Research Paper on:
Democracy Determinants in Countries

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critical to the entire political composition than the issue of human rights. Comparing the United States to Iraq finds significant differences in the manner by which each countrys people  are treated, one with an obvious and steadfast dedication to a civilized existence and the other with a conspicuous absence of any semblance of humane enlightenment.  Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existence; paramount to mans existence is the concept of natural rights. Philosophers have long postulated what,  exactly, these rights consist of within the massive scope of mortality, with some contending that natural rights are those that are without social infiltration, while others attest to the fact  that natural rights are doled out only by social status. "Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws  and statutes which violate natural rights, though they may have the color of law, are not law but impostors" (Wheeler S12). Key to realizing the fact that America was  intended to be a democracy and respect humanitys inherent rights are the very documents that proposed such a fair and impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States  and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendments of the Constitution in order to comprehend the length to which Americas forefathers were ready and  willing to go in the name of democracy and human rights. Perhaps the most critical of these is the First Amendment, which guarantees a persons right to freedom of  religion, speech, the press, assembly and petition, all of which are the very backbone of American democracy. "Constitutions cannot create democracy; democracy creates constitutions. Bills of rights do