Many Americans don't have the financial resources to put their children into private schools, and because typically both parents are working, they can't be home-schooled either. ... The Federal Department of Education was created in 1979 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems. ... Lobbyists work for fortune five-hundred companies who have particular interests in law making. Lobbyists pay money to certain political parties in-order to persuade congressmen to promote or demote certain laws or laws they would like ins...

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Holder Jr. was born in New York City, where he did not experience the privilege of attending private schools, he studied and worked hard in public school and received a Regents Scholarship from Stuyvesant High School. He continued to work hard after he was admitted to Columbia Law School, where he majored in American History and graduated in 1973. He immediately went into law school at Columbia Law and clerked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Department of Justice's Criminal Division. His appreciation for law, an end to corruption, and community service was born at this time. ...

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Basically there are two definitions or schools of thought for AA. The first school of thought is that AA is an umbrella term for laws and policies that the United States Executive, Judicial, and legislative bodies have mandated. ... Under this school of thought, AA is in spirit and an institutional policy. The intent of this paper is to address the serious and profound arguments of both schools of thought. ... In addition, AA laws allowed for minority student's admission in schools that would not have been accessibl...

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As a consequence, many states rewrite their death penalty laws. ... Lopez the Court struck down the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1990 on the grounds that the federal government invades reserved powers of the states with this legislation. ... Today, most civil and criminal laws that govern the lives of Americans are state laws. State law also covers family law, traffic law and commercial law. ... If a state law offends the Constitution, the Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional and also decide if the law conflicts with valid federal laws. ...

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He later attended Vanderbilt Law School. ... One issue that was of importance to Michigan was the issue of School Choice. Some of Gore's plans were to increase public school aid by 50%. With the Detroit Public Schools suffering, this would help. ... To connect every school to the internet. ...

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Religion and Public Schools Each day, following state law, many teachers around the US lead students in a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The specific law states that public schools begin each school day with "appropriate patriotic exercises" and that the Pledge would be sufficient to comply. The specific school policy states that "Each elementary school class [shall] recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag once each day." ... However, if we go back in time we can find examples very similar to the actual problem taking place in our public school now days regarding the Ple...

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The imposition of segregation, or Jim Crow laws, stripped African Americans of many of the rights they had gained during the 19th century. ... On July 7, 1964, following one of the longest debates in senate history, Johnson signed the bill into law. ... Backed by law, the EEOC now held firm ground in the United States. ... In some cases, affirmative action was indirectly forced upon these schools by the government. ... While at the same time, it ruled against the school's special admissions program and ordered Bakke admitted. ...

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The laws of America did not have to be changed in order for blacks to receive equal rights, but they did have to be clarified and enforced. ... This Supreme Court case said that the old policy of "separate but equal" public schools was illegal, as it never brought equality to the blacks. Although the courts called for integration of public schools, it took at least a decade for desegregation to occur, and in many places it still hasn't. ... The US government did pass laws that granted more access to voting for blacks in 1957, 1960 and 1964. ... In numerous occurrences national sold...

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He studied at the Santa Cruz Seminary, the only secondary school in Oaxaca. Jua'rez later studied Law at the Instituto de Ciencias y Artes. ... In this position, Juárez issued the Law on the Administration of Justice and the Organic Law on the Tribunals of the Nation, of Districts and of Territories (the Juárez Law), which abolished the so-called fueros or privileges enjoyed by the military and by members of the clergy, over and above all other people. ... In July 1859, and with the support of the liberals, he issued the Reform Laws which declared the independence of the St...

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In high school, he took the family name. ... He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics. In 1975 he married Hillary Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. ... During high school at Philips Andover Academy, Bush was a determined non-effeminate cheerleader. ... He nevertheless matriculated at Harvard Business School, and earned his M.B.A. in 1975. ...

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Woodrow went to his local high school and then went to Davidson collage in North Carolina. ... Soon after his graduation Woodrow decided that he wanted to become a lawyer and entered the University of Virginia law school. He became ill again and had to leave school for the second time. ... Woodrow opened a law office in Atlanta Georgia but after a year he decided to give up the lawyer profession. After that Woodrow went to school at Johns Hopkins University to try and earn a doctoral degree. ...

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It was simple almost to say a bill or law is passed, but does that mean people will follow it? ... Another problem was the failure to enforce the laws under the Articles of Confederation. ... Without taxation there wouldn't be money to pay for schools and teachers, roads, law enforcement, and other such things. ... Lastly, without the enforcement of the laws, our rights would be violated left and right. ... They were too weak because there was a lacking executive branch, no ways to enforce laws, regulate trade, or collect taxes, and no judicial branch to uphold the laws. ...

