... that the House of Representatives would select the President. Under this scenario, the Members of the House of Representatives would cast their votes within their respective state. The candidate who receives the majority of the votes within the state, gets that states one vote. Therefore, it would only take 26 of the 50 states votes in the House of Representatives to win the election. Also, in theory many Representatives would vote according to Party ... lines, and others may feel it necessary to vote for the candidate who carried their district, further confusing ... ...

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... death penalty in the juvenile justice system. 16 and 17 years old tried in adult court can be given the death penalty. According to Simonsen (1991), states that procedural rights are rights pertaining to statutory laws and are accorded to juveniles during the fact-finding process of a juvenile case. Such rights range from the right to a trial by jury, not yet a reality, to the right to legal counsel (p. 258). The procedural rights guaranteed ... to juveniles in court proceedings are: right of notice of ... ...

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... have been discussed concerning the different phases of the Court since its creation are still alive for debate in the present day, particularly, according to Sanford Levinson, the current ideas of Civil Rights in America. In looking back from the 1930's to the 1960's, it can be concluded that the movements of the time provided many occasions for the Court to decide what role it wanted to play to ensure justice. Today, the Court must continually ... interpret the differences between these rights, including the "freedom of speech," as well ... ...

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... Carolina and the city of Boston experienced similar results when stricter gun control laws were recently enforced. In Boston the homicide rate dropped by 39% and in South Carolina the murder rate dropped by 28% (Kruschke 23). These are just some example of cities and states that have realized that strict gun control is one way of decreasing high murder rates. According to a survey conducted ... by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research revealed ... that the majority of Americans would like to see guns more tightly regulated ("Fire Control"). Let's face it, a shooting is n...

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... are generally more tolerant of creed race and religion it is not untrue to say that ethnic minorities particularly of the African American community are still underrepresented by a government that is dominated by white middle and upper class males. [4] "According to a study conducted by the economists Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, and David C Clingman, the average income for a black American is 61% less per annum than their ... white counterparts. The same percentage difference as it was in 1880. Black levels of unemployment have also been roughly twice those ... ...

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... as those serving in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Council of Economic Advisers, the National Security Council (NSC), and the office of the White House Chief of Staff. The legislative branch The legislative branch is the Congress, which has two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Powers granted to Congress under the Constitution include the power to levy taxes, borrow money ... least one federal judge. District judges are appointed for life terms by the president with the consent of the Senate. Appeals from district-court decisions are carried to the cour...

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... endeavor led to the eventual passing of the 19th amendment. The victors who can be accredited to the abolition of slavery and the fight for Women's Rights are the many courageous women who dared to take a stand for freedom and equality, within society. Incidentally, the Abolition movement gave women a rare and untraditional opportunity to be public advocates to the people of America. With the spotlight finally shining ... and Women's Rights leader. Being unmarried and independent, Susan, was an exceedingly vigorous campaigner and organizer. She became the face and name of the Women's Suf...

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... exercise of religion, has been "elaborated by the decisions of this Court prior to the application of the First Amendment to the states by the Fourteenth" (Black). Because the of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause "was interpreted to make the prohibitions of the First applicable to state action abridging religious freedom" (Black) the loose interpretation of the amendments have been accepted into the Court which is why "there is every ... reason to give the same application and broad interpretation to the "establishment of religion ... ...

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... endeavor led to the eventual passing of the 19th amendment. The victors who can be accredited to the abolition of slavery and the fight for Women's Rights are the many courageous women who dared to take a stand for freedom and equality, within society. Incidentally, the Abolition movement gave women a rare and untraditional opportunity to be public advocates to the people of America. With the spotlight finally shining ... and Women's Rights leader. Being unmarried and independent, Susan, was an exceedingly vigorous campaigner and organizer. She became the face and name of the Women's Suf...

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... California illegally obtained evidence was still admissible in the court. The case then made it to the Supreme Court, who ruled to overturn the lower court's ruling. The opinions proved to be very important to the incorporation debates. Frankfurter wrote the majority opinion in which they said the actions of the police "shocked the conscience " and thusly violated Rochin's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process. Justice Black wrote the consenting opinion in which he argued that ... gone on to become incorporated, though the trickiest amendment has definitely been the Second. The lang...

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... where this is not the case, but those circumstances meet one of the following criteria: (1) the situation is one involving hot pursuit; (2) exigent circumstances prohibit the securing of a warrant; (3) the automobile exception applies; (4) the evidence is discovered during the inventory process; or (5) the search is incidental to a lawful arrest, which resulted from the case of Chimel v. California where the Court significantly reduced the scope of the search incident to arrest. Among the variety of searches ... that may take place (i.e., the voluntary or consensual search, plain view d...

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... just for one group. Just recently, in Chicago, laws were passed to breakup the gathering of young people on street corners, if the belief was to be gathering was gang-related. The both cases were ruled to be unconstitutional. The freedom of assembly protects the gathering of any group. The petitions say that people have the right to appeal to the government in favor of or against policies that affect them or that ... say that is true freedom? (www.firstamendmentcenter.org) How about the freedom of the press and speech? "The rights to freedom of speech allows individuals to express thems...

