This was written in 1791, however as time passed and the nation grew, the United States Supreme Court recognized that there are times when exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's requirement of a search warrant are made. ... As a general rule in cases relating to searches and seizures, any property seized by the police without a search warrant will not be admitted into court as evidence, unless a search warrant was obtained to search for, and seize the property in question. ... Any property seized by a law enforcement officer without a warrant will be examined during a hearing by the court...

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The distinguishing characteristic about Communism is that they seek not to abolish all property relations but just that of the bourgeois. Marx then continues and addresses how the abolition of property rights is not only exclusive inside communism. The French Revolution even abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property. Marx even go so far as to say that communism can be summed up into one main theory: "abolition of private property.... " When the abolition of property occurs, then the workers of all countries can unite....

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Something had to happen in social, economic and political thought to move a people from idle chit-chat to general thought to action and that straw happened to be the taxes levied after 1763 in the form of several acts passes by the English parliament. ... The basis of the evil was that the colonists" society was founded on one main principle, property. Any tax would take their money and in turn their property which was their key to independence. Your own property meant your own food, and own money and made you "independent from all other men, including kings and lords... "The revolution ...

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Vague trigger terms in law such as "in extraordinary circumstances" or "in issues of national security" have become almost commonplace, rationalizations for everything from warrantless wiretapping to the confiscation of property. Every other month it seems Congress is trying to pass a law tha appears, to a questionable majority of people, to be unconstitutional. Yet these laws pass all the time and the reason for this is stated above, apart from soundbites the media does not report real issues anymore, it reports hot button issues and celebrity gossip. ... "Personal Fr...

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(Banner, 40) The document was called The Declaration of Sentiments, and is best known for its statement that "all men and women are created equal", and basic demands that women be allowed to own property, enter profession, and vote. ... (Banner, 42) All of the resolutions passed unanimously, excluding that of women's suffrage which passed with a weak majority vote. ... (Banner, 62) In 1854 Stanton addressed the New York legislature with a women's rights bill, nod most of it reforms were passed by 1860, excluding enfranchisement. ... (Banner, 94) The thirteenth amendment abolishing...

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Each instrument produces a wave, this wave has the same properties as any wave but the most tonally important being the frequency. ... These acoustic properties have been in place for years but a more recent phenomenon called synthesis has set about replicating these acoustic processes via the manipulation of electric current. ... When you press a key on a synthesizer an electric signal is passed through each component of the synth until it reaches the output. ...

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If the United States enacts protectionist laws against offshoring, other countries will pass similar laws and the American economy will suffer. ... Moreover, Moving information technology positions abroad carries an added security risk, important data and intellectual property becomes available to more people outside the company. ... The problems include: - Loss of intellectual property - Unemployment - Loss of expertise - Harming to military secrets - Loss of personal data - Decrease of control and quality - Building the economy of other countries - Tax benefits...

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Ultimately, it is the nation-state that guarantees the ownership of private property and the means of production and provides support for disciplining the work force. ... While it had been normal in other forms of slavery for the slave to be legally defined as a thing, a piece of property, in America it also has become a form of capital. ... Besides being a piece of property, the American slave was transformed into part of the plantation machine, a part of the ever-growing investment in the master' mushrooming wealth. ... To counter this, a series of acts were passed which legally estab...

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Unlike Hobbes' dim view of human nature, John Locke believed that all humans are born a blank slate that is shaped by one's experiences, and advocated that humans should be governed by a representative democracy that protects their three fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property. Locke theorized that at birth everyone was born neutral, and not inherently good or bad, and everyone was born with the rights to life, liberty, and property, well. ... The representative democracy allowed people to elect people to stand in government positions and make decisions for them, which made...

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Fox, the openly gay speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, was unable to obtain enough votes to follow suit with New York and pass a same-sex marriage bill (Goodnough). ... Additionally, Fox, who became speaker last year, was obviously eager to pass the marriage bill. ... Opponents of same-sex marriage, such as the Roman Catholic Church, do not want to see the civil unions bill pass either. ... The bill allows for hospital visitations, joint bank accounts, and property transfers, among other rights. ... In Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont, civil unions were allowed just before ...

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was a concept of Locke's sacrosanct ideas on the rights of life, liberty, and property. ... They could do this because Rousseau believed in joining together as one super power by giving up your life, liberty, and property. ... In order for a law to get passed it would start out with either the Council of Elders or Council of 500 and if it were to pass through both it would go to the Directory. The Directory then has the right to reject it and send it back or pass it and make it an official law. ...

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In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... The court passed vagrancy laws, which allowed police to imprison any black man that was unemployed. ... In 1857, the ruling in the Dred Scott case, the court ruled that black people could be property, not citizens. The justice system refused to protect African-Americans for many years and continued to pass laws that violated our freedom after emancipation. ... A...

