks, maids, wives and mothers.” Pg153. The framers of the constitution based on this ideology did not include women’s civil rights in the constitution. Many events took place, so women could get...
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...CNN vs. Fox News ENG/220 March 3, 2014 CNN vs Foxnews There are a number of news outlets currently available online, but no two are as big as CNN.com and Foxnews.com. These two media giants control most of the coverage on news stories circulating the globe. Although, nothing is covered as heavily as the presidential election in the United States. The two websites, and their affiliated television channels have hosted multiple debates and both have nearly twenty four seven coverage of the current national election. For most individuals, this would be the end of the two media giant’s similarities as they are considered to be very different ideologically. One author states, “In their coverage of the invasion of Iraq, CNN and FNC broadcast two distinct ideological news cultures.” (Silcock 2008). The writings to follow, will take you on a journey of the key differences and similarities of these two successful companies. Similarities CNN.com has long been regarded as a more liberal sources than its counterpart Foxnews.com, this may be true in some instances, but certainly not all. While most people would disagree with that statement, it is relatively closer to the truth than thinking that CNN is a very liberal source. In most instances online, the two sources have very similar headlines, and their stories are much closer to being aligned than one would expect. For example, on CNN.com the main headline is “Trump is a fraud,” whereas on Foxnews.com it is “Trump, Romney feud erupts...
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...the American political process than other minority groups in the United States. Why? Because, as indicated by the highest level of voter registration and participation in elections among these groups in 2004. African Americans collectively attain higher levels of education than immigrants to the United States. African Americans also have the highest level of Congressional representation of any minority group in the U.S.The large majority of African Americans support the Democratic Party. In the 2004 Presidential Election, Democrat John Kerry received 88% of the African American vote compared to 11% for Republican George W. Bush. Historically, African Americans were supporters of the Republican Party because it was Republican President Abraham Lincoln who helped in granting freedom to American slaves; at the time, the Republicans and Democrats represented the sectional interests of the North and South, respectively, rather than any specific ideology, and both right and left were represented equally in both parties. The African American trend of voting for Democrats can be traced back to the 1930s during the Great Depression, when Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program provided economic relief...
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