... not seem right. King and Thoreau went through it and changed the world. King quotes, "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the law." He is accepting going to jail and with ... the community knowing injustice, they should pressure the government. Thoreau quotes, "I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and ... whether a person could mak...

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... being able to deny highway funds to states that had a drinking age of 21. The is taking away the right for state governments to rule the way they see fit, meaning that everyone must fit under the umbrella of our government. It is there way or the highway. Congress took money from the states that wouldn't change their drinking age really giving no choice but for a state ... not admit members due to race, sex, or gender. A private club cannot pick who it wants to enter, that defeats the purpose of private. This case of New York State Club Association v. City of New York was upheld in the ...

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... on legal usage of alcohol and illegal usage of drugs. What he's trying to say is if we make all the illegal drugs legal and just put some restriction just like we have on our alcohol usage maybe that would lower the percentage of using illegal drugs such as marijana, coke etc. and if drugs ever are legalized they will be dispensed ... is legal, and that coke addicts will number somewhere between 8.5 million (if regular usage doubles and 70 percent become addicted) and 42 million.). The number of people abusing legalized drugs will come close to those hooked on alcohol. A pessimist would...

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... father is a WWII veteran. A thought passed through my mind today. According to my father to be drafted into the war you would have to be 18 years of age. It boggles my mind to think of all the young men who fought for this country some died. Well it comes to my mind if one has a civic duty ... be 21. I feel that I am speaking for a lot of kids my age. Adults may not be aware of this but us young adults cares alo6 and has the sufficient amount of knowledge to be able to vote for both federal and state elections. My brother is two years younger than I am and when he turns 18 he ... me. I w...

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... in history. If it wasn't for those six women then today would be a very different place then it is right now. If you were a woman back at the turn of the century you wouldn't have the right to vote or do near as many things as you could do today. As you probably know woman used to classify as not being real people ... were not "persons" and therefore could not hold public office. That all changed when these six incredible woman took action. They started a petition to the supreme court of Canada. Trying to achieve woman being called "persons" the law stated that woman were not qualified ...

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... heart desires. Money comes easy and frequently, but it's all about how you think. Everybody lie is meant to be abundance. Example whenever you say "I am broke. I don't have money"," the law of attraction attracts that negativity of you having no money at all. Actually we are creators of our own universe. Focus and focus on appreciating your loved one or ... any other person you appreciate, not the negativity. But we can't control other people's happiness but ours we can. Like I said only one person can control your law of attraction and that's you. Yea, it's not our ... job to change t...

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... of killing someone who is very ill and will never get better in order to end their suffering, usually done at their request or with their consent. At first, the world "euthanasia" was used when referring to animals, but eventually became associated with humans. Terminally-ill patients want to control their dying process and some choose to die with euthanasia. ... Sometimes they want others to assist them. This is called assisted suicide, and it relieves the pain of patients who face inevitable death. It allows people to die with dignity. Assisted suicide should be legalized. Legalizatio...

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... to whom we entrusted to bring about peace in our everyday lives. But who's to say that those people are to be trusted in formulating The Law, no one can say. How are we to know that those people are capable of producing a set of laws that we can morally ... obey and feel comfortable doing so. Laws have been fought against since the beginning of time, for example: as abolitionists aided runaway slaves before the American Civil War. Slavery was very much accepted back in those days, but if you aided a runaway slave then you were ... . This has been a big controversy till today, some state...

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... much harder than it sounds. Back then, I only made ninety cents per hour, plus ten cents for every basket I picked. I didn't mind having to work so hard every day, if the living conditions had only been a little better. I had to pay $2.00 per day just to live in a tiny little shack with no electricity or water, and since money was so ... that at least this was a better life than I would have had in Mexico. Then one day I ran across a flyer that asked Mexican agricultural workers to join the Filipino workers in striking against the Delano grape growers, so that our wages would be increas...

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... her freedoms and liberties are taken away. If a woman wants an abortion, it is currently her constitutional right to do so. Why should we have the right to make the choices for others? Should we be able to be that controlling of others? It may be true that abortion may be seen as murder, and it ... right, but shouldnt there be acceptions to this? What if a mother was put in an awkward situation such as rape or insest? It should be up to the mother to chose what would be best for her, not for everyone else. A woman who wants an abortion badly enough will go to extremes to rid themselves ...

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... it takes away a person's right to live. What I mean when I say that the death penalty is a risky punishment is that the judgement made could be wrong, therefore killing an innocent person. There are many "precautions" made to make sure this does not happen, but the jury is only human. Because the jury is human, they rely highly on their emotions to make their judgments ... . The lawyers, who know this, may play up to certain emotions which may sway the members of the jury in one way or the other. I am not saying human emotion is a bad thing, just stating ... human right to live. Althoug...

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... added, our revised that our Constitution now is almost a whole different document than our original. While some amendments a nd rules in the Constitution are still followed, I feel that the main ones are being forgotten or too modified. I want to say that our modern day society and government is not doing what our ... pap er before. This has got to stop. I think that our law enforcement agency is too lenient on people who abuse their spouses or children. Most of the time, the victims deny that someone abused them, even though they may have a broken nose or black eye. I think that if a r...

