Americans' experience with the quartering of troops in their homes began shortly after the French and Indian War ended in 1763. The British Parliament decided it was necessary to keep a permanent supply of troops in the colonies in order to protect them from further uprisings of the French and Indians. ... After the Constitution was written by the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and submitted to the States for ratification, many voices arose saying the Constitution did not sufficiently protect the basic natural rights of the citizens. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book, Teenagers and Alcohol: When Saying No Isn't Enough, asserts that high school surveys in the last decade show that ninety-two percent of its students have tried alcohol (Vogler & Bartz 4). Former Senator Baker says, in Teenagers and Alcohol: When Saying No Isn't Enough, that alcohol is thebloody monster that defiles innocence; creates misery, poverty, fear; causes helplessness and hopelessness, then certainly, I am against it (Qtd. in Vogler & Bartz 3).? ... Our United States government should follow the examples set forth by France, Italy, Spain, and other Europea...

• Word Count: 2070
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Supreme Court blocked the execution saying that "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances" (Savage, A5). ... She goes on to say "France and other countries have found it politic to release some militants in order to make a separate peace with terrorist groups" (Bravin, A3). ... Most Americans aren't saying much about it because a lot of people want to support our country in times of war, but the ones who are speaking up are ...

• Word Count: 2166
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• Grade Level: High School

This is in reference to the quartering of soldiers in civilian houses during the French and Indian War and other times when the thirteen colonies were still under British control. ... (Henry) He is saying he does not want to give up their state Bill of Rights for the Constitution and he does not want to give up the rights of the state to the federal government. ...

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Charles A. Beard presented an innovative monograph in 1913 when his book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, was first printed by the Free Press of New York, New York. He stated in the preface of the first publication that he wanted to encourage others, "to turn aw...

• Word Count: 2136
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Arguments on this range from protecting children to saying that guns are diseases, but when one looks at the facts, though, the arguments of gun control seem irrelevant and it becomes clear that guns should not be controlled to these people (Knight-Ridder). ... That is two times France and Germany; four times the rate in Great Britain, and seven times higher than Japan. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Does the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment guarantee same-sex couples the right to marry? If same-sex marriage were to be federally legalized would the sturdy backbone of our culture be broken? Is it not morally wrong to deny the citizens of the United States of America the basic h...

• Word Count: 2296
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate