... by lot, and by direct popular election." In the end, during the Constitutional Convention, the Committee of Eleven proposed a College of Electors in which an indirect election would take place. This basic system was accepted and drafted into the Constitution with few changes (The Electoral College). The Electoral College reflects several compromises made by the members of the Constitutional ... no incentive in the States to encourage voter participation so as to enable a minority of citizens to decide the electoral vote for the whole state." This argument does not take into consideration...

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... United States Congress recently reviewed two major pieces of legislation that, if passed, will have monumental effects on the information highway. The bills are Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). If these bills pass, The United States will emulate the likes of China and Iran ... these bills is drastic. It goes beyond blacking out or blurring content. These bills would remove an entire website. A prime example of this action can be found at www.megaupload.com. Megaupload was a massive content sharing site, much like YouTube. The website contained some copyrighted...

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... cause , supported by oath or affirmation , and particularly describing the place to be searched , the persons and things to be seized. ( US Constitution online) Opponents say that searches are unconstitutional, they think that if the FBI are searching around in their records that it breaks the unreasonable search and seizures ... access to personal records and other belongings .Because of that the ACLU is know filing a lawsuit against Attorney General Ashcroft over Section 215. (Goldstein online) The Department of Justice says that section 215 does not break the 4th Amendment because the...

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... it in the Constitution" (Dumbauld 117). These are rights that we as Americans are born with. They are also rights that no one can take away from us. Some of these rights support democracy, such as freedom of speech and of press. Others, such as the right to ... fourth amendment stands for protecting your house from police searches without proper documentation. It is the same for when a police officer pulls you over: you must give permission for the law enforcer to search your car and personal belongings. Many people get themselves into trouble by giving the police ... . Sometimes the po...

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... cyber stalking is almost always characterized by the stalker relentlessly pursuing hisher victim online and is much more likely to include some form of offline attack. This offline aspect makes it a more serious situation as it can easily lead to dangerous physical contact, if the victim's location is known.2 ... right is to protect the ability of individuals. Every user of the internet needs to be able to determine what sort of information about them has been used. To uphold the right to one's personality, legal remedies have to be developed to enforce definite boundaries between ......

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... would leave all they know just to come to a place they have never seen or heard of. Of going a direction to a place they know nothing about. Leaving family, friends, church, and jobs to go to an unknown place because they suffered that much. Because of this appreciation for them fighting for ... to retain that freedom. The purpose of the Constitution is to regulate modern laws in every state. To make sure that laws do not take away from peoples rights. The Constitution still to this day carries great significance because it is our basis as citizens, law enforcers and ... . . to be exerc...

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... school, good bye homework. This trip represented getting to hang-out with friends, to eat all the junk food in the world, and to just have fun. The girl had no idea that once in Philadelphia she would enter into a world entirely different, that of post-revolutionary war America. She walked the cobbled ... astonishment, and got to run up the Philadelphia Museum of Arts stairs like Rocky (yes, this had nothing to do with Revolutionary America, it was just fun). She saw the giant crack running up the Bell of Liberty and, the best yet, she got to see the Constitution of the United States of ...

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... circumvented." (AZR) The fact is, the Internet would be nearly impossible to censor. There is no central location where a switch can be flipped to reduce the amount of illegal or immoral activity online today. You could turn it off completely, but not censor it. The Internet has undergone many changes over the years, and grown immensely. This is a direct result of the pornography ... be prosecuted for the services they provide. The fact is, censorship cannot take place without extreme measures. Measures that would surely violate our rights as Americans. It's time to look for censorship ...

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... color, or previous condition of servitude"(Constitutional Amendments). The Constitution is always open for self-interpretation, therefore I will tell you what I see in these amendments. The first amendment states that each U.S. citizen is protected from cruel and unusual punishment. When you look back, slavery was a form of punishment in itself. Slaves were whipped, lynched, beat, and forced to endure ... we are no longer in the dark ages of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement where lunch counters, schools, restaurants, water fountains, and bus seating were segregated by race. But, I can't s...

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... , governmental organizations such as the Parent's Music Resource Center (PMRC) are trying to censor, and outlaw the music of today. What is music censorship you ask? Music censorship is any discriminatory act that advocates or allows the suppression; control or banning of music or music related works against the wishes of ... that an eleven-year-old should hear and understand the lyrics of Alanis Morisette when she sings, "is she perverted like me, will she go down on you in a theater?" (U.S. Government 7). Absolutely not, but it is not the government's place to say that this album shoul...

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... eye. These five articles all come from different sources and all show how woman's right for equality was a long and hard struggle and how other felt about woman working in a mans world. In article two they state how woman took over jobs in real estate, copywriters, they filled executive offices. They ... in Illinois that where working in factories where being paid less then men. In 1928 woman where earning approximately eighteen dollars a week while men where earning about thirty-two dollars a week. Even though woman would always be put down they knew how to defend themselves. Woman wen...

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... the parts we received. I was able to go to all the practices and tell the actors and actresses what to do to improve their performances. Being a student director was really fun, and it did not require memorizing lines. I was glad we had agreed on a compromise because it definitely worked out for the best. In history, there have been many compromises. A particularly ... important one was called "The Great Compromise, " which occurred at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 when the Constitution was being written. There was a dispute about how the people would be represented in the legis...

