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Term Papers on Legal and Government
Origins Of Ideas That Form The Basis Of The American Governmental Tradition
Number of words: 772 - Number of pages: 3.... declared the Colonies’
independence from Britain ), and it was adapted into the political
structure. It says that “ It is there right, it is there duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”.
This supports the idea of John Lockes theory of Power comes from the
people. That if the law is bad or disobeyed the people have the right to
change it. He also supported the idea of Right to Revolution, where the
government is changed if its not doing the job. This can also be found
and supported in the Declaration of Indepe .....
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Analysis Of Police Corruption
Number of words: 3192 - Number of pages: 12.... only on external corruption because it
has been the larger center of attention recently. I have decided to
include the fairly recent accounts of corruption from a few major cities,
mainly New York, because that is where I have lived for the past 22 years.
I compiled my information from numerous articles written in the New York
Times over the last 5 years. My definitional infornmation and background
data came from various books cited that have been written on the issue of
police corruption. Those books helped me create a basis of just what the
different ty .....
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Violence On TV
Number of words: 1627 - Number of pages: 6.... The studies have been carried out and all the results point to one conclusion: Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not leave fingerprints and that he discovered this on television. In Alabama, a nine-year-old boy rec .....
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The Gender Struggle
Number of words: 908 - Number of pages: 4.... their students, who also do not realize that it is being done to them.
Peggy Orenstein very effectively tackles the question "are boys and girls treated differently in school?" (Italicized paragraphs 7). She concluded from her field studies in junior high schools that the teacher sometimes treats boys and girls differently in the classroom. She also admits that boys and girls do have many differences, which cause them to behave differently. Orenstein observed that in many situations the teacher ignored the girls when they raised their hands while the boys would .....
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Dual Executive/President
Number of words: 1214 - Number of pages: 5.... dual presidency is better adapted to handle simultaneous crises. A
dual presidency is a modern day answer to the realities of the American
presidency.
Essentially, the idea of a dual executive is rooted in the concept of a
plural executive. Back in the time of the writing of the Constitution, some
anti-federalists wanted a weak executive. This weak executive was called a
plural executive or an executive council. (Storing 49) The purpose of such a
plural executive was not only to weaken the executive, but also to prevent a
monarchy from ruling. In fact, an anti .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... the narrowing down of the list of one hundred crimes to twelve, punishable by the death penalty in 1833, and in 1869 it was cut down yet again to just three: treason, rape, and murder because of violent nature of these crimes (Steele). These crimes, even today, are still viewed as violent and should be punished with the highest degree of discipline available to achieve justice.
After much public pressure, was suspended on a trial run in 1967. This proved to be ineffective, because even though the law stipulated that crime such as treason or the murders of law .....
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Defending A Killer
Number of words: 829 - Number of pages: 4.... was going to be executed in his place. The lawyer told his client
how he could not reveal that information, even though someone was going to
die for a crime they did not commit. Where and how could such a rule be put
into place that would make it totally acceptable for an innocent person to
be put to death for a crime that they did not commit? Try to vision if you
can, a family member accused of murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death for a crime they did not commit. How much faith would you now have in
that family member or friend telling you that he o .....
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Presidential Candidates: Division And Classification
Number of words: 652 - Number of pages: 3.... like, "Racial
diversity is our great meal ticket to the future if we can figure out how to get
along and how to lift each other up." His bits of intellect might be useful if
he proposed solutions to the obvious problems he presents. Bob Dole, a
republican candidate, has already done some work on welfare reform. He recently
passed a bill which allows the state to create programs that will move people
from welfare to work. His reform plan will effectively lower welfare recipients
by requiring able-bodied people to work, single-teen parents to stay in school,
and .....
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