... be charged with a misdemeanor crime. Instead they were charged under the USA Patriot Act of felonies carrying multi-year prison terms on conviction. The bail commissioner accused the protesters of "serious crimes, given the times we live in." Several hundred, and perhaps more, people have been secretly detained by the government since September 11th 2001. This raises questions about depriving people ... of fundamental civil liberties including imprisonment without probable cause, interference with the right to counsel and threats of ... after proving in open court that there was probabl...

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... such substances, and even to go as far to prevent countries with in our general border vicinity from producing and exporting these substances. The illicit drug market, pre-drug war, is estimated to be a hundred billion dollar a year business. The federal government, since the beginning the war of drug, spends approximately ten billion dollars a year on drug enforcement agencies and programs, and another estimated one ... greatly when you consider an estimated sixty-percent of prison population is serving time on drug conviction. In 1994 some seven hundred and fifty thousand people were a...

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... since that date over two hundred years ago. The Constitution of the United Stats of America can also be referred to as "elastic" as in the elastic clause because it forms to so many aspects. It forms everyone's needs no matter who the individual. Still to this day, the Constitution is the "law of the land." This supremacy clause states that the Constitution is the highest law- nothing can ever ... be put above it. The ratification process of the Constitution was both long and argumentive. As a compromise for both the federalists and the anti-federalists, the Bill of Rights was created, ...

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... countless local offices as a result of those fifty state agencies. Other employment agencies include the national office of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the United States Department of Labor, ten regional ETA offices, fifty state offices, and between five hundred and six hundred local service delivery areas. As shown, one governmental program can easily encompass numerous agencies ... . It is because of this habit that the Supreme Court is often the eventual resting place for a societal issue (Brennan 517). Such situations are prime examples of how the Constitution...

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... a new Constitutional Convention is necessary for this country to be able to move forward. If we change nothing and continue down the path we have started, we will not be able to adapt quickly enough to the ever-changing world. The United States today compared to one hundred years ago shows a major advancement in technology, education, and social structure. That means that in another ... hundred years the United States will have developed even more and will be even more different. Looking at how people's views and opinions have declined toward government in the past hundred years gives u...

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... number of reasons. These may include the size of the nation or the diversity of the political subdivisions. The United States combines a bit of both: the size of the continental United States made a unitary system impossible, and the diverse interests of the states made confederation impossible. This made federalism the only logical choice. The Articles of Confederation of 1781 among the thirteen American states fighting British rule ... "exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than those prescribed in the constitution..." The Court did not expand the powe...

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... ,000 people, 31,668 die. When the second amendment was made in 1791, its purpose was to serve individual protection. However, as years passed by this amendment failed to serve its purpose. In the US Constitution, it clearly states that the second amendment was to serve individual protection yet people use firearms to wound each other. Two hundred years ago, firearms weren't as deadly ... as the firearms that we have today. The weapons that we find these days can be varied as pocketknife to machineguns ... . Present-day weapons are surely more deadly, especially machine guns, which not on...

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... about half of U.S. teenagers reported doing so. Those who believe that no good could come from the legalization of marijuana haven't thought it through. "First of all, it is no secret that our criminal justice system needs a major overhaul. Legalizing marijuana would be a step in the right direction to revamp our problem-plagued judicial system."(Willis) By legalizing this relatively social-harmless drug ... dealers. Plus, our already over-jammed courtrooms and jail could use a break and get back to working on creating a safer society for Americans to live in. The U.S. government is loo...

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... from, black citizens in order to ensure control of the Democratic Party. The Jim Crow Laws forbade African Americans from sharing facilities with the whites and they also limited other rights of freedmen. Also, there were secret societies such as the Ku Klux Klan that intimidated African Americans by trying to hurt them. The Supreme Court did not interfere with efforts to restore ... white control in the South. In the 1883 Civil Rights Cases, the Court ruled that the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery ... but did not prohibit discrimination and the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited di...

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... front of a mixed gender audience about the Abolition of Slavery was Sarah Grimke. Sarah Grimke began her public speaking career as an Abolitionist and a Women's Rights advocate. Sarah and her sister, Angelina, witnessed the mistreatment of slaves as children. Growing up, they had a close relationship with their waiting maid. Their bond came through secret night-time reading lessons that Sarah gave ... to the waiting maid. Once her father, John F. Grimke, found out about these late night tutoring sessions ... , the waiting maid was given a beating as a warning; Sarah was also harshly rep...

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... front of a mixed gender audience about the Abolition of Slavery was Sarah Grimke. Sarah Grimke began her public speaking career as an Abolitionist and a Women's Rights advocate. Sarah and her sister, Angelina, witnessed the mistreatment of slaves as children. Growing up, they had a close relationship with their waiting maid. Their bond came through secret night-time reading lessons that Sarah gave ... to the waiting maid. Once her father, John F. Grimke, found out about these late night tutoring sessions ... , the waiting maid was given a beating as a warning; Sarah was also harshly rep...

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... ; and Yahoo. Having accessed ISP's databases and mainframe systems the NSA can know you better than the closest members of your family. The NSA can infiltrate any secure network by creating backdoor encryption algorithms. In other words the government has the ability and legal right to weaken any secure private network by installing a secret pathway into a private system and accessing that system with its ... own password. All of this can be done unknown to the developer and user of the program. In addition ... to the thirty million surveillance cameras; the NSA can activate any camera ...

