The federal government is over stepping its bounds. ... The federal government is illegally forcing laws they do not have the power to make. ... The federal government is taking reserved powers from the states. ... The federal government says that the 21-year-old drinking age is for our safety because there are over 3,000 drunk driving accidents involving people under the age of 21 each year. ... However, the constitution does not give our federal government the right to set the drinking age. ...

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Basic Function of Each Branch of Government: Legislative: Congress finances government by raising and collecting taxes. ... The president seeks to secure friendly relations with foreign governments and makes treaties. ... Judicial: The judicial branch consists of Federal Courts, District Courts, Courts of Appeal and the U.S. ... Describe How the Federal Government Works: The Federal Government works by having the voters (citizens of the U.S.) elect the Legislative Branch (Congress) and the Executive Branch (President). ... The government is then run by these three branches of governme...

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Roman government is exactly like ours today. The Roman government is not exactly like ours today. ... District Court is the trial court of the federal court system. It has jurisdiction to hear almost all categories of federal cases. ... There are a lot of ways that the Roman Government is not like the United States Government. ...

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The federal government attempted to use many laws to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, such as the Civil rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans the right of citizenship and forbade other states from passing their own discriminatory laws. ...

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As a result, a fair trial of the accused was a right given to the citizens along with other equities that the framers instilled in every other facet of this country's government. ... Should legal counsel be provided by the government if the accused lacks the funds to assemble a counsel for his defense? ... Even though many states and the federal government allowed for the appointment of counsel for impoverished defendants, Florida as well as many other southern states did not (Goodman 62). ... This petition sought to invalidate his conviction and sentence on the basis...

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For instance, for trespassing on private property or for attempt to rub them and even more for moral damage, that if government allow burglars has rights to sue people suffer from them. ... The American government expect from us to keep laws and be worthy people of its country. ... In federal system such as ours, there is a built-in problem since state and federal law differ, not to mention the confusion between states. ...

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The judicial branch is a very powerful and demanding branch of our government. ... This fact alone puts the judicial system above the other branches of government. ... Federal courts can hear federal question cases. ... When a federal criminal law is broken, but not a state law, the case is heard in a federal district court. ... As you can see, I believe that the judicial branch in our government is the strongest. ...

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He said "that a country's founder should create a separation of powers for their government," or a system of government in which different institutions exercise various components of governmental power. ... Under Article 3, section 1, the Supreme Court was created and the Congress was granted the power to establish lower federal courts. ... When coming up with this branch, they did not know if there should be state court or federal courts. ... This means, in a way, that the Supreme Court can declare state laws and federal laws unconstitutional. ... The judicial branch gives its pow...

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The subject in question is whether or not the federal government can make a law forcing parents to seek medical care when their child may be severely ill, without infringing on the parents" first amendment rights. ... This raises an interesting question: when in history should the Federal Government step in and protect the rights of others who may not share their religious views? ... It is up to the Federal Government to once again step in and draw the line between freedom of religion, and freedom to do whatever one chooses, based on religious beliefs. ... United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878), ...

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The American government is a democratic government. The British government is a monarchy. ... Our American government is a democratic government. ... Vertical dimensions include federal authority, state authority, and concurrent authority. ... To summarize all of the information stated above is the American form of government is a democratic government and the British government is a monarchy. ...

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The federal budget would also benefit in two ways. Federal revenues would increase, because the drugs would be taxed at the point of sale. ... The most important gain would be for the government. ... Drugs would then be sold in government stores, much like alcohol is in some sates (Bender 19). ... The government and the nation would benefit from legalization through economical gains. ...

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Since so much is going on in our country every day our government has laws to protect us and to make sure people don't get hurt. ... The government will have the same kind of commercials towards cocaine and heroin etc. ... According to the office of National Drug Control Policy the U.S. federal government will spend over19.2 billion dollars this is at a rate of 609$ per second on battling drugs a year. ... And did you know that the prisoners sentenced for drug offenses make up the largest group of federal inmates, that's 57% in 2000. ... In 1999 alone our nation spent 146,556...

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Therefore the machinery of the federal government had to be involved in creating change in the area of civil rights. ... Over and over, the State of Mississippi would make the case that the federal government had no say in the issue of civil rights for its black citizens. ... And as for Governor Barnett, he wanted to keep his power from being breached upon by the federal government. ... Getting involved for James Meredith meant that the federal government would force compliance of the new laws regarding desegregation and integration across the country and especially in the Deep South. He knew ...

