... (www.Speakout.com). Colorado, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington have barred discrimination in public employment based on sexual orientation (www.Speakout.com). On April 25, 2000 President Bill Clinton attempted to expand current hate crime laws to include crimes committed based on the victims sexual orientation, gender, or disabilities. This all came after the murder of Matthew Shepard. Shepard ... was murdered because of him sexual orientation. "The bill that Clinton was trying to put through would have allowed the government to prosecute his murderers under federal...

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... against the amount of political power given to the national government and feared that the centralized government proposed by the Framers would lead to a new kind of tyranny. As George Clinton stated in his arguments against the destruction of States rights: "From this picture, what can you promise yourself, on the score of consolidation of the United States into one government ... by which you are to be conducted into a monarchy, either limited or despotic..." They viewed the Constitution is a corrupt document without a Bill of Rights protecting the people"s individual freedoms. Thomas...

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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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... been various cases which saw African Americans deliberately not seek medical preventive care for diseases. The reason for this is the fear of another situation just like the Tuskegee Study. Bill Clinton, the U.S. president at the time of the Tuskegee aftermath, formally apologized to each member of the study at a ceremony devoted to the test subjects. (Gamble 1997) Many would say that ... ...

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... , welfare reforms on the educational attainment of adult women, in particular those identified as at risk, which also included the dropout rates of female students. In August of 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the most extensive welfare reform legislation ever enacted since Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was revised in the 1960s. With the signing of the Personal ... ...

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... Police Executive Research forum, the Police Foundation, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, The National Organization Of Black Law Enforcement Executives, And the National Sheriff's Association. The following U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, And Ronald Reagan have all supported community policing, and with the recent passage of the 1994 Crime Act, community policing has received the approval and go ahead from ... ...

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... ? Perhaps the federal government can supply the additional manpower, and hence the additional cost, of implementing an investigation and rehabilitation team. Surely, at least some portion of the newly passed Clinton Crime Bill provides for such subsidization. Even if the financial subsidies are provided, practical problems to abuse policy implimentation still surface. One example of such a problem occurs through media. Many times ... ...

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... officially organized prayer is wrong in the school environment even when it is designated as voluntary. Mr. Gingrich raised so much controversy on this subject that he even had President Bill Clinton thinking about permitting moments of silence in the schools. They came to the conclusion however that such a statute is unnecessary since teachers already have the authority to ask their students ... ...

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... tax dollars to be spent in favor of our country. One specific example that comes to mind is President George W. Bush's spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While Bill Clinton never encountered any such event, he worked hard toward allocating our taxes back into the USA. George W. Bush, on the other hand, appears to be spending more of our tax ... ...

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... the issue. The main point that cannot be ignored is that marijuana proves to be a useful medication for many patients, especially those with terminal diseases such as AIDS and cancer. A bill should be created legalizing the use of medical marijuana in all 50 states. Marijuana first was made an illegal drug in 1937. Now under the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 ... , including cocaine and heroin. To get more evidence, the executive office ordered multiple studies be done in order to determine if marijuana had any medical value. The decision of the Clinton Administration came two months a...

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