The specific case as noted in the text, Crime, Justice and Society: Criminology and the Sociological Imagination took place in 1872 and involved a company named Credit Mobilier, and its parent company, Union Pacific Railroad Company. ... Since America is slowly evolving to a country where there are more small business owners than larger corporate owners, the smaller businesses simply don't have the overhead in gross revenue to hire big time lobbyists to push their issues. As recently stated by the National Center for Policy Analysis, "It will probably hurt smaller interests because Fort...

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Constitutionally speaking, since people cannot be property (not by governments nor by other people) , that by virtue of democracy they should be citizens of the place they inhabit, that because the people of Guam are now U.S. citizens, and that they inhabit U.S. territory (Guam), one would reason that Guam should be a state of the Union -on "equal footing" with other states. ... It places the inhabitants of the territory in political union with the people of the United States by providing American citizenship, and subsequently provides those citizens with the rights and responsibilities of tha...

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That issue was Voter ID laws--laws that are put in place by states which would require voters to show some type of identification before being allowed to cast their votes. The debate about whether or not these laws should be put in place became a heated one in this year's election. ... In 2011 alone, at least 34 of the 50 states proposed some type of legislature requiring voters to show identification. 14 of these states already had some type of legislature in place, and wanted to make the policies stricter, in most cases requiring a form of identification with a photo of the voter, or an...

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The fourth amendment states "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.". ... Constitution places limits on the power of the police to make arrests; search people and their property; and seize objects documents and contraband, such as illegal drugs or weapons. ...

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In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ...

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Despite the fact the since 1968 Americans have elected the every presidential candidate that pledged to support a smaller government, the "federal budget has risen from $178 billion to 1.6 trillion." (6:191) Much of the government we see today began nearly seventy years as black Thursday in October of 1929 dawned not only the collapse of our economy a new modern era of government regulation. ...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...

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