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... the other hand have defended the exclusionary rule because the rule can operate to deter police misconduct (page 2)."" So what "liberals- are trying to say is that in reality we shouldn't worry as much about our crimes, offenders, and victims as we should about our police. The problem with the exclusionary rule is not that ... protects all of us from police departments across the United States, we need rules and laws, it's the fact that the rule opens up a discussion about our police departments and their modes and means of solving cases that we, as people, demand to be solved. What kind...

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... Act distort citizen's rights under the First Amendment? The Patriot Act violates the First Amendment freedom of speech clause. Under the Patriot Act, if a government agency wants to conduct an online investigation on a citizen without probable cause, they deliver "national security letters (NSLs) " to internet service providers (ISPs) and retrieve communication history of the individual. This specifically alone ... Patriot Act, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, the government can issue NLTs to any public entity in order to gather private information about an individual. Thi...

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... the police, and if an Afro American had to go to court they will always lose. So one day a week, William Marshall would take Thurgood down to the local courthouses, to let Thurgood see how the Judicial System is run. In The fall of 1925, Thurgood Marshall ... always drilling and testing him on every aspect of the United States Constitution. Huston on countless occasions will tell Thurgood, "that you can't just understand The United States Constitution you must know how to use it and when to use it". Thurgood became so intrigue with Huston, that he started to ... in Thurgood's life occur...

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... to keep up with the American government standings even more than he did with the Canadian government. The first question I asked Ratajzack was "Do you think America is the most powerful country in the world, why/why not?." Ratajzack immediately replied "Yes, most definitely I do. There is not ... only problem was that many of them had different answers to the question I was asking. With the online databases, I decided to look at the view points of different countries, and how they felt about American and how it uses it's power. Allen Fotheringham gives a good example by saying "Americans...

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... in several cites, including San Francisco. Friends said that Bruce would be greatly pleased if he could see how people are still talking about him so far after his death. He died two years after he was arrested on the charges of his public expression of his opinions ... pardon should be seen as a reminder that even the most outrageous and offensive opinions are protected by the US Constitution. Many celebrities have received pardons about expressing their offensive opinions, whether publicly expressed or a sole opinion. During Bruce's final years, he was less popular and he was remembere...

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... in several cites, including San Francisco. Friends said that Bruce would be greatly pleased if he could see how people are still talking about him so far after his death. He died two years after he was arrested on the charges of his public expression of his opinions ... pardon should be seen as a reminder that even the most outrageous and offensive opinions are protected by the US Constitution. Many celebrities have received pardons about expressing their offensive opinions, whether publicly expressed or a sole opinion. During Bruce's final years, he was less popular and he was remembere...

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... crackdown on labor unions and the breaking of strikes (ending them) unlawfully, and many other civil rights violations were very common during this period. Rights and freedoms that we often take for granted and had been back then also, were cast aside. The guaranties of the U.S. Constitution and rule of law" which has always guided the U.S. and insured our free society ... ...

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... in 1786 (Doc 5), John Jay expressed his fear in attempt to convince Washington that change was needed within the government to prevent an uprising. Jay's predictions of an attempt to take over the government were proven true when Daniel Shays led a rebellion in Massachusetts. Although it was put down, it forced the government to reflect upon the "A.o.C " and their lack of ... (Doc 3). Jay's point of view was that he understood US's need for allies because he knew the little respect that they got. He would rather be allied with Spain than take advantage of profitable trade along the Miss...

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... followed, I will also further give insight into three Amendments that I found interesting. Analysis By definition a Constitution is a "document that contains fundamental principles of a government " (Ashcroft., 2014. p.4). This is exactly what you would expect to see of Constitution of the United States. Throughout the years Congress has continued to add Amendments creating "the supreme law of the land " (Ashcroft. 2014, p.4). While it ... was thought to be "safer. " From a different point of view, some people rely on guns to provide food to them. So by stripping them of right to bear Ar...

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... . In order to get the warrant, he or she must have the "probable cause". The National Security Agency's surveillance of millions of Americans' telephone calls has caused a debate about the constitutionality of their actions. The NSA collected different types of information. The first is "a record of most calls made in the U.S." (Stray par.2). AT&T and Sprint confirmed ... and 19,000 users" was given to the NSA and FBI in 2012 (Stray part.3). The third is "the raw Internet traffic" (Stray par.4). The NSA's experts can see internet activities such as searching information, files sent, onli...

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... Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed" (Constitution, 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 ... man has abused his right to bear arms. Even though that right is and will always be abused it doesn't give one individual or a group of individuals the right to take away a constitutional right. Given the circumstances of ...

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... ) still believe in a strong central government. Even though there are some fundamental differences, the two parties are similar when it comes to important decisions. Alexander Hamilton's fiscal plan was to take on states debt in their entirety. This was to create national unity. It was Hamilton's belief the more people who had stock in the welfare of the country, the more ... used loose interpretation, and those against it used strict interpretation. Although the Hamilton-Jefferson feud would - on the surface - appear to be an unnecessary burden on a young nation. If you dig deeper you b...

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... split into two parts by a war in which villages were burned and civilians were killed by both sides. These are the factors of American history that no one wants to take responsibility for. America just gives land, or casinos, or freedom and gets away free of charge. In this aspect, America is sort of like a gangster that bribes the witnesses of ... day after day, and that bombs are misaimed and innocents are killed far too often. American culture has warped the purpose of fighting from defending one's country to getting whatever you want. America was a nation founded by great men, and o...

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