The government should not strengthen gun control laws because it will not guarantee national security, reduce crime rate, or violate the constitution. ... Also, it has increased death toll of innocent civilians who die as a result of gun violence crimes such as suicides, homicides, and unintentional shooting. ... These has to be done without discriminating its citizens based on their religion, race, political affiliations, and other social constructs. ... The question whether strengthening gun control laws reduces crime rate in the country has remained a controversial topic for many years. ...

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The White House can also act as a type of lobbyist as seen when Leon Kodak and Lewis Rothschild call up Congressmen to rally support behind the crime bill and the environmental bill. ... Another example is when Shepherd's staff is trying to rally support for crime and environmental bills, one Congressman says, "Lewis I support the President 100%. ... Shepherd, who has a 63% approval rating, knows that now is the time to introduce his crime bill as it will most likely become a law. ... The manner in which all three coexist is through a favor based system, such as if a senator supports a b...

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This inherently leaving various law enforcement agencies with less ability to confront other crimes. ... The statistics show a rise in crimes concerning personal property; drug abusers in hopes of supporting their drug habit committed seventy-five percent of all property crimes such as burglary and robbery. Studies have shown that out patient drug programs or programs that offered drugs for a lower cost drastically reduced the amount of crimes committed. ... This would lead one to acknowledge that maybe our opinion drugs may be based in fear and social The Goal The optimal goal of any policys...

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(MacKinnon 9) MacKinnon feels that pornography is responsible for crimes such as rape, sexual harassment and child abuse. ... Rape, murder, child abuse, sexual harassment etc. are crimes where the perpetrator has some mental illness prior to committing the crime. ... If MacKinnon's argument was enforced, then violent movie would be to blame for violent crimes, and sitcoms such a Married with Children would to blame for the break-up of the traditional values within the family unit, and the slippery slope mentioned previously would begin. ... "Empirically, all pornography is made under con...

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The case is important because it indicates that the justices may be starting to reconsider the court's extremely expansive view of Congress' power to regulate based on the commerce clause. ... It argued that violent crime in or near schools harms the quality of education, causing graduates to be unprepared for gainful employment, thereby affecting interstate commerce, which Congress has the power to regulate. ... S. vs Lopez the Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, found unconstitutional a provision of the Gun-Free School Zone Act that made it a federal crime to possess a gun (even one that ne...

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By confessing to the crime, Miranda was convicted for kidnapping and rape. ... Part II: Analysis I feel that the Supreme Court Justices" ruled the way they did because Miranda was guilty and there would be a big flaw in the judicial system if a man who admitted to a crime was held innocent. ... The defeated side of Miranda could not have brought any other arguments to change the outcome because Miranda had already confessed his crimes. ... In the modern world in America crimes vary from many things, yet the Miranda decision affects them all. ... My impression of the United States Suprem...

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Physician-assisted suicide is generally recognized as illegal under the parameters of homicide, however it is very difficult to meet all of the elements of the crime and conviction subsequently becomes nearly impossible. ... At the time of the appellate courts hearing of the Campbell appeal, there was no other codified law expressing what crime an assisted suicide would fall under and the homicide charges were dismissed. ... Persons who are for active euthanasia believe that legislation against it is violative of the fundamental concepts of liberty, freedom of choice, and self-determination Th...

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The 13th amendment simply abolished slavery throughout the US except for as a punishment for crime. The 15th amendment was known as the "black suffrage" amendment; so in other words this ad on to the Constitution prevented the discrimination of voting based on race or color. ... The spoils system is when high-level officials in governments such as the President, Speaker of the House, or Secretary of State give out bureaucratic positions to his friends or close acquaintances instead of basing the positions on merit. ... This stage was primarily based on the theory of Devolution, or gi...

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Wade 1973 case where the court's judgement was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. ... Rumsfield the courts found that President Bush did not have the authority to set up war crimes tribunals and found the special military commissions illegal under both military justice and the Geneva Conventions. ... Furthermore the 15th amendment, introduced in 1870, prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, colour or previous serv...

