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Term Papers on Legal and Government
Social Security: A Brief History
Number of words: 1006 - Number of pages: 4.... & Means meeting on March 1, 1935 Congressman Frank Buck (D-CA) made a motion to change the name of the bill to the "Social Security Act of 1935." The motion was carried by a voice vote of the Committee. On August 14, 1935 President Roosevelt signed the bill into law at a ceremony in the White House Cabinet Room.
From 1937 until 1940, Social Security paid benefits in the form of a single, lump-sum payment. The purpose of these one-time payments was to provide some "payback" to those people who contributed to the program but would not participate long enough to be .....
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What Is History?
Number of words: 1188 - Number of pages: 5.... a long period of time to. Inquiring, as I often do, I ask for the details on their break up. I was given a response of, “Man, She’s history.” And my friend is exactly correct. This woman now lies within his personal history. Had this girl never came into my friends life, he could not claim her a part of his history; his past. We have defined history as, “a story,” and my friend can tell stories of him and his girl. (in fact lately that is all he talks about) The Vietnam war was a very important part in history. Actually, the boss at my present place of emp .....
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The FBI And Its History
Number of words: 320 - Number of pages: 2.... the Bureau's jurisdiction.
The Gangster Era began after passage of Prohibition in 1920. Criminals engaged in kidnapping and bank robbery, which were not federal crimes at that time. This changed in 1932 with the passage of a federal kidnapping statute. In 1934, numerous other federal criminal statutes were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms.
The FBI's size and jurisdiction during World War II increased greatly and included intelligence matters in South America. With the end of that war and the adven .....
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Death Penalty
Number of words: 1642 - Number of pages: 6.... issue and there are as many different opinions as there are people. In our project, both sides have been presented and argued fully. Different forms of the are more humane than others. In the 1920's people decided that lethal gas, or the gas chamber, was more humane than death by electrocution. Nevada was the first state to adopt the gas chamber as their form of execution. The "Humane Death Bill" was passed abolishing all other forms of execution (Hanging or firing squad were the only other two forms of execution at that time) in the state of Nevada, this bill w .....
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The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
Number of words: 646 - Number of pages: 3.... merchants from selling alcohol to persons under
21 are hard to enforce. Even if they are enforced by the authorities, the
establishment that breaks that law is rarely punished severely. For example, in
Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted raids of 5-10 different
establishments in 1993 that had liquor licenses and reportedly to sell alcoholic
beverages to minors. It was proven that each business in question had indeed
been guilty of the charges. What would one suspect happen to the business?
Wouldn't one expect for them to lose their liquor lice .....
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Bill Of Rights
Number of words: 4332 - Number of pages: 16.... right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
ESTABLISHING RELIGION: While campaigning for his first term, George
Bush said "I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor
should they be considered patriots." Bush has not retracted, commented on,
or clarified this statement, in spite of requests to do so. According to
Bush, this is one nation under God. And apparently if you are not within
Bush's religious beliefs, you are not a citizen. Federal, state, and local
governments also .....
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Views On Slavery
Number of words: 764 - Number of pages: 3.... in each breadth. Although most of the slaves died on the trip and were thrown over board, those that did survive were the best equipped for the harsh conditions awaiting them. The trip itself got rid of all the slaves that would not last long in harsh conditions. Those that survived were what the Americans needed. Upon arrival in the United States the slaves would se either sold or traded for goods, land or other slaves. They were always chained up when they were not working and when they were, there was always someone watching over them with a gun and a whip. Sl .....
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The Social Plague Of Crime And Criminals
Number of words: 1148 - Number of pages: 5.... conjugal visits. On an
issue so sensitive and controversial there are many different arguments and
opinions feel the most basic way to divide the way society feels about
conjugal visits is in three subsets which stem from legal theories. The
first is the justice view. The second is the rehabilitative view. The final
is a combination of the first two views called the integrated view. All of
these perspectives contain very different thoughts about conjugal visits to
prisoners. Before I discuss each one, there are certain statistics about
forced sexual encoun .....
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