... be banned from private ownership. This removes guns from the public, therefore taking away the instrument of easily accomplishing crimes. Arthur Kellermann and Donald T. Raey, two gun control advocates, did their own research into the issue and published a discovery of their own; the 43-1 Statistic. In this statistic, Kellerman and Raey state that a gun will be used in a justified shooting one time, while forty three 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 high...

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... read. They can be read on bumper stickers, T-shirts, books, and magazines. The main readers of these comics are children. From comics to books, the profanity found in today's literature would not have been acceptable forty years ago. The book Gone With the Wind that contains only one curse word, was made into a movie. The movie, then considered to be rated "R," was unheard of for its time. Therefore ... , many parents refused to claim the book as a piece of literature and did not allow their children to read it. Try to imagine those same parents reading a book or watching a movie today (...

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... 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 west, but it appears blatantly, almost aggressively secular." (55). This is the great American paradox. The first amendment of the constitution states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or ... third of Italian Catholics (15,908,000 people) attend mass regularly (adherents.com). In all of Europe in 1998 there were only 286,12...

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... those of pro and anti gun control. These issues make up the majority of controversies pertaining to firearms 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 steal guns if they cannot buy them. A waiting period will only keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens (39). Gun control groups bring up issues like this all the time. E...

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... . In Kimmelman v. Morrison,477 U.S. 380 the court determined that effective counsel does not just apply to the innocent or that it only applies to issues that affect the certainty of actual guilt. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held, "the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees more than the Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial " United States v. Day, 969 F.2d 39, 45. Galin E. ... Frye has had constant trouble with the law. This case originally stemmed from Mr. Frye being charged with driving while his license was revoked in August of 2007 and he was appo...

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... ) More recent evidence of gay marriages has been found in colonial America, as well as during the twentieth century in East Coast communities such as Boston 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 surf...

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... this portrait of Lee to mark the subject's election as president of the Continental Congress in 1784. Peale kept the original for his gallery of American heros in Philadelphia, but later did this replica for Lee's family. Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-94, political leader in the American Revolution, b. Westmoreland co., Va.; brother of Arthur Lee, Francis L. Lee, and William Lee. He served in the house of burgesses (1758-75), where ... he favored ending the slave trade. An opponent of the Stamp Act (1765), he was the leader in the formation of a nonimportation organization. To help unite col...

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... and shipping. In his book, Beard claims "that the first firm steps taken towards the formation of the Constitution were taken by a small and active group of men immediately interested through personal possessions in the outcome of their labor" (Beard 134). During such a vulnerable time in America's history, no one would have questioned the work of the Framers of the Constitution. If it were the case that the Framers work reflected ... , to me, unpatriotic. Throughout Beard's book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he blatantly misinterprets many of the points presented befo...

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... to know What I want to know is if random drug tests are against the United States constitution and how big a problem drug use on the job really is. I would also like to know what the legalities of drug testing are. I would like to look up court cases and look at current literature on drug testing. I would also like to interview my boss and get ... his opinion on drug testing and get the details on my employer's drug policy. After I research the issue and conduct the interview I am going to conduct a small survey of 20 college students where they answer 3 questions ... 1998: 81. Shoop, ...

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... , but judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment's due process clause has incorporated much of the upholding of civil rights to the states. Federalism posed many advantages at the time it was adopted. Many arguments for federalism have traditionally been put in terms of promoting various forms of liberty in the form of non-domination, immunity or enhanced opportunity sets. When considering reasons offered in the literature for federal political orders ... , many appear to be in favor of decentralization without requiring constitutional entrenchment of split authority. Two sets of argum...

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... prove his or her case, but did it by violating the laws, then the Judge would dismiss the evidence, and it would not be able to enter the court again. The rights of the people mostly come about in court however, in a person's ordinary day the rights apply. Take for example a student's right to read whatever book they choose in English class, or his or her right to state their ... a law banning all children from reading a certain book because it caused controversy. The first amendment protects the student's right to read whatever he or she wishes, and a law against the book would probabl...

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... that was the heart of the decision to declare independence from British rule. We can see references to this inequality in both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, but we also see it, perhaps in a more pronounced way in the revolutionary literature of the time. Thomas Paine, in Common Sense of 1776 outlines the inadequacies of the British government as they pertain to the governing of the American Colonies, and highlights the inequality inherent in the English ... government, that lead to the unequal treatment of the colonies. " is there any inhabitant in America s...

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... " in The Historian. Vaughan dicussess the element of the newly emerging importance of the media around this time and the implications that the press may have played in shaping the opinions of American citizens at this time. While "U.S. readers obtained widely varying views of the Philippines depending on their locale and reading habits, there was a remarkable degree of thematic similarity in the press, discussion of the Philippines and its people" (Vaughan 303). Throughout the book ... , Miller points to a variety of news sources which examine the American sentiment of the Philippine War;...

