... but the arrangement adopted at that time failed to win the necessary approval for action (Barteby accessed 12th September 2003). Constitutional reform became more pressing after 1976, when Quebec elected Parti Quebecois, who formed a government committed to sovereignty-association or independence (Hall accessed 12th September 2003). Voters hoped that constitutional change would strengthen national unity ... would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. Eventually all premiers supported Trudeau, except Levesque, largely because Trudeau offered something each wanted ...

• Word Count: 2748
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of ... so better accepted then, than they are today? Perhaps Franklin's American Dream is no longer applicable to today's society, or at least not to its many ethical dimensions and moral codes. Or...

• Word Count: 3113
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Graduate

... religion, outlawing only a formal relation such as had prevailed in England and some of the colonies" (Rutledge) but rather alienate those associations. There needed to be a "complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority by comprehensively forbidding every form of public aid or support for religion" (Rutledge) to keep the language of the ... a broader interpretation of the separation of church and state, while they ought to have applied a narrower interpretation. In observation of the fact that there is and should be a clear and permanent sep...

• Word Count: 3421
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a parliamentary democracy. Its constitution is partly unwritten and is flexible. The constitution's basic sources are legislative enactments of Parliament and decisions made by courts of law. The reigning monarch is permanent head of state. Royal powers are largely honorific; for instance, the right to veto legislative acts has not been exercised since the early 18th century. Executive power is wielded by ... Cabinet are fully in charge. They are responsible, as the guiding committee of Parliament, for the preparation and enactment of most legislation and of the budget. There can be no ...

• Word Count: 3105
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... having to 'show your papers'. Not only would people forced to go through identity checkpoints experience some degree of fear and surprise, but also knowing that this has become a permanent part of the social fabric would diminish their sense of liberty." Elaine Schmottlach, a former ballot clerk in the state of New Hampshire, told a journalist for ProPublica how the ID ... ...

• Word Count: 2997
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... committing a crime of violence or drug-trafficking. Since the 1968 legislation the national debate over gun control and the secondary debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment have become permanent features of American life. In the last two decades these debates have become more powerful by the development of organizations with strong ideology. The pro-gun lobby is one of ... ...

• Word Count: 2786
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate