According to a survey conducted in my town, over 40% of people think that security it mass-transit locations, hasn't changed enough since September 11th. ... We could easily be using something that doesn't fully expose private things, but no, that's not what we're using our small funding for. ... I think it's a false argument to say we have to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have security," Experts agree that it is a huge issue and we need to change it fast. ... It is a free country and our citizens shouldn't be subjected to such intense s...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

However, keeping religion in our public school system is getting more and more difficult. ... The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." ... "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty," said President Eisenhower after signing into law a bill to have "under God" added to the original pledge (www.religioustolerance.org 1). ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After two hundred and twenty seven years, many families nationwide seek to ban the second most important amendment in our country's constitution; an amendment that was adopted by our Founding Fathers and the men who made this country the great nation that it is today. ... Although there are no foreign soldiers breaking into our homes, stealing our wives or children, or threatening us with weapons, there are still life-threatening dangers in this world that we need to be protected from. Imagine if you are in an unsafe part of town and someone approaches you, demanding money or your car key...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Self-government is a town meeting; a band club vote on what to sell and the fair; an employees vote whether to Jon a union. ... Our patriotism focuses on that and sees no further, missing glaring contradictions. ... Our government has three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. ... We all know that we are not perfect, but if we have in our mind that we are something then we are. ... Our founding father where the great minds America has ever known. ...

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Should handguns be banned in the United States? The view of gun control has never been so finely magnified. The right to bear arms has been contended with the high rate of violence. Many gun holders have stood their grounds in organizations that promote ownership. Others opposed to the use of g...

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Marshall was our nations fourth chief justice and is accredited with helping to establish the power of the United States Supreme Court and strongly enforcing constitutional law throughout the nation. ... At the age of ten John's father moved his family 30 miles to the town of Blue Ridge Mountains. ... It is through the great mind of john Marshall that the laws that govern our land through the Constitution have withheld the test of time. ...

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No other person was more involved in our nation's birth. ... Meanwhile, Franklin raised volunteer colonial armies to defend frontier towns and supervised construction of a fort in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. ... During the era of 1775 until his death, he became important and essential to making our country what it is today by dealing with affairs between foreign countries and America and drafting important documents clarifying Americans" rights and duties. ...

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• Grade Level: High School