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... the first Congress met. One of the first congressmen who recognized that the national legislature must add personal rights to the Constitution was James Madison, the framer of the Bill of Rights. On June 8th Madison quoted; "It cannot be a secret to the gentlemen in this House, that, notwithstanding the ... ratification of this system of government yet still there is a great number of our Constituents who are dissatisfied with it We ought not to disregard their inclination but conform to their wishes and expressly declare the ... great rights of man kind."(The ... "Fire" in a crowded th...

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... a neutral position on the topic, he allows the reader to truly form their own opinion and not be persuaded by anything other than the facts. The most effective piece of evidence used by Burger is in his argument that guns are not so much a necessity as they were two hundred years ago. Burger ... understands that times have changed and so has the need for the possession of guns. They are ... not needed as much for protection because of the police forces that protect our communities. Burger declares that, "The same First Congress that approved the right to keep and bear arms also limited ...

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... , its initial task was to correct the principals defects of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation essentially provided for a jointing of relatively independent states. It was against this background of increasing Balkanization that the delegates met in a secret session in May 1787: out of the convention, however, came the Constitution of the U.S., a document very different from the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution provides for national powers to regulate ... foreign relations and commerce, as well as a host of other activities. Defining the Courts Role A...

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... education, turned to a quite similar issue. Its interpretation came to be the legal heart of the civil rights movement of the `60s. The fourteenth amendment was arguably the most important of all. It radically changed the definition of the United States Citizen. After the civil war at least two secret societies spun off from the Freemasons, the Klu Klux Klan and the Knight of Labour. While Freemasonry tended to attract members of ... the economic elites, especially merchants, retailers and investors, the KKK membership encompassed elements of the working class. Both the KKK and the ... ...

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... military camps were created to house Japanese Americans during World War II. To the public, they were considered necessary to assist war efforts. Beginning February 19, 1942, Japanese Americans, guilty or innocent, could be put in these concentration camps. In order to ensure the safety of the American population, over one hundred thousand Japanese Americans were put into camps. Many died from deprivation, despair ... and disease. The fear that a few Japanese American citizens could be traitors willing to sabotage their home country, caused these thousands to suffer ... ...

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... behind these aspects motivated our Forefathers and how they have evolved to motivate current society. There has been much debate over how much emphasis on economic interests was behind the Constitution. Some critics feel that framers who were wealthy placed too much personal influence into their decision-making and only made decisions that would benefit themselves. Others argued this ... mentioned factors individually. Without the actions of the Framers of the Constitution, contemporary Americans would not have to face the issues we face today. Without their actions, we might not be the...

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... , congressional decisions, and strong presidential influence. The next few paragraphs will go through the history of federalism in the United States. The Federal System began when the Framers wrote the Constitution. The Constitution set up the basic outline of the federal system. This system divided the powers between the national government and the state governments. Also, it bound the individual states together under one national government. ... Federalism. Preemption, the ability to override a state or local action. This took a lot of power from the states and gave it back to the nat...

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... and in some way they still are, but that does not give us the right to discriminate whites just because they discriminated minorities before. Focusing on African Americans, they were discriminated through slavery. Slavery did not end till the end of the Civil War. Many people ignore the fact that "for several hundred years, Negroes have been discriminated against not as individuals, but rather solely ... because of the color of their skins." Government must find a way to stop discrimination from happening. The University of California formally adopted race and ethnicity as factors in .....

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... seven articles. The first 3 articles talk about separation of powers. The separation of powers is where the federal government has 3 divisions: the legislative which has the congress, executive, the President and the judiciary, consists of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification. The first 10 amendments are called the Bill of Rights. The first amendment has survived more than two-hundred years, without ... being modified. The finite history of the first amendment ... ...

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... courts only if necessary, would first hear most cases. The three Circuit Courts, which were also trial courts under the original legislation, were to convene only twice per year in each state. They would be liable for hearing issues of greatest contention between the Federalists and anti-Federalists, such as large debts over five hundred dollars. As well as, disputes between citizens of ... different states and major criminal trials. The Circuit Courts would each seat two Supreme Court justices and a District judge to ensure only judges with ... substantial legal knowledge would conside...

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... States of America I am glad I live free of anybody else controlling my life. I am glad that people have the right to speak freely and not be put in jail for it. I can dress however I want and not be shot at or killed for doing so. ... In other countries people can't even eat certain foods nor have certain privileges to play sports. People like the Al Queada terrorists are cowards they attack and run or hide, because they are scared of getting shot at, even though they kill people every day. America has freedom, ... greatly soars over all other places. That American flag represents a pi...

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... Hoover laiszze-faire John M. Keynes - Keynes economic theory "sometimes that not enough" government needs to take a proactive stand. Created a false demand that production will pick- up. Franklin Roosevelt - will get the economy back on track. 1st 100 days he push through 37 bills that he introduced to Congress, limited to an active - federal government. Senate and House passed all of ... government. 1929 NAACP 1964 Civil Right Movement - World War II, Pearl Harbor Civil Right Movement - demand equality brought this change and the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education - 14...

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... , it helps prevent lawsuits as well as giving everyone an equal opportunity of freedom of religion. The Bill of Rights to the US Constitution gives public employees the right of freedom of expression of religion. Although private employees are not protected by the Constitution, there are state and federal laws that can. People should not be discriminated against because ... their sexual orientation or religion. While reading the article, "Religion in the workplace", I came across some very valid points on how companies can approach religion in the workplace. Some of these points include ...

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