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What is popular sovereignty? Understanding how the doctrine works and what it means in a democracy.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrom an oligarchy to a democracy to a constitutional monarchy, there are many ways government can operate. The government is a representative democracy, meaning citizens vote for their government ...
Opinion: 5 fundamentals to celebrate in our inspired Constitution
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMichelle Budge, Deseret News In the summer of 1956, the United States Congress passed a joint...
Vote because the world might just depend on it
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSince I was young, the civic duty of voting has been entrenched in my conviction to make positive change. I remember being taught ideals of popular...
Ripon's 'Birthplace of the Republican Party' gets new director, and more news in weekly dose
FDL Reporter | The Reporter via Yahoo News· 12 months agoFOND DU LAC - Steve Arbaugh has been appointed director of the Little White Schoolhouse, a National...
The shortest American Civil War summary you'll ever read
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...
Donald Trump vs. the military: Top brass must think hard about the danger ahead
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDonald Trump; military personnel Shealah Craighead/The White House via Getty Images The prospective...
20 reasons why Donald Trump has been good for America: No, seriously
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDonald Trump Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Irony being inherently ironic, it would be easy to...
Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
Nations, Nation-States, and Nationalism
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFrom the G-File on The Dispatch World Map in Projection 1595. (Photo by Picturenow/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Dear Reader (may the road...
The guardrails are gone. It’s constitutional crisis time in North Carolina | Opinion
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWe usually think of a “constitutional crisis” as a particular event or trauma, stressing our legal...