Voter Apathy
Title: Voter Apathy
Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
Details: Words: 456 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Voter Apathy
Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
Details: Words: 456 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Democracy can be defined as a goverment that is given power to make and enforce laws by the consent of the people governed. Although, there are many ways in which those that are governed elect those who govern. This country has a reprensentive democracy where citizens vote for officals to represent them at the local, state, and federal levels. In contrast, early Greek domecracies allowed all eligble citizens to vote on issues when they gathered
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it in an article in the Harford Courant:
"... candidates hug the center of the political spectrum, watering down their messages, which turns off would be voters. Bush, for example doesn't want to say his tax cut plan would give rich people more money to invest... He says his plan would help middle-class people. Likwise, Gore avoids saying he wants to redistribute income from the rich to the poor, instead saying he would invest in families."