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A 3 page paper which examines to what
extent the public should be involved in political decision making. The paper takes the
middle of the road argument and argues that the public should be allowed to have a say,
but perhaps ultimately a great deal of the decisions should be made by the government in
order to meet the needs of most people. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RApbldec.rtf
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decision making power in this nation. Or, at least that is what our forefathers said when they drafted our Constitution. If we, as a whole, feel that the government is
not looking after our best interests we can, if there are enough of us, stop the government from whatever they are involved in. With this is a foundation of our
political system we can, and do, allow the government to make most of our decisions. There are many who would argue that we should always get to choose and decide
on every issue, but then again, we have elected officials to do that for us. And, on the other hand we cannot allow the government to do all the decision
making without us or we would be living in nothing less than a dictatorship. Such information illustrates, perhaps, why "Throughout the twentieth century, many nations have changed their voting
systems. In some cases, the process was elite driven, with changes imposed by the government or negotiated by party leaders without meaningful citizen input" (Citizen Engagement in Voting System
Reform, 2003). In light of these facts we can well see that we, as the public, have elected officials to involve themselves in the decision making process on our behalf.
In this we have power, but we actively give much of it away because we, as a people, generally believe that the decision making process should not be wholly in
our own individual hands. The following paper examines the two sides of the public in the decision making process, arguing that the middle of the road is best, that we
should be involved but essentially leave the officials in charge of voicing our public interests. Both Sides First and foremost we have the dictatorship that has been seen
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