The Fourteenth Amendment states, "The Statecannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within itsjurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ... JosephDavis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that Florida's strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in theU.S. ... The Oregon Death with Dignity Act allows terminally ill adults who are mentally competentto ask for a prescription for medication "for the purpose of ending his or her life in a humane and dignified manner"(http://www.rights.org/deathnet/open.html)...

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The 1994 Crime Act included the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act which stated that a person who committed a crime based on hate would be punished more severe than someone who committed a similar crime not based on hate (NCJRS, Hate Crime Resources - Legislation). ... They get very harsh penalties and go to prison for a long time for something that was not really a serious act, but an act of ignorance. ... By creating the hate crime laws the government is giving victims of hate crime more value and more protection than victims of "ordinary" crimes, while every citizen should have the same...

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Gun restriction has been aided by Brady Handgun Prevention Act, which requires a waiting period of 5 days for a handgun. ... The proposition is known as the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act. ... If the government passes the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, gun owners of certain firearms must have their guns checked before a certain date (online). ...

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The movement of gun control exploits every celebrated act violence and offsetting the hundreds of thousands of cases in which gun! ... Therefore, when a person is going to commit an unlawful act on someone they might hesitate because they have no way of telling if the other person is carrying a weapon or not. ... People learn responsibility when they are young children and what they learn reflects what they do and how they act later on in life. ... Children would also have a better mean of recreation, for example hunting, and for a means of protection from criminal acts. ... Now there are 31 ...

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(L) Other bills were passed such like the Freedmen's Bureau act.... This act obligated the south to start over again and to began to reform. ... (T517) The black people did not get any protection from the government in till the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited racism in public places....

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On August 5, 1993, The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed in order to end conflicts between employees and their employers. ... The main problem with these policies is that they are too broad to provide any protection. ...

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Some of the individual rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, including those affecting criminal defendants in the criminal justice courts, are protection from abuse of power. ... Both of these protections and citizens" individual rights, as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and other amendments, are being threatened each day, not only in the name of public order, but by the government's desire to control individuals" lives (Criminal Justice). ... Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. ...

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In 1986 the government passed a law called the federal computer fraud and abuse act which meant a felony got put you behind bars for five years (Slatalla). The first to be sentenced under the act was Robert Morris, which crashed 6,000 net linked computers as a result of a worm. ... If passed the act will make small crimes punishable by a penalty of life in prison. ... With this act the trial will be unfair as a hacker is automatically seen as a terrorist. ... Sure creating a team of workers to hunt for terrorist activity could be productive, but it still pushes aside privacy acts and protectio...

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There will always be a person who misuse handguns; but is taking away our protection the answer? ... In 1995 the "Brady Act" passed. ... A provision in the act banned all over ten shot magazines. ... Utilitarianism by definition says that, " an act is right (moral) if it is useful in bringing about a desirable or good end." Or everyone should perform that act or follow that moral rule or law that will bring about the greatest good. ...

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Ever since humanity began, people of all backgrounds have had to deal with how economic wealth should be shared. America could be used an example of this, even more specific, the era of 1870 to 1920. At this time in American history, mass production evolved, and people flocked to large cities such a...

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Mangrove trees and sea grasses which normally act as filters for residue are also being destroyed. ... This method is illegal and is mostly preformed in the poorer countries that cannot afford protection for the reefs. ... A task force for protection of reefs and marine fish has recommended increasing the number of Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors at ports and testing fish for cyanide (Mineta 3), this would ensure that no fish or corals are gettin! ...

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In 1965 the Immigration and Naturalization Act brought a huge up roar of new settlers because it repealed an earlier piece of legislation that determined a quota system based on national origin. The 1965 act established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.1 The president at the time, Lyndon B. ... The next vital piece of legislation that involves immigrants coming into America was the Refugee Act of 1980. ... This act is almost assured to plunder. ... The Homeland Security Act of 2002 disbanded INS on March 1, 2003. ...

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Numerous young Americans feel that it is nearly unconstitutional for the government to have control of our self-protection. ... The grand authors could never have imagined that weapons would one day exist such as the ones that were banned in the 1994 Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. ...

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I know what they mean about the whole T.V. programs because every time I watch a movie or T.V. there is always some kind of sexual act going on. ... But then again if they do decide to make the choice to have sex they should be responsible enough to use protection like condoms or some type of birth control to prevent things from happening. ...

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The only business the government has in people's lives is the protection of a person's basic rights. ... In no way should the government have the power to commence an intrusion into ones privacy or act in aggression against ones will, providing that he is doing no harm to another. ...

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Freedom in the United States is having personal liberty to pursue intellectual, emotional, and spiritual goals under the protection provided by the government. ... He believed that if one person acted as sovereign or lawgiver, then that lawgiver had the responsibility of acting in accord with the will of the people. ...

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In 1996, the government passed the "Defense of Marriage Act" it cataloged more than 1049 ways in which married people are considered special status under law. Add the state level protections and intangible and tangible that marriage brings to private life. ...

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Most of them keep guns for protection. ... Arming himself with his father's shotgun he investigated and caught a burglar in the act. ... Guns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rape and other violent crime. ...

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