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Of Judges and Senators It is a fact of American political life, that a party's view of the proper division of power among the branches of government depends on which branches it controls. ... There is one constant position in government: whatever position is adopted will be defended in the most high-flown terms of principal. ... Clinton got 377 federal judges confirmed. ... They said that the federal judiciary was not understaffed and was not an urgent matter. Almost half of the federal judges today were appointed by Clinton. ...

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The United States Government has been monitoring the way this jail has been operating the past five years and nothing has ever really been done to correct these issues. ... Daily Oklahoman reporter, William Crum states that Oklahoma County is being threatened with a federal lawsuit concerning the 60 civil rights violations documented this past year. ... This place needs serious repairs, the Government sees the problems and understand this county had plenty of time to do something. ... But now the United States Government must decide if they want to let Oklahoma County clean up their own mess....

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The writers of the US Constitution were determined to separate the powers of the federal government in to three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. ... Constitution or other federal law. ... Federal courts are set up on three levels. The lowest federal courts are the district courts, where most federal cases are heard first. ... The highest federal court is the Supreme Court. ...

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The American government has hidden the reality about marijuana and it is time for this to stop. ... It would be taxed just as alcohol, which would create more revenue for the government. ... One problem that could be addressed is how the government would make money if people could get their hands on seeds. ... The government could put a limit on how much a household could grow. ... Anslinger, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, was in charge of the outlawing of marijuana. ...

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It was written to organize a strong national government. ... Originally, the amendments applied only to the federal government. ... The federal system of the Constitution is made by dividing powers between the national and state governments. ... This prevents the any single government from becoming powerful. ... Other countries have a democratic government without a system of checks and balances or separation of the powers of government. ...

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Authorship Speech Jump back to 1928, prohibtion, thousands of people drinking liquor even though it is illegal. Now jump to Europe 2003, most countries they have no drinking age and they don't have as much dirinking as the US. This is why we need to lower the drinking age to 16. At 16 you are re...

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Forty percent of the people in federal prison are drug law violators" (Long 114). ... The legalization of marijuana would benefit the federal budget in two ways, the federal revenues would increase, because marijuana cigarettes would be taxed at the point of sale. ... The most important gain would be in the quality of government. ... It would set more achievable goals for law enforcement, and this would lend strength and credibility to the government. ...

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Forty percent of the people in federal prison are drug law violators" (Long 114). ... The legalization of marijuana would benefit the federal budget in two ways, the federal revenues would increase, because marijuana cigarettes would be taxed at the point of sale. ... The most important gain would be in the quality of government. ... It would set more achievable goals for law enforcement, and this would lend strength and credibility to the government. ...

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Many Americans have sued the federal government over how they had been treated during custody, the trial, and imprisonment. ... In recent years many people have openly gave their opinion and have also sued the state and federal government. ...

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The copyright law of the United States is governed by the federal Copyright Act of 1976. ... Government 17 U.S.C. ... This act only applies to U.S. domestic copyright as that is the extent of U.S. federal law. ... This means that the individual Government official or employee who wrote the work could not secure copyright in it or restrain its dissemination by the Government or anyone else, but it also means that, as far as the copyright law is concerned, the Government could not restrain the employee or official from disseminating the work if he or she chooses to do so. ... Constitution,...

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It costs the states millions of dollars yearly in keeping marijuana prohibited while decriminalizing it could potentially boost the economy by eliminating costs to incarcerate marijuana users, as well as eradicating government funded programs for alleged marijuana abusers placed there by the criminal justice system as an alternative to prison. ... It costs federal and state government far too much to crack down on marijuana consumers, when funding should be enforced on areas of greater concern, such as education and healthcare. ... Under the federal Higher Education Act, young students are f...

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Yet for decades the Government of Canada referred to the Syliboy decision as defining the status of treaties in Canadian law. ... At issue were treaty protected hunting rights, on the one hand, and the Migratory Birds Convention Act, a federal statute, on the other. ... They agreed with the decision in the court below which enforced the federal legislation. ... Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of Justice on Indian constitutional issues, was asked what rights he thought were protected by section 35. ... The federal government had an "empty box" theory. ...

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