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... election. The power of the Commons greatly exceeds that of the monarch or of the Lords. Although the monarch officially has the power to reject legislation passed by Parliament, no ruler has done so since the early 1700s. The Constitution of the USA provides for a government with three separate branches: the executive, represented by the President; the legislative, represented by Congress; and the judicial represented by the Supreme Court. In the British system the executive and the legislative ... committees consider all legislation before it is presented to the House as a whole. The c...

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... local papers (the Richmond Times Dispatch and the Charlotte Observer) mentioned that the students actually pointed their guns at the attacker. In all, seventy-two stories described how the attacker was stopped, without mentioning that the student heroes had guns. But almost the same number of stories (sixty-eight) provided precise details on the gun used in the attack. Larry Elder host of ... KABC radio in Los Angeles had a particularly disheartening discussion with a "readers" representative" for the Los Angeles Times. The representative told Elder "Even if ... of cases in which a vict...

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... political gain which is sought after. It is in this area where the argument to follow will be of interest. The topic I want to discuss is the argument of using "soft money" in political election campaigns. Let me start with a simple definition of what "soft money" is. According to a web site dedicated to informing the public about the inherent dangers with "soft money" as associated with politics is simply defined ... Senate. Because these corporations have almost an unlimited supply of money at their disposal, it is easier for them to control or at least manipulate the policy making pr...

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... in California and 2 1/2 in Massachusetts) that had limited their tax revenues. Privatization allowed states to move public services funded by taxation into the private sector--cutting costs dramatically. According to Libertarians, privatization and a free-market is one of the key ways we can limit the power and intrusiveness of our government. Nationwide studies indicate that industries that have been privatized such ... GDP, grew by 9.7%. That is nearly f times the rate of growth in the U.S. for the same year." (24:2) Libertarians offer a similar privatization solution regarding our coll...

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... in California and 2 1/2 in Massachusetts) that had limited their tax revenues. Privatization allowed states to move public services funded by taxation into the private sector--cutting costs dramatically. According to Libertarians, privatization and a free-market is one of the key ways we can limit the power and intrusiveness of our government. Nationwide studies indicate that industries that have been privatized such ... GDP, grew by 9.7%. That is nearly f times the rate of growth in the U.S. for the same year." (24:2) Libertarians offer a similar privatization solution regarding our coll...

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... 1776 would be published weeks later on the 29th of June. Section 16 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights stated, "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Though the declaration also describes a "mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other," the very language of the 1776 document is important. The Declaration of Rights did not say ... , support, or promote abortion-related drugs. In this mandate, one will read an extremely narrow definition of religion and it is a test to determ...

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... Must abhor and destroy at any cost. 3rd The American Constitution assures the absolute independence of the civil from the ecclesiastical of church power; but the Church of Rome declares that such independence is an impiety and revolt against God. 4th The American Constitution leaves every man free to serve God according 2 the the dictates of his conscience; but the Church of Rome declares that no man has ever ... had such a right, and that the pope alone can know and say what man must believe and do. 5th The Constitution of the United States denies the right for anybody to punish any oth...

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... voters could use absentee ballots, which do not require the same level of identification, or get one of the free cards that the state - in a hollow promise - has vowed to distribute," according to an opinion article in the New York Times. The problem with this argument is that the alternative options being provided for those without the proper ID are still discouraging for three main reasons. ... all. It takes self-identification, a process linked to criminal apprehension, and makes it a condition that an innocent person must comply with in order to exercise their constitutional right to...

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... crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?- (Thoreau 119). He calls on other abolitionists to withdraw from the government and to dissociate with it. Of consequences he says that if the state chooses to imprison men for unjust reasons that the place that a man should feel most just is in a prison. He says that one can combat injustice much better ... a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax- (Thoreau 126). Of changing men though, he sa...

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... believes that Gun-control laws do not work. Believing that they act perversely because: While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny, and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. According to the Civil Rights group, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, every major genocide has been preceded by a wide ranging gun control law including ... the Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938 was the law that prevented their victims from owning firearms. David E. Newton shows that between the ...

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... be penal in nature. Imagine for a moment, that section 501 of the Patriot Act II is passed unscathed. This would expand the definition of "enemy combatant" to any individual who commits "any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or State law." According to this logic, speeding down the freeway at seventy miles an hour makes someone an enemy combatant, because ... speed laws are supposedly intended as protection from the life-threatening tactics a speeder might ... employ on the road. Now that said speeder is an enemy combatant, he has "inferred from conduct...

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... appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional." (Mason, 168) The ability of Congress to exercise its constitutional authority required some implied powers that were "necessary and proper" means to achieve enumerated ends. According to Marshall, the Tenth Amendment did not prohibit the use of implied powers because, unlike the Articles of Confederation, it lacked ... the word "expressly." "We admit, that the 10th amendment to the Constitution is merely declaratory;" Marshall wro...

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... spirited' people, as he strove for independence, or freedom, from British influence and order. Franklin is taken in history to have launched the revolution in the minds of the American people, and for the good of the people, although many suggest he took on this role during the first rumblings of independence so that he may assume power of these apparently free thinking, self sufficient people. If ... hard become a strong, successful, intellectual member of society. Perhaps this can be acknowledged of eighteenth century America also, due to the varied backgrounds of the population, and th...

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