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In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Acts, or Enforcement Acts, proscribing state governments from discriminating against voters based on their race. (Document H) The acts gave the federal government superiority over state courts and the power to try crimes of individuals in federal courts. ...

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As studies have shown many physicians, anonymously report that they have partaken in physician-assisted suicide regardless of statues in place making their actions a crime. ... Physician-assisted suicide should be protected under the Constitution of the United States based on Americans" due process rights and equal protection. ...

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Laws, the unspoken contract we have all agreed to based on what we wanted to be provided to us, but without a way for them to be viewed and attended to, to see if they have been broken in anyway, there must be a system in place, and that is the purpose of our courts. ... What is meant by this is while a defendant can still be tried on a state and federal level for the same crime, the prosecutor cannot continue to bring up the charge after a verdict(s) is/are given. ...

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James Tallmadge introduced the Tallmadge Amendment stating: "And provided, that the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been fully convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years" (1). ... These reasons were based on population, the south was made up of more people than the north, but the actual physical population was large in the south. ...

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Repeatedly, however, the courts have denied legislation to ban or bring criminal charges based on the production or sale of artistic expression because of constitutional rights. ... This law also read it was a crime for anyone to sell a CD or tape that had this notice to a person under the age of eighteen. ... It acknowledged that its concerns about minors' access to pornography were based on morality, not science. ...

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Inmates have the right to be free from sexual crimes, including sexual harassment. ... The Eighth Amendment has been the topic of much controversy mostly concerning the death penalty, but it also covers the treatment of those convicted of crimes. It is thought that the Eighth Amendment was written to eliminate torture which had been used in dealing with those convicted of crimes. ...

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Often juries were brought together to accuse political opponents of the king of various crimes in order to do away with their opposition. ... In it, the idea that punishments ought to fit the crime was codified in the following words - "A free man shall not be [fined] for a small offense unless according to the measure of the offense, and for a great offense he shall be [fined] according to the greatness of the offense." ... Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave. ...

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While the belief system of the politicians is what they are basing their ideals on, this country was founded on religious freedom where we are allowed to worship as we wish. ... Virginia which struck down Virginia's interracial marriage ban but the Minnesota Supreme Court famed Loving, concluding "in commonsense and in a constitutional sense, there is a clear distinction between a marital restriction based merely on race and one based upon the fundamental difference in sex" (Baker v.Nelson [1971]) Therefore, the court refused to consider Baker and McConnell's equal protection claim...

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This amendment states that if you are accused of a crime, you must have certain rights reserved which the courts are obliged to uphold. ... It cannot treat any citizen or group in a biased manner based solely on religious preferences or beliefs. ...

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Any disputes between the different government bodies, between the citizens and the government (and pretty much any individual or group involved with the constitution) would have to be dealt with and settled by the judiciary, just as any other crime would be dealt with. ...

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The Information Age: An Exploitation of Privacy Personal privacy and the right to personal privacy have not always been sought after individuals. The concept of having privacy in one's personal life is a relatively new concept and one that has strong roots in early American settlements. Accordin...

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Under British rule colonists were required to feed and quarter British soldiers in large number without compensation or even necessarily respect from the receiving soldiers, which may have caused the soldiers to become tyrannical and oppressive to the colonists, murders (Boston Massacre) and crimes committed by these troops against colonists created much hatred toward those soldiers. ... In this era religious associations increased sharply, the anti-slavery movement began, and moving closer to the civil war trade unions based on crafts emerged in significant numbers. ...

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When Louis XVI is tried by the National Convention for high crimes and misdemeanors against the state for attempting to flee France and the vote to execute him was passed by a narrow margin, the split became a full fledged gap. ... A child of the Enlightenment and advanced in the ranks by the revolution, Napoleon strove to create a meritocracy, a domestic system based on skill and talent rather than artificial and inherited worth like the aristocracy. ...

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