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... they think is right. Nowhere in the Constitution does it explicitly 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 which he criticizes the actions of the Supreme Court in the 1800's. Much of his work ... draws from the essays of a man who wrote under the pseudonym Hampden. In one of his essays, Hampden argues that the Supreme Court's a...

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... bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. Gays and lesbians have long been banned from serving in the United States military. In the early 1990's many gay and lesbian activists were trying to appeal the ban on homosexuals in the military (discriminatory) "1993-Clinton " In the book, Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Debating The Gay Ban In The Military By: Geoffrey Bateman, which discusses how in the year of 1999, Private Calvin Glover challenged Private ... First Class Barry Winchell to fistfight in front of their barracks at ... ...

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... make it much easier for people to defend ourselves. The government cannot protect the general public from violence. Due to the large number of citizens in the United States, the government cannot promise safety. For the time being, "The government cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens. Protecting oneself and family is a personal duty and the government should not impede the ability of responsible adults to defend themselves". ... more danger. With more guns owned legally, there is a greater potential for more guns owned illegally. "An increase in gun ownership fuels the secondary ...

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... fair and just. The wonderful thing about the Constitution of the United States is the deliberate way in which it was constructed. The Constitution was written with the flexibility to be amended or changed to better suit the times in which we live. This flexibility is the reason why, though America is one of the youngest nations on earth, we have the oldest Constitution in existence. But, in the course of amending the Constitution, what must ... don't mix. For freedom of expression does not always apply to those ideas popular in our culture. The thoughts being displayed on a t-shirt, bil...

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... of my public high school, Boyle County, to pray? Not only that, but before school there was a bible study in the library and praise music in the cafeteria, in addition to the bi-weekly F.C.A. (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) meetings in the gym. And those are just the clubs. What about all the Christian music that our Choir and Band played at Christmas? I"m not talking about Jingle Bells; I"m talking about Silent ... , to say that we cannot have any religion in the schools or that it is unconstitutional. We have to realize that the constitution applies to all the citizens of America, w...

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... forced racial segregation in the U.S. South between the end of 1877 and the beginning of a civil-rights movement. Jim Crow Laws included the statute set by Plessy v. Ferguson, in 1896, of "separate, but equal" (USSC, "Plessy"). In the Southern states of the United States legal segregation in public facilities was current from the late 19th century into the 1950s. Legal segregation in America established the fact that there was inequality in the system. In the 50s and 60s ... Criminal Justice System. New York: The New Press, 1999. "Constitution of the United States of America". Encyclope...

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... impossible to find a common ground between them. In addition, the competitive nature of the two party system many times eliminates even the possibility of compromise since failure usually leads to a devastating loss of power. If both victory and extremism are necessary to retain power within the group, and if, as Alfie Kohn (1986) stated in his book No Contest: The Case Against Competition, competition is "mutually exclusive goal ... attainment" (one side must lose in order for the other to win), then compromise and cooperation are impossible (p. 136). This is especially so if ... ...

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... are several amendments in the Constitution which "create "zones of privacy" which, taken together, add up to a Constitutional right to privacy" (Christopher 12). The amendments that suggest this right to privacy include the first, fourth and fifth amendments. According to Ted Gottfried in his book Privacy, the Fourth Amendment is the one used most often in support of personal privacy (10). The Fourth Amendment "refers to the right of the people to ... be secure in their houses papers and effects" as well as providing a safeguard ... ...

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... arresting people and taking them to be detained without access to lawyers and court appearances in unprecedented in the United States. Is this necessary in preventing terror? Under the Patriot Act these actions are completely legal. Again, while it can be argued that the Patriot Act contains the necessary provisions for combating terrorism, many have a lack of focus on terrorism or have ... passed into law, "authorities could examine library records only after proving in open court that there was probable cause to suspect that a crime had been committed," says Michele Orecklin, reporter...

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... to develop a control over the country. The NSA is the National Security Agency, responsible for overlooking the information of American citizens. The NSA can access a national data warehouse containing information about everyone who lives in the United States. This is possible for the NSA because they have their interpretation of the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment, which was allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The NSA takes advantage of how ... the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment have not caught up to the new and rapidly growing advancements of technology. This ...

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... a policies purpose it's prudent to understand the actors in a policy; and who's benefiting fiscally or not from a newly formed policy. In the USA PATRIOT Act, the military industrial complex benefits fiscally from the act, for providing the U.S. government with the tools to fight terrorism. However we tend to overlook an important facet of terrorists tactics. The underlying problem is that the terrorist look and act like ordinary citizens ... by installing a secret pathway into a private system and accessing that system with its own password. All of this can be done unknown to the develo...

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... with thirteen charter governments, based off of customs from Great Britain, and it was hard to make laws. This was until the Declaration of Independence was instituted on July 4th, 1776. Then in 1788 the United States Constitution was ratified. Finally in 1791, the Bill of Rights was created. This giving Americans our first ten amendments. From here every American was guaranteed certain rights such ... by law." When an individual commits a crime or is being of accused of one, there is a process that is to be followed. This is where the American Criminal Justice System comes in to play a...

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