CAS PO 111 Lecture Notes - Individual And Group Rights, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
4 Feb 2014
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What makes us americans: we are all from different religions and ethnic backgrounds, rights freedom of religion and press, democracy, equality, democracy foreigners surprised by extent which. Americans stick to elections such as sheriffs, state judges. Americans are asked to vote in more elections than in any other democracy. In 1830s it was known as a hyper democratic country: equality no aristocracy, no titles or nobility. Some argue that us has always been more affluent than others so living standards were higher, life was better so there was less of a desire to take from rich. Others argue that socialism means everyone works together but americans are all too different. Socialism came about in countries where men always had to struggle for civic rights. In us white men had political rights even if they were struggling and poor: immigration a country defined by creed.
