... obscene, but also that the theatre had a right to show them so long as they did not allow minors inside, and that they had to state up-front the nature of the films. The patrons of the theatre had the right to watch the films under the first amendment, but the theatre was not protected to show them. The theatre appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, which upheld the decision that the distribution of pornographic material is not protected ... under the first amendment. The courts decision took the stance that the material covered by the first amendment is when the content of that...

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... bill has not yet been rejected because it protects marriage as a tradition, and is claimed to contribute to society's well-being. Tradition is the handing down of beliefs or customs from one generation to another. Using this definition, it is safe to say that two major traditions of marriage have thus far been broken. Premarital sex and divorce rates have both sky rocketed in ... the past fifty years, and no one is making a law against either one of those issues. Also, if politicians want to preserve the tradition and the meaning of marriage, they should take a look in ... private, iss...

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... to carry guns in the streets. A study of the murder rate in Washington D.C. showed that within three years of the passage of a law prohibiting the sale of handguns in the city the murder rate dropped by 25% (Kruschke 22). The state of South Carolina and the city of Boston experienced similar results when stricter gun control laws were recently enforced. In Boston the homicide rate dropped by 39% and in South Carolina the murder rate dropped by ... Act was passed during the wake of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy. It was huge reaction to a growing ...

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... helping America into getting its ultimate goal of being the greatest country in the world. This law was intended against those foreigners that are hostile to this country, and it allows the president to further the safety and protection of America. He also says that is absurd to believe that the Constitution is violated in any way by this law. For the Constitution only apply to Americans and ... to be Americans not "scheming foreigners." The Sedition Act on the other hand, allows punishment to any that print or speak any false, scandalous and malicious writing against any part of the gov...

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... would easy as cutting a hot knife through butter. The definition of Emmitt Smith would be one word, honor. Staying with honor in the sports industry, the other example would be six time basketball champion Michael Jordan. Almost everyone in the entire nation knows Jordan and his hall of fame ability to play the game of basketball. He, too, is a man of great honor to those all round him. Not only ... that come with being famous. Not only can honor be found in sports, but also it could be found in your very household. The definition of honor to me has a different meaning in family than an...

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... ? Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind. Faced with systemic oppression and violent retaliation, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for what he believed in, becoming iconic of the civil rights movement. Decades later, Rosa Park's legendary defiance occurs. Naturally, as a nation predicated upon the individual, we strive to foster the eponymous "American Dream". Nikola Tesla thrived in the United States, revolutionizing the science of electricity with the ... landmark creation of the AC current. These individuals sustain ... ...

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... ? Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind. Faced with systemic oppression and violent retaliation, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for what he believed in, becoming iconic of the civil rights movement. Decades later, Rosa Park's legendary defiance occurs. Naturally, as a nation predicated upon the individual, we strive to foster the eponymous "American Dream". Nikola Tesla thrived in the United States, revolutionizing the science of electricity with the ... landmark creation of the AC current. These individuals sustain ... ...

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... ? Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind. Faced with systemic oppression and violent retaliation, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for what he believed in, becoming iconic of the civil rights movement. Decades later, Rosa Park's legendary defiance occurs. Naturally, as a nation predicated upon the individual, we strive to foster the eponymous "American Dream". Nikola Tesla thrived in the United States, revolutionizing the science of electricity with the ... landmark creation of the AC current. These individuals sustain ... ...

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... ? Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind. Faced with systemic oppression and violent retaliation, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for what he believed in, becoming iconic of the civil rights movement. Decades later, Rosa Park's legendary defiance occurs. Naturally, as a nation predicated upon the individual, we strive to foster the eponymous "American Dream". Nikola Tesla thrived in the United States, revolutionizing the science of electricity with the ... landmark creation of the AC current. These individuals sustain ... ...

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... , 160). No matter what situations take place in the world that right should never be taken away. American tragedies involving guns such as Columbine, West Hollywood bank robbery, and The DC Sniper have never prompted a social outcry for gun control so, in light of new tragedies such as Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and the Aurora Movie Theatre shooting. Why such a cry for gun control now ... and not in the past? The birth of guns started in China, where gunpowder was first created. In ... the ninth century huo yao, charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur was blended into a powder by alchemist ... ...

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... , almost aggressively secular." (55). This is the great American paradox. The first amendment of the constitution states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Yet as George Bush pointed out "One ... the creation story of the bible. Chet Raymo explains the adherence to religion: "to laymen, science often seems to take away the mystery and makes them feel a l...

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... when it will have a negative effect on the government or on the majority of the citizens. If the people believed that the draft was truly as bad as Schenck warned them, then the government would have to deal with the backlash of the people. Furthermore, the Supreme Court stated that "the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic " (Schenck vs United States ... ). The Supreme Court's decisions are based on whether or ... ...

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... you can come to a good answer to a puzzling question. First, let's start with the constitution. In my opinion the Constitution is the basis of our laws and legislative system. However, there is an aspect that the Constitution was written by rich, European males. At this time in our history the original authors of the Constitution did not think that our American society would be as complex and as ... multicultural as it is. 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...

