...Why is it important to vote? voting is more important than the bullet. I think that is a really strong quote and i really like it because it has a sequences like jail or they could take you to court . That is why it is important to vote be cause we have a right to. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”-Abraham Lincoln. This quote means One of the reasons not to vote is some presidents are for bad stuff. One president was voting for abortion. And other bad stuff like really really bad stuff. But I personally like voting. Well kinda. Sometimes. The reason you should is because it is a honer. Some people don’t take it as a honer. But i do but i am not saying it you shouldn’t vote i think we should. Everybody...
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...Should Americans be Required to Vote? Why would a country that revels in the fact that they have more freedoms than most countries obligate their citizens to vote? It is clear that american citizens should not be forced to vote. People feel that if they were given a day off work on election day, they would be able to vote. Another way is if citizens were able to vote early. Should the eligible citizens of america be obligated to vote? There are three reasons why Americans should not be obligated to vote. First of all ignorant voters are dangerous,the fact that citizens do not participate as much shouldn't be masked, and the higher level education people receive the higher percentage of them will vote. One reason why Americans should not be required to vote is that ignorant voters are dangerous. Evidence supporting this reason is “must you vote?” new York times by randy Cohen. A quote that I found on this site explaining the dangers of ignorant voters is, “It is irresponsible to encourage the unaware to put their ignorance into action so aimlessly...you might as well urge the unpracticed to Rollerblade and use power tools simultaneously. At least they'd injure only themselves.” this evidence helps explain why Americans should not be required to vote because when the ignorant vote their vote could possibly be the vote that takes a...
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...I agree that requiring Americans to vote is un-American. If one does not want to vote they should not have to. The first reason on why I agree would be a democracy cant be strong if its citizenship is weak. The second reason on why I agree is if some regularly vote while others don’t, officials are likely to give greater weight to participants. And lastly my third reason on why I agree is that low voter turnouts pushes American politics toward increased polarization. The first reason why I agree would be a democracy can’t be strong if its citizenship is weak. According to the article “Telling Americans to Vote, or Else” By William A. Galston “American citizenship is attenuated — strong on rights, weak on responsibilities.” Citizenship is what...
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...join. I do feel that I deserve the right to vote, but my husband does not see the point. He told me if I joined the movement it would be a waste of my time and effort. My husband is strongly against my right to vote. He has plenty of reasons, but I do not agree with any of them, to be honest their not the most thought out ideas. His first reason against it is because he says that most women do not care if they have the right to vote (Barkhorn, 2012). If this was true do you think women would be fighting this hard to get this right? He also says that it is pointless because 80% of women that can vote are married and this means it would...
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...general election, with Gladstone as Prime Minister. The main reasons why they won were; Gladstone’s promise to “Pacify Ireland” in his electoral campaigns and the extension of the vote to upper-working class men in 1867. In Ireland the Liberal party gained the most votes with the Nationalist party securing 0 seats. The reasons for this were; the extension of the vote in 1867 and public voting meaning that the Irish people were threatened and intimidated by their landlords into voting for the party of their choice, not the party of their own. The Conservative party won the 1874 general election, with Disraeli as Prime Minister. The main reasons why they won were; Gladstone’s University bill failing in parliament, people lost faith in him and therefore he resigned. In Ireland, the Nationalist party gained the most votes securing 60 seats. The main reasons for this were; the secret ballot act allowing the Irish people to vote in secret so they were not under the influence of their landlords anymore. Also, people had lost faith in Gladstone in Ireland as well as in Britain. The Liberal party won the 1880 general election with Gladstone as Prime Minister for a second time. The main reasons why they won were; Gladstone came out of retirement as he was unhappy with Disraeli’s foreign policies, and people were unhappy with Parnell. In Ireland, the Nationalist party, again, gained the most votes, securing 63 seats. The reasons for this were; the nationalist party was becoming more established...
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...Many people ask why is it important to vote. Whoever you are it is important to know. It is important to vote is because we need to keep our freedom for our country, our Patriotism, and our government structure. Of course there are many other reasons why we need to vote It is important to vote because we need to keep our freedom strong. If we vote for a person to be our president then he or she can make the right choices to keep our freedom strong. If a couple of people don’t vote and the person who was elected could crash our freedom because he made the wrong decision. The people who did not vote for the person they wanted could have made a good impact if they did vote. Patriotism is also another reason why we should vote. By voting...
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...College: A Vote for the Nation In 1787, the Electoral college was created to ensure that every vote counted was the choice looking out for the better of the nation. To this day, the Electoral college is still used during presidential elections, and it is still as effective as it were over two centuries ago. However, many people root for the popular vote instead, and while it does have a few perks to it, it just doesn’t measure to the efficiency and effectiveness as the Electoral college and vote. This essay will help readers to understand what the Electoral college is, why it is relevant, how it can be improved, as well as a briefing on what would happen if the poles were solely based on the popular vote. For starters, it would be best to explain what the Electoral vote is as well as what the Popular vote is. The Electoral college is a group of elected representatives...
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...The popular vote should be used for an Presidential Election. The Electoral College is basically people voting for people to vote for who they want as president. The Electoral College makes something simple so much more complex. It would be easier to just use the popular vote instead of having people vote to vote for who they want. The popular vote is a much better representation on who people really want as their president. A reason the Electoral college shouldn’t be used because it shows lack of faith in American voters . The Electoral college was formed in the late 1700’s because of people that might lack knowledge of presidential candidates and because the founding fathers didn’t want a direct election. At the present time, We can easily...
