... 200 Lawyers. However, comparatively there was pretty much 9 sectors of professionals in the 1st congress and on the 112th there was 21 sectors of professions. It started with the least number of members who were teachers or diplomats. It strung all the way to a firefighter, a astronaut, documentary filmmaker, and a comedian being the lonely professions in the 112th Congress.(Maher, Kathleen) If ... 79th and 92nd congress which had 40% of representative listing professional law backgrounds as primary profession. However, it did seem to declined starting in the 97th Congress. Since 1945 t...

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... $ 3.25 a week (Green, p 13). After the Civil War, the industrial revolution took off. Businesses soared. Along with new businesses, labor was needed. As the number of factories started to grow in the United States, so did the number of people required to tend them. Immigrants came to the U.S. to make a better living for themselves and their families. Immigrants came to America with ... to the Supreme Court, the court said that child labor laws were unconstitutional, because of laissez faire. The concept of child labor was brought to the Supreme Courts attention countless numbers of time...

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... Legal basis for the Mexican bracero program, which lasted through 1964. The Displaced Persons Act of June 25, 1948 was a respond to the large numbers of Europeans who had been turned into refuges by World War Two. It also marked the first Major expression of U.S. policy for admitting persons ... the 50's, 60's, and 70's because of communist oppression. The Refugee Act established procedures for consultation between the president and congress on the numbers and allocations of refugees to be admitted in to the country in each fiscal year. It also established procedures on how to respond to...

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... punitive philosophy of the criminal justice system filtered down to the juvenile justice system and ushered in significant changes in policies and procedures for handling juvenile offenders. Large numbers of juvenile offenders were removed from the juvenile justice system and placed in the criminal justice system. Blended sentence provisions were enacted into law along with offense-based ... the "get tough " trend in juvenile justice. Judicial waiver statutes represent the most prevalent transfer mechanism used in 45 states (Griffin, 2012), although these statutes account for the fewes...

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... website of the Federation for American Immigration Reform explains how the first great wave of immigrants came to the U.S. In the early 19th century, large numbers of people from Western Europe left their countries to escape poverty. Many of the immigrants also came to escape religious persecution and political oppression. By ... U.S. as well. In 1921, a congressional enactment created a quota system for immigrants, by which the number of aliens of any nationality admitted to the United States in a year could not exceed three percent of the number of foreign-born residents of that nation...

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... for they violate natural law and/or divine intentions (reproduction is between a man and a woman). Another plausible reason for this opposition of same-sex marriage is that a few passages in a number of sacred texts such as the first testament condemn homosexuality and homosexual acts and behavior. Also, marriage in religious tradition is between solely a man and a woman. Orthodox Judaism opposes same ... so that the rights established under one state's wills, contracts and deeds are legal in all the other states ("full faith and credit clause.") The gay rights movement started with a n...

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... are at the same time trying to find their own unique identity. In the minds of teens their personal space and objects become private property, and their parents become their number one enemy. For generations teenagers have tried to keep their parents from even stepping one toe into their bedroom. They hang signs on their bedroom doors stating "no parents allowed ... monitoring of telephone conversations and e-mail, workers are frequently subjected to the scrutiny of hidden video cameras, can be required to type at computers that monitor the number of errors they make and the numbers of ...

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... available in the black market. A parallel can thus be drawn between the current policy and Prohibition. There is consumption, of high-potency drugs, which may not exist in such a large numbers if drugs are legalized and regulated by the government. Legalization will take time to put into place. You will not be able to go the local supermarket and pick up ... black market, the license would be confiscated immediately without any warnings or second chances. In addition to restricting entry into this industry through licensure, there would be a limit on the number of coffeeshops that could...

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... . Since 1982, there has been a sixty percent decrease in alcohol-related traffic fatalities involving young drivers. (NHTSA, Feb. 1997) Since then, the number of DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) arrests, youth suicides, crime, and marijuana use has gone down in drastic numbers. In 1987 alone, 1071 lives were saved as a result of this one law. (NHTSA, Feb. 1997) There was also a sixteen percent ... ...

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... to America, Native Americans have been forcibly deprived of their lands and denied civil rights. Congress enacts the Indian Civil Rights Act in 1968, and the Federal courts have entertained a number of suits designed to restore to Native American Tribes ancestral lands and hunting and fishing rights. Discrimination has taken many different forms. For many years Urban voters were denied equal ... employment Frasier 5 is also forbidden. Harassment in the workplace based on the race or employees who are actually bound to eradicate hostile environments may not tolerate sex. Although there a...

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... the completion of an hour, quite gone, as if they had never come into being- While, of course, this could have been true, the "many troops" must have been a small number compared to the Egyptian army, if they had defeated them in one hour, illustrating to the historian the sense of arrogance in these annals. Another example of this exaggeration is ... be rather highly coloured. While the lists of rewards and booty collected from the different towns seem long, a closer look reveals the towns to be of small sizes with small numbers of people, indicating a rather easy conquest for the Egyp...

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... International Tribunal for Rwanda (the Arusha Tribunal), to prosecute the main architects of the genocide and thereby contribute to the revival of peace and reconciliation"(Relief Web). The accused, which numbers over a hundred thousand are in jail awaiting trial for their crimes. In October, 1945, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia issued an indictment against twenty-four men and ... what cases will be heard. The Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court was established in 1998 by a resolution of the Final Act of the Rome Conference. It was assigned ...

