... ,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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... that 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 yea...

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Ratifying the Constitution In 1787 one of the greatest documents ever, was written; the Constitution of the United States of America. Some two hundred years later, there have only been 27 amendments to the original document. For decades, people have always thought the Constitution has always been honored and revered, but this is not the case. Before the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation ruled the colonies, but quickly abolished because they were too ... , the Constitution is the "law of the land." This supremacy clause states that the Constitution is the highest law- nothing can ever...

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... 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 hundred and ninety billion dollars a year on investigating drug related crimes, ... or imprisonment. That adds up to be a staggering cost of two hundred billion dollars ($770.00 per person) to attempt to prevent one hundred billion dolla...

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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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... 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 and office space, and with such programs ... arising daily, this translates into rapid governmental expansion (Ripley 26). Due to the fact that programs, whose numbers have grown signifi...

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... 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 ... our communities. Burger declares that, "The same First Congress that approved the right to keep and bear arms also limited the national army to 840 men". When there is a limited amount of protection for your citizens, you must leave...

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... with that new legal relationship; it offers many benefits of marriage, such as medical coverage, inheritance, and property rights. California will have a domestic-partnership registry next year offering some of the same rights of marriage. A few other states have recognized limited benefits for gay couples but not many. Still yet, gay activists argue that even Vermont's civil unions are unequal. Those ... couples receive only state protections, but not the more than 1,000 other rights of marriage under federal law, such as joint federal income tax benefits and federal family leave. Acti...

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... 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 ... , thus cancelling Marbury's commission. As a result, this led Marbury to seek legal justice in the Supreme Court. Not aware of the outcome, Marbury had his day in court that will prove to be u...

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... normally would 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 ... Act these actions are completely legal. Again, while it can be argued that the Patriot Act contains the necessary provisions for combating terrorism, many h...

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... supremacy. That is, the constitution is the highest law in the country. Any laws passed anywhere in the country must agree with what is written the constitution. [82-83] The constitution provides for the United States to have a federal system of government. In this plan, lawmaking powers are divided between two levels of government - the state government and the federal government. The duties of government are ... then shared between these two levels. The powers that belong solely to the federal government are listed in the constitution. These powers are called the delegated, or express...

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... ablity to silence a majority? Many people who ask these questions do not have the basis understanding of the constitution (and specifically the bill of rights) and it's purpose. In no way is the constitution designed to protect the rights of the majority. It put in place to protect people in the minority. And thusly the only way that these minority rights can be protected is to have those ... who are in place to protect these rights immune to majority will. Although this sounds like a very Hobbesian authoritarian view of American government, the court must work and act in this manner to...

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... and decided to govern themselves, there were debates and conversations on how this country should be lead. Many people, Anti-federalists, were for the Articles of Confederation, which decentralized the government and put most of the power in the hands of the states. Others, federalist, were in favor of a Constitution, which would create a centralized government in which a federal government had supremacy over individual state ... governments. For years, these two groups have debated over the two systems, but for the most part, the Anti-federalists almost always won. That is, until Shay'...

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... terrorists. Many Democratic-Republicans believed that it was against the Constitution. Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State 1778, believed differently. The Alien Act stated that foreigners that seemed dangerous to the country can be removed on the order of the president. Pickering had reasons for defending the Alien Act and concerns about it. It was the same way for the Sedition Act as well, which stated that people would ... not be allowed to falsely accuse the government in any way be mouth or writing. Pickering justified the Alien act a few ways. He stated that the Alien Law was not...

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... , shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, 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, and being free means having personal privacy. How free would you feel if ... to you? Not free at all. Since there should be some reasonable grou...

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... a compromise between those who thought that democratic representation should be based on population (the House) and those who thought that the states should be represented equally (the Senate). The founding fathers thought that having two houses would limit the number of irrational proposals passed through Congress. The House: Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected every two years and represent a judicious group of ... with individual interests, expectations, and abilities. Although these rules can be--and often are--waived, the strong presence of rules means that repre...

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... ? These two amendments are used over a million times a day, and they affect every person in the United States weather they realize it or not. In 1954 the Supreme Court overruled the segregation of students in schools because it deprived them of "the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment." (Document 1) Segregation was abolished and will never be back in public schools because of ... in today's society are accustomed to going to school and sitting next to another student of a different color. If it weren't for the Fourteenth Amendment and the ruling of Brown v...

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... imposed through time and new interests keeping its essence intact. As Abraham Lincoln affirmed "Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people". This observation poses several questions: Who is the people that should govern? Who decides what the best interest of the people is? Should it be a majority? Or should minorities be protected from majority factions? These ... questions give rise to a debate around two different models of democracy: the majoritarian and the pluralist. Under a democracy, governments have to make decisions based on people's needs. These c...

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... their sentiments was a way of urging the government to implement the Declaration of Independence without gender discrimination. The authors of the Declaration of Sentiments argue against the economic privileges enjoyed by men. Women providing labor in the industries are paid through their husbands, and they do not have the right to own property. In addition, the wages for men are higher than ... with impunity provided their husbands were presents. Men also had control of divorce proceedings since they drafted the laws that determined the guardianship of children and ownership of property...

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... his veto message of July 10, 1832. Jacksonian democrats protected the political prosperity and equality of the United States through their persistence to guard the constitutional rights of the country and ensure the conservation of the constitution. The Jacksonian Democrats failed to uphold the individual liberty of each individual in the United States, the only fault in their view of themselves. Jackson elaborated that all ... Jackson would do anything to uphold his beliefs on social issues even if it meant he would be going against the constitution. Jacksonian Democrats did not only al...

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... charges a tax on income and gains, it would be easy to make a case for the fact that the government owns the land. That claim could be further bolstered by the legal rights given by imminent domain. If the government needs your land for the sake of the public good, they have the imminent right to take it, though in most cases they must also compensate you for ... or better. That means, in essence that the rights of the United States government trump the rights of foreign investors wherein land and buildings are concerned. Furthermore, as the grantor of public license, the government also...

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... still feeling a thick afterglow of 9/11 shock, I felt OK giving up some civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. I made the comparison of the civil liberties we could potentially lose, to the loss the victims of 9/11 felt. Put that way, and who could not support the Patriot Act? The Act would synchronize our federal government to unprecedented levels. A big complaint into why we missed 9/11 ... , was the ineptitude and bureaucracy of the federal government. The different federal agencies were so big and inefficient, that they could not coordinate with each other, and the Patriot Act was the a...

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... to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. This is particularily interesting to gun owners who do not want to see their rights taken away because the government cannot regulate the criminals that get their hands on guns. Three million lives are saved each year because of handguns whereas less than and eight of that number are lost because of handguns ... . The Democratic party is pushing for gun control and unless Ten million gun owner instantly turn up dead I do not see this in our future. This would be against our right ... to bear arms and unconstitutional to the ten million hones...

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