... be relaxed because it would increase the number of weapons and increase the availability of weapons for criminals. And thus, the debate over the right to bear arms continues, again. Gun ownership is a hot topic in this country. The United States has almost always been a country known for ... of our cities, police and CSIs have their work cut out for them. "Responsible adults with handguns make it more difficult for police to distinguish ordinary citizens from criminals". If someone is murdered with a gun, CSIs figure out precisely what gun killed them. Potential suspects would ... incl...

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... p. 231). I like this process it appears has worked so far for America. Jury duty is responsibility of U.S. citizenship. All citizens must serve unless they are juveniles or can prove to a Judge that they should be excused. Primary rules concerning excusal typically involved those employed in emergency service occupations, doctors, medics, soldiers. You can't serve on a jury if you ... concern. In a Study conducted by Gregg Barak, Ph.D., and Young Kim, Ph.D., criminology professors at Eastern Michigan University, and Honorable Donald E. Shelton surveyed 1,000 jurors prior to their partici...

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... , the Youngers are trapped between the pitfalls and hopes that the American dream offers. This essay will describe segregation as an obstacle to human development, because it prevents human beings from expressing and pursuing their goals. The time setting of the play is just before ... expression and American society's oppression of its black population that causes the impossibility of that expression was progressively reaching its peak. In addition to excluding its black population from equal participation in many areas of public life such as living areas and education, white society als...

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... strives for the same guarantees, the framers" motives were drastically different. The framers of the Constitution placed a greater emphasis on equal representation in the national government as opposed to today's quest for leaders to be held accountable for their actions. During the drafting of the Constitution, people were more concerned with whether or not political leaders would not look out for the ... have the state governments retain most of the decision-making abilities. One of the biggest factors behind this initiative was slave owning. Delegates who did not even own slaves vote...

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... Hour Loaded With Sexual Content, Says Study" , by CNN Interactive, believe that they are doing what a good American should, they are only adding to the ultimate destruction of America's society. The first Amendment of the US Constitution states "Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or ... by American citizens. Parents or guardians are the ones who have the final say in what their children are watching. By trying to limit a station's ability to air the programs they wish, certain Americans are eliminating the best ability, freedom. America is a nation that is...

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... argue that the law was made with the individual citizens in mind. This group believes that the Amendment should be interpreted to guarantee citizens free access to firearms. One major group that is in strong opposition of stricter gun control laws is the National Rifle Association (NRA). ... seventeen years of age." (3) The founding fathers of the United States believed that government is unavoidable. They wrote the Bill of Rights, as stated earlier, to serve as a chain, which would limit government power over its citizens. Civilian ownership of firearms would, in the founding fathers' v...

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... off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."(The Evolving Constitution page 6) As great as the document was it failed to go into detail about individual's rights. Many people felt that now that the United States is free from Britain and is becoming independent, then ... groups, ones who wanted a strong central government, and those who only wanted the central government only a margin stronger. The Constitutional Convention finally decided to write a document that could set laws for the entire land, that everyone would follow. Four months later the delegates emerged with the Cons...

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... war for independence against a tyrannical despot, they still saw the need for a strong (but limited) central government. The necessary and proper clause (the elastic clause), the power to tax and the supremacy clause (all emblematic of strong central government) were all approved without debate. Article 5 of the Constitution provides for its own amendments thus making the Constitution an ... enduring document. Signing On 17 Sept 1787, the delegates signed the Constitution. Ratification Nine (9) state conventions were needed to ratify the Constitution. The Federalists, proponents of stron...

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... record, which, however, was too often marred by unprincipled agents, both military and civilian, in the local offices. Its efforts toward establishing the freed blacks as landowners were nil. To a great degree the bureau operated as a political machine, organizing the black vote for the Republican party; its political activities made it thoroughly hated in the South. When, under the ... amendment looked something, though obviously not completely, like this: "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according ...

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... The constitutions of most of our states assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent; (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases ... in which any fact is involved), or may they act by representatives, freely and equally chosen that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed," (Jefferson). The government has passed many laws regarding gun purchases and firearm use. The law today goes as followed: ... Brad...

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... representation usually involving periodically held free elections Democracy is a right that many people take for granted. It is the right of the people to choose their rulers. Without democracy, there would be no freedom. People would have no rights and the government would take what it wanted when ... ago, an entire country fought for what it knew was right. The revolutionaries who defeated Great Britain for independence of the thirteen colonies wanted to escape the tyrannical rule of a monarchy. They succeeded. Today, the United States of America stand as the prime example of democracy...

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... fact that expansion was rapid and improved the economy of the United States. It also supports the claim that westward expansion contributed to nationalism, with it claiming that it is their constitutional right. The United States immediately supports expansion because everybody believes in the constitution. As each new state was admitted the size of ... could have land in the west. The problem with the Native Indians in the West encouraged nationalism. All of the United States were allied to trying to move the Indians away from where Americans wanted to expand to. The next document I w...

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... his group's convictions this way: "I say all guns are good guns. There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be armed. Period" (Landau 39). When asked about the Second Amendment, the battle is "to retake the most precious, most sacred ground on earth," says NRA Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre, "This is a battle for freedom" ("Fight" 29). Another myth is ... criminal acquisition, and found that 81 percent of 1800 criminals agreed that the "smart criminal" will attempt to find out if a potential victim is armed. The reaction to fight back or defend oneself is instinctive...

