Why do we still let the Electoral College pick our president? By Corrie Goldman The Humanities at Stanford L.A. Cicero Jack Rakove The President of the United States is not chosen through a national popular vote because the framers of the Constitution adopted the Electoral College, which gives each state as many votes as it has members of Congress. The system was created as a middle ground in the debate over whether Congress or voters would have the power to elect the president. Today there is still support for electing the president by a national popular vote, eliminating the process of allocating electors among the states by rules that violate the principle of one person, one vote.
Stanford historian Jack Rakove is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, in which he argues that originalism, the practice of interpreting the Constitution by a fixed set of the original framers’ intentions, should not be the only approach to settling today’s judicial questions. Media Contact. Alternative Vote or First Past The Post? - Arguments for and against | a debate visualisation on Wrangl. 2008 Elections - Opinion - Campaign Stops Blog - NYTimes.com. The Coming “New World Order” Guatemala Drug Legalization: Otto Perez Molina, Guatemala President, Says Legalize Drugs. UNITED NATIONS -- Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is advocating the international legalization of drugs even as he is moving to fight narcotics cartels with the biggest military buildup in the Central American country since its long and bloody civil war.
There's no contradiction, the president said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, a day before he plans to address the U.N. General Assembly. "We can't take unilateral action, it will be gradual," Perez said, referring to his push for legalization. "Meanwhile, while we're taking these steps, we're not going to let Guatemala become an open corridor for trafficking and consuming drugs. " Perez Molina said he may be the first head of state to propose legalizing drugs before the General Assembly, but the Organization of American States already is studying the idea, with a report due in a year. "With cocaine and heroin, for example, they're substances that are damaging and addictive," he said. Mitt Romney, Iran And Dirty Bombs -- So Very, Very Wrong. Media bias in the United States. Media bias in the United States occurs when the media in the United States systematically present a particular point of view.
Claims of media bias in the United States include claims of liberal bias, conservative bias, mainstream bias, and corporate bias. There are claims of bias in both news and entertainment media. There are a variety of watchdog groups that attempt to find the facts behind both biased reporting and unfounded claims of bias,[1][2] and research about media bias is a subject of systematic scholarship in a variety of disciplines. History[edit] Before the rise of professional journalism in the early 1900s, and the conception of media ethics, newspapers reflected the opinions of the publisher. In 1728 Benjamin Franklin, writing under the pseudonym "Busy-Body", wrote an article for the American Weekly Mercury advocating the printing of more paper money. Demographic polling[edit] News values[edit] Profit motive bias[edit] Pro-power and pro-government bias[edit] Edward S.
Obama vs Johnson on Business & Labor. Johnson’s personal business success, coupled with his libertarian outlook, has given him a definite interpretation on the relationship between businesses and governments. Aside from the often quoted libertarian mantra of entrepreneurship and small government, Johnson also opines that governments should be run as a business, with clear evaluation of the cost and benefits of every decision, instead of the grand voters and special interests inducing gestures that the country has grown accustomed to. He is also a believer in the economic benefits of immigrant workforce, dismissing the notion that it would take away jobs from the average Americans. In a recent interview, Johnson has stated his desire to start loosening the country’s child labor laws, which, while continuing to protect minors, will also prevent the curtailing of the spirit of entrepreneurship among our youths.
Gary Johnson: Back to unconstitutional. Scott Keyes: And bills to pay, certainly. Gary Johnson: And bills to pay. Romney vs Obama on Iran. Well, let’s — let’s start back from there and let’s talk about where we are. This is, of course, President Obama’s greatest failing, from a foreign policy standpoint, which is he recognized the gravest threat that America and the world faced as — and faced was a nuclear Iran and he did not do what was necessary to get Iran to be dissuaded from their nuclear folly.
What he should have done is speak out when dissidents took to the streets and say America is with you and work on a covert basis to encourage the dissidents. Number two, he should have put — put in place crippling sanctions against Iran. But instead of getting Russia, for instance, to when — when he gave in our — our missile defense system, to agree to — to stand with those crippling sanctions, he gave Russia what they wanted, their number one foreign policy objective, and got nothing in return... ... ...
