... was ratified on July 1st, 1971 (Mount, 2003). For years now, people have been coming up with valid reasons for this Amendment to be changed. One valid reason to change the voting age from eighteen to sixteen would be the financial responsibilities of young teenagers. In the US, you can get a job once ... were political science classes that would teach these teenagers about the different candidates and what their views are, I think more people would be intrigued to get out and vote. I also believe that the earlier you start a person with something, the easier it becomes for them over time...

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... ." Issue: The issue was whether or not "fighting words" could be expressed through actions, and if the St. Paul ordinance was specific enough. Perhaps the defendant could have been tried for trespassing, burning without a permit, or even vandalism. This might have made it easier to prosecute, but it did help to examine St. Paul's regulations. Significance: This case is significant because ... ...

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... in which our form of government was determined by fifty five men meeting in Philadelphia. So wisely did they deliberate that the constitution written there has served us remarkably well for two hundred years. This Helped us a lot because it is a story of the U.S Constitution since 1787. Bjournlund, Lydia. The Constitution and The Founding of America. San Diego: Lucent Books inc ... . 2000 This was an important source to our project because this gives us important dates in the history of the constitution and the founding of America. For example: April 1775- first shots of the American rev...

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... are just an exercise of our constitutional rights, but this attitude is a gross perversion of what our founding fathers intended The First Amendment stand for. Take for example a group of high school students in Florida known as the Killian 9. These students wrote, illustrated and published a pamphlet called "The First ... Amendment". In it they bashed the principal and the administration of their school for what they felt were unfair policies enforced at their school. On the cover there was a picture of the principal with an arrow through his head ... appalling. I was at an amusement p...

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... . Every year, literally hundreds of bills are proposed and sent off to a committee or subcommittee, never to be seen or heard from again. For example, you probably have little knowledge of House Concurrent Resolution 2 from the 107th congress. It was designed to "express the sense of the Congress ... had a voting representative in Congress. Despite this fact, The District is treated as a state, legislated as a state, and taxed as a state for all intents and purposes in more than 500 pieces of federal legislation, and its residents pay federal income taxes. In fact, Washington, DC ranks se...

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... could be stored, not medicine cabinets, drawers, or envelopes. A search is defined just that - a search of someone's person or property (and for this purpose) without consent. It is also accepted that police canines have been extensively trained in detecting narcotics in hidden and visible compartments and are ... Court of Appeals - (No. 92-4753 U.S. v. Joseph Noel Seals). An officer's right and duty to search should depend solely on probable cause. For an unknown reason the courts have shown that in some mystical way, a police narcotic dog can communicate to it's handler how much of so...

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... as tax reductions, government subsidies, discounts, and tax breaks. Being somewhat educated in the politics of business, I can understand the reasoning behind certain tax breaks for big businesses. It is true that sometimes we have to spend a little money to make a little money. I do not agree, however, with the ... overwhelmingly large amounts of funds going to these already wealthy businesses. If we were to take away aid, for only one year, we would save enough money to cover the national debt. When I think about the debt America owes, I start to feel disgusted ... do not like the ans...

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... But our government is not treating homosexuals as equals. Gays and lesbians are to be considered equal in all aspects of our lives, except for marriage. Only a male and female in America are allowed to marry in this culturally diverse nation of ours. Is it our government's ... eskimo.com explains, "this is not really a religious issue. Legal marriage is a matter of civil law, a contract that invokes legal obligations and benefits for a couple. Religious bodies provide ceremonial services, which do not carry the weight of law"(1 ). Religions can ban whatever it is they desire to ban ... t...

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... are out of control with guns and the government needs to make limits in the second Amendment. The constitution is the basic set of rules for all laws for the whole United States. (Katz 1974) Amendments are "add-ons" to the Constitution and are meant to make it more useable by the ... gun. Semi-automatic weapons are guns, which fire only one round per trigger pull. (Roleff 2000) Semi-automatic guns have been sold to the general public for decades. Hunters, target shooters, and collectors purchase semi-automatic guns. (McCuen 1991) People that have guns kill a lot of people in the United S...

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... under foreign rule. Now under governance by U.S. Congress, Guamanians were given the privilege of local government. Guam's local politics are predominantly controlled by ethnic-Chamorros. Unfortunately for them and the United States., the Guamanians were led to believe that racially based policies were acceptable. Arnold Leibowitz speaks of the Insular Cases when he writes: At ... "), it also places limitations and conditions upon the Federal Government which are unconstitutional. The agreement establishes a union between the U.S. and the NMI Commonwealth where no Constitutional authorit...

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... celebrate More's new position. The King and More have a private conversation in the yard. Quickly the conversation turns the matter of the King's desire for a divorce. The King knows that More does not approve him getting a divorce and at first he tells More that he is entitled to his opinion ... , with the people. There is a system of checks and balances that keeps any one piece of the government from attaining excessive amounts of power. For example if the President of the U.S. wants a bill to become law it has to first get approved by Congress before it becomes law. If the ... a clea...

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... 1865 with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, followed by the Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment states, "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with the United states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have no power to enforce ... within a year, with the court being sued in Brown v. Board of Education II. This case declared that local school authorities, subject to the supervision of U.S. district courts, ...

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... the desire and the will to succeed from his parents. Thurgood was the second son of William Canfield Marshall, and Norman Arica Marshall. William Marshall worked a variety of jobs including as a steward for the prestigious Gibson Island Club, on Chesapeake Bay located in Baltimore Maryland. William Marshall was the first black person to serve on Baltimore's Grand Jury. Norma Arica Marshall ... year, he met and eventually married his first wife Vivian Buster Burey. Vivan was a beautiful and energetic woman. Thurgood met Vivian on a weekend trip to the University of Pennsylvania. While att...

