Why I Am Glad I Live In the United 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 ... soars over all other places. That American flag re...

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... quickly enacted, without any congressional debate, let alone complete analysis by congress? Why were congressmen who questioned the Patriot Act, labeled and deemed anti-American by the Bush Administration, as many Congressmen have come forwarded to say? I would like to know the answers to these questions and many more, including why the Patriot Act is being utilized not only in terrorist prosecutions, but into everyday American ... courts against everyday Americans across the country. The first Patriot Act, ironically, becomes effectively illegal after its fifth year in existence, for i...

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... Living is being able to do things. Living is being able to communicate. Living is being able to speak for one's self. Why should we allow the law to determine someone's future? The law says it's a crime for a doctor to kill someone. What's more of a crime? How about allowing people to suffer, ... to Oregon law, "Doctors may provide but not administer a lethal prescription to terminally ill adult state residents. It requires that two doctors agree that the patient has less than six-months to live, has voluntarily chosen to die, and is able to make health-care decisions." (ABCNews.com "T...

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... his column on gun control, Whitlock talked about Jovan Belcher's final act – he wonder why Jovan belcher apologized to his coaches before killing himself. Moreover, Whitlock talks about how guns can cause violence. He also discussed the second amendment as rationalization and how the society entertain violence by allowing people to kill each other. It's ironically because Whitlock compare gun violence ... to football, many worship football, a game where men battle each over a little piece of ball. Whitlock eventually ends his article by analyzing the reasons why Belcher did what he di...

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... very little power. All the powers were delegated to the States. This made the United States very weak to internal conflicts and external affairs. Thus when Shays Rebellion sprang up the federal government could not draw an army and could not protect its citizens. This one event showed how frail the articles were and how powerless the federal government was. This is why the United States needed a ... much stronger federal government. Madison was telling people why they needed to agree to a stronger government. He argued that there were only two ways of suppressing a faction. You ... coul...

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... , but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized (U.S. Constitution: Fourth Amendment). Some people always ask why should we care about searches? After all, if you have nothing to hide why should you care, right? Wrong. The reason is that most people like to have some measure of freedom ... school, and no reasons were told to you? Not free at all. Since there should be some reasonable grounds to perform searches for teachers, how is "reasonable" defined? From the content of the Fourth...

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... school without any due process at all. Students were not told why they were being suspended and they were not given a chance to speak out. When D. Lopez decided to take the schools decision to the Supreme Court, "the Court said that oral or written notice of the charges brought against a student must be given to the student who is being suspended for more than a trivial period ... ." (Document 5) This is why if a student in today's public school is suspended, he/she is given a written ... notice and an oral conference is held between the student and a school official. This ruling of Gos...

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... some form of troops might have been needed in Lebanon, but why does America feel like we have the responsibility to send our troops. The U.S. as well as Lebanon are apart of the United Nations, so why is there American troops in Lebanon and not U.N. soldiers. The reason the U.N. was started was to have an ordered body of countries to take care of military problems that would ... other countries, but when the only motivation is to further the American cause, that is not right. Second the United States does not want to see the country Iraq bullied by neighboring country Iran; it is clear ...

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... went effective on November 25, 2002. Both USA PATRIOT Act and the Homeland security act were direct responses to the atrocities that happened that dreadful day on September 11, 2001. In policy analysis it's wise to understand the reason why a policy is constructed. When dissecting a policies purpose it's prudent to understand the actors in a policy; and who's benefiting fiscally or not from ... a newly formed policy. In the USA PATRIOT Act, the military industrial complex benefits fiscally from the act, for providing the U.S. government with the tools to fight terrorism. However we tend ...

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... on June 21, 1788. This document is the supreme law of the U.S. At first it had 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 ... are present in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The government can stop people from associating in groups that do and promote illegal activities. The right to pe...

