If the United States enacts protectionist laws against offshoring, other countries will pass similar laws and the American economy will suffer. ... Moreover, Moving information technology positions abroad carries an added security risk, important data and intellectual property becomes available to more people outside the company. ... The problems include: - Loss of intellectual property - Unemployment - Loss of expertise - Harming to military secrets - Loss of personal data - Decrease of control and quality - Building the economy of other countries - Tax benefits...

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Marshall stated that the federal government could pass laws under its implied power, the Necessary and Proper clause, which do not violate specific rules stated in the Constitution. ... "It later ruled that non-discriminatory state taxes would be permissible if (1) they are not a directed tax on the federal government or its property, (2) they do not impose an unreasonable burden on the federal government or its instrumentalists [Graves Vs. ... The federal government cannot discriminate how it passes on federal funds to the states. ... He ruled that "The power of taxing the people and their pr...

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Property: Anything that is subject to ownership. According to John Locke, the right to property is a natural right superior to human law. ... In 1764, the Sugar Act was passed, and may colonist were unwilling to pay the required tax. ... In retaliation, the British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774, closing Boston Harbor and placing the government of Boston under direct British control. ... Chief legislator: role includes the State of the Union address every year and the use of veto power over laws passed by Congress. ...

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They should also respect their community by not littering, not stealing or damaging public property (such as not vandalizing or breaking into public property). ... Congress can declare war and veto or pass bills and laws. ...

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Congress had trouble passing laws due to the fact that nine of the thirteen states had to agree before any laws could be passed. Since there was no president or an executive branch, there was no way to make sure that laws passed by Congress were carried out. ... It gave the Congress power to tax (concurrent), coin money (delegated), establish schools (reserved), maintain courts (concurrent), regulate commerce (delegated), pass laws (reserved), and raise armed forces (delegated) that were needed. ... It guaranteed us to life, liberty, and property. ...

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They had no property or money. ... Now, after the war ended, the 13th Amendment was passed to freed the slaves. ... These laws caused Radical Republicans to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866. ... Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867. ... Congress passed this act knowing that Johnson would break it. ...

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On the national health care law, many states have started lawsuits claiming that Congress did not have the authority to require citizens to buy insurance, an important part of the law that was passed to make sure that all people have access to health care. ... Article Four also gave to Congress, not the President, the power to "dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States." ... As Henry Adams said: "The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not...

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The second bill was meant to nullify the "Black Codes", codes that state legislatures passed to subject former slaves to certain restrictions and regulations on their freedom. The bill would guarantee the freedmen "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens". ... After Johnson made it clear that he was going to abandon the Republicans, they passed the Fourteenth Amendment. ...

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A federal court system has jurisdiction over cases such as violating federal regulations (taxes, civil rights, etc), international disputes, intellectual property issues, bankruptcy matters and disputes between states to mention just a few. A state court system has jurisdiction over family law issues, property law issues, professional malpractice issues, personal injury lawsuits and regulation of motor vehicules cases. ... However it is only a suggestion as the final decision comes after voting- 3/5 of Senate votes are required to pass the nomination. ...

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Congress passed war powers bills but they died with the session when the differences between them could not be reconciled. Each passed with majorities big enough to override a veto. The Javits-Stennis-Eagleton bill passed the Senate by a vote of 68 to 16. The Zablocki bill passed the House 344 to 13. ... One was to respond to any act or situation that endangered the United States or its citizens, (but not their property) abroad when the necessity to respond did not allow time for advance congressional authorization. ...

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When the Jacksonians passed the Tariff of 1828, they were spurring western agricultural expansion as well as manufacturing in New England. ... The issue of this case was over the property rights of the Charles Bridge, the monopoly of a corporation, and the Warren Bridge, which would help the community as a whole. ...

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Maryland, in an effort to destroy the Baltimore branch, passed laws to heavily tax it, but the Supreme Court removed those laws, strengthening the central federal power. ... The purpose was to gather up public pressure to have him pass the charter in order to gain reelection. ... But he could tolerate the Indians, if they were civilized enough, so by giving the Indians individual rights to property he also gave them the basis for Western capitalism. ...

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In the national government that the Articles of Confederation maps out, there was no executive branch to help enforce any of the acts passed by Congress. ... With only one house of Congress, each state was only allowed one vote, to add amendments to the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote among all the states and other laws required a 9/13 majority to pass. Especially with minds of different men from different areas of the nation, this made it difficult to pass new laws and amendments. Accounted from a letter from John Jay to George Washington, "will be led by the insecurity of...

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The First Amendment – indeed the entire Bill of Rights – was not included in the Constitution when it was written in 1787. However, the issue of a listing of rights that could not be infringed upon by the new, stronger national government became a key in the ratification debates. Those suppor...

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Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was elected to office from Tennessee just like Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, other North Carolina born presidents. He was a native from the South. But was a supporter of the Union. He served as a military governor of Tennessee du...

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Their lands and properties were then seized by their creditors. ... When this war between Biddle and Jackson was over, Jackson had won his greatest political victory, and the Second Bank of the United States passed out of existence when its charter expired in 1836. ...

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Terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. ... On October 26, 2001, just six weeks after the devistation on September 11, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. ...

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Congress was unable to comply with states to repay pre-war debts to British citizens and allow Loyalists to recover confiscated property. ... Also the Northwest and Land Ordinances were passed under this government. ...

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Finally, in 1841, his motion to repeal the 21st "gag" rule of the House of Representatives was passed by a vote of 108-80. ... It meant that if the men had been brought from Africa before the 1820 treaty banning the importation of slaves, they would have been the property of Ruiz and Montes. ...

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Amin also set up a form of ethnic cleansing by expelling nearly all of the 50,000 Asians in Uganda and seizing their property to be controlled by the military, not benefiting the "common man" as had been suggested. ... There are many functions of Parliament, but their primary function is to pass laws for the governance of Uganda. ... The committee members are elected from members of the current Parliament.4 For a bill to be passed in Parliament it requires a simple majority, and upon passage, must be sent to the President for his signing. ... If the President returns the bill twice, and t...

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The Secretary of Defense is saying, "to provide for the common defense" the federal government can conduct the experiment at Maxwell AFB, which is federal property. ... But did Congress pass any legislation that would grant the Defense Department to conduct such experiments? ...

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All of this happening since 1764 when Britain began rolling their tax snowball it only took 2 years for colonists to really start highly organized groups aimed at revolting the British rule, the Sons of Liberty being one of the first to start removing tax agents and inciting boycotts and eventually aggressive actions like attacking British agents and destroying British property. ... Prior to his terms in office the vote was limited to property owners or taxpayers, but during his administration it came to include virtually all white male adults, with few exceptions involving property requireme...

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Upon taking office President Obama called Congress to pass legislation to reform the health care system in the country. ... In 2009, a health care bill would pass through the house, finally giving Obama the public option, this would allow more people to have access to more affordable health care. With this bill coming to pass through the house, it would lead to the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. ... In 2010, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the net effect of both health care laws passed by the Obama...

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President Jackson hated the Bank of the United States. No bank in America had more power than it, and Jackson mistrusted monopolistic banking. The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. The President of the Bank was Nicholas Biddle. The war between Jackson and Biddle erupt...

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Many citizens feels that it is the task of the state to preserve such birthrights as life, liberty, and property. ... In recent years, such growth in the state and local levels has led to an increased interest in implementation activities- those activities and tasks undertaken after a law is passed (Ripley 24). ...

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