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Voters in Iowa gather every four years in “caucuses” to begin the process of selecting their state’s preferred presidential candidates in each party. What is a caucus?
Iowa’s process for choosing between presidential candidates is unique among the fifty United States. Every other state has a more traditional primary election in which registered voters can cast […]

Some people against gay rights have argued that equal rights does not include “special rights” and since homosexuals can marry the same people that heterosexuals can it is perfectly okay to ban gay marriage.
Well, it’s not. Homosexuals are specifically excluded from the rights that heterosexuals enjoy in the marriage contract. There are over a thousand […]

 
Confucius
The Chinese philosopher Confucius(551-471 BCE) was one of the first thinkers to adopt a distinct approach to political philosophy. His philosophy was “rooted in his belief that a ruler should learn self-discipline, should govern his subjects by his own example, and should treat them with love and concern.” His political beliefs were strongly linked to […]

Authority, in a political sense, is different from political power in that it implies legitimacy and acceptance; it implies that the person or state exercising power has a perceived right to do so. Legitimacy is an attribute of government gained through the acquisition and application of power in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or […]

Most political analysts and politicians divide politics into left wing and right wing politics, often also using the idea of center politics as a middle path of policy between the right and left. This classification is comparatively recent (it was not used by Aristotle or Hobbes, for instance), and dates from the French Revolution era, […]

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. David Easton describes politics as “the authoritative allocation of values for a society”. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.
Politics consists of “social relations involving authority or […]