The Federal Government The Federal Government The three branches of the federal government provide a base for the way we live our lives. ... The District courts are where most cases involving federal law begin. ... Many types of cases are heard in the district courts, including civil law (crimes against an individual) and criminal law (crimes against the public or state). ... A very small percentage of these cases, where parties believe mistakes in the law were made, move onto the U.S. ... Usually all these cases involve a question of constitutionality and federal law. ...

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He feels that when you join this common-wealth you give up what the Law of Nature has given you before joining. ... He believes that people form common-wealth's in order to avoid some inconveniences that occur in the law of Nature. ... Another inconvenience occurs because the passions of men cause them to misapply the laws of Nature and hurt themselves and others. ... (Locke p.79) A fourth guideline is that government cannot transfer the power to make the laws to anyone other than the choice made by the people of that common-wealth. ... That is where the community as a whole uses t...

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Meanwhile money is easily borrowed to pay for government overhead. ... Government would have the first balanced budget since 1969. ... At current rates, our government is about to reach its breaking point. If thats not enough to scare a taxpayer, by 2002, 60% of government spending will be for entitlements, and by 2012, these programs are projected to take up all government revenue (Dentzer 32). ... Under Federal law, the President is required to submit budget requests in 2 forms: Budget Authority (BA), the amount of new federal commitments for each fiscal year, and Ou...

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The federal government is put in the position to make sure that the law is enforced so that all people have the same opportunities. ... There was a need for the federal government to develop laws and regulation to protect the disabled. Public Law 101-336. ... This law extended protection to handicapped persons working for the federal government or organizations that received federal funds (Bernbach 85). ... "The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights law that guarantees individuals with disabilities equal opportunity in employment, public accommodations, transportation, stat...

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This study which focuses on the need for housing finance in the country to not only provide much needed housing but also to boost the economy stresses on the need for the government and the private sector to unite together in tackling the need. This means the housing finance sector and the government have to work together. ... It is only when the government puts in uniform and steadfast laws and the private sector is able to provide sound financial offerings to the needy groups that this will succeed. ... Lack of resources has made it virtually impossible for the government to develop the co...

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The government should abolish this law for the sake of people's lives. ... If executions were made public, America would see the torture we put Americans through and be so ashamed by it that they would want the government to abolish the law. ... Kant's law of equal retribution is not a way to guide the punishment of criminals. ... "Government is a teacher, for good or for bad, but government should set the example. ... That is why they feel the death penalty is a good law. ...

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Anticipating the possibility that an increasingly centralized and aggressive government might seek to restrict or abolish that right, they included the right in our Constitution. ... Isn't it ironic how laws like gun registration, made to reduce firearm violence, can instead arm criminals with the very guns the government so desperately wants to control access to. In addition to the foregoing, the danger posed by gun registration in the event the government turns on its citizens is obvious. Whatever check or balance gun ownership might provide on the government is completely nullified onc...

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The drinking age is twenty-one because when the "powers" that control the government decided that when somebody turns twenty-one, they are magically transformed into a responsible person and are capable of handling the responsibility which comes with the right to consume alcohol. ... The law is not effective. Why keep a law that cannot be enforced? If the repercussions from the problem of breaking the law are few and light to most people, why enforce the law at all? ... The drinking age is twenty-one because when the "powers" that control the government decided that when somebody turns twenty-...

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There was a loophole in the seat belt law. ... It is the law. ... There are two categories of seat belt laws. There are primary seat belt laws, and secondary seat belt laws. ... Indiana is one of those states. 17 states have secondary seat belt laws and New Hampshire is the only state without a seat belt law in place ("Seat belt laws," 2012). ...

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Due process refers to the means, guaranteed by the Constitution, for insuring that the government provides justice to its citizens in all legal proceedings. ... Although the first ten Amendments were intended to apply only to actions of the Federal Government, over the years the courts have been able to extend due process rights to those accused of violating state law via the 14th Amendment, that says, "No State shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." ... A specific and well known quote by Judge Thomas Cooley stated that "due process of law in e...

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Austin: Positivist Identity of law: what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. ... Only rules of positive law are laws. ... They exercise the sovereign powers when they ratified and amended the constitution and selected the government. ... Natural law provides a criteria for deriving and evaluating laws in a legal system. ... Laws may be unjust also. ...

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It also protected all men from the government revoking your land and random arrests and punishments. ... These departments were responsible for maintaining public order, charging taxes, give out laws, and look after the education system and the poor. ... The Assembly justified their actions by saying the Church never really owned the property because it belonged to the government(Kaiser). ... This changed when the Assembly decided to do something about all the law violators. The Assembly passed a law saying that all people that have left the country must come back or they would be killed. ...

