Imagine a world where people, who do not frequently monitor the news, think they should be the ones deciding its future broadcasts. Where the ones who can only recall the president’s name, when asked what they know about politics, think they are entitled to choose the next one who follows. Where millions of voices are solicited and encouraged to be heard, yet less than half of them open their mouths and speak up. Welcome to the United States of America,...
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In November 2020, the United States Elections were held, Joe Biden won the election with 305 Electoral College votes compared to Presidential Incumbent Donald Trump’s 232. For centuries the United States utilized the Electoral College voting system. A simple description of the system is that each state gets a certain number of electoral college votes partly based on its population and there are a total of 538 electoral votes, the winner of the election would be the candidate that wins...
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As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, “Freedom is the state of not being subjected to or affected by something undesirable: servitude, constraint, inhibition.” (“Freedom.” The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 2019). Over time freedom takes new shape and form, especially during breakthroughs, from human rights to politics, citizenships, and even slavery, etc. The term “freedom” is a word that entails meaning both physically and mentally. Physically in the sense that it also means a state of not being imprisoned...
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Everyone would like a fair voting system, that is what the Founding Fathers intended for the United States. This paper is going to go over the type of voting system the United States uses compared to the voting system in Canada. Is one more democratic than the other? Should the United States change the way it votes and runs its elections? Let us find out. The type of voting system in the United States is called the Electoral System. “The...
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I believe that all American citizens should be required to vote. Although I am not 18 years old yet, as soon as my birthday rolls around, I will have my voice heard and my vote counted in every election that is held in my city, state, and country. It saddens me that many people do not adhere to our duty as citizens of the United States of America. By having this great democracy won by the blood of past generations,...
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The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate faces many challenges in garnering voter support across the country once they are picked as the nominee. The current viable candidates must look ahead, towards the future, in securing valuable blocs of voter support in order to defeat Trump. One of the most important and relatively overlooked electorates in America is the Latino bloc of voters, which has become the minority ethnic group with the largest population in the U.S. Garnering support and rallying Latino...
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Franchising felons from voting has an impact on elections, silences the voice that felons have, and strips them of a right that they should have. In the 2016 elections, many states were close, with some winning by only a small margin. Florida was within 120,000 votes to swing for Hillary Clinton ('2016 Presidential'), which is very close given the population of Florida. As mentioned earlier, Florida had over 1.6 million felons that were stripped of their voting rights. Had all...
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The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College...
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Can you imagine what it would be like to be dumb? Not being able to express your opinions because no one cared to pay attention to your gibberish. For many inmates, disenfranchisement, which is the act of depriving one’s right to vote, is identical to being democratically dumb. The issue of felon disenfranchisement has been a long-standing one in our Jamaican history, and in support of that, many have argued that prisoners are not responsible citizens so they should not...
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Is the Electoral College fair? This debate has been dividing the opinions of Americans ever since it was first established by the Founding Fathers in 1804. In all honesty, the concept does not make a great deal of sense; the US is the only democracy in the world where the candidate can win the popular vote and still lose the election. 538 members have been deemed as responsible for one of the most significant tasks in the USA - and...
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In comparison to the rest of the developed world, the United States of America has one of the most punitive prison systems. The government claims that its prisons focus on rehabilitation, yet on average, 60 percent of all inmates will return to prison (Chung). Felons’ lives are thereby deemed unlivable because they are perceived as morally corrupt, “social contract” breakers. As a consequence, most state governments, aside from Maine and Vermont, prohibit felons from participating in democratic processes. While the...
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According to Martin Luther King Jr. “No nation can long continue to flourish or to find its way to a better society while it allows any one of its citizens to be denied the right to participate in the most fundamental of all privileges-the right to vote”. A prisoner, who is also referred to as an inmate, is anyone who is deprived of liberty against their will and can be lawfully confined or unlawfully confined (Justice and peace commission, 2011)....
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Should prisoners retain their right to vote? Stewart in his article “Terrorism and Human Rights” defined human rights as the essential rights and freedoms that belong to each person within the world, from birth until death. They apply despite where you're from, what you suspect, or how you select to measure your life. They will never be got rid of, although they will sometimes be restricted – for instance, if someone breaks the law, or is within the interests of...
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One of our most influential powers as citizens is exercising our right to vote. However, with this power comes certain responsibilities such as considering the options – people who are running - and make proper decisions when electing a campaign. Changing the election process would involve a lot of procedures, which could create complications for the country. In order to come to an upright conclusion about whether or not uneducated people should participate in the election process, we must take...
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