Those in favor of a "marriage protection- amendment will use tradition and morality as foundation for their arguments. ... 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. ... It would grant the government the ultimate power, giving it the ability to act on impulse makings oppressive laws based on what it thinks is right. A marriage definition ...

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Those in favor of a "marriage protection- amendment will use tradition and morality as foundation for their arguments. ... 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. ... It would grant the government the ultimate power, giving it the ability to act on impulse makings oppressive laws based on what it thinks is right. A marriage definition ...

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One of the recently proposed acts is the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003. ... With the passage of this act, the US Forest Service will be allowed to conduct large harmful logging projects without considering alternative measures. "It uses the tragedy caused by last year's wildfires as an excuse to rob the people not only of their forests, but also of their rights under federal law to seek strong protection for those forests. ... Currently, I do not support this act. ...

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This party passed the Alien and Sedition Act in 1798. ... The next most important issue is the protection and expansion of borders as well as gain respect from other countries. ... Although, seen as having alternate motives, this act was formed as a result of the Quasi War with France in 1798-1800. ... One of the last more important issues America had to face was protection of our international commerce. ... There are many issues of self-protection, financial independence, and growth at hand. ...

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Affirmative-action protection for Hispanics and other immigrants -- legal or illegal -- is another matter. ... In the Voting Rights Act, and in federal legislation and regulations giving benefits to minority contractors, a form of affirmative action is already enshrined in law. Blacks, whose leaders strenuously but unsuccessfully resisted sharing the Voting Rights Act with Hispanics, will not need to be convinced of the wisdom of restricting affirmative action to themselves. ... On the other hand, one suspects that blacks will not be joined by their white liberal allies, who will probably see ...

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The glass-Steagall banking act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which insured individual bank deposits up to $2500. ... Now the government had a plan for social insurance called the Social Security Act of 1935 which created a system of social insurance directed at several specifically designed categories of people. ... This boosted the economy again and provided protection and rights to every single American. ... Now there are plenty of opportunities for the unemployed, employed and the protection of peoples money because of FDR. ...

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The Americans with Disabilities act of 1990 addressed these problems on the national lever. ... This decision led to aggressive action by the gay community to counteract prejudice and to lobby for legal protections. ... Supreme Court ruled that the states could not deny basic civil rights protections to homosexuals. ... On November 21,1991, the President George Bush signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The 1991 Act had a drastic effect on employment discrimination cases. ...

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Homer Plessy was a "passenger [on a train] between two stations within the states of Louisiana. " however he was "seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth black " --the amount of African American in his blood was hardly visible on his complexion-- and was arrested and put on trial for sitting in the "White " section of the train and violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act. Plessy went to court and argued that the Separate Car Act violated the "equal " protection of the law clause Fourteenth Amendment. ... Supreme Court conclude that state laws requiring "separate but equal schools violated t...

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Along with the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment also implies a protection of privacy. ... The final protection of personal privacy is implied in the First Amendment that calls for the "freedom of association courts have found that this implies the right to keep one's associations private" (Gottfried 10). ... By recording the actions of every person who walks into a wired room law enforcement officials are taking away the protection of unreasonable searches which is guaranteed in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. ... However the Freedom of Information Act did not ensure th...

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On Fear and Freedom The dawn of Orwellian Era: An analysis of USA Patriot Act and its implication on Telecommunication By Tafheem Bari My paper is on the legislation passed by the congress known as USA Patriot Act. ... The USA patriot act has given the executive branch sweeping powers in the name of fighting terror both within USA and the world. ... Below Title III, the next tier of privacy protection covers some of those matters, which the Supreme Court has described as beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment protection - telephone records, e-mail held in third party storage...

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A Summary of The Nuclear Weapons Cleanup Abstract Many people feel that nuclear weapons have served as a security mechanism for our nation. At what point is the security of our nation at more risk by having nuclear weapons and their wastes? The Hanford Nuc...

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Although the purpose of the book was clearly stated, which is to provide a wider picture of reality that is happening in a transgender's workplace and subsequent scrutiny of constitutional legislations pertaining to transgender employment protections, it has its own limitations. ... In rectifying transgender injustice, Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law emphasized civil laws with relevance, like the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), specifically the Rehabilitation Act and Title I, to the stigmatization of transgender people labeling them as "dis...

