The Electoral college system is in need of reform for the following three reasons. First‚ it creates the potential of having faithless electors. During an election electors may pledge their vote one way that corresponds with the party‚ and then cast their vote in the opposite way. Second‚ it gives the candidate an opportunity to win the election without receiving the popular vote. The candidate may have received the popular vote by gaining more states‚ but looses states that have a large amount of
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countries of the concept of giving all citizens equal share in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone the right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a republic?". With the Electoral College‚ it is a winner take all system which makes some votes practically useless. The founding fathers believed that most people were uneducated
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to the advantages and disadvantages of trial by jury‚ the alternatives available and any reforms that have been introduced or recommended. You are to produce an essay as follows Critically evaluate pros and cons the arguments for and against trial by jury Discuss any reforms that have been proposed or introduced and evaluate these reforms pros and cons This essay will evaluate the argument for and against the jury system‚ discuss and evaluate proposed or recent reforms to the jury system in England
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Welfare Reform Welfare reform refers to changes in the operation of a given welfare system. This provides funding for basic living expenses for all American citizen efficiently through an electronic benefit system and that income taxes be converted to a flex tax without the standard deductions or proposal exemption. The current system that we now have has 13 independent programs and has many problems associated with it the inconsistent treatment of low-income Americans‚ also not having enough
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10th February 2014 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the first past the post electoral system The UK electoral system is run by the First Past the Post system‚ voting takes place in single-member constituencies. Voters put a cross in a box next to their favoured candidate and the candidate with the most votes in the constituency wins. The advantages of using a First Past the Post system are as follows: Firstly‚ the system is simple and easy for constituents to understand because you only
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Orissa Review * January - 2006 Need for Electoral Reforms Siddhartha Dash Elections are the life and blood of modern democracies. The health and vitality of parliamentary democracy is sustained by ensuring free‚ fair and peaceful elections where the verdict of the people finds full expression. The Indian electoral system was free from any major flaw till the fourth general elections in 1967. The distortions in its working appeared‚ for the first time‚ in the fifth general elections
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charge‚ the UK have adopted various electoral systems. However‚ there are a number of problems with each systems and some systems are more proportional than others‚ for example the List System has a higher degree of proportional representation than the First Past The Post system which is used in UK general elections. In spite of this‚ there are good systems in Northern Ireland‚ like AMS which is very proportional and provides a simple outcome. The First Past The Post system usually leads to single
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Report on the differences‚ advantages‚ disadvantages of the various systems of organisations. Cover the mechanistic‚ human relations and systems approaches I have chosen for my report three types of organisations: functional‚ divisional and matrix. Functional organisation is considered to has many characteristics of a mechanistic structure while divisional and matrix organisation have many characteristics of an organic management structure. So will be more difference between functional organisation
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The Electoral College: A Flawed System The electoral college was put in place by our founding fathers in the Constitution. The electoral college is a process that we undergo to elect our president. Every four years‚ American citizens vote for their preferred presidential candidate. Their votes‚ however‚ go to that state’s candidate electors‚ rather than straight towards the presidential election. Electors pledge to vote for the candidate and then vote for president based on the party they previously
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The idea of the Electoral College was first introduced at the 1787 constitutional convention. Some delegates argued that the president should be selected by the legislature‚ however that might create a conflict of interest with the president trying to please the legislature and not actually being independent. Other delegates favored a direct election‚ where the popular vote would decide the president. The argument was that more populous states would have more control over the less populous states
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