... are entitled to advantages today: it's your turn to pay" (Diggins 457). According to an article by The Americans United for Affirmative Action (AUAA), Bill Clinton said, "Based on evidence, the job of ending discrimination in this country is not over. We should reaffirm the principle of affirmative action and fix the ... effective in raising black employment in firms, and particularly in raising the number of blacks in skilled and white-collar occupations" (Diggins 377). Bill Clinton has no doubt affirmative action has worked, but since there is still discrimination there should still b...

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... of funds, the government did not exercise direct control over the academic programs schools offered or over decisions about academic issues. During the 1990s, the administration of president Bill Clinton urged the federal government to move further in exercising leadership by establishing academic standards for public schools across the country and to evaluate schools through testing. Concerns in ... had earned at least a bachelor's degree. Expanding access to college education is an important priority for the U.S. government. In his 1997 State of the Union address U.S. president Bill Cl...

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... and was ignored by the Republicans in the White House and in Congress (Artze, p.39). Affirmative action was silently being terminated by our federal administrators. Finally during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, he promised a cabinet that "resembled America". By this he meant, that his cabinet will be chosen on account of their race and/or sex (Bergmann, 1). The Republicans attempted to ... say that affirmative action is a quota or reverse discrimination. However, President Clinton supported affirmative action and he clearly stated that he is against quotas and reverse discrimination: "...

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The Sexual Revolution In 1998, President Bill Clinton's confession that he had had an inappropriate relationship of a sexual nature with White House intern Monica Lewinsky started a national discussion about how a politician's personal moral standards might affect his or her ability to lead. Clinton's indiscretions also sparked public debate about sexual ethics in the United States. Some observers lament that Americans have largely abandoned conventional ... sexual values that discourage casual sex, premarital sex, promiscuity, and adultery. However, Clinton's promiscuity was lightly overlook...

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... for Handgun Control, Inc., known today as the Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence. President Reagan supported the Bill, but it wasn't until the early days of Bill Clinton that the bill was finally passed, requiring background checks for every gun purchase. The passage of the Brady Bill marked the start of the gun control lobby's greatest hour in the nation's capital - and gun rights ... ...

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... of public safety, this was not the concern of lawmakers at the time of the law's enactment. In fact, public safety did not even enter the original debate on the bill (Peters, 1995). The law was given a temporary status initially, to be a one-year fix for a problem presumed to be solved by diplomacy. As is so often with federal initiatives, the ... blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.02% for any driver under the age of 21, and there were also many funding provisions thrown in. President Bill Clinton did not like this one bit but for other reasons signed the bill. Voicing the president's con...

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Affirmative Action has been law since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection ... to create increased fairness in employment has influenced the way of life of every American far beyond employment. Affirmative action has been law since 1961, when President John F. Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to cease discrimination due to race, religion, or national or...

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... discuss medical marijuana with patients, and we are seeking clear guidelines for physicians who wish to do so." The lawsuit was filed January 14, weeks after several advisors of the Clinton Administration made a public response to Proposition 215 (which would, were it to pass, make it legal for doctors to discuss and recommend marijuana to their patients) at a December 30 press ... decision to stand, denying the medical use of marijuana to seriously ill patients. Representative Barney Frank (a democrat from Massachusetts) introduced H.R. 1782, a bill which would also attempt to move med...

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... the government have the power to enact this particular law, rule, or standard of conduct? The Constitution contains numerous limitations on the power of government to interfere with individual rights (i.e., Bill of Rights). Substantive due process today is used to invalidate government actions interfering with individual freedoms when no more specific constitutional ground can be found. Examples of this would be ... . We have seen in recent times that due process was used not only for regular citizens like you and I but at the highest level of the executive branch with President Bill Cli...

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... entertainment industry kept kids off the streets and provided, well, entertainment, but no one seemed to take notice of these findings, and the cry for censorship became louder. Even President Clinton warned the music industry of "the consequences of producing violent music,"" and asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into the advertising practices of the entertainment industry as a whole in ... of black performers who had sold the rights to them. That's not to say that all white performers were merely cheap impersonators, though. Many white performers, such as Buddy Holley, Bill H...

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... law that bans or restricts guns in any form as unconstitutional, they ignore all legal history and modern implications surrounding the Second Amendment.. The most misunderstood provision contained in the Bill of Rights is this Amendment which states as follows: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms ... NRA, and indicates that the initiation of a tough firearm legislation would cause a drastic drop in the number of murders and accidental deaths involving guns. In the fall of 1999, President Clinton ordere...

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... , it became clear that Iraq, underneath Saddam Hussein, was not going to be considered friendly any longer. This culminated in the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, signed by US President Bill Clinton, pledging that the USA was prepared to take decisive action against Iraq until there was a regime change. So all who are against the war on the basis that it is ... ...

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