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... rituals. Every religion is allowed a certain schedule of time to practice their beliefs. However, if two religious groups are wanting the chapel at the same time the larger group by number of members is allowed the chapel, and the smaller group is allowed a smaller room. Inmates have the right to wear religious symbols as long as they are not a threat or ... . Since an inmate is under the care of the state than he is entitled to the same amount of care as the general public whom does not have insurance. Growing numbers of incarcerated individuals suffer disproportionately from tuberculos...

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... off the Internet is an uncomplicated process. Hackers based in the U.S and offshore, mine data automatically from a variety of sources. The gleaning of this data provides social security numbers, names, credit card numbers, etc. at will and without regard to legal authority. In some countries there is very little legal guidelines for the prosecution of hacking and the hackers in these countries ... ...

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... and can help to make improvements to the institutions already in place. The comparative method does not always have to be used cross-nationally to be effective. Countries with large numbers of provinces or states, such as Canada or the US, which have a degree of independence from the federal government, provide a substantial field for comparison. We have already concluded that political ... ...

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... really did was push the prostitutes off the streets and has created a much more dangerous work environment. There appears to be some evidence that suggests the Bill resulted in increased numbers of murders and serious assaults against prostitutes . How can a law exist that has been proven to be ineffective and also increases the likelihood of prostitutes being harmed? If it was ... ...

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... the field of computing. In my opinion Moore's Law are important to the computing because this law will help the computer processing power or the number of transistors on a chip to double every 24 months which means that the more transistors will be more accurate. Therefore, as I have realize ... devices which also has been linked to the Moore's law. An e.g. will be Sensors, Processing Speed, Memory Capacity, I-pads, Tablets and even the number and size of pixels in Digital Cameras. (Mooreslaw.org, n.d.)[3]. The another thing why Moore's Law has been important to the computing is because ...

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... a new constitution then Basic law would be dropped -Art. 23-If a part of Germany joins or succeeds then Basic Law will take effect throughout Germany(this happened) B. Unification -Required a number of economic and political unification treaties, after which the country had 5 new "states- for a total of 16 Lãnder C. Federalism(states have lots of power) -Emerges w/states as there ... to initiate legislation and Parliament can give them the authority to issue legislative decrees. In the end they are responsible to Parliament. -The President is essentially an "elder statesmen- w/ a number...

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... would no longer steal to pay black-market prices for drugs, a real gain. But some, perhaps a great deal, of that gain would be offset by the great increase in the number of addicts- (Wilson, 339). Even if the legalization of drugs only pertained to those who were already addicted, these patients could and probably would, demand more than they needed and ... sell the excess on the streets and add to the already increasing number of addicts. The number of drug addicts are kept much smaller through the illegality of drugs than if they were to become legal. One of the main arguments for the...

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... he tried to be guided by the laws of nature and co-ordinated all the physical actions of human beings by the very simple laws of "number and reason".[3] In spiritual or moral training, he regarded the human being as the most sacred and responsible of all orders, unable in reason to ... moral teachings and scientific theories. But when he compared the two in a general way as to wealth, armament, and the greatest happiness for the greatest number, he put the East below the West. Granted that a nation's destiny depends upon the education of its people, there must be some fundamental differen...

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... information such as, name, address, telephone, etc. Of course this is to ensure the lessor, that you are legitimate. The next section covers the information about the car. Vehicle identification number (VIN), body style, color, etc. This is to make sure there is no discrepancy over what kind of car you agreed to, and what kind of car you will get ... itemization of the charges incurred during the lease process. This states the gross capital cost (over all total value of the car), capitalized cost and reduction, residual value, and the number of lease payments that incurred in the durati...

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... of Australia. Over time the workload of the High Court was increased so much that it was necessary to appoint more judges. In 1906 the number of judges was increased to five. In 1913 the number of judges appointed to the High Court was again increased to seven. During the Great Depression the workload of the High Court decreased so much that ... only five justices were needed. It wasn't until 1946 that the number of judges was once again increased to seven. The number of justic! es in the High Court has remained at seven ever since (High Court, date accessed 25 May 2001). Even though th...

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... as a manager in charge of billing and timesheets. At the time, The VDT paid its contractors according to an estimation of the number of hours they would work to finish a project. Each contractor was responsible for submitting the estimated number of hours they would work and could only receive money up to that limit. Any hours that were worked beyond their estimations ... money on the table." To benefit fully from the payment allocation, Webb manipulated the timesheets and invoices that were sent to the VDT. He inflated them close to the maximum number of hours pre-approved for billing....

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... 2,000 innocent persons convicted of rape and murder were exonerated, clearing their names in the process" (Chinn, Death Penalty Infographic). In California alone, there have been an outstanding total number of one hundred forty one exonerations of death row inmates. This means one hundred forty one death row inmates were wrongfully convicted to the death penalty, but were later saved ... after appealing their cases. When comparing the number of other convicted murders' exoneration to the number of death row inmates' exonerations, death row inmates were nine times more likely to get exon...

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... debate about same sex relationship rights has been brought to light from the recent referendum in Ireland passing gay marriage. There has been a number of changes not only in Australia's views but this has realised through Australian legislation. A number of these changes have been in the areas of: Property, Medical Rights, Superannuation Rights and Taxation legislation, there was also attempt of Gay ... relationship' category will usually mean that a same-sex couple can access similar entitlements to an opposite-sex couple. But this wasn't always the case, before 2008 homosexuals could...

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