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Abstract To date, America has been ruled by a total of 44 presidents, with the country’s first president being George Washington, and the current president being Barack Obama. In this text, I concern myself with the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of America. Amongst other things, I will highlight Jefferson’s political career as well as his key or most important accomplishments.

This paper is about the book Dollarocracy by J. Nichols and R. McChesney. This book is about the confluence of money, media and politics. The authors describe how democracy is being subverted by the influence of the very wealthy. The book is summarized and reviewed, with some of my own analysis thrown in there as well.

The bipartisan structure which defines the American system of democratic governance is premised on the notion that informed voters, when provided with an opportunity to select their own leadership, will invariably alternate between candidates with whom they identify closely, and members of the opposing party who offer meaningful reform. This maxim of American politics has resulted in a pattern of Presidential ascendency whereby neither party has captured the White House in three consecutive elections since the four consecutive campaign victories notched by Franklin Delano Roosevelt more than a half-century ago. Nonetheless, there are still pockets of provincial loyalty which still exist throughout the national electorate, with family histories and cultural touchstones serving to elevate one party above its competition in the hearts and minds of voters. In the second congressional district of Tennessee – an area which spans the metropolitan borders of Knoxville, as well as the surrounding suburbs of Farragut, Maryville and Powell – this curious phenomenon of local politics has become engrained in the societal structure, forming a continuous chain of leadership from the district's current representative to his Republican predecessors in 1855. With the election of John James "Jimmy" Duncan, Jr. (R-Knoxville) in 1988 – and his successful reelection every two years afterward to this day – the second congressional district of Tennessee has maintained a steady state of Republican representation for more than 150 years. However, this unbroken line of succession has not been mirrored in Tennessee's delegation of U.S. Senators throughout the years, as current Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) is just the third GOP member to represent Tennessee in the Senate during the last 100 years. The following analysis of Tennessee's electoral machinations, both on the Congressional and Senatorial level, is intended to examine the array of sociocultural factors which have contributed to the state's decidedly conservative political leaning.

A labor union refers to an association of employees that have come together in pursuit of common goals, such as better pay. Labor relations are wider in scope; they refer to the interactions between the labor unions…

The American government has had a long-standing checks-and-balances efficiency within its three-branch system. Because of the separate governable powers within the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the…

This is a four page paper that compares and contrasts the conceptions of power presented by Stone (1980) and Lukes (2005). Which one is the more useful for conducting political inquiry? Why? Uses examples of political issues and events to illustrate the points. Systemic Power: Stone, C. N. 1980. Systemic Power in Community Decision Making. American Political Science Review 74 (December): 978–990. and Hegemony and Domination: Lukes, Steven. 2005. Three Dimensional Power (Packet).