They then try to argue that only the military or the National Guard should have access to guns, not individuals. ... The 2008 Supreme Court case, District of Columbia vs. ... Later, in McDonald vs. ... They then proceeded to post this information on their website for the entire world to see (Kopel 1). ... If the residents of the home don't own guns, then the thief is in virtually no danger if he is discovered. ...

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It is older then the Roman Empire, and has changed much since it's first use. ... In fact, the closest execution has ever come to being illegal was back in 1972, when the Supreme Court, in its 5-4 decision Furman vs. ... Even then, although the court ruled that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, it emphasized that it was only illegal in the way it was then administered. ... rder, believing that if two acts have the same ending or result, then those two acts are morally equivalent. ... Opponents ludicrously claim that the de...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. Civil rights are freedoms and rights ...

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" According to The Long Shadow of 9/11, a recent Rand Corporation study, more than 70,000 American's have been killed or injured in this conflict. Conservative estimates hold that more than 150,000 Iraqis and Afghans have lost their lives. ... In addition, we have seen a sharp decline in American prestige internationally, serious erosion of our civil liberties, and we have lived for more than a decade in a state of constant vigilance and surveillance all in the name of fighting terror. ... American exceptionalism framed our response to terror in the simplistic, emotionally satisfyi...

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On the other hand, Frederick Douglass was born in the United States, but was confined to be a lowly life form other than a human; seen only as an animal used for work, he experienced life from a different perspective. ... Since slaves were actually qualified as lowly and not quite human, the legal system judged them as less credible than their masters. ... Even if the master decided in the slaves favor, he treated these incidents as crimes against his property rather than violations of human rights. ... He then traveled to Canada, served for a while with the French in their war against the ...

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Polygamy was legal in Vietnam until 1959; at that point only the first wife a man took was then considered his wife, all others were dissolved. ... In America it is often questioned why someone would chose to live close to his or her parents rather than break away from their family. ... With these strong values I also find it interesting that Ayurveda markets a skin lightener, which brings in more than $100 million dollar a year, but has also been a huge controversy recently in India. ... It really makes me feel ignorant and says a lot about society as a whole that we are more conce...

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