REPARATIONS Many people today do not believe that they should have to pay for something they were not even involved in long ago, but the fact is African-Americans were promised by the U.S. ... Before I began put this idea in your head: many Africans were taken from the only place they knew. ... That's what the government did to African-American's. ... (adversity.net) Of course, the situation may be different in some ways but, why should the Japanese be paid and African-Americans not? ... African Americans continue to suffer even through slavery has ended. ...

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In the early times of the American Revolution, before the formal creation of a joint American army. ... In the 1840's there were many riots, and mob protests that were usually aimed towards African – American, abolitionist, Mormons, and Catholics. ... While the republicans in the north believed that the African – Americans those in the south resisted the idea. Mississippi and South Carolina even went as far as to create these so called "black codes" which were laws created to limit the freedom of the African – American access to courts, trading, and even forced...

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The Constitution was conceived at a time when women were not represented by government, and African Americans had no political input. ... Today, America is a political leader. ... People want to know whom to blame when there is a problem in America. ... The biggest concern facing eighteenth century America was political privilege;! today it is equal opportunities for African Americans and women, as well as many special interest groups (such as homosexuals). ...

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Furthermore, the suspicion of big government evident in the constitution is a reflection of a dominant strain of thought in American society. ... Such a flagrant example of the derogation of rights occurred during World War 2 with the internment of Japanese-American civilians. ... Whilst most other major developed countries have a welfare state of some kind American welfare provision is far less generous. ... During the 1950s and 1960s momentum grew for equal rights for African-Americans, and attempts at legislation were made. ... Evidence suggests though, that the current constitutional b...

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Voting is a civic duty among the American people to do for their own country. ... One in every thirteen African Americans that are legally allowed to vote are disenfranchised. 7.7% of disenfranchised citizens are African Americans, while 1.8% are non-African American. Most of the citizens disenfranchised are African Americans, Latinos and poor people. ... In 1868 the fourteenth amendment was passed which allowed African Americans to vote. ... There is approximately 5.85 million citizens disenfranchised today, the majority being African American citizens. ...

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America's first constitution, however, only lasted ten years until fifty-five delegates met in Philadelphia with the same common purpose: to preserve the American union, protect the American democracy from abroad, and curb the unrestrained social reformation rampant in other states. America's newly established independence awakened many privileges, as well as restrictions. ... The list of possible nations ran short, for not many countries were willing to trade with the unpopular Americans. Spain, still resentful for losing the French and Indian War, closed the Mississippi River t...

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The people writing the Confederate Constitution are separating themselves from the United States of America, and forming a Confederate States of America. ... The Confederate States of America do not want the abolishment of slavery; therefore the document does not include rights or laws that govern everyone, specifically the slaves.2 Article one section two of the Confederate Constitution explains how Representatives and taxes are divided up among the several states.2 The section goes on to determine how the people are counted from the states. ... Article one, section nine states, "That the imp...

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In American states, an elected governor is the head of the executive branch. ... The judicial branches in American state governments are typically led by the state supreme court, which deals with the appeals that lower-level state courts might have. ... All but six American governors have the ability to veto one or more specific lines in a bill while letting the rest of it pass into law, a power known as the line-item veto. ...

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In this case, the plaintiff was Kinney Kinmon Lau, a Chinese-American student in the San Francisco School District, who, along with his guardian, argued that numerous Chinese-American students were being denied the opportunity to participate in the public educational system. ... Although these Amendments were added to the Constitution, African Americans were segregated in public places including schools, restrooms, train stations, restaurants, and much more. This was allowed because the same services were being offered to African Americans as to Whites regardless of the separation. ... Althoug...

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The Jacksonian belief, "New Democracy", promoted suffrage for all white males, but no benefits of individual liberties were given to women or Native, African Americans. ... The rights of free African American were restricted because of the position Jackson held about slavery. ... Jacksonian Democrats were guardians of individual liberties because rights were not gained by groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, and women during his presidency. ...

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After gaining independence, our founding fathers created an extremely unique, and revolutionary government in order to set up a social contract between America and its people. Purposefully not trying to be anything like their previously rulers the British, Americans created a new one from the ideas of republicanism. ... The last thing on the agenda was a want for more government influence being placed in the hands of the people and for America to become the democracy that the founding fathers envisioned. ... Not long after WWII, during a time known as the Great Society Era, Congress passed thr...