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The war on drugs was not effective because the drug laws have been poorly correlated and prisons are getting more money than colleges. ... The reasons why so many people of color are trapped at the bottom is because of bad schools, poverty, and broken homes but if we encourage people to stay in schools and stay married, the problem of mass incarceration may decrease. ... The U.S. drug laws have not been able to reduce drug use. Just as prohibition with alcohol, banning it didn't stop people from drinking, people just stopped obeying the law. ... The war on drugs in America aimed to elimin...

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There are things in schools we cant do because it may offend people and there are things in public we cannot do because of it, no matter what you are being controlled by someone's religion. ... This has become associated with the religion, when in fact; the custom comes from the Shari law, and not from the Qur'an (Stacey). ... By mentoring youths to stay in school, and offering tutoring sessions, churches encourage youths to strive for higher education, to realize their potential, and generate increased income (Mie). Through offering after school programs and day care for individ...

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I felt that since I am still in school that I had the right to write a paper on drugs. ... The real problems are not from drugs, but from the anti drugs laws and prevention efforts. ... A quarter of high school seniors continue to use illegal drugs, and after watching the ads, a 13 years old girl started smoking pot. ... The facts are that drugs are easily accessible to high school students and before graduating over half will choose to experiment. ... In making narcotics more valuable than gold, there will be more corruption in society and law agencies. ...

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These Senators and representatives would bring about new laws that would change how the South was rehabilitated, and how the black population would be treated during the following years. ... The first of these, also known as Military Reconstruction, divided the rebel Southern states into five territories, declared martial law in them which allowed for dispatch union troops in order to keep the peace, and had each governed by a union general. ... These were two laws that were successful in reconstructing the South for two reasons. ... While congress was establishing new laws to narrow the g...

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He attended a prestigious high school and went on to graduate from Harvard in 1903. After Harvard he attended Columbia Law School. He was admitted into the New York Bar in 1907, despite the fact that he never obtained his law degree. ...

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She was a committed advocate for progressive causes, many of which were directly connected to improving the lives of women, including improving education, ending discrimination, increasing the availability of childcare and expanding the coverage of the federal minimum wage laws to include domestic employment. ... Elizabeth Dole, 62, a Harvard Law School graduate. ...

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Children should attempt to get the most out of school, study, take part in class work and activities, and try to do well on tests. ... A good citizen has the duty to know and obey the laws. ... Congress can declare war and veto or pass bills and laws. Congress governs territories, regulates immigration and naturalization laws. ... The president can veto laws. ...

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If students fail to make improvement after two years, technical assistant will be sent to that school. And after five years if there is no major show of improvement the school will be shut down until new management and staff are brought in. ... An example of influence is that for once all 50 States have submitted plans to monitor all student performance through their school career. ... The government passed the No Child Left Behind program into a law, yet, President Bush would like to cut more money out of the educational budget until the time is right to get this program started. ... Th...

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Congress had trouble passing laws due to the fact that nine of the thirteen states had to agree before any laws could be passed. Since there was no president or an executive branch, there was no way to make sure that laws passed by Congress were carried out. There were no courts to interpret laws, or to judge those that broke them because a national court system did not exist. ... It gave the Congress power to tax (concurrent), coin money (delegated), establish schools (reserved), maintain courts (concurrent), regulate commerce (delegated), pass laws (reserved), and raise armed forces (dele...

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An example of how this branch makes the laws is the process of how a bill becomes a law. ... This is one way Congress makes the laws. ... Independent agencies also enforce laws. ... The Judicial branch of the United States government can interpret laws and cases by changing a law or striking down the law, and declaring an act unconstitutional. ... The detail of this case is that African Americans were not able to go the same school as Caucasian students. ...

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Romney received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and then went on to attend the Harvard Law and Business School, receiving a law degree and an M.B.A. ... Obama received his degree in political science from Columbia University in 1983.and then went into Harvard Law School in 1988. There, he was the first African American elected editor of the Harvard Law Review. ... After graduating and receiving his law degree, Obama ran for Illinois senate as a democrat nominee in 1996 and won. ...

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"Once a man has been in politics, once that's been in his life, he will always return if the people want him." (Richard M. Nixon) Richard Nixon's the thirty seventh president of United States (1969-1974), was born in Yorba-Linda, CA in 1913. Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and D...

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Consequently, the Equal Employment Act of 1972 forced colleges and universities to admit members of minorities in greater numbers, especially in professional and graduate schools. ... A closely divided Supreme Court, with no majority opinion and six opinions in all, struck down a medical school admissions program that set aside a specific number of places for "disadvantaged" minority students. ... Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the University of Texas, deciding that its law school's policy of considering race in the admissions process was a violation of the Constitut...

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