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Term Papers on Legal and Government
Gun Control
Number of words: 585 - Number of pages: 3.... and sell transaction. The government is aware of this. All the laws are not about preventing crime. Law abiding citizens who are armed will prevent crime. You can hire all the police you want. They do not stop crime while it is happening. Armed citizens can stop the crime before it ever even happens. How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? Sometimes the person even stops and reloads. What would you do if you were there? Hide and wait to be shot? Or would you hope that someone else is armed? After all, one-ar .....
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Death Penalty
Number of words: 2049 - Number of pages: 8.... Similarly, the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks all executed citizens for a variety of crimes. The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. Only in England, during the reigns of King Canute (1016-1035) and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the and brought it to its American colonies. Although the death was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late-eighteen c .....
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Wilson’s “War Message”; Bush’s “War With Iraq”
Number of words: 365 - Number of pages: 2.... “…we fight without hatred and without selfish objectives, seeking nothing for ourselves but what we wish to share with all free peoples…”
Bush: “Our goal is not the conquest of Iraq. It is the liberation of Kuwait.”
These statements each emphasize the unselfishness of the American people in their addition to the war effort. Both Wilson and Bush are highlighting the fact that the wars they are going to fight are not America’s wars, but that America is willing to help for the greater good of humankind.
Wilson: “We shall fight for the things which we have always .....
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Constitutional Law Marbury V M
Number of words: 1136 - Number of pages: 5.... think proper, in the President alone, . . . " (Art. II, § 2). The Judiciary Act of 1793 had given the President the right to appoint federal judges and justices of the peace; there is no dispute that such an appointment was within the scope of the president's powers. Debate arises because the Constitution is silent on the exact time at which the appointment is considered complete. The Supreme Court ruled that "when a commission has been signed by the president, the appointment is made; and that the commission is complete, when the seal of the United States has .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 319 - Number of pages: 2.... laws as they stood were unconstitutional . However later on an other supreme court ruling upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty per se, and since then many states have passed death penalty laws with in the regulations of the court's ruling. Many people oppose the death penalty because they think it is morally wrong and cruel. Some even warn against the risk of executing people who are wrongly accused and convicted. Other people believe that if someone takes a human life then they deserve theirs. The early 1990's have executed about 150 people execut .....
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The Right Of Autonomy
Number of words: 501 - Number of pages: 2.... “He
will deny that he has a duty to obey the laws of the state simply because they
are the laws.” This is the major conflict with political authority. Some
philosophers believe that a solution to this problem is the concept of
democracy.
This argument says that if men rule themselves then they would be both
the law givers and followers, combining autonomy with authority. “His
obligation to submit to the laws stems not from the divine right of the monarch,
nor from the hereditary authority of a noble class, but from the fact that he
himself is the source .....
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The Problems Of Marijuana Prohibition
Number of words: 826 - Number of pages: 4.... impair judgement and complex motor skills. It can alter the heart rate, can lead to sever anxiety, and can cause paranoia and lethargy (Shalala 10). While all that is true, it does not compare to the effects of other harmful substances. For instance, alcohol’s cause of cirrhosis to the liver, and tobacco causes lung cancer and coronary heart disease. The plain fact that both tobacco and alcohol are carcinogens to speed up all cancers, are all good examples of how bad alcohol and tobacco can be. Alcohol is the source of half of highway fatalities, a .....
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A Sense Of Community By Ritual
Number of words: 3593 - Number of pages: 14.... church, a large
emphasis is placed on the community and it's rituals. In order to define the community within Spring Hills, one
must examine the rituals and service and how they relate to the larger works of the church.
Spring Hills has very unique aspects of architecture and technology that make it quite comfortable. The church is
merely a few years old, so the structure is profoundly modern and geometric. The focal lines are rigid with no
sense of curves. The congregation convenes on covered chairs instead of pews, and the white walls intensify .....
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