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... South and lived in rural areas wanted a strict interpretaion of the law. Washington, as president, thought that by being president you were above parties and that there was no need for them and they wouldn't last. Even though he was against them he tended to side with Hamilton more so then he did with Jefferson. Hamilton's four pillars were another factor ... the Republicans. When there was a tax that was put on whiskey the Republicans became furious. The tax hurt the farmers that lived in Western Pennsylvania because they would harvest the wheat and ship it to Eastern Pennsylvania to b...

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... experiment of flying a kite with a key attached in a storm. Franklin never actively sought public office, even though he was interested in public affairs. In 1736, he became clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly. The colonies" poor postal service disturbed him greatly. Hoping to improve these conditions, Franklin agreed to become Philadelphia's postmaster in 1737. In 1753, he became deputy postmaster general ... a result, the French and Indians ambushed the British. Meanwhile, Franklin raised volunteer colonial armies to defend frontier towns and supervised construction of a fort in Carbon...

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... Carta, Mayflower Compact, Petition of Right, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Massachusetts School Law, Bloody Tenet of Persecution, Rhode Island Colonial Charter, Habeas Corpus Act, English Bill of Rights, and the Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges. The Magna Charta, or the Magna Carta, is the document that King John of England was forced by the English barons to sign in 1215, guaranteeing certain ... of democracy. In the English Bill of Rights it is stated that the suspending of laws without the consent of Parliament is illegal. This also pertains to today's democracy. The Pennsylva...

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... father William Canfield Marshall was the first black person to serve on Baltimore's grand jury in the 20th century. Thurgood Marshall was a premed dental scholar at Lincoln University in Oxford Pennsylvania. As a junior, Thurgood met and eventually married his first wife Vivian Buster Burey, after graduation Thurgood went to the prominent Howard Law School in Washington D.C. Charles Huston, who ... the desire and the will to succeed from his parents. Thurgood was the second son of William Canfield Marshall, and Norman Arica Marshall. William Marshall worked a variety of jobs including as...

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... an issue that always comes up in almost every election year. When people vote for the president they actually are voting for the electors who in turn vote for the president. For example, let's say that Pennsylvania went to the Democratic Party; therefore all of Pennsylvania's electors will be expected to vote for the candidate in the Democratic Party. Rarely, I mean very rarely, does an elector vote ... for the other party but it could happen. The Electoral College limits democracy because people do ... than the African-Americans did. Women were not allowed to vote or own any property ...

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... ran away, first to New York City and then to Philadelphia. Within a dew years, he was writing and printing his own newspaper. The Pennsylvania Gazette became one of the most widely read newspaper in the colonies. Franklin also began to publish a kind of yearly calendar called Poor Richard ... first lending library and the first volunteer fire department in the United States. He helped raise money for a city hospital. He also helped begin a school that later became the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin was interested in solving everyday problems, too. He noticed that his fireplace did n...

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... defend themselves against the Nazis. Throughout history, genocides have been preceded by gun control. By abolishing more guns it may be pushing the United States to become a more dangerous Country (Pennsylvania Rifle and Pistol Association). Secondly, gun control is not the solution to prevent mass killing. The FBI estimates that there are more than 200 million guns in private hands in ... ways to get guns. First of all, criminals would not follow gun control laws. United States' citizens should not give up their rights if criminals would just ignore or search for other ways. If gun con...

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... would be treason and the end of the colonies. The southern states, in general, were against independence. And, in general, the northern states were for it. Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence and it was signed by every single delegate. But the process was not without disagreements. Many issues ... the King was a tyrant. Jefferson believed that the King was a tyrant for taking the rights that British citizens (the ones living in England) had away from those living in the colonies. On the flip side of the coin, Pennsylvania argued that the King could could not be a ty...

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... Deberdt Reed she was the wife of the president of Pennsylvania. She was the head leader of the Ladies Association and the mobilization of material support for the American army. She was known as the patriot to making shirts for the army men. Although neither the American nor the ... prohibits job discrimination on the basis of a person's sex. Under this act, businesses cannot fire a woman for pregnancy if pregnancy does not affect her job performance, reserve specific jobs for only men or only women, or refuse to hire married women. Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to ... ...

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... his training as a printer and to purchase the equipment needed to start his own printing company in Philadelphia. Things did not go well for Benjamin, things that were promised to him did not happen. So once again, young Franklin found himself once again without means in a ... He gained a wide audience, and exerted a perasive influence upon the American character. Benjamin Franklin head was filled with wonderful ideas, like nethods for the improvement of street paving and lighting. He devised means to correct the excessive smoking of chimneys and invented, around 1744, the Franklin stove ...

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... two pairs of spectacles cut in half and put half of each lens in a single frame. Today, they are called bifocals. Ben was a postmaster he had to figure out routes for delivering the mail. He went out riding in his carriage to measure the routes and needed a way to keep track of the distance. He invented a simple odometer and attached it ... to work in any print shop. In 1728, at the age of twenty-two, Ben opened his own printing office in Philadelphia. His most famous publications were a newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette and his annual Poor Richard's Almanac. He used cartoons an...

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... , marriage, procuration, and the use of contraception. Balancing a woman's right to privacy with the state's interest in protecting potential life, the Supreme Court established a trimester framework for evaluating restrictions on abortions. The court required the state to justify any interference with the abortion decision by showing that it had a "compelling interest" in doing so and that restrictions ... Reagan administration. Clinton's new administration pledged that it would follow a pro-choice policy. He stated his intentions were to promote policies that kept abortion safe while d...

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