What do you think was the primary focus of the Nixon administration?

The Nixon Administration, its term and resignation encompass the relief from the Vietnam crisis, improved relations with China and the American governmental Watergate scandal. To the United States removal of troops from the Vietnam conflict should be considered the primary focus of the administration. Ending a war is an important feature of a presidency and should be the primary determination of any president in a similar situation. In general Nixon's main focus were international affairs. An example of this is that he focused his efforts on the Cold War arms race with the Soviet Union.

"Does a coalition democracy allow its citizens more or less say in government affairs than a representative democracy? To what extent?"

A coalition democracy probably allows its citizens more say than a representative democracy. A coalition usually consists of two parties with similarities as well as differences. That means that not only the opinions of the citizens who voted for the major party, but also the opinions of the citizens who voted for the party which forms a coalition with the major party, are represented in the government.

On the other hand a representative democracy also allows its citizens a lot of say in governmental affairs because the party with the most elected representatives is the ruling party. Therefore the majority of the citizens voted for the ruling party and influenced the government.

In fact, there are usually two powerful parties in a coalition democracy and therefore more opinions represented in the governmental affairs, the citizens of a coalition democracy have more influence than the citizens of a representative democracy. However, in a representative democracy the major party rules, that means that the opinion of the majority of the citizens is represented. So the difference of influence of the citizens is not that big, because in both cases the majority of the citizens is represented.

"Under the U.S. Constitution, the legislative branch enacts the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets the laws. Why is this separation of governmental power important?"

The seperation of governmental power to legislative branch, executive branch and judicial branch is important to avoid corruption. If those three powers would not be splitted, someone could use those powers to his own advantage. If the legislative branch and executive branch would be combined to one branch, the people who would make laws would be the same people who would enforce them and that would cause injustice.

The legislative, executive and judicial powers have to be seperated, otherwise there would be a greater possibility for one person or group to capitalize those powers for their own wills. The powers are divided to protect the values of the country and to illuminate the chance to have all branches under one power, which could end as a dictatorship.

In my opinion the five most important rights are part of the first, fourth, fifth and sixth amendment;

1. Freedom of Religion

Every person shall be able to choose the religion he believes in, because I think that nobody should be forced to practice a religion he doesn't want to be part of. For the most part laws and prohibitions exist to protect a country and his citizens. Freedom of religion doesn't hurt anybody, so it wouldn't make sense to prohibit it.

2. Freedom of Speech

Everybody should be allowed to talk about their opinions in public. If this privilege would not be given anymore, everyone would be forced to have certain opinions, for example the opinions of the government. As long as public speeches don’t result in personal disadvantage, everybody has to have the right of freedom of speech.

3. Search and Seizure

To save everyone’s freedom it is important that there is a law which allows search and seizure but it is even more important to have a law against unreasonable searches and seizures. Therefore there has to be a specific description of the place and the person who will be searched or seized.

4. Trial and Punishment

There has to be a punishment for breaking the law and this punishment has to be appointed by an impartial judge. The 5th amendment also means that nobody can be punished twice for the same felony.

5. Right to speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses

It is everyone’s right to know the reason why he is accused and who the witnesses against him are. Also of great importance is, that every accused is allowed to have a counsel and witnesses for his defence.

What is an unjust law?

First of all I have to define unjust. Unjust equals unfair, so when we talk about an unjust law we talk about a law with a lack of fairness. When we look back we find a lot of famous laws of which we can definatly say that they where unjust. For example the laws which were results of Hitler's opinion of the Jews. An other example of unjust laws would be the former laws against black people in America. But in my opinion unjust laws are also findable at this time. It is just depending for whom there are findable. In Germany the richer people have to pay a lot more taxes, so this law might be an unjust law for them but not for the poorer people. In some cases mostly everyone in the society would treat certain laws as unjust laws. It depends on everyone's own opinion whether a law is an unjust law.