Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
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The government system is in place for the peace, order, and well-being of large populations of people. For the specificity of this essay, we will assume we are referring to democratic governments. Given that each member of the society is not able to voice their opinion on every decision, political leaders (PL) are meant to do so. PL are singularly in office to represent the will of their constituents. As such, they can and must adjust standpoints to the changing views of the citizens. However, their role must be conducted in accordance with the complexities of the system in which they operate - including political parties and budget constraints.
Let us review the complexities of campaigning and political parties. When a politician is selected based on views and intentions expressed during the election campaign. This must also be guided by the political party to which he or she is a member, as political parties exist to solidify approaches to a specific issue or group of issues. Not every citizen is educated on the standpoints of each government official, so parties assist voters to understand generally which set of views that politicians may align themselves with. Campaign debates are designed to highlight a politician’s approach to issues that may be contentious at the time. A voter may then learn how a politician varies from the party.
When responding in haste, the character of the politician or other more subtle characteristics of the PL may come into play in their appointment. When an event occurs in society that impacts the priorities or opinions of the voter base, a PL has the responsibility to realign themselves with this shift. For example, a county constituency may generally be in support of freedoms for gun-owners. However, if mass-shootings occur in that district which colors public sentiment towards greater gun control, a PL should be sensitive to this change. Such a realignment is important to making the residents of that area feel safe in their environment. Other germane occurrences may include natural disaster or immigration pressures.
Moreover, a PL may appear to waver from the social contract between he and the voters when compromises are made to keep the PL in office. The PL may determine that his or her personal principles prevent the support of popular opinion during elections or avoid discussing his views which may turn off certain constituents. Impetus may be due to pressure from lobbyist groups which can impact campaign funding and thus the possibility of reelection. This is generally short-sighted and not appropriate cause to misrepresent the wishes of the people.
In contrast, a savey law-maker may make a rare expectation to following public opinion through legislative compromise in order to move past deadlock. Recently, American Democratic and Republican parties became so polarized in the House that no bill could be passed through Senate or House. In this case, bi-partisan compromise is needed. Lastly, a PL may also have the responsibility to act against popular opinion if he or she was elected to office largely based on character. In such a case, a PL may choose to abandon certain administrative promises made during the campaign when it conflicts with the leader’s fundamental principles.
Citizens trust PLs to represent them in the democratic system. If PLs break this social contract, the system is broken. Thus, PLs have the responsibility to generally vote with the party to which they belong, and to adjust their stances when the sentiment of constituents has changed. They must ignore the temptation to always vote with partisanship, and they should maintain their integrity.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 61, Rule ID: BETWEEN_PRP[1]
Message: Incorrect form of the pronoun 'he'. Use: 'between him'.
Suggestion: between him
...ppear to waver from the social contract between he and the voters when compromises are mad...
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Line 9, column 551, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... misrepresent the wishes of the people. In contrast, a savey law-maker may make ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, lastly, may, moreover, so, then, thus, well, for example, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 90.0 58.6224719101 154% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3108.0 2235.4752809 139% => OK
No of words: 595.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22352941176 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93888872473 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07527038811 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 297.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.499159663866 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 954.9 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6422608456 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.258064516 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1935483871 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.83870967742 5.21951772744 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12054128777 0.243740707755 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0319277079749 0.0831039109588 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0294636938515 0.0758088955206 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0665734305844 0.150359130593 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0377263064617 0.0667264976115 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 172.0 100.480337079 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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