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... interpreted and understood through a republican argument and republican guidelines than those of democracy or other conflicting views. What are the concepts of a republic or republican argument? The Federalist No. 39 goes on to define the concept of a republic as a "government which derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of people, and is administered by persons holding their offices ... majoritarian basis"(Wilson DiIulio 10). In other words, their thoughts on ruling are that it is divided among certain elites. This whole concept is depleted in No. 39 when Madi...

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... interpreted and understood through a republican argument and republican guidelines than those of democracy or other conflicting views. What are the concepts of a republic or republican argument? The Federalist No. 39 goes on to define the concept of a republic as a "government which derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of people, and is administered by persons holding their offices ... majoritarian basis"(Wilson DiIulio 10). In other words, their thoughts on ruling are that it is divided among certain elites. This whole concept is depleted in No. 39 when Madi...

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... 372). Though some form of censorship is needed when it comes to what children are exposed to, the question is: Where is the line drawn? According to philosopher John Stuart Mill, the decision on whether to permit or ban actions and speech should be based on whether that ... action or speech harms someone else (383). Though the First Amendment in the United States Constitution forbids Congress from enacting laws that would regulate speech or press, many states have passed laws in contradiction to ... obscene. "The Court ruled that material is legally obscene if: (1) the average person wou...

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... marriage and Stanley v. Georgia in 1969, in which the right to read obscene material in the privacy of one's home was put into law. J.S. Mill's Harm Principle states that the only reason to interfere with an individual's liberty is when it prevents harm to others. The doctrine of liberty states that "individuals have a right to a substantial sphere of action "the self-regarding' sphere ... "in which they are free from social coercion."" This doctrine allowed free thought through speech and the right to private experimentation in ways of life with other consenting adults. According to Mi...

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... despite the broadness of the topic. According to author Helen Strahinich, people who are pro-gun control argue that congress should pass a law requiring a seven day waiting period so that authorities can do a background check (39). Anti- 2 gun control groups would oppose, saying that criminals will ... it did, then gun control can certainly be lead in the direction that Prohibition went. Gottfried explains, "The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more...safeguard against a tyranny which historically has proved possible" (129). The government's push for alcohol restrictions ...

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... religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Yet as George Bush pointed out "One can not be America's president without a belief in God ... state of Tennessee forbidding the teaching of any theory that denies the creation story of the bible. Chet Raymo explains the adherence to religion: "to laymen, science often seems to take away the mystery and makes them feel a little stupid at the same time" (Raymo 44). A poll done ...

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... allow for the creation of a National Bank, and since this is the case, according to Article X, the decision should be left up to the states. Professor Richard E. Ellis wrote a book titled, "Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic," in ... the pseudonym Hampden. In one of his essays, Hampden argues that the Supreme Court's actions in McCulloch v. Maryland were "to give a Carte Blanche to our federal rulers, and to obliterate the state governments, forever, from our political system," (Ellis, 124). In the case of McCulloch ...

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... and revolt against them. In Yorktown, the American and French forces, from land and the sea, closed in on Cornwallis and forced him to surrender his army on October 17, 1781. During this time, the American, French, Spanish, and British representatives were running back and forth ... across the English Channel with offers and counteroffers. The American peace administrators, John Jay, John Adams, and Franklin were given orders by Congress to insist on freedom and agree with France on everything else. They didn't follow this, but they ended up with a treaty that gave the ... produced was...

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... the Anti-Federalist was that the building of a large centralized government would rob the people of there newly found liberty. They favored a less extreme approach, one that would work to improve the existing system of government framed in the Articles of Confederation. The Anti-Federalist preferred the union as it was "well constructed and protective of its citizen's liberties."" They ... Some inequalities indeed will take place. One man will be obliged to travel a few miles further than another man to procure justice. But when he has traveled, the poor ought to have the same measure of ...

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... and Harlem. During both world wars, official marriage certificates could be obtained for gay couples in Harlem on a somewhat legal basis. (Eskridge 39-44) Despite the evidence of these fairly common unions, many of our law makers strongly oppose the legalization of the practice in America, based ... on the opinion that as heterosexuals they hold a sexual and therefore social superiority to homosexuals. Homophobia in America surfaced during the 1950s and 60s and was soon met by the protests and resistance movement of the homosexuals. Because ... law? Should an institution that is availa...

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... and bear arms. So it is easy to understand how an individual is likely to interpret the Second Amendment as a means to ensure the equality of all citizens to carry firearms. However, to interpret the Second Amendment without looking at the Amendment fully is like having a person without any theological education referring to verses Matthew 5:38, 5:39 in the Bible quoting "You have heard an eye ... for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," in order to substantiate that the Bible advocates ... violence but failing to recognize the second part of the verse which tells readers to "turn the othe...

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... and uncertainty, the United States government was in a state of chaos. The Articles were ineffective because Congress only had the power to recommend actions to the States. It could not enforce its recommendations or laws. Each state had its own constitution, monetary system, and means of ... effort for independence in1775-76, such as John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson (93-94). The convention was originally formed to create amendments to the Articles of Confederation. The delegates, however, immediately started writing a new constitution. In creating the Constitution there...

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