... 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 ... too much personal influence into their decision-making and only made decisions that would benefit themselves. Others argued this sentiment claiming that many Framers" were not wealthy ...

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... 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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... 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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... saw people as unequal, and they should be happy for what they, also to have respect for tradition. The school of conservatism though can be associated with Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, and Martin Luther's Secular Authority. In Plato's work he talks about a philosopher King, who is the most wises person to rule over everyone else. There are three social class, gold class (elites), sliver ... class (guardians) and bronze class (working poor). (Plato Republic) Plato doesn't believe in equality, he said that people should step outside the mind compactly. Aristotle's work is simil...

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... concerned with trade. The fourth weakness ensured the demise of the Confederation by making it too difficult to correct the first three (Story 49-50). Congress soon found itself facing a mounting national debt that it was unable to pay on its own and unable to force the states to assume. Since change was virtually impossible, because of the requirements for a unanimous amendment process, the Articles ... . Noticeably absent were the revolutionary leaders of the effort for independence in1775-76, such as John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson (93-94). The convention was originall...

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... rather die than not be able to voice his opinions so he calmly drank the poison (hemlock) and then sat with his friends in philosophical conversation (Zueschner 17). Ironically his disciple Plato was for intellectual, religious, and artistic censorship. Plato is one of the many that ... . He believed that even if the tales told are true, they should not be taught to "thoughtless young people." Plato writes, "A child cannot distinguish the allegorical sense from the literal, and the ideas he takes in at that age are ... likely to become indelibly fixed; hence the great importance of see...

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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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... raises and promotions. In 2013 seven out of ten graduates left college in debt, adding up a grand total of one trillion dollars in debt. One trillion dollars in debt is greater than both America's credit card debt and automobile loans falling second to only mortgages. One trillion dollars in debt is the greatest amount that graduates have ever owed, tripling in the past decade, and out ... an unbelievable amount for a college graduate just earning their degree. As the years pass by, and the interest rates continue to add on to the already outrageous debt, college graduates will still fe...

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... , the cost of running the government exceed all prior periods combine. An other significant occurrence in the 1984 elections, Ross Perot brought to the public attention how badly the government mismanaged its funds in detail. M. Gross stated (1992) "The debt is a double-barreled whammy. Not only does it keep the long bound up, but because the government is constantly borrowing new money ... annual interest carrying charges regularly rise as well. In 1993, with an expected $348 billion deficit, we will be paying $315 billion in interest just to carry the debt. The debt and deficit create ...

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... situations. A weakness of the Articles of Confederation was the inability to tax and the inability to regulate foreign and interstate commerce. First, there was an enormous amount of nation debt that Congress wasn't able to effectively deal with. Even with $35 million dollars in debt, Congress had to keep borrowing more and more money to pay off the accumulating interest that came with their (the USA ... 's) debt. Congress was unable to tax the states to pay off this massive debt, so all Congress was able to do was to ask for money from the ... could set trade deals (Southern states with...

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... underprivileged Woodzies? Will the Duda tribe make up half of the countries taxes, so that they are then divided into 4 equal parts for each tribe? Such questions can be difficult to solve. In Iraq, there is a heavy national debt. Although Ahmed Chalabi has been quoted saying that economic problems can be solved, it may take years, if not decades ... Iraqi economy. The United State's economy also set off with a huge national debt of 76 million dollars after gaining independence from Britain (which is an enormous amount in today's terms). Congress's ability to collect money from the stat...

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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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... at Title 12 s. 152 which states: Lawful money of the United States shall be construed to mean gold and silver coin and Blacks Law Dictionary which defines money as not embracing any form of debt such as notes, bonds, etc are all forms ammunition that are used against the legitimacy and ... system with a fixed weight and measure so our money could not be devalued as it is today. Having a gold standard and keeping the power to coin money with Congress and the Treasury also prevented private interests from influencing legislation, which helped international banksters steal the land that our...

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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 ... the truth about guns and the basic concept of self-defense. Obviously, it is not in the best interest of criminals to attack victims who are armed and ready to defend themselves. Wright and Rossi found that 39 perce...

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... . Problems such as disunity, slavery, foreign/interstate relations, land disputes, and national debt led to the formation of the Articles of Confederation in 1777. America's first constitution, however, only lasted ten years until fifty-five delegates met in Philadelphia with the same common purpose: to preserve the American union, protect the American democracy from abroad, and curb the unrestrained ... Both Spain and England, while encouraging Native American tribes to be restless, prevented the U.S. from controlling even half of its territory. The French even demanded the repayment of ...

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