... turning it into a police state (Nieves). Some of the provisions and federal executive orders written in the act pose a direct threat to individual civil liberties. For instance, Title 215 allows the government "access to records and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Talanian). This lets the FBI examine records from libraries and bookstores to see what a suspected terrorist has ... for their rights and refusing this sort of service to the FBI ("Librarians"). Another indication of the encroachment of the government on civil liberties can be found in Title 802 o...

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... need for funding to attend college" (Calhoun). Pell Grants do not have to be paid back, and one can receive a Pell Grant for each year they attend a post-secondary institution. Title I Grants "provide financial assistance to local education agencies and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging ... states- and abolishing the department of education" (John S.). Unfortunately, liberals in the House of Representatives have blocked the attempts to enforce the Constitution. In 2002, the No Child Left B...

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... Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the actions by the San Francisco Unified School District had indeed violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI regulates requirements and federal funding given to aid in the educational practices of English Language Learners throughout the ... country (Civil Rights Act of 1964). The Supreme Court stated that, in regards to students who do not understand ... helped bring out the acceptance and realization that language is incorporated to national origin and is not to be discriminated against. The Education Opportunities Act, developed ...

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... commerce exceeded Congress' powers under the Commerce Clause and violated other parts of the Constitution. The Supreme Court upheld the legality of the act, stating that Title II of the law was valid exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause. They stated that Congress could impose the law, ... 46% ($70,000) to be exact. They sued to end enforcement of the law to their restaurant because they felt that Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not constitutional. They felt that the fact that their meats were purchased from out-of-state was not a ... the indictment against h...

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... Queensland has caused much controversy amongst Australians. The decision that Australia was not a land belonging to no-one brought up many racial issues and created the Australian Doctrine of native title. These decisions have been called activist because they were not made abiding to the strict lines of the Constitution; instead these decisions were made somewhat creatively. Sir Lionel Murphy was ... Hocking 2000, date accessed 25 May 2001). His Racial Discrimi! nation Act 1975 was the core of the landmark native title acts, the Mabo and Wik decisions. The honourable Justice Michael Kir...

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... in America. Okay, so what is the militia and where did they come from? The various militia groups that are currently operating in America claim to derive their authority from Title 10 Ch.13 s. 311 of the United States Code in addition to the 2nd and 10th amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Surprisingly as it may seem, there is a valid and lawful ... claim to the existence of the militia. Briefly, the definition listed in the U.S. Code under Title 10 Ch.13 s.311 states: a) the militia of the United States consists of all able bodied males at least 17 years of age and, under 45 and b) th...

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... 1875. In 1883, the court struck the act down. The Supreme Court's decision led to a new set of anti-black laws throughout the South. These laws were called "Jim Crow- laws after the title of a minstrel song portraying blacks as childlike and inferior. The laws supported a strong system of segregation and discrimination. The Supreme Court finally ruled on the constitutionality of Jim ... Selma march that focused America's attention on this unforgivable inequity, and moved a sympathetic President to work with Congress to achieve a quick passage for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Before th...

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... , Marbury v. Madison the defendant was Marbury and the plaintiff was Madison. Towards the end of President John Adams term Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. This decreased the number of Supreme Court Justice positions and increased the number of federal judge positions. Because of this, many justices ... and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the congress shall make.(3) Marshalls ruling of Marbury v. Madison and then declaring the Judiciary Act of 1789 was a landmark in the history of the Supreme Court. It established the power of judical review and made it...

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... it seems that throughout history various government bodies have usurped the Constitution for their own personal or political needs. With laws like the patriot act, precedents like Judicial Review, and the general course of action taken by the Presidential Office since the 1950's, the validity of the ... Murphy CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, (Grolier Encyclopedia 2002) Louis Fisher Presidential War Power, (2000 University Press of Kansas) Gene Franchini Patriot Act is assault on Bill of Rights (El Defensor Chieftain ) http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters_of_f...

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... States has adopted additional measures to reduce sex discrimination. For example, the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 requires equal pay for men and women doing similar work. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits job discrimination on the basis of a person's sex. Under this act, businesses cannot fire a woman for pregnancy if pregnancy does not affect her job performance, reserve ... ...

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... the semantics of the eighteenth century. The term "Well Regulated" meant well trained according to James Madison, the principle author of the Constitution. The term militia, according to the Militia Act of 1792, referred to all able-bodied male citizens. The meaning then of the Second Amendment is made quite clear. It is meant to serve as a chain upon the government ... Lee, in his Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer of 1788 stated, "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms." (3) Title ten section 331 of the U....

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... , Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, and the four insular areas of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa will get this grant by Title V of Public Law 95-134 or the Omnibus Territories Act. The grant is issued by what the report the state submits says its intentions are of what the money will be used for. Recently, in 2000 ... ...

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... creating land titles, which would denote the borders of the land purchased from the government and show the ownership of the land by the person who held it. The land title system was so practical that it is still in use today.11 Congress further enhanced the issue of frontier lands by passing two important land acts: the Land Ordinance of ... that the central government became totally dependant on the states - it could do little more than ask the states whether it liked their ideas, and then had no power to act if the states decided that the central government's ideas were against their...

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