Essays on Political Science

America in the 1920s was a period of great change. This was the decade in which there was mass production, jazz, cinema, dating, and the introduction of prohibition. Life was very great for all Americans and so that is why this time period is known...

In our society we are being watched by everyone because of the usage of many new and sophisticated rules and laws and “FOR OUR SAFETY” but it is actually not for our safety because they are watching every movement and every word we speak. So...

Communism was widely spread throughout the world during the post-World War II era. In Europe, in countries such as the Soviet Union communism was really centered around the Soviet Union’s government. The United States’ biggest fear was widespread of communism throughout its territory after World...

Jonathan Z. Smith argues “religion is imposed from the outside” while the term itself is “created by scholars for their intellectual purposes” (Smith, 269). Two philosophers; Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx’s work can be applied to religion as a functional aspect of human life, describing...

James Madison, a founding father and an author of The Federalist Papers, once wrote, ‘Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.’ This quote suggests the idea of natural law in which Madison was trying to...

 There has been much dispute regarding which model of representative democracy best achieves the founders original intent for American Democracy. It can be said that the founders strongly advocated for the people playing a significant role in the government, which is why the participatory representative...

During the early 1950s, a tragic witch hunt for communists took place. Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy accused more and more communists as the decade continued. However, he eventually went too far by accusing the army of being in favor of communists. During nationally televised hearings,...

In puritan America, it had fewer laws and was supported religion, and if people didn’t represent the conventional category they were called witches and were thought to possess and sold their souls to the devil. Communism could be a classless society where everything is that...

In the words of Benito Mussolini “democracy is beautiful in theory, but in practice it is a fallacy”. The word democracy was derived from a Greek word demos, which means ‘people’ and kratos, which means ‘rule’. In essence it means the rule by the people....

“One of the most serious challenges our countries face is the specter of socialism. It’s the wrecker of nations and the destroyer of societies’. There are few spectacles as polarizing as the subject of socialism. Throughout history there are examples of notable people being both...