... consider the best country, because we have a powerful economy system and a strong military force. The majority of Americans share similar dreams and traditions. Americans have holidays about every month, they celebrate a special event that has happen in the past or just celebrate someone special. A dream that most citizens in the United States have is to be in the middle class or higher ... . "American culture encompasses the customs and traditions of the United States, including language, religion, food and the arts. Nearly every region ... to also change their ways. In order for Ameri...

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... 's own theory, but whom is to determine which is true and which is false? Having knowledge of my ancestors and their struggles in this country lead me to believe that there is no such thing as an American Dream. It is just one's interpretation/Idea of American Life and how it is lived. Sure, Americans may have it better than most countries if ... not all, but Blacks in general have come from 200+ years of hate, oppression, and pain. It's true, slavery has been abolished, but racism and ... hatred ONLY to come back HOME to where it was BIRTHED and still lives! That proves that America wa...

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... strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. " In his book, The Empty Church, Thomas Reeves says "The United States is the most religious nation in the advanced ... , indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Americans are a divided people: they are torn between their ability and the comfort of embracing the advancement of modern science and technology, and still accept the religious beliefs that give them solace and comfort even though they contradict the scientific way ... s...

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... from now, I will be living the American dream, marrying an average working-class hero type of man. I will be happy and in love. However, millions of United States citizens are being denied this same right which will someday legally merge me and my future fiancé. In 1996, former President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which stated that marriage is an ... woman only. This law is not only unconstitutional, but also morally wrong. All marriage, weather straight or gay, should be legal in the United States. The preamble of the constitution proclaims, "We the people of the...

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... applies to issues that affect the certainty of actual guilt. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held, "the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees more than the Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial " United States v. Day, 969 F.2d 39, 45. Galin E. Frye has had constant ... trouble with the law. This case originally stemmed from Mr. Frye being charged with driving while his license was revoked in August of 2007 ... and he was appointed a public defender, Michael Coles. In the month of November, Coles was issued ... the misdemeanor had he known about his alt...

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... United States' homicide rate (5.9 deaths per 100,000 people as of 2005) is higher when compared to other countries: Sweden with 1.3, Canada with 1.5, and Australia with 1.3. To go along with these rates, America has a higher gun ownership with 39% when compared to Canada with 29.1%, Australia with 19.4% and ... Sweden with 15.1%. Many argue that these statistics prove the effectiveness of gun control. Fewer amounts of guns equal less crime. Though the arguments seem to have good, empirical ... owned guns results in more crime. The case against gun control is primarily two-fold; the righ...

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... "safety, responsibility and freedom" doesn't make sense. In a survey conducted by John Hopkins Center for Gun and Policy Research and the University of Chicago revealed that most American citizens would like to see guns more strictly regulated. That means that not only do other international governments see a ... three years of the passage of a law prohibiting the sale of handguns in the city the murder rate dropped by 25% (Kruschke 22). The state of South Carolina and the city of Boston experienced similar results when stricter gun control laws were recently enforced. In Boston the hom...

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... In the United States, it is believed that you are innocent until you are proven guilty, which should have been enough to grant Tom the right of bond. But Lee did not show us this in her novel. Closing arguments mark the final opportunity attorneys have to persuade jurors. Atticus, Tom's attorney ... , made an amazing closing argument. Lee brought to life the wonderful beliefs of our country with Atticus" argument. Atticus pleads with the jury to consider the parties involved as equals under the law. He invokes Washington and Jefferson and ... when Atticus was forced to sit outside the jai...

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The Framework of Government The government of the United States is based on the principal of Constitutional 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 th...

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... Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater to remain president. Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston to attain the Heavyweight Championship. The Beatles were topping the charts with "A Hard Day's Night". But most importantly, congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law intended intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. It is generally considered the most important U.S. law on ... pornography. Although they used there own opinions on deciding if it was or wasn't pornography, they stated that "the Supreme Court must make an independent constitutional ju...

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... people believe that suffering should not be an option and that laws should prevent this aid. However, the choice to die or suffer should be right of the patient. Assisted suicide is a good thing because people can find help from suffering. If they have a terminal illness, or other thing that ... die, and is able to make health-care decisions." (ABCNews.com "Temporary Block", William McCall) If Oregon can change their laws to recognize the rights of their citizens, why can't other states follow their lead? Oregon lawmakers have recognized that people have rights to do what they want to do...

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... be a popular vote. But how this country first started, it had said in the Declaration of Independence, "governments are instituted among men." The government receives its power from the people. I am 100% for the abolition of the Electoral College. Everyone's vote should be worth the same no matter who you are or ... votes set, if you win the popular votes it really doesn't matter. Basically the candidate would have to win the electoral votes to win, because of the fact that the electoral votes are worth more than the popular votes. In this case what's the point for use to vote if really ...

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... CENTRAL QUESTION: The central question in this case is whether or not the Age Discrimination in Employment Act allows for abrogation of a States immunity from lawsuits by individuals under the Eleventh Amendment. OUTCOME: Ruling in a five to four decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Board ... of Regents in Florida was indeed immune from individual lawsuits stemming from the Discrimination in Employment Act. COURTS REASONING: The court came upon this ... this means is that unlike cases regarding race or gender, discrimination cannot be held accountable. As precedent, the Court used...

