... electoral votes will be named the next President and Vice President of the United States, even if the popular vote swings in the opposite direction of the Electoral College vote. The 538 people given electoral votes are those elected to the Senate and as Representatives of the state in Congress. In this aspect, the people retain the power of the vote due to the fact that they elect the representatives to speak for ... their needs in the political setting. Each state ... ...

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... signed MOUs (memoranda of understand) committing the U.S. government to help them qualify for the waiver program. In exchange, the U.S. would receive increased security assistance. These countries follow in the footsteps of the Czech Republic, Latvia and Estonia, who have done the same in the past. These agreements are very significant steps in the reciprocal relationships between the United States and these countries. Hungarian Ambassador ... they tried to enter the U.S. Those with the visa waiver could enter the U.S. quite easily, while those without it were often denied access. The vi...

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... groups that they themselves feel would influence the student in a negative way. Plus, as stated in the article, "The Federal Government: Moral Guardian of the Internet," "filtering disregards age-appropriate levels completely"(Dority 2). The article is explaining that the filtering systems would block the same information no matter who was using the Internet, whether it be a second grader or a teacher at the school. The system has no way to distinguish between ... monitor and libraries that receive certain types of federal funding"(Sullivan 1). This indicates that some libraries would s...

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... to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, computer fraud and abuse offenses" and may if they find it necessary, have the "authority to share criminal investigative information" with anyone, including other regular American citizens, as outlined in Section 203. They may also record and confiscate all voice-mail messages (Sec. 209 "seizure of voice-mail messages pursuant ... people and would place substantial restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights across the board. Section 311 federalizes an individuals local polic...

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... it helps prevent lawsuits as well as giving everyone an equal opportunity of freedom of religion. The Bill of Rights to the US Constitution gives public employees the right of freedom of expression of religion. Although private employees are not protected by the Constitution, there are state and federal laws that can. People should not be discriminated against ... their sexual orientation or religion. While reading the article, "Religion in the workplace", I came across some very valid points on how companies can approach religion in the workplace. Some of these points include spreading ...

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... or espionage. FISA section 215 allows law enforcement officials to seize these records without disclosing what information for which they are looking. (Is the USA PATRIOT Act Really Patriotic?) The secrecy allowed by these pieces of legislation holds a major problem with constitutionality. The founding fathers created our government with a system of checks and balances to ensure that no one ... and recent legislation, prosecutors had assumed that much of the information gathered from FISA was off limits for criminal prosecution. Much of this was because of procedural barriers. Prosecuto...

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Warren E. Burger presents solid evidence supporting both arguments on the issue of gun control in his essay, "The Right to Bear Arms". Burger, a former chief justice of The United States, does not solely defend either opinion, but instead presents factual information to allow the reader to decide on their own. His supporting data, mostly in the form of proven statistics, helps to defend both arguments and displays ... a solid case for both sides. He relates to the reader by using analogies and historical information, making it easier to understand the facts that he is trying to prove. By ... ...

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... should begin educating children with the essentials needed for their futures. The Federal Department of Education was created in 1979 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems. The first major federal spending on education was caused by the launch of the first space satellite, when the government was trying to compete with the Soviet Union because it created ... a perception that the United States was falling behind in science and technology. The Department of Education ... progress in reading and math in grades 3-8 and...

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... state employees, including employees of state colleges and universities, from using state-owned or leased computer equipment to "access, download, print or store any information infrastructure files or services having sexually explicit content," except with the express permission of their agency head for "a bona fide, agency-approved research project or other agency-approved undertaking." This law has been called ... to freedom of speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution; (b) is unconstitutionally over broad and vague; and (3) violates the First...

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... affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The Constitutional right of privacy has developed alongside a statutory right of privacy which limits access to personal information. The main function of this right is to protect the ability of individuals. Every user of the internet needs to be able to determine what sort of information about them has been used. To ... uphold the right to one's personality, legal remedies have to be developed to enforce definite boundaries between ... ...

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... of personal privacy since Brandeis defined it in the 1920's. In 1966 a large step was taken in the area of personal privacy when the Freedom of Information Act "gave citizens the right to ask a federal agency for any files it had about them" (Hoobler 51). However the Freedom of Information Act did not ensure that the agency would supply the citizen with the information only because an individual asked for it. This ... technicality was one loophole that was identified and addressed in the Freedom of Information Act that lead to the Privacy Act of 1974. To ensure that citizens were suppli...

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... involving terrorism. In other words, if a law enforcement official felt terrorist activity was to potentially occur, he or she was permitted to do whatever possible to gather information about the potential risk. The Patriot Act was a bill eliminating all civil rights Americans used to have before its passing. This act should be abolished because of its destruction of civil liberties. ... Certain parts of the act were relatively uncontroversial and quite reasonable because they did not sacrifice Americans' civil rights. This includes the permitting of the FBI and CIA to share information...

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... attacks. There are two different types of drones the United States possesses: smaller drones are predominantly used to carry out surveillance missions and large drones are used to carry hellfire missiles and conduct strikes. Although military-led operations are publicly acknowledged and open to public scrutiny, the public has very little information about C.I.A.-led drone operations. The difference between United States two drone programs is ... the military-led operation operates in recognized war zones (Middle East) and targets enemies stationed in ... ...

