In the 18th century, The newly formed United States of America shaped our goverment and systems into thatof a representative democracy. This meant, since it was highly impractical to send every citizen to the nation's capitol to vote on every issue, each designated area would be able to elect an official who would represent and vote for the people of the district. In 1791, It took several days to get from the most western town i the new nation to the capitol. The most western city at the ...

Recently, I sat down to watch some Star Wars with my oldest son. In the movie, which I am guessing most are at least vaguely familiar with (any episode), they always have scenes in which their cities, which are always so tall and vertical, have cars that fly all around the buildings. Watching it I started to think back when many were dreaming of the day of the flying car. When I was a boy, people would predict that by some date (most of which have passed) we would be cruising in the air i...