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... feed themselves and their families. Overall, without this right, we loose that what make America significant. I see that this Amendment will continue to remain a controversial issue far into the future, but we cannot forget there was a reason why this Amendment is in the Bill of Rights. Those individuals sitting in those seats in Congress voting to approve this understood that this Amendment provides ... pay, and this was at Basic Military Training. Then after I first got hired on as a civilian for the government we got furloughed, quickly followed by a government shutdown. The biggest ...

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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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... to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of ... the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other ... of...

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... to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of ... the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other ... of...

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... to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of ... the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other ... of...

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... the ability of the Court to have an agenda (or an ideology) has been the basis of discussion since Marbury v. Madison. In a democratic state figures of power who have no constituant responsiblity have always been questioned on their legitimacy. Many people find it hard to understand why nine men and women can remove the ... wants and wishes, that are enacted into law, of a majority of the ... country's populace. So the question still remains, where is the Court's legitimacy in their ablity to silence ... protect these rights immune to majority will. Although this sounds like a very Hob...

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... a way they only made this at first to make the US believe that they were actually trying to progress and better the country considering the time frame this was all happening. And I don't think that they actually really cared about the blacks at this time and so that is why they didn't enforce the issue. They had the power and a way to make this amendment stick but ... they were too scared to push the issue because they didn't want to loose ... control of there country. In years after the passing of the 15th amendment though it gave the nation a great chance to grow ... ...

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... in newspapers or pamphlets (78). This is why they guaranteed the right to freedom of press. Also, under British rule the people were forced to practice the country's official religion and if they practiced another they would be persecuted and could be jailed (72). The freedom of assembly is important because it ensured citizen's the right to meet wherever they want, whenever ... of habeas corpus was protected. Moreover, Article 3, Section 1 protected the right of trial by jury in criminal cases. Since the Constitution already protected these rights, why shouldn't it protect other fundame...

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... is growing every year. In order for these types of events not to occur legislators and other professionals are emphasizing precautionary actions of the gun owners and most of the time a ban on guns isn't mentioned. "Why I should be denied the same right my father and grandfather had?" (Skelton). Because times have changed, guns are not solely created and used for hunting anymore, and ... were to act totally responsibly this dilemma wouldn't exist. The fact of the matter is that a lot of killings occur when a person's judgment is clouded by means of drugs or emotions. In these conditions...

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... . Consequently, I think the flag does follow the Constitution in that aspect. The reason for this conclusion is that the flag represents the American Revolution Era, to me, because the red represents blood meaning lives lost, the white represents freedom, and the original stars represented the colonies that was established. Therefore the flag does follow the Constitution in the aspect representing one race. I think the flag should follow the Constitution. For the simple reason the constitution is ... what makes America-America. The Constitution makes us, and the flag represents us. Howev...

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... be speaking British, that's where America would be. That is why the King didn't allow his citizens to bear arms. "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which American's possess over the people of almost every other nation...where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." James Madison. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights, they were given wisdom by God. To establish ... it is their right and job to interpret the past was for present day times. The reason why the Second Amendment was written was for the protection and individual ownership ...

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... or go to jail for just saying something that maybe they did not even mean. Is this really freedom of speech? No! it is not. This is why today in our world the Bill of Rights is not being followed the way that it should be. The first amendment says that we should be able to have freedom of speech, religion and freedom of ... them do. For example, there are religions that say that you can marry as many women as you want, other religions let you sacrifice animals these things are against the law. This is why it is not a full freedom of religion. It is a freedom that is allowed as long as i...

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There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to ceded from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined ... of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad....

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There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to ceded from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined ... of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad....

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... as Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, were for the Constitution. Unlike the Anti-federalists, the Federalists were much more organized. They had prepared debates, persuasive speeches, and pamphlets. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote a collection of 85 essays called, "The Federalists," explaining what the Constitution was, and why it was needed. This helped the ratification of the Constitution. "The Federalists," is still used today, to help interpret ... the American Constitution. As the ratification process unfolded throughout the United States, debates got he...

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