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... could not do everything by themselves. For example, the country needed a single army in order to win the Revolutionary War against Britain and not thirteen small ones for each one of the States. For these reasons and others as well, the States decided to unite the States into a confederation. After the power struggle with Great Britain over unfair taxes and laws ... , the thirteen States were reluctant to give Congress the power to enforce those same things. Therefore, Congress did not have a lot of power and never had much money since it could not demand that the States loan it any. The...

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... Americans. In 1865, the thirteenth Amendment was ratified and abolished slavery in America. In the south laws were passed the keep blacks from being apart of the voting system. When blacks were giving the right to vote in 1965, they still were afraid to go vote in fear ... of mobs blocking the polling area and the roadblocks by the police. #The first African-Americans to serve in Congress were from the states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina. When Jefferson Davis left Mississippi for the job as ... the President of the Confederate States of America, Reverend Hiram Rh...

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... put out plenty proposals push by the President to require background checks, assault weapons ban and gun trafficking. Having this gun control enforced will reduce the number of lives being killed by a gun. There have been some disagreements on having a background check for people trying to purchase a gun. I believe that it ... would be a sensitive issue for the 113th Congress because it is charge for both the promoters of gun control and gun rights. The positive thing is that the people are starting to feel that there is a concern in this topic and is ... forcing the House and Senate to...

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... them carefully to find flaws in our so called organized government. He has compiled these stories and suggestions into his book titled The Death of Common Sense. With each chapter Howard moves from what the problems are, where they lye and what America needs to do for a solution ... Philip K. Howard is a senior corporate advisor and strategist, focusing on mergers, acquisitions and litigation advice. He is the author of the best-selling, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America. He was Special Advisor to the SEC Task Force on Regulatory Simplification in 1996 and ... ...

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... boards as well as parents and students all over the United States. There have been quite a few public schools who have started the enforcement of school uniforms as an experiment. It is believed that if students were made to wear uniforms the crime and discipline in public schools would decrease ... allegations. For that reason, uniforms should not be mandatory in the public school systems. Some arguments against the enforcement of school uniforms are that uniforms are just an extreme measure of the school's dress codes, whether or not school violence would lessen if student were made to...

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... have changed the world for the better. Many new ideas and discoveries came from this time period. The Enlightenment thinkers gave everyone a new way of thinking and opened doors to endless possibilities. They enabled people to break away from the beliefs, so carelessly given to them, and start to ... think for themselves. There are many Enlightenment thinkers who have contributed greatly to science. One of them is Johannes Kepler. Using math to describe his beliefs, he discovered that the earth revolved around the sun in an elliptical orbit. Also ... today, even thought it was written ov...

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... as being honorable under these traits. Honor, to me, means a person who is a team player, a family man and a person who does not always think of himself all the time. Emmitt Smith, a running back for the Dallas Cowboys, is a person who fits under being a person who has honor. Even though my ... bowl status that the Cowboys once were. In my own dictionary, looking up Emmitt Smith would easy as cutting a hot knife through butter. The definition of Emmitt Smith would be one word, honor. Staying with honor in the sports industry, the other example would be six time basketball champion Micha...

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... According to Sullivan, it is this process that has preserved our Constitution's "purity" and our government's time tested way of enacting and maintaining laws. Obviously believing that frequent ratification of new amendments is a threat to our system, she gives us five reasons why our Constitution works as it exists ... may change according to era and popularity but the basic principles set forth by our forefathers are still in tact. Secondly, she mentions the rule of law. Basically, the Constitution was set forth to be a base on which to build a government. It was not meant to be specif...

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... the disparity for comparable offenses. Gov. Jay Nixon decided to sign house bill 1525, which would send fewer people to prison for technical violations of probation and parole, which has missed meeting or failed drug test. (www.aclu.org) House Bill 1525, which Gov. Jay Nixon signed ... into law July 6, establishes strategies for dropping parole and probation for certain offenses by requiring the division of corrections to award earned good behavior. Now although the new bill shall bring some great aspects towards prison overcrowding, there are in fact some ... to trigger through people m...

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... have always been questioned on their legitimacy. Many people find it hard to understand why nine men and women can remove the wants and wishes, that are enacted into law, of a majority of the country's populace. So the question still remains, where is the Court's legitimacy in their 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...

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... pills, which were provided by a physician. Therefore it is assisted suicide. Oregon permits assisted suicide, the Netherlands and Belgium permit both euthanasia and assisted suicide, and many more are thinking of legalizing the act. I believe it should remain illegal, for many reasons. A request for assisted suicide is typically a cry for help. It is in reality a call for counseling, ... assisted suicide but a doctor better trained in alleviating pain. If pain is the only reason for the patient to want to die, it's not enough. There is plenty of medication available today to help anythi...

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... want, when we want, and where we want? The constitution is unclear of what is right and what is wrong and the government has made it up to the country to decide. When Americans think of "freedom of speech" they think of the right to say what they feel. Constitutionally, this should be true; ... however, the government has a hold on what we can and can't say. If someone were to stand in court in front of a judge and speak in a foul and ill manner it wouldn't be tolerated and he or she would be punished. Another example is if a person was ... will be used to mean "speech we approve of w...

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