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In the United States, American Slavery consisted of African Americans who were brought into America for property and violently forced to work in large or small plantations. ... Slaves are considered property because they were black and labeled as subhuman. To enforce the status of blacks being property, white owners would use inhumane violence as a form of punishment. ... She knew Rufus would try to physically abuse her but made a stop to it, she said, "I would never be to him what Tess had been to his father- a thing passed around like the whiskey jug at a husking" (260). Dana would...

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Wemmick passes on this soame air of intimidation to Jagger's clients as he collects funds and "portable property."" ... At last, when we got to his place of business he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property as if the castle and the drawbridge and the arbour and the lake and the fountain and the Aged had all been blown into space together by the last discharge of the stinger. (209) Such constant role reversal may seem odd, but for Wemmick the only alternative is complete submission to conformity, which would significantly contrast his true character. ...

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For example, the repetitive flooding of Oklahoma led the community to pass small tax increases to pay for flood mitigation activities. ... Mitigation actions also involve private properties. ... According to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S Constitution, taking of any property without just compensation is prohibited. ...

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A veto is the "power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature" (Dictionary). ... Slaves were considered property not people, because they were not considered people they should not have and did not have the right to vote. ... If present at the time of the constitutional convention I would have voted the slaves not be counted at all because at the time they were considered property and not people and would not help my state...

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This also brings in the argument of legal morality, which plays no part of the constitution, being that morality is a human characteristic not a property of a document. ... The eighth amendment is applicable to this situation, in that it deals with cruel and unusual punishment, but the constitution also states that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. ... This is argued that no one person in any authoritative position or any other has the right to pass their interpretation on society. ...

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The neighbor is alienating himself and the narrator, keeping firm lines drawn, even thou they only have to step over the wall to get to each other's property, to him the wall represents how close he wants to allow the narrator into his life. The wall also shows stubbornness in traditions, even thou it makes no sense to keep repairing this wall, that keeps falling "And makes gaps even two can pass abreast"" (line 4), the two men "We wear our fingers rough with handling them" (line 21), to fix this wall each spring, because the neighbor is too stubborn in changing the traditions his fathe...

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Although there were laws passed setting a maximum amount of 500 acres of land that the rich could purchase, they would sneak around this law with fictitious names, still leaving the poor without any income, making them beggars in the city. ... When beginning to implement these reforms, he had to provide a clear standpoint for the Plebeians to understand and support, propose them formally and publicly, and figure out a way to get them passed without a veto from the senate, which ultimately caused hostility and outbreak among the opposing sides. ... After the debt, he was then stripped of all...

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Cell membrane is the partially permeable membrane which means only certain molecules can pass through the membrane. Small and non-polar molecules can pass through easily while larger molecules & polar molecules can pass through the vesicles. ... In this lab we observed the movement of water and nutrients through a dialysis tube and also we noticed osmosis in living cells, which enabled us to clearly understand the properties of osmosis and diffusion and their role in keeping balance in the cells. ...

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However, Lincoln Vetoed this bill and it never passed. ... This Proclamation wouldn't allow the same people that Lincoln excluded, as well as anybody with taxable property worth up to $20,000. ... In early 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which granted citizenship to African Americans that were born in the states. ... Congress passed several bills to extend the rights of freed slaves and to keep the southern legislators from disturbing the reconstruction process....

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There are many factors that affect distribution that include chemical and physical properties of a toxicant, level of concentration of toxicant in the tissues and blood, the volume of blood flow through the tissues, target tissue of toxicant, and barriers to the toxicant, (Thrush, 2008). Regardless of their route of entry, toxicants must first pass through a cell membrane or cell wall separating the external environment from the internal biological environment. ... The conjugate is either passed through sweat, urine, or bile to be eliminated or it can be re-absorbed if it is not soluble. ...

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When Congress passed the bill in 1978, debtors where awarded many rights including the right to petition for bankruptcy under federal law. ... Under Chapter 7, not all property is liquidated. State law sets many of the allowances, but "Federal law allows a $15,000 exemption for ownership of a home, $4,000 exemption for household items and clothing, and a $400 exemption for other property." (Daft 779) Transfer of property to other individuals to avoid seizure is not allowed by the courts. ...

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Due to this belief congress tried to pass the Wade-Davis Bill, where fifty percent of voters had to take an "ironclad" oath that they had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy, Lincoln vetoed this bill. ... His proclamation disenfranchised all southern military and civil officers and all those who owned property worth more than $20,000. ... As a result of the current policies, congress passed the Reconstruction Act also known as Congressional Reconstruction. ...

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Maryland passed a legislature that taxed the bank, however, James McCulloch refused to pay the tax given to the bank. ... Although America was no longer under the control of the British, the contract is still valid because it is said in the Constitution that the state cannot pass laws to impair a contract. ... John Marshall's decisions with the Supreme Court established a body of property rights that provided a constitutional foundation for the economic growth of the United States. ...

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