Twenty-eight years ago, in 1976, the Animal Welfare Act was passed. ... Before this act was passed, dog fighting was not only a popular sport, but was the only acceptable means of evaluating the integrity of the American Pit Bull Terrier, as a dog and a breed. ... Dog fighting should be legalized because it is a vital tool in evaluating breeding stock, dogs are considered property, the government has no place to dictate what private citizens do with their property, and there are numerous activities and sports that are just as violent and destructive as dog fighting and are legal. ...

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On August 5, 1993, The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed in order to end conflicts between employees and their employers. ... You are not guaranteed freedom of speech, or the right to bear arms, and even search and seizure is diminished by the fact that your personal property is on or in corporate property, which does not belong to you." (1999) Employers are not always at fault. ...

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First of all, there was to be the abolition of property and all rents of land for public purposes. ... This would make sure that power wasn't passed down through families with land or money. ... Second, there was to be the confiscation of property of rebels and immigrants. ...

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The only function of government according to this doctrine is to protect life, liberty, and property." ... Francois Babeuf, the first modern communist, created a Society of Equals dedicated to the abolition of private property and the destruction of all those who held property. ... Soon a progressive income tax was passed, prices on grain were fixed, and the death penalty given out to those who refused to sell at the government's prices. ... The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another...

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No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... Women were second rate citizens, property, before the Constitution stepped in to protect them. ... The idea that the government can pass laws to suppress people because of a moral idea would create an eerie precedent. ...

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No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... Women were second rate citizens, property, before the Constitution stepped in to protect them. ... The idea that the government can pass laws to suppress people because of a moral idea would create an eerie precedent. ...

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Literacy tests required voters to take and pass a test in order to be able to vote. Most freedmen did not know how to write and read and therefore could not pass the tests. ... The "grandfather clause" allowed a person whose grandfather had voted before 1867 to vote without having to pass a literacy test. ... Once again, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the property owner and against the African American petitioner. ...

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The following pages will look closely at the laws passed, the language used and the effect on the daily lives of citizens. ... Most of the bills passed have been an attacks on individuals masked as safety precautions for the community. ... There are a few keys bills that have been passed that make it all too easy for the government to encroach on civil liberties, beginning with the Terrorism Act 2000. ... Part 3 of the Terrorism Act addresses the issue of "terrorist property" and what the government is to do with it. Now let us see what is defined as terrorist property: (a) money or other pr...

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Treating animals as property is not only a matter of law, as it is also seen in Western religion. ... Philosophers, too, have considered the property status of animals. ... Thus, to the law, animals are property whose future is directed by humans. Ironically, animals are not just like any other household property. ... This sets animals apart, giving them special status within the property "system." ...

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Minerva Garcia Money Banking and Credit Mon∙ey [mủnnee] noun Any form or denomination of coin or paper currency of legal tender which passes freely as a medium of exchange. ... Davids 138) Money is a conduit to attain goods, property, or necessities in reward for hard work. ... Goals are reached properties are attained, and dreams are for filled through proper order to run a household one must bank wisely, likewise if a business is the subject. ... Some individuals have good credit based on their incomes or prior upkeep with pass bills. ...

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Capitalism is based upon private ownership of property and every citizen has the right to live their life in any manner he/she chooses, as long as they do not violate the rights of others. ... Immigrants were arriving in America in vast numbers, due to the fact that if you able to make the long ocean journey, the only test that you would have to pass to become an American citizen is a simple health test. ... Instead of the ownership of private property, the government plays a role as to who gets control social property such as banks and factories. ... Income taxes were not yet passed, so they ...

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The free market approach in economic decision-making is based on private ownership of properties and resources, there is no government involvement, whereas the command approach describes a situation in which resources are jointly or publicly owned, everything is government owned. ... In this economic system, the government's role was reduced to only protecting the country against foreign enemies, ensuring competition, maintaining law and order, and protecting individual property rights. ... For example, the elderly and disabled are often passed up for jobs that healthy young people can do...

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The Reform Act slightly increased the number of voters by lowering the property qualifications; but the mass of the working people was still too poor to vote. ... Legislation passed in the decade after 1840 included a law regulating employment in the mines, the Factory Act, and the first Public Health Act. ...

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This allows two branches to deem another branch unconstitutional if a law trying to be passed by a branch is wrong. ... The government makes everyone have the same amount of property, money, and social status. ...

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As the years pass, there are fewer individual rights that are guaranteed by the U.S. ... Some offenses against public safety or public order include failure to disperse, such as when an individual is a member of a group with three or more members who cause substantial risk of harm who threaten damage to property or injury to persons. ... Currently, many passed laws in the state legislatures, or in Congress, reduce these freedoms and allow an increase in the government's ruling of individuals" lives (Finding Common Ground). ...

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Some of those rights are the right to own property and to be tried by a jury. ... Laws were abused, arrests were made without a warrant, searches were conducted unfairly, property was destroyed, and people were placed in detention for long periods of time. ... The newest laws for invasion that the Bush administration has passed will be the same way. ... Second, keep informed on what the government is doing and what laws they are trying to pass. ...

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Back by then, many people were excluded from voting only men of wealth and property were allow to vote, and Canada's government represented only the interests of these few voter. ... "In 1876, for example, British Columbia dropped property ownership as a qualification to vote. ... In accordance with these rules of order, "all bills-public and private must pass through various stages before they become law. ...

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GLBT groups protest for marriage rights and property rights for homosexual partners. ... Legislation needs to pass that allows a person to marry whomever they chose no matter the gender or sexual orientation. ...

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Although it should be fairly obvious that smoking should be banned because of the health risks and addictive properties. ... A grassroots organization would need to lobby congress to create a law, and then congress would have to pass it. ...

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The due process clause maintains that no state can "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law- and the equal protection of the clause states that no state can deny a person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. ... In 1965, Connecticut passed a law restricting married couples the use of contraceptives. ...

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The type of programs that help children do better in class and achieve these high test scores on the standardized tests that our public school boards have deemed so important for our children to pass in order to be successful in life. ... Business will open causing a decrease in unemployment and property values will rise causing an increase in racial integration. ...

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Therefore, even if farmers were as wealthy as businessmen in the East, and their properties were equally valuable, the farmers had to pay a higher taxes, because they were living on land stretching across many acres, as opposed to buildings in the east which were built vertically. ... In the 1860s, the Grange, a small organization of farmers started, and as the years passed, the reform movements become large enough to select candidates for the presidential election. ...

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According to Stacey Chambers the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty discovered that laws have been passed to make many of the activities that are associated with homelessness illegal in forty-two cities. This is mainly achieved by not allowing the homeless to use public property as a place to rest or sleep, placing restrictions on begging, and targeting specific areas where homeless are and forcing them to relocate or in some cases arresting them. ...

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Many companies opt to desert moral principles and pass off inferior merchandise for high quality, to turn out immediate profits but suddenly find themselves in bankruptcy for their "shoddy reputation-. ... Although people thought they should not speak about something "non religious-, the bishops countered that "no dimension of human life lies beyond God's care - In this letter they summarized Church teaching in four main themes: Ultimately all wealth, goods, and property belongs to God. ...

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There are now very many internet censorships going around; such as PIPA ( Protect Internet Privacy Act), PROTECT-IP ( Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act), and SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act). ... It should focus on its own issues first; and if the government  passes a law that law should only apply to the Americans citizen. ...

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