Officers perform roadblocks and checkpoints to inspect drivers and vehicles passing along the road. ... Law enforcement officers are allowed to use drug dogs without reasonable suspicion at check points and road blocks. ... Basically, if the dogs are not on location during the checkpoint or road block the law enforcement officer would need to have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to detain you for further investigation. ...

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From March 1, 1781 to June 21, 1788 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with a government. Though there is much debate as to how effective it was. The Articles of Confederation did exactly what a loose confederation was designed to do. It was truly an "outline" of powers. Congre...

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Ask any American to list some of the rights they have in this country, and they"ll start naming things like freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Where do all those freedoms come from? The United States Constitution and its Amendments, right? True, but first, there were the Articles of Conf...

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"The world is filled with violence because criminals carry guns. We decent, law abiding citizens, should also have guns - otherwise they would win and decent people would lose." - James Earl Jones The Second Amendment of the American Constitution states that every U.S. citizen has the right to own...

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ESSAY: Qualities of Good Citizens: A good citizen should provide a home that is loving and secure towards his or her family. They should also use common sense and consider other people's points of view in order to help prevent serious conflict. A good citizen respects people's rights and s...

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Perhaps a lesser offense to public order is littering, an offense performed when an individual willfully throws objects upon public highways, streets, or roads from his or her moving vehicle. ...

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In writing this paper I have discovered the need to get involved because as a future educator I need to have the government stop cutting our budget and to send some of these tax dollars to the school system then wasting them on new roads that we don't even need. ...

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American society believes that lowering the drinking age back to eighteen will lead to a domino affect of bad premonitions like rampant drinking binges, raving alcoholics, and more traffic accident deaths upon the entire nation. Realistic Alcohol Laws for Legal Youth (RALLY) is one of many major...

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Corporate welfare is the government subsidizing businesses. Corporate welfare comes in many different forms of direct government grants, loans, insurance, or subsidies provided to businesses. It can be in the form of trade barriers to protect U.S. firms from foreign competition; or a tax loophole th...

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"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" (Bill of Rights, Article II). The Second Amendment has been a major issue in American politics. In question is the intent of this Amendment. Was it mean...

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Continuing on the ever winding road of due process the next amendment that come into consideration is the sixth amendment and the concept of a persons rights of the accused in a criminal prosecutions. ...

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