... a second year music teacher and band director at a suburban high school. The school is located in an affluent upper middle class area, 40 miles east of New York City. The majority of residents in this school district are registered Republicans. In each of the last 6 presidential elections the Republican candidate has garnered the most votes even when the Democratic candidate eventually won the presidential ... observations have found Mr. Scarlett to be an exemplary teacher, who is extremely knowledgeable about his content area, and enjoys an excellent rapport with his students. Additiona...

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... finding it easy to obstruct legislation. When examining the foreign and domestic policy of the Articles, one sees their total inadequacy as a constitution. Since individual states held their own interest above that of the new nation, they sought to block much legislation that did not favor them directly. Only in one area did the Congress coax a unified policy from the states, the area of ... supported a Constitution with provisions for a strong central government, and anti-federalists, who favored supremacy of states' rights. These conflicts added to the existing troubles of the governme...

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... on deciding if it was or wasn't pornography, they stated that "the Supreme Court must make an independent constitutional judgement on the facts of each case, and cannot merely decide whether there is substantial evidence to support a finding that certain material is obscene". This used their opinions to interpret what the law commanded, thus making the ruling an interpretivist desicion. The ... Supreme Court are because they are the ones of immediate importance, because of clarification, or to test the legality of a law. Often times they must decide on what branch of government has the p...

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... room law enforcement officials are taking away the protection of unreasonable searches which is guaranteed in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. There have been multiple Supreme Court rulings on the issue of personal privacy since Brandeis defined it in the 1920's. In 1966 a large step was taken in the area of personal privacy when the Freedom of Information Act "gave citizens the right to ask ... a federal agency for any files it had about them" (Hoobler 51). However the Freedom of Information Act did not ensure that the agency would supply the citizen with the information only ...

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... the frontier lands, they failed tremendously in the area of economic conditions. Having just won the Revolutionary War, the new United States of America needed to establish some sort of government that would serve the country's hard-earned independence. John Dickinson submitted the first written version of America's first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, to the Congress on July 12, 1776 ... the Civil War.17 Clearly, the young government under the Articles of Confederation handled the issue of frontier lands very effectively. However, it is no coincidence that the Articles were...

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... created because the founding fathers wanted to guarantee that American's basic civil rights would not be threatened by the government. A multitude of colonists came to America because they wanted religious freedoms. The Founding Fathers wanted to make sure that religious freedoms would be protected. ... means of protecting public participation in the government. The Supreme Court has regularly said the students, while at school, are protected by the First Amendment. After all, the schools are regarded as a major setting, and the public has put in charge school officials with maintaining...

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... created because the founding fathers wanted to guarantee that American's basic civil rights would not be threatened by the government. A multitude of colonists came to America because they wanted religious freedoms. The Founding Fathers wanted to make sure that religious freedoms would be protected. ... means of protecting public participation in the government. The Supreme Court has regularly said the students, while at school, are protected by the First Amendment. After all, the schools are regarded as a major setting, and the public has put in charge school officials with maintaining ...

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... persuade a jury or judge in a civil or criminal case." The words "burden of proof" are not specifically mentioned within the U.S. Constitution however is implied in a several amendments. The burden of proof and where it lies has been the subject of many court cases and decisions. There are plenty of questions in the area of burden such as; where does it lie in civil suits, in what ... cases is the prosecutor bear more of the burden and where does the defendant, and so on. Many ... burden is have come within in more recent years. As long as time goes on the court system will change to a...

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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 industrialized ... God, 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 sci...

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... According to these two researchers, gun ownership is not worth it. Private ownership of guns saved one life while 43 lives were lost. Comparing the United States' homicide rates to other countries is another area that proponents of gun control use in their arguments. The 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, ... 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 amo...

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... and technology. The Department of Education pushed math and science to attempt to keep up with other world powers. This push on math and science is a milestone in the history of the United States. The problem with the push of math and science is that as one area flourishes another tends to ... decline. I believe that the areas of art, music, and dance took the fall as math and science grew ... . Consider what direction education would have taken if students could study what they wanted and not what the US government told them they had to study. The Department of ... programs and initiati...

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... and mature as a free society without this basest of human needs?freedom of expression. Indeed, all Americans have and deserve that right granted to us in the First Amendment. But, as in all truly great and profound ideas, there exists the dreaded area where black and white mix, giving over to gray ... ; where our deep-rooted beliefs tend to tangle with the bramble of human emotion. Do ALL Americans deserve to be heard? Did Americans Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted ... (the Gainesville murders), Ottis Toole (Adam Walsh), Angelo Buono (The Hillside Strangler), Albert De Salvo (The Boston Strangler), or...

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... While the macro level focuses on national patterns in voting and political parties. When the United States was a young country, almost all of its population was concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Although this was a rather small area of land compared to today, there were still distinct areas that supported certain political ideas and political parties. As the country grew and people ... began to move towards the West, so did their views and beliefs on the country's political system. A major part of voting and elections is the process of representation. There are many different ... as...