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They could not be involved in agriculture, land, by the Dutch Agrarian Law. ... While Indonesia was under Dutch rule, an agrarian law was passed. This law barred Chinese from owning land. ... This law remained for one hundred years. ... Then the government should not blame on them. ...

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The bottom line is criminals will have guns and other weapons whether the government takes them away from law - abiding citizens or not. ... Ask yourself this, if the government were to ban the sale and use and ownership of guns would criminals comply with this law? ... But should the government have the right and the power to take guns away from citizens? ... It states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to pe...

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Unfortunately, all was a moot point by 1801 when the British enacted the Act of Union, bringing the business of Ireland's government firmly under English control. ... Yet, it was reported in 1847 that the starving Irish where willingly foregoing food and using English charity money to buy arms, and that continuing to give them relief would only "make the people think that the government should do everything-. ... Arrival of Henry II, end of the Milesian kings; thus began the political involvement of England in Ireland's affairs. 1166-1175 Reign of Rory O'Connor, Last native H...

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So in 368 A.D the government made it illegal for independent peasants to go to the landlords. The owners banded together and raised armies of their slaves to fight against the law. ... The Empire gave into the landlords and ultimately got rid of the law. ... They looked after the Empire, the government and sometimes the military. ... He was a great improvement to Commudus but he was more concerned with his army than the government affairs. ...

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There are an innumerable number of types of governments that a country can be run under. The Utopian government is made up of two very different styles of government: democratic and oligarchic. ... This type of government is a totalitarian anarchy: one in which only a few people control the entire power of the country, which has no laws. ... Members of the Outer Party manned the various government ministries in Oceania. ... This is indicative of the true nature of the government. ...

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To the springing forth of the federal government to stop the trafficking of illegal drugs. ... People seem to respect the law better when the consequence and repercussions are made known to them. ... To help the law abiding citizens of neighborhoods who otherwise cannot help themselves. ... In essence the government wanted to change the public's attitude toward drugs. ... This led to efforts in 1972 by the federal government to stop the drug trade. ...

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This was the catalyst for McVeigh and Nichols resentment of the government. ... "From this perspective law, law enforcement agencies, and government itself are instruments of the ruling class to maintain advantageous positions in society and to control those who pose a threat to that position." ... Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had a past resentment towards the government, the Branch Davidian debacle was a springboard for the Oklahoma City bombing. ... The bombing caused the government to look into new ways to battle and prevent terrorism. ... The government was forced to change how it did...

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According to Luther, "By such externally imposed law [non-Christians] would be compelled to desist from evil, and would be hedged about by outward law and government, and subjected to authority" (Luther 9). In essence, the secular Sword and laws are set forth for the unjust not the just. ... He needs no law of man, only the law of love and nature, to set his path aright and to live in the service of God. ... Peace cannot exist in the state of war born out of the state of nature, so it becomes apparent that the laws of nature must prevail to maintain order. "...the first, and fundamental law o...

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The intellectual response to this instability of the governments produced the forms of government and the emerging philosophies that came to shape the future Chinese government and civilization. Confucianism was one of the philosophies of government that emerged during the warring states period. ... He destroyed the kingdoms and the feudal power of his rivals, and he attempted to destroy the power of the past by creating a new political system based on law rather than aristocratic tradition. ... Private land holding was adopted, and laws and taxation were enforced equally and impersonally. ...

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He opined in his Essay on Human Understanding, (in three chapters) that there are no universally binding moral laws. ... He also compared morals to mathematics by saying that it is a demonstrable science which is subject to universal laws. Further explaining what those universal laws are, he noted that they were of two types, namely – Divine Law and Natural Law. ... The Natural Law is also an eternal law, which determines what is considered to be good and evil. ... Finally, in the 'Second Treatise on Civil Government', he said that men are naturally in the state of equality. ...

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There are an innumerable number of types of governments that a country can be run under. The Utopian government is made up of two very different styles of government: democratic and oligarchic. ... This type of government is a totalitarian anarchy: one in which only a few people control the entire power of the country, which has no laws. ... Members of the Outer Party manned the various government ministries in Oceania. ... This is indicative of the true nature of the government. ...

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Despite its entertainment value, gangsta" rap misleads our impressionable teens by showing them that violence, and aggressiveness is acceptable behavior; and unless government officials decide to make a change, gangsta" rap will continue to influence the behavior of adolescents for the worst. ... Due to the negative influence of this popular music among youth that are struggling for popularity in school and among peers, the government should produce new regulations to involve the parents on what kind of music their children are listening to. ... Rap music has b...

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Marijuana laws went into effect. ... He also legalized the methadone clinics, enabling users who wanted to become clean to do so at the government and taxpayer's expense. ... By keeping things the way they are now, the government benefits from their own corruption. ... A small percentage of all drug crimes do get caught, so fear of the law is small. ... According to the government's own reports, 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white and middle class. ...

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