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...“The Actions of Von Papen and Hindenburg were the main reason why Hitler became chancellor” how far do you agree with this statement? I partly agree with this statement but not 100% in the next few paragraphs I will explain to you why. Firstly the main reason in which I think Hitler became chancellor was because of the depression, Hitler gained 33% of the votes in 1932, this was a third of the votes making the Nazi party the largest party in Germany, however this didn’t mean that Hitler could become chancellor because he didn’t have the majority of the votes, even though Hitler wasn’t chancellor because of the votes I believe that Hindenburg and Von Papen were starting to consider him. In the early years of the Nazi party they only gained 12 seats and 810,000 votes this meant they were only the 7th largest party in the Germany (before the depression) but then in 1932 the party gained 230 seats and 13.7 million votes making them the biggest party in Germany(after the depression). The reason that the Nazi gained all these votes was because during the depression the working class were mostly voting communist and this would make the middle class angry and not wanting to lose there money so they voted for a party that would get rid of the communists and that would be the Nazi. The second reason why was because Von Papen being the adviser to Hindenburg was good friends with Hitler. Von Papen told Hindenburg that he would create a new government and allow Hitler to become chancellor...
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...have the right to vote? I think felons should be able to vote. Felons are still members of this country and society. Just because someone has made a mistake we are still human beings living in a country where we have no say so and one of which we have no option as to whether we stay or go. Why must the government tell us we can’t vote but yet we have to live in this country from now on. Where is the justification in this? everyone should have the right to vote. if you live in this country and you are a citizen, you should be able to vote. People who have gotten caught committing a crime are most all the same as those who have committed the same crime and have not gotten caught. People commit crimes all the time and are not thought of differently until they are caught. I think Felons should really be able to vote because they have freedom of speech, still are able to live in the USA, & they deserve a second chance in life. These are all good reason why everybody, no matter if you are a felon or not should have the right to vote....
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...“The German constitution of 1871 established a democratic form of government in Germany.” Explain why you agree/disagree with this view. Many people believe that the German constitution of 1871 was a democratic from of government and I am going to debate the reasons why it was and why it wasn’t seen as a democratic form of government. For many reasons I both agree and disagree with this view. First of all I agree with this view because I know from my own knowledge that the German Constitution of 1871 was a federal constitution. This is a constitution where a system of federalism is set up within a country. This is a political system where the national government and smaller governments each have their own powers that are specified by the constitution. Therefore the German constitution of 1871 was a democratic form of government because there was a different representative to each of the different states in Germany. However I also have to disagree with this view for a similar reason. There may have been representatives for each state in the German constitution, however I know from my own knowledge that they all had variations in amounts of power they possessed. I know that Prussia dominated and it had much more power than any of the other states. It had many more representatives than the other states and consequently had more authority and influence because of this. Prussia also had Bismark as their prime minister so therefore wanted to dominate and be the most powerful state...
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...The Electoral College has been used for numerous years and that is the system America uses to select their coming president. But should it be used to this day? The reason the Electoral College was first implemented was to avoid having uninformed people making decisions as a result of news traveling extremely slow years ago. However, nowadays, news is delivered within a matter of seconds on our smartphones. So, there surely isn’t a reason as to why America still needs the Electoral College, is there? The answer is no, and there’s a plethora of reason as to why. Three primary reasons to why the Electoral College should be abolished is that it’s undemocratic, it hurts the third party candidates, and it causes the small states to be over represented. One prime motive as to why the Electoral...
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...Right to Vote Since 1898, after the Spanish-American War, North America has been in control of Puerto Rico. The Jones-Shafroth Act in 1917 only furthered Puerto Rico’s relationship with America, allowing Puerto Ricans to claim U.S. Citizenship. Even though Puerto Ricans House of Delegates all voted against the passing of the Act, the Act was still passed. According to HuffPost Latino Voices, 51% of Puerto Ricans would like to keep their relationship with the United States, leaving 49% of the population wanting to claim independence. Puerto Ricans have been denied the right to Vote for President of the United States, in which who controls limitations and laws that these citizens have to live by. In this paper, I would like...
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...president. The electoral college votes is not considered the same as the popular votes whereas majority rules with popular votes. Electoral votes has a maximum of 270 votes that is necessary to elect the President of our country. There has been many situations where citizens thought that Electoral College votes should be stop; and that the United Stated should go on to popular votes. During my research on electoral college there was many facts that I gained knowledge from. How was the electoral college structured and the different functions of the electoral college? Comparison between the Electoral College and the popular vote. The value of an individual vote under the electoral college system when it comes to...
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...MOVIE: 12 Angry Men As the jurors initiate the first vote, which was done publicly, it was obvious that conformity took place. In the words of Wikipedia, “Conformity is the process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are influenced by what is conceived to be what other people might perceive.” As they took this initial vote you can see how each are looking around to see how the next person is voting so that they can vote with the majority, even though they barely put in time to talk the case through – except Henry Fonda (HF). All except HF only has the concern of getting out of deliberation as soon as possible. HF truly would like to discuss the case in details and to look at it from all possible angles. While he may think the boy may have killed his father, he still believes he deserves a fair and thorough trial, especially since a guilty verdict sentences the defendant to death. Unfortunately, the high level of conformity caused the jurors deliberations to go on longer than it may have if everyone initially gave the vote they wanted with some sort of reasoning behind it whether or not it disagreed with the next man. The initial nonchalant vote caused some jurors to attempt to influence others in order to convince them of their case. Many of the jurors wrote off the boy based on stereotypes about growing up in the slums and belonging to a minority group. There were also some who were biased towards the evidence presented and only chose to reflect on...
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