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... their bonuses and back pay. Jones states that "Every class of public creditors must know the inability of Congress to pay their demands, unless furnished with the means by several states."(Doc. C) The government was unable to make money because they could not tax the people. To say that the Articles of Confederation provided an effective government is absurd. The Government was highly decentralized, and sterile. It had no powers ... other than to declare war and delegate the number of troops, yet the government couldn't even enforce this. The main problem was that the Government lacked ...

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... or limb"). It protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense. This is the courts legal definition, but should double jeopardy actually be prohibited in the U.S, by the constitution? Families of murder victims have broadly welcomed plans to allow someone acquitted to be retried where there is compelling ... evidence of guilt brought to the table. This bill should be made retrospect! There ... ...

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Democracy by its very definition is a system of government in which ultimate political authority is vested in the people. The founding fathers although familiar with the idea and concept of a democracy bowed more towards a republican-aristocracy were reputation and education more often prevailed. Around a decade earlier Thomas Jefferson essay "The Declaration of Independence" proposed a government for the people by the people, and who held the power to keep or overthrow that government ... our future legislature would be comprised. They decided best for a bicameral congress were the legislat...

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... long as it doesn't offend anyone. However with this definition we also run into problems, because no matter what the issue someone will always be offended, so we are once again sent back to the drawing board. Now we are left with a definition as follows: Freedom is the right to do as one pleases with a minimal amount of disruption to other's values. As far as I am ... concerned no matter what the definition our first amendment rights are bound to be limited. I can not run into a crowded building ... and yell FIRE, and yet I am told that I have the right to freedom of speech. I also can...

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... layout the facts of the cases. II. Interpretivist. The first case is Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964). In the case, Nico Jacobellis, a manager at a movie theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was convicted on two counts of possessing and exhibiting a film that violated the Ohio state statute on obscenity. The Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed on the grounds that the obscenity statute was constitutional and that the evidence sustained the conviction. On appeal, the Supreme Court of the ... United States reversed, but the six Justices voting for reversal ... ...

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... no major bills passed or vetoed, showing the dominance of neither of the two. Van Buren was incapable of handling challenging situations. The Trail of Tears could have been prevented, or at the very least, *commuted?* Van Buren could have salvaged some public support from the Indians but he did absolutely nothing and was somewhat intentionally responsible for the death of ¼ of the Indian population. The greatest success of Van Buren's administration was his opposition ... did, a legislative branch that is too powerful will upset the balance between the three branches of government. The...

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... kind of leadership has Jean Chrétien shown over the past three years? What does Jean Chrétien stand for? He only knows that. His apparent agenda to stay in office until February has side tracked him from the real issues that need attending to such as relations with the United States. The sooner we can get Paul Martin into the Prime Minister's Office, the sooner ... we can start to hope for better relations with the United States. When Paul Celluci, the United States Ambassador to Canada publicly damns Canada to a Bay street crowd ... , you know relations are sliding fast. Mr. Celluci ...

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... , generations have ardently debated about which is the most adequate form of government. Nowadays, most countries believe in democracy as the type of government which enables the prosperous development of their nations. In its most basic definition, democracy is a government which derives its powers from the consent of the people. This concept goes back to the ancient Greeks, however, as time has passed and societies have evolved, democracy has adapted to ... the new circumstances imposed through time and new interests keeping its essence ... ...

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... his television. As shooting incidents rapidly increase in America, people dying from shooting is something that is really common in the US. Every year in the United States 100,000 people are shot and out of those 100,000 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 ... get firearms. For an example on December 14, 2012 in Colorado in Sandy Hook elementary school, a 20-year-old man broke into the school, killed 20 students and 6 adults before killing himself. Another example, on July 20, 20...

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Martin Zhao University of International Relations November 30, 2003 Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided A broad array of religious groups and conservative political activists has united behind the idea of a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. But the fledgling coalition is deeply divided about what, exactly, the amendment should say. At issue are not merely the fine details of legislative wording but the amendment's very ... fast timetable by historic standards. At least three versions of the amendment are circulating in Washington. The leading text, and the only one introduced in Co...

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... more so they all joined together in the walkouts that brought attention to the problems to local parents and leaders. The walkouts eventually gained national attention and began to attract many leaders in support of their beliefs such as Robert Kennedy who was a prominent leader of Civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr. The protests led to police intervention and then ... became violent when the students became victims of police brutality. The parents became involved as well as some of the faculty, especially a man named Sal Castro who eventually ... lost his teaching privileges...

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... more so they all joined together in the walkouts that brought attention to the problems to local parents and leaders. The walkouts eventually gained national attention and began to attract many leaders in support of their beliefs such as Robert Kennedy who was a prominent leader of Civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr. The protests led to police intervention and then ... became violent when the students became victims of police brutality. The parents became involved as well as some of the faculty, especially a man named Sal Castro who eventually ... lost his teaching privileges...

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