Well, it’s worth putting in place crippling sanctions. Could China, Russia Rescue Iran? Iran’s leadership may be hoping that Beijing and Moscow will step in and help it with the West. But it’s not in their interests to do so. Vladimir Putin has returned to the Russian presidential office. And, if his previous record as president is anything to go by, he’s likely to take a tough line against the U.S. over Iran. This comes at a time when U.S. relations with China have been tense. Indeed, U.S. Against this backdrop, China and Russia are both veto wielding members of the U.N.
Indeed, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will likely have used his meetings with Putin and senior Chinese officials on the sidelines of this week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for this very purpose. The likely answer is: not much. Of course, Putin can be expected to crank up the rhetoric in challenging U.S. policies, especially those tied to new sanctions against Iran. The Chinese government’s enthusiasm for helping the Iranian government, meanwhile, is also likely to be limited.
WW3: SCO (China, Iran, Russia...) Prepare for War in the Persian Gulf - Friday, June 8, 2012. Military simulation. Military simulations, also known informally as war games, are simulations in which theories of warfare can be tested and refined without the need for actual hostilities. Many professional analysts object to the term wargames as this is generally taken to be referring to the civilian hobby, thus the preference for the term simulation. Simulations exist in many different forms, with varying degrees of realism. In recent times, the scope of simulations has widened to include not only military but also political and social factors, which are seen as inextricably entwined in a realistic warfare model.
Whilst many governments make use of simulation, both individually and collaboratively, little is known about it outside professional circles. Yet modelling is often the means by which governments test and refine their military and political policies. The simulation spectrum[edit] Full-scale military exercises, or even smaller-scale ones, are not always feasible or even desirable. Security Council: Background. Security Council: Resolutions 2012. Liberalism. Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.[1] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and private property.[2][3][4][5][6] Etymology and definition[edit] Words such as liberal, liberty, libertarian, and libertine all trace their history to the Latin liber, which means "free".[13] One of the first recorded instances of the word liberal occurs in 1375, when it was used to describe the liberal arts in the context of an education desirable for a free-born man.[13] The word's early connection with the classical education of a medieval university soon gave way to a proliferation of different denotations and connotations.
History[edit] Beginnings[edit] Glorious Revolution[edit] Era of enlightenment[edit] American revolution[edit] Liberal. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Liberal may refer to: Politics[edit] Economics[edit] Laissez-faire, an economic environment in which the government limits itself to enforcing private property rights and transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies, and enforced monopoliesNeoliberalism, a contemporary free-market political-economic philosophyOrdoliberalism, a German variant of neoliberalism that emphasises the need for the state to ensure that the free market produces results close to its theoretical potential Places[edit] United States[edit] Elsewhere[edit] Liberal, Canada Other uses[edit] See also[edit]
Libertarianism. Traditionally, libertarianism was a term for a form of left-wing politics; such left-libertarian ideologies seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production, or else to restrict their purview or effects, in favor of common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty.[6][7][8][9] In the United States, modern right-libertarian ideologies, such as minarchism and anarcho-capitalism, co-opted the term in the mid-20th century to instead advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights, such as in land, infrastructure, and natural resources.[10][11][12] Etymology[edit] The 17 August 1860 edition of Le Libertaire: Journal du Mouvement Social, a libertarian communist publication in New York In the mid-1890s, Sébastien Faure began publishing a new Le Libertaire while France's Third Republic enacted the lois scélérates ("villainous laws"), which banned anarchist publications in France.
ABC Debate Treatment of Mitt Romney vs Ron Paul. Ron Paul's 2002 Predictions All Come True - Incredible Video! Mitt Romney Fails, Looks To Ron Paul For Answer On Birth Control And Constitution. Ron Paul (LIKE A BOSS): SPEAKING OUT AGAINST MINORITY INJUSTICE.