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1 day ago · The Supreme Court suggested a solution to the problems of the subjective approach to entrapment in 1973. In United States v. Russell, a lower court had ruled that the government’s machinations against the defendant Richard Russell were so outrageous that his conviction should be reversed even though he’d been predisposed to manufacture methamphetamine.
3 days ago · Most states require some sort of high school civics instruction. But with a recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showing that about a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government, many think we should be aiming higher.
2 days ago · Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives. The term is derived from the Greek ‘demokratia,’ which was coined in the 5th century BCE to denote the political systems of some Greek city-states, notably Athens.
- Democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirect...
- Studies of contemporary nonliterate tribal societies and other evidence suggest that democracy, broadly speaking, was practiced within tribes of hu...
- States with democratic governments prevent rule by autocrats, guarantee fundamental individual rights, allow for a relatively high level of politic...
- The hallmark of democracy is that it permits citizens to participate in making laws and public policies by regularly choosing their leaders and by...
1 day ago · Reliable information sources are essential for the democratic process. Less democratic governments rely heavily on censorship, propaganda, and misinformation in order to stay in power, while independent sources of information are able to undermine their legitimacy. [327]
18 hours ago · Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations.
5 days ago · local government, authority to determine and execute measures within a restricted area inside and smaller than a whole state. Some degree of local government characterizes every country in the world, although the degree is extremely significant.
5 days ago · In modern terms, they included the secret informant or agent in place, (who provides copies of enemy secrets), the penetration agent (who has access to the enemy's commanders), and the disinformation agent (who feeds a mix of true and false details to point the enemy in the wrong direction to confuse the enemy).
