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This 8 page paper examines several issues with regard to democracy in the United States, and argues that the current government is not democratic. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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model is still in effect, or if it has been replaced by something else. This paper discusses such questions as whether or not the U.S. is a true democracy
or if we have simply become used to the injustices visited on certain citizens; if minorities are full participants in our democracy; if there are any protections in place to
protect the minority; and what makes U.S. democracy work (if it does) in comparison to other nations like Iran and Palestine. Discussion Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said,
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cant have both." But today it seems as
if we are heading in that direction: there is more and more money going to the elite, thanks to tax breaks that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the
poor and middle class. Housing prices are down, the stock market is dropping, jobs are stagnant, unemployment is starting to rise again, and medical costs are so outrageously high that
they are the main cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. today (Health care costs main cause of personal bankruptcy, study finds, 2005). Is it possible to have a true
democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of California at Irvine, Gara LaMarche, Vice-President and Director of U.S. Programs at the Open
Society Institute, asked pointedly what might happen if we had a real democracy in the United States. He then answered his deliberately provocative question by discussing the many ways in
which the government is no longer responding to the American people. One of the most egregious examples of the lack of democracy was the way in which the debacle of
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