by Matthew Mottet | Dec 6, 2018 | Georgia State University
As of October 2018, there have been 47,225 gun-related incidents in the United States, with 11,984 of those incidents resulting in death. The issue our group attempted to resolve is improving gun safety laws and decreasing gun deaths in the United States. Our group’s...
by Tomas Rodriguez | Oct 29, 2018 | Georgia State University
There seems to be a paradox in American Anti-Trump rhetoric where on the one hand Trump is this power-hungry potential authoritarian who is going to target the rights of minorities and drag the country into a fascist-white supremacy dictatorship à la Hitler. One...
by Zach Hopkins | Oct 28, 2018 | Georgia State University
The classic refrain we hear with regard to our democratic process is “one person, one vote,” so when that principle is violated, we should be concerned. But is such a phenomenon so prevalent as to rise to the level of disrupting the electoral process? During the 2016...
by Vincent Davis | Oct 27, 2018 | Georgia State University
Democracy dies when there are no checks and balances; to ensure the newly established United States democracy would be able to secede, the Founding Fathers constructed the Constitution of the United States to ensure the significant hard fought freedom gained from the...
by Alexander Lloyd | Oct 25, 2018 | Georgia State University
Despite the absurdity of the 2016 election, the success of Donald J. Trump was not a random fluke but rather the result of a series of events starting with the Compromise of 1877. As described in How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the norms of...