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Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun ownership. ... More than half of the African American race feels that gun ownership does more to protect people than endanger personal safety. More than half of the American race feels the same as the African Americans do. ... Democrats say that it is more of a priority to control gun ownership than to protect the right of Americans to own guns. ... From this analysis paper and American Government class I've learned that many things work off of a publi...

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African Americans have suffered discrimination initially through the system of slavery, and then through a pattern of exclusion, in the legislation and court decisions. ... This decision established the rights of African Americans to be seated as jurors.  ... Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who at the time was the leader of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union believed that women's exemption from jury service is harmful to them. ...

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First of all, Parliament wanted them to pay the expenses of housing the troops in America. ... In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase "all persons born or naturalized in the United States.... Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave. ... If you think this sounds unfair, many Americans in 1912 thought so too. ... By 1830, the Amer...

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According to the Portable Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson expressed in the "Notes on the State of Virginia" his observations of blacks or African-Americans as being "inferior to the whites in both the body and mind" (pg. 192-193), and that "nature has been less bountiful to them in the endowments of the head" (pg. 191). ... Jefferson believed that no degree of power in the government would or could prevent any uprising but it was notable that the American Government was lighter than that of France but heavier than that of England and America had only suffered one rebellion to speak of since the b...

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In order to fully comprehend whether a whistleblower can be seen as a traitor or a hero, whistleblowing needs to be understood by definition and its views around the world, for example in the United States of America, United Kingdom and South Africa. ... In order to fully comprehend whether a whistleblower can be seen as a traitor or a hero, whistleblowing needs to be understood by definition and its views around the world, for example in the United States of America, United Kingdom and South Africa. ... Edward Snowden took all these risks by releasing secret information from the American gove...

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For the first 125 years of American history under its new Constitution, citizen representatives in Congress and in the White House governed us. ... A state legislature composed of average citizens is a legislature that looks more like America and less like a political class of arrogant politicians. ... A recent survey of the term-limited Michigan legislature found a 42 percent increase in female state House members and a 65 percent increase in African-American state House members. ... In 1992, the ten largest Political Action Committees (PACs) in total dollars given to candidates for the Hous...

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We as Americans take pride in red, white, and blue and live for our history. ... Since then America has established Justice, a Constitution, and opportunity to its inhabitants. ... The Governor of Virginia at the time, William Berkley, had pacified local Native Americans. ... This is where those pacified Native Americans resided. ... This is when Bacon had established groups to counterattack the Native Americans. ...

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American citizens had made commitment in the thirteenth article stating they were now being asked to abandon: "The Articles of Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration of any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the United States, and be afterward confirmed by the legislature of every state." ... The Federalist Papers discusses the editorials and persuasion pieces written by the Founding Fathers to create the democracy of the legislative, executive, and judi...

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The United States is known for being the peacemakers of the world, as it helped other countries such as Bosnia, Somalia, and Africa. ... The United States intervening in human rights violations in other countries may cause controversy within American citizens. ... This was a good effort by the American to intervene for the benefit of the citizens of these countries. ...

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The United States is known for being the peacemakers of the world, as it helped other countries such as Bosnia, Somalia, and Africa. ... The United States intervening in human rights violations in other countries may cause controversy within American citizens. ... This was a good effort by the American to intervene for the benefit of the citizens of these countries. ...

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African Americans were not going to put up with unfair laws and fought for equal rights. ... The advertisement illustrated "the wave of terror,"" brought upon African Americans by those who would not permit their right to freedom and equal rights in Montgomery Alabama. ...

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Is it not morally wrong to deny the citizens of the United States of America the basic human right to marry? ... In fact, young Americans (those ages 18-29) are some of the strongest proponents of allowing gay and lesbian couples to engage in marriage. Seventy-two percent of them support it, as do a majority of Americans ages 30-44. However, support for same-sex marriage is at 44 percent among those who are age 45-64 and drops even further to just a third of Americans age 65 and over. ... South Africa legalized same-sex marriage in 2006. ...

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Introduction When is it legal to use deadly force? Should there be times when one person can lawfully kill another person? In South Africa, killing is justified when defending someone. (Bruce, 2002) In Michigan, deadly force can only be used when all other possibilities have been exhausted (...

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"I am all for diversity, but when a school says, 'You're white so you can't come; you're African-American so you can,' that's illegal discrimination and it's wrong," said Steven Levine, the lawyer-father challenging the Arlington policy. ...

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