HIS 315K Lecture Notes - For-Profit Higher Education In The United States, Fivethirtyeight, Monarchy Of The United Kingdom
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Intro: fivethirtyeight. com nate silver: polls have drastically gone up. Issues: difficulty comparing past elections with recent ones. In the house, texas gets 36 seats, wyoming gets 2. In the senate, texas-2 wyoming-2: presidential election winners are picked by the electoral college, you win the state and you win the electoral votes, proprietary colleges in early colonial times run by the british monarchy. Revolutionary war and beginnings of democracy: stamp act, tea act, continental congress (first type of democracy) The continental congresses: ruler can only rule with the consent of the government. Government arises from consent of the governed: americans instead set up a democracy. Power should be divided among seperate institutions: overwide fear of tyranny. In order to est. a new gov. , it must be different than past ones: set up a centralized gov. , but with different branches. Citizen rights must be protected: must be able to check the government.