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... Act in stripping citizen's freedoms, it is important to know that it has passed for the good of public safety. Under the Patriot Act, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, the government can issue NLTs to any public entity in order to gather private information about an individual. This means that without a warrant, anyone's credit history, telephone records, or internet activity ... can be accessed. What is even scarier is that anyone's home can be invaded under the same pretense. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ... ): This means that the government can ...

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... that if the common man were supplied with the correct reliable information then the common man would make the responsible choice. The common man there for had to be educated, from literacy came knowledge and complex decision making and with these became the means of safeguarding self-government and independence. Democracy would be safe in the hands of the common man. The state therefor reasonability is to the common man and ... to help and assist the common man, from the ... ...

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... what information the NSA can use and what information should remain private. In the case of America, the government seems to always have the upper hand when determining what powers it deserves to have. If the NSA continues to obtain personal information from technology and the internet, this society will lose its 4th Amendment and succumb to a life without privacy; becoming a Big Brother society. If Edward Snowden never leaked the information about the ... NSA, how would citizens have maintained their influence on the government if they didn't have the knowledge they needed? This displa...

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... be read by students. Books should not be banned due to the first amendment of the Constitution granting freedom of speech and press, it can be a hindrance to the learning process in schools, the endless valuable information that books contain, and the inspiration books can be to people. When the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they included a very important list of rights that belong ... to every citizen of the United States, known as the Bill of Rights. The first amendment of the Constitution states that citizens have both freedom ... people we despise, we don't believe in it a...

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... to be understood by definition and its views around the world, for example in the United States of America, United Kingdom and South Africa. We need to fully understand the effects and aftermath that whistleblowing entails along with the ethical implications when it comes to disclosing information. Edward Snowden revealed secret information kept by the NSA about the government invading the public's privacy in order to uncover any threats to ... to be understood by definition and its views around the world, for example in the United States of America, United Kingdom and South Africa. We ...

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... interference of a person's right to privacy, as well as, a constitutional condition against any unreasonable search and seizure. When there is a violation by law enforcement of constitutional protection, then the action would be inadmissibility in court for any evidence that was obtained. Four Categories Subject to Search and Seizure Observational evidence is when an officer hears, sees or smells something ... is collection of the facts and when it is put all together indicates that a crime in fact was committed, but it is not considered direct evidence. An officer can use their knowledge...

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... terrorist attacks seen since the NSA's inception is some of the lowest in the world "in large part, thanks to their efforts. Being an intelligence and informational organization, the NSA could be in a developmental stage of protection that we cannot obtain the information for. If the NSA is doing well, it would make sense that we would not find out about it, given the nature of their duties ... . In all honesty, the public will (and ... still very seldom) hear about the mistakes the NSA has made "it would be safe to assert that their accomplishments outweigh their missteps ... ...

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... . ("Bill of Rights" am.4). The NSA's action relate to the Fourth Amendment because the NSA collected the American citizens' information while American citizens do not know about the NSA's actions. In other words, the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures but the NSA disregards this right. Most people assert that the NSA has violated the Fourth Amendment. One of the reasons is that the NSA does not have a right to ... search Americans' private communications. The NSA is currently collecting the telephone ... ...

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... , he or she must have the "probable cause". The National Security Agency's surveillance of millions of Americans' telephone calls has caused a debate about the constitutionality of their actions. The NSA collected different types of information. The first is "a record of most calls made in the U.S." (Stray par.2). AT&T and Sprint confirmed that they gave the NSA the metadata of telephone calls. The metadata includes "telephone numbers ... of the phone making and receiving the call, and how long the call lasted" (Stray par.2). This ... ...

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... trials or similar proceedings and must also be observed by state courts. There are various statutory exclusionary rules in addition to the rule established by the Supreme Court. The primary purpose of the exclusionary rule is to prevent law enforcement officers from using illegal means to obtain information that would be considered incriminating to a defendant's case in a court of law. For example, let us suppose ... the police seize evidence, but during that seizure, they violate one of your guaranteed constitutional rights. Perhaps that evidence was a letter lying on your desk and sub...

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... . Gallatin claims that the Federalist true intention of passing the law is to allow one party to oppress the other. They seek the power to punish all presses which present views contrary to their views and to prevent free circulation of opinion allowing the people to only hear one side of the argument thus deceiving them by giving only partial information (Retrieving the American Past, p. ... 169-171). Another issue that created controversy was the War of 1812. In 1810, Felix Grundy delivered a speech to Congress favoring war. He explains ... that Americans cannot export their goods to ...

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... , using elaborate computer programs can predict ones actions based on game theory and preferences from information gathered from websites. The second argument for illicit policy is "we knew this already" assumption about the government. Many American citizens reasoned that because we assumed the government was breaking our civil liberties then why does it matter now? To answer this question, we didn't know ... that before there was no facts, only speculation and fear, should be an even greater motivator to resist against a rising totalitarian state. The final argument for illicit policy ...

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