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... is right and what is wrong. Leaving duties to them selves alone can lead to trouble. The power grabbing that Jack did to Ralph is a result of the lost of civilization. Democracy is not present in the island. You still need the conch to be able to speak your thoughts. When they chose Ralph as their sole leader ... , there were no elections and they did not consider the thoughts of other boys who are also lost at the island. Like in the movie "Cast Away- starring Tom Hanks, the ball branded Wilson became his imaginary friend and it is because he needs someone to talk with to ... that we did...

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... alcohol. Second, how can our country draft 18 year olds for war and let them die for our country without giving them all the rights this country has to offer. This is my biggest argument because I am in the military and I am 19. I strongly feel that if an 18, 19 or 20 year old can give his life for ... his country then he/she should be given all of the rights of the country and that would include drinking Finally, one big issue that people who would oppose this is that people are not fully mature at 18. Well if you ask ... year old is mature but if you think about neither is every 21 yea...

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... arrested for it. According to Louisiana state law, it was illegal. He disagreed with the judge's decision that he should spend time in jail or pay a fine and he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. There the justices ruled against Plessy and established the principle "separate but equal", which said that even though facilities were separate, it didn't ... boundaries, for instance they couldn't segregate interstate trains. After Plessy almost every facility could legally be segregated. Both before and after, many injustices still went on, like sharecropping, lynching, and th...

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... current member of MOCAM, Mothers Of Christianity Against Marijuana, I feel marijuana should not be legalized because it leads to harder drugs, will increase the amount of users, and send the children of America a message of death. Do we want our children to die? Of course not therefore we should not legalize marijuana. Marijuana ... Any person who uses marijuana will eventually move on to bigger and harder drugs. After awhile of steady use, the user does not get the same "buzz" as he may have the first time he used the devils candy. As a result he starts to lace his marijuana with opium,...

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... , in exercising her power, he is faced with a conflict when he decides to not give Polynices, a traitor to his land, a proper burial. In the ancient times, the ruler of the land is the protector of traditions and family law and also the superior person that decides what is good and beneficial for his people. Antigone is right for standing firm on her decision to give ... between two different legal systems." These two legal systems are the law of the state and the family law. Creon represented the law of the state and Antigone represented family law. If compared to our legal system today...

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... administration would ignore it, and thus significantly weaken the authority of the courts. On the other hand, if the Court denied the writ, it might well appear that the justices had acted out of fear. Either case would be a denial of the basic principle of the supremacy of the law. The Constitutional Significance is the assumption of several powers by the Supreme Court. One was the authority to declare acts of Congress, and ... by implication acts of the president, unconstitutional if they exceeded the powers granted by the Constitution. But even more important, the Court became the ar...

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... . 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 me, because the red represents blood meaning lives lost, the white represents freedom, and the original stars represented the colonies that was established. Therefore the flag does follow the Constitution in the aspect representing one race. I think the flag should follow the Constitution. For the simple reason the constitution is ... what makes America-America. The Constitution makes us, and the flag represents us. Howev...

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... in this age group. At age 21, people are assumed to be more mature than they were before; therefore being responsible enough to have the adult privilege of drinking alcohol. If you think of how much alcohol abuse there is among minors, think of how much worse it could be ... a single can of beer, or sip champagne at their own wedding. The problem isn't restricting the age of drinkers, but restricting the abuse of the alcohol by drinkers. In other countries, the minimum drinking age limit is set significantly lower than that of the United States. People are introduced to alcohol as a soci...

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... jail and put on trial for her death and, if convicted was to receive a punishment to fit the crime, the death penalty. However, this was not the case; the judge found the death penalty was too harsh for the felon. Now seven years later he is a free man, because to the public he served his time. This is a sad and unfair story, right? Well thankfully this is ... a lot of murders in a day. When someone commits a crime he or she should be punished for what they have done. I believe that the death penalty should be a punishment if the person commits such a heinous crime. There is exception i...

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... of gay marriages argue that most religions consider homosexuality a sin. They also dispute that making gay marriages legal would weaken the definition and respect for the institution of marriage as a serious commitment between a man and a woman. Also, they argue is would weaken the traditional family values that are so essential to our society. As I view this issue, my standpoint is that gay ... of gay marriages. Also, many gay and lesbian organizations are giving lots of support to the democratic candidates that are for the rights of the gay community. The gay marriage issue has been i...

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... be approved by special conventions held in the states. Since the constitution has been written only 17 amendments have been added. The 13 through 15 were made for the purpose of the Civil War. The thirteenth abolished slavery, the fourteenth gives citizenship to slaves, and the fifteenth allows the people to vote no matter the race, color, or if they were a slave. The eighteenth is the probation on alcohol, which was taken ... out by the twenty-first amendment, which cancels each other out ... ...

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... law and order back to them. The black background is there to represent the darkness that leaks around when the conch is not there. The conch is there to bring peace and hold civilization. When the conch is not being used the boy go to the more savagery way and that is symbolized by the black being behind the conch. I have put on the rule book to show that law ... and order, rules and civilization come out of the conchs power in the novel. I think this links in with the rule book because rule books hold law and order etc. My island that is on the static image is there to represent the na...

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... , legislative, and judicial branch. The executive branch- two leaders of the branch, the consuls, were elected for one year by the upper class. They supervised the senate and ordered the Roman army during wars. Other member of the executive branch was tax collectors, mayors, and city people in positions of power in cities. The legislative branch- the senate ran most of the legislative branch, the senate was a group of 3oo ... Our legislative branch- creates or passes laws, we have senates that are women and there are over 100 senators. Our judicial branch- consists of the U.S Supreme cour...

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