They often worked long hours (sometimes as much as sixty or seventy hours a week) in unsafe conditions "as miners, messengers, mill workers, and factory employees...... In its role to regulate interstate commerce, Congress enacted The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 that "forbade the shipment across state lines of goods made in factories which employed children under the age of 14, or children between 14 and 16 who worked more than eight hours a day, overnight, or more than six days/week.... "7 Thereby, the power "to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines w...

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NIRA enforced fair competition amongst industry, established minimum wage, maximum workday and workweek hours, and eliminated child labor. ... Through this initiative, Long desired to achieve limited work hours and produce only enough as markets would absorb. ...

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Relocation Centers of Japanese-Americans (1942-1943) Throughout the spring and summer of 1942, the United States Government planned and carried out without serious incident, one of the largest controlled migrations in history. This was the migration of almost 110,000 men, women, and children of Japa...

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Outsourcing production to an offshore manufacturer, which can keep factories working full-time 24 hours a day by producing goods for a variety of businesses, can significantly reduce costs, especially if the manufacturer is located in a low wage country. ...

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On Sunday, January 22nd, the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in which the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide, hundreds of anti-abortion activists gathered in the nation's capital. March for Life, a nonprofit group, organized an hour and a half long program that included speakers, music, an...

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Over two decades later, in January 2001 "in literally the final hour of his second term "President Bill Clinton granted Hearst (now Patty Hearst Shaw) executive clemency for her robbery conviction in the 1970's. ...

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The modal speed limits on rural interstates were 70 and 75 miles per hour (mph) for small passenger vehicles during the day, with lower limits set for larger craft and nighttime or poor weather driving or conditions (Peters, 1995). ...

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Congress, if not already in session, would then convene itself within twenty-four hours and proceed immediately to decide whether to authorize such use of the armed forces "and the expenditure of funds for purposes relating to these hostilities or imminent hostilities." ...

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Americans no longer felt safe as they sat with their families, thankful to be alive, huddled around a television set trying to comprehend what just had happened in the early morning hours of September 11th. ...

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The presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are two of the most prominent and famous of all time. During their separate terms of office, these two presidents changed the country and role of the president with their ideas on progressivism, and their bold attitudes toward the nation's ...

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Circumstances of Index Offense During the early hours of June 21, 2000, Eric Clark, a seventeen-year-old armed with a firearm, circled a Flagstaff, Arizona neighborhood in his pickup truck blaring loud music. ...

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It is often claimed that the job of the President of the United States is one of the most demanding vocations in the world. Through the life of one man, an entire nation lies dependent on that individual's ability to make fast and effective decisions using only the greatest of wit. Fortunately, ther...

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Progressivism's Profound Influence on New Deal Policies In his book The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croley speaks of the importance of "social cohesion." Social cohesion is a state where all human beings are interconnected, and therefore each individual has a responsibility toward one ano...

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The President has the right to declare war with the approval of two-thirds of Parliament, but if the President feels that Parliament will not approve the declaration, he may declare war anyhow, but must seek the approval of Parliament no later than seventy-two hours after the declaration.4 The Judicial Branch of the government consists of the Supreme Court of Uganda, the Court of Appeal, and the High Cour...

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