Political parties are a representation of a group of people. ... Political parties are a principal means by which the people's will is made known to the government and government is held accountable to the people.
For the researcher, who wants to describe children's normal behavior on the playground the best method for his research is to use naturalistic observation. This research method includes observing subject in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer, which is exactly what the researcher wants to achieve.
Social media can
-support long-distance relationships: right now many people maintain relationships that in the time before social media would fall apart
-increase expectations (they make us used to replies fast) and they can make us less pacient in personal meetings, which is detrimental to relationships
-they make us have more friends, but in a more superficial way
Germany is a democratic, federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).
During the Dred Scott case the Supreme Court ruled that whether African Americans were enslaved or free could not be considered American citizens and thus could not bring a case in court to sue for their freedom in federal court. Therefore, slaves had no right to sue for free and and did not posses citizens' rights.