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... navigation. In the letter from Rhode Island Assembly to Congress on November 30, 1782, the assembly decided to unanimously reject the recommendation of Congress, respecting an impost on imported goods. One reason was that it would be unequal in the most commercial states, which draw their ... to the US, now controlled the mouth of the Mississippi River, which the pioneers of Tennessee and Kentucky were forced to float their produce. In 1784, Spain closed the river to American commerce. Spain also claimed a large area if the Gulf of Mexico, including Florida which was granted to the ... ...

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... and to balance the powers given to them. In the American Constitutional system we can notice several basic principles based on the ideas of these philosophers, that is: the establishment of Federal system, the Separation of Powers among different branches of the government, the Checks and Balances among them, and the Supremacy Clause which regulates the relationship between the national and state governments. The ... to create the government, which power would be derived from the citizens and which would work for the good of the citizens. They did not want to create a system similar to ...

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... government into two or more levels therefore ensuring that no one power may become powerful enough to infringe on the rights and privileges of it's people. It is supposed to prevent dictatorship, anarchy and tyranny in government. It in principle emphasizes fairness and equality and par ... opportunity to all, however in practice the same does not always hold true. Is this system of government prone to tyranny; is it truly elitist? That is what this paper seeks to uncover. In the federal system authority is divided, ... a central government and regional or sub-divisional governments. I...

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... who can access this drug and for certain conditions or even from a doctor's recommendation. Marijuana should be legal to the public in terms of the citizens having a right to choose what they put in their bodies. The constitution defines our freedom and we can retain our rights from ... the federal government, where in the constitution it states nowhere that government officials can detain the use of any drug. In Kieffers article she states, "For, the Constitution is silent on the federal government's ability to regulate or ban substances ... &35;). Even though marijuana is safer it sti...

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... conducting elections. They also had shared powers called the concurrent powers which encompassed maintaining the law and order as well as levying taxes. Republicanism survived when they separated the powers of the federal government to represent the people giving specific powers to each branch for organization which acted independently to ensure liberty. The judicial branch interpreted laws, the legislative branch created ... was put into question whether the vote-less slaves concentrated in the South should be counted as a person in dealing with the with direct taxes and representation...

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... 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. Under the Articles of Confederation, the power was given to the states as opposed to a centralized government. However, this made it difficult to raise revenue. ... court cases. The last if not the most important major development in the Constitution during the federalist stage was the establishment of the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments that were originally created as a compromise between the federa...

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... his school his sophomore year. Stephen Kings first novel was rejected by publishers a jaw dropping 30 times!Last but not least, Bill Gates one of the richest most polarizing figures in America failed when he tried to launch his first company. All that aside I believe that success means different things ... going to cut it. They needed a more effective more powerful government, one that could be spread out to reach all the states. The result of this realization was in the year 1786, the Annapolis Convention was delivered. Since their were so few representatives however, they had to bring...

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... how to handle conflicting federal and state laws. He agrees that the problem is serious and needs a peacefully outcome based on the words of the US Constitution to prevent hostility between the state and federal government. Marshall also says the US Supreme Court, alone, has authority to determine ... a social contract created by the people at the Constitutional Convention. Second, Congress is bound to act under explicit or implied powers of the Constitution. Logically, if all of the powers were listed, we would not be able to understand or embrace the document; it is not possible to wri...

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... and seizures, shall not be violated." Without probable cause or a warrant that specifies the object which is to be seized and the location of the site that is to be searched, police are not permitted to search one's private property (Amendments to the Constitution, 2003). This constitutional ... in court because the initial frisk was reasonable. (Berman & Murphy, 2003, p. 473) United States v. Leon in 1984 further complicates the issue of whether police officers have the authority to conduct a search for evidence due to the good faith exemption. Good faith applies to evidence gathered whi...

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... is seen by government officials as trying to further religious beliefs. The Regent Prayer is viewed by the parents as breaking the constitutional will of separation of church and state. In every court hearing and every Senate or House meeting there seems to be a small prayer said. The state is ... the church or its agencies in the state's domain or dependency on its openhandedness(370 U.S. sec. 421)." Mr. Justice Stewart overturned the ruling of the previous court which let the public schools in New York continue to say this brief prayer. He thought the district courts had made a ... is n...

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... and ideas without inference by public authority and without boundaries. The Constitution under the First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press" therefore outlawing a national system of censorship, but under the Tariff Act (1930), "United States Customs has the power to seize any material that is being imported in into the country and ... ! Eh, that's the beauty o" thee, lass" (105). Such passages became the basis for numerous attempts to ban the novel (Sova 101). Many saw "Lady Chatterley" as not being a true form of literature,...

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... it is their duty to clean up the music industry so as to protect today's children from becoming violent tomorrow. Megan Gilchrist in the article "Censorship in Music" states: ...A group of parents formed and organization called the Parent's Music Resource Center (PMRC). This organization does not want recordings that include topics or sexuality, violence, drug or alcohol abuse, and suicide to ... RIAA brought forth this logo in 1990 and the logo stated, "Parental Advisory-Explicit Lyrics." (Par. 1) In the early 1990's, the PMRC, in conjunction with the RIAA (Recording Industry Associati...

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