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This act allows the government to bend the rules of the 4th Amendment to ensure the safety of citizens; giving power to the government that can be abused. ... 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. ... His public display of this information forced the government to cover their tracts and spin this story to make it seem as if this invasion of privacy is for the protection of this nation. The NSA is taking advantage of the American people by making them believe it is solely for their prote...

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Supporters of this amendment claim that it is " needed because the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not provide adequate protection against sex discrimination." ... Rather than rightly defining rape as an act of violence, it was deemed instead as a sexual act. ...

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Female leaders played a crucial part in U.S. history, working for progressive social welfare programs that included the creation of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1912 and the passage of the Sheppard-Towner Infancy and Maternity Protection Act in 1921. Sara Evans notes in America Born for Liberty that during the Depression, women defined and supported programs that became the basis for the New Deal, including the Social Security Act, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Wilson 2000). ...

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A Northern victory would mean ultimate freedom for slaves; a Southern victory would insure the protection of slavery in all Confederate states. ... Congress was busy passing legislation such as the Morrill Tariff Act, the National Banking Act, and the Homestead Act of 1862. ...

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The most widely cited argument for the death penalty is the claim that it is an effective deterrent against the criminal act of murder. The argument suggests that defending one's life against the threat of potential legal execution would override any inclinations to commit the act of murder, also assuming that the potential murderer is of the condition to make rational decisions. ... Many Americans feel that the act of murder can only be justified with the loss of the life of the murderer. ... The death penalty violates the constitutional guarantee of the equal pro...

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A respectable group who educated blacks and taught them how to be productive members of society, was the Union League; also, the Union League provided protection for blacks in danger of being terrorized. ... The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was soon brought into play. It was "an act to provide for the more efficient government in the Rebel States." ... This act stated that there was no legal government in any of the Ex-Confederate states except Tennessee. ... Life was tried to make much safer for Southern Blacks with the Force Acts and the Ku Klux Klan Act. ...

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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. ... The main problem with these policies is that they are too broad to provide any protection. ...

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- radical reconstruction- the act divided the former Confederate states into five military districts, each having constitutional conventions in which blacks would participate, backed by protection by fed troops. these conventions were mandated to draft new constitutions, which had to include provisions for aan suffrage. ...

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When students are aware of the issues facing them in elections, they become knowledgeable and can act in that manner to better their society. ... They act like anything that personally does not affect their personal lives doesn't concern them. ... Democracy is a system of self-government where the citizens are equal and political decisions are made by majority rule, but always with the protection of minority rights. ...

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Police intervention rarely provides a woman any real, immediate protection. ... The United Stated passed the "VAWA" Violence Against Women Act (Cyber.law.harcard.edu). And Amendment XIV states No state Shall 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. ... Marva Wallace's husband beat her often throughout their one year marriage and made her perform a sex act on him while their two year old daughter watched afterewards Marva Wallace went to the bedroom, got a shot gun and s...

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Not only do firearms play a large role in self protection, but also the use of firearms as sport has become very popular and needed. ... Trigger locks make a firearm more difficult to discharge and act as a safety precaution in carrying and owning guns. ... On the subject of self protection, is there really one right answer? ...

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American Industries were no longer child industries, they had grown and were now needed more and more protection from foreign trade competition. ... He also worked out the Deposit act and the Specie Circular act to keep capitalist and wealthy politicians who used the fluctuating cash value to remove large sum's of money from the bank. The Specie Circular act required that all land would be bought in gold and silver pieces. The Deposit act raised the amount of banks that were deposit banks. ...

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Abstinence, which simply means the act or practice of refraining from some action, in this case, sex, may be the only 100% guaranteed method to remain safe, but is it realistic in today's society? ... The idea that teens are not going to act on their impulses and feelings is simply irrational and unwise. ... Curiosity and sexual desires happen during puberty and teens will act on these urges, being naive to this fact and teaching abstinent only sex education can harm the adolescent more than we know. ... Sex education can offer statistics on diseases, pregnancies, and serious untreatable ...

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