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Supreme Court Ruled U S Senate
5,404 wordsWhile the censorship of art is not a new phenomenon, recent years have witnessed renewed and intensified attempts to control popular culture. In particular, rap and rock music have come under increasing attack from various sides representing the entire left and right political spectrum, purportedly for their explicit sexual and violent lyrical contents. In this paper is investigated which moral codes underlie these claims against popular music, how social movements mobilize actions around these ...
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Works Progress Administration Social Security Act
1,595 words... t successful in abating a failure in the money system and gaining enthusiastic support for the Roosevelt administration. They did not, however, significantly reduce the immense pressure felt by the public as a result of the Great Depression. Along with this reality, several crucial New Deal programs were found to have violated conservative constitutional theory; the National Recovery Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and others were invalidated by the Supreme Court,...
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House Of Lords Plays An Important
1,386 wordsClearly, in such a populated country such as Great Britain, a Second Chamber of Parliament also known as the House of Lords is necessary. Although the House of Lords cannot execute much power, compared to the House of Commons, it is a vital part of British Government. The House of Lords plays an important part in revising, potentially delaying legislation and as well as keeping a check on Government by scrutinizing its activities. It complements the work of the Commons, whose members are elected...
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Three Strikes Law Twenty Five Years
1,208 wordsCruel and Unusual Punishment is a fundamental right given to us by the United States (U. S. ) Constitution. The 8 th amendment states, Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Last year in California voters approved a controversial ballot initiative. Proposition 184, also known as the three strikes and you " re out law, was passed on November 9, 1994. Under this new legislation repeat offenders, upon committing their third fel...
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California Proposition 184 Three Strikes And Out
1,078 wordsLast year in California voters approved a controversial ballot initiative. Proposition 184, also known as the three strikes and you " re out law, was passed on November 9, 1994. Under this new legislation repeat offenders, upon committing their third felony offense, will be sentenced to a mandatory twenty-five years to life in prison (California 667). The initiative passed by a landslide, with 76 % of the voters in favor of it. The State Senate soon after voted the bill into law, with only seven...
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Gun Control Legislation Five Day Waiting Period
1,077 wordsIn the 1960 s after the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kenedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of thi...
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Reforms Of Peter The Great
2,687 wordsReforms of Peter the Great Persons who have no respect for those who gave them life are the most ungrateful creatures. And of all the vices, ingratitude is the vilest. Peter the Great The legislation of Peter the Great differs in many respects from that of the preceding epoch, the epoch of Muscovite Russia. In Muscovite Russia, the state set itself limited goals, going no further than foreign defense, the levying of means to maintain it, and the maintenance of courts for enforcing domestic secur...
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Gun Control Legislation Gun Rights Groups
2,436 wordsGun Control Columbine tragedy and countless others have added momentum to proposed gun control measures pending before Congress. Policy makers and legislators have made this issue a top priority, and are currently debating over controversial gun control policies and initiatives. The controversy over gun control revolves around two interrelated questions of government authority: does the government have the right to impose regulations; and, assuming the existence of such a right, should the gover...
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Gun Control Legislation Stricter Gun Control
4,315 wordsBrady bill and its passage Introduction The legislative process in the United States Congress shows us an interesting drama in which a bill becomes a law through compromises made by diverse and sometimes conflicting interests in this country. There have been many controversial bills passed by Congress, but among all, I have taken a particular interest in the passage of the Brady bill. When the Brady debate was in full swing in Congress about three years ago, I was still back in my country, Japan...
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Ban Human Cloning Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
4,597 wordsHuman cloning has become a hot topic for debate. As we progressed one step closer to successfully cloning and developing a human being, legislators and the general public have become more concerned about the ethical and moral implications of this procedure. The federal government has been unsuccessful in reaching an agreement as to what policy to pass and enact. Thus, any current legislation on human cloning has been developed and enforced by individual states. The state of California is one of ...
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Congressional Quarterly Crude Oil
3,168 wordsEnergy And Commerce Committee: Lighting The Way Energy And Commerce Committee: Lighting The Way Of The Future America beings her trek into the 21 st Century with a very rocky start, for the prices of gasoline and crude oil are continually increasing, the stock market perpetually slowing down, a shortage of power supply for the entire state of California and several other states nation wide, plus the threat of a recession lurking around the corner; these are among the many obstacles that are bloc...
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Warm Springs Georgia Franklin D Roosevelt
3,631 wordsAssuming the Presidency Fdr Introduction Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York now a national historic site attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patricks Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Fol...
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Newt Gingrich Carnegie Mellon
7,002 wordsFreedom of Speech &# 038; Censorship on the Internet Introduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials thr...
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Gun Control Legislation Federal And State
834 wordsSection 1. Overview The issue of the letter which I sent was gun control legislation. The recipient of my letter was United States Senator George V. Voinovich of Ohio. This issue is an important topic in our country at this time which involves critical and controversial legislation, a large industry and special interest groups. Section 2. Summary of the Issue The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution states, ? the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shal...
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Strict Gun Control Gun Control Legislation
2,525 wordsThe issue of gun control and violence, both in Canada and the United States, is one that simply will not go away. If history is tobe any guide, no matter what the resolution to the gun control debates, it is probable that the arguments pro and con will be much these as they always have been. In 1977, legislation was passed by the Canadian Parliament regulating long guns for the first time, restructuring the availability of firearms, and increasing a variety of penalties. Canadian firearms law is...
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Human Rights Act Person Or Group
3,629 wordsI disapprove of what you say and Ill do my best to see that saying it is made a criminal offence. (John Mortimer, English playwright, commentator and creator of the Rumpole series on TV) If we dont believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we dont believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky) Freedom Bound The boundaries of hate and freedom are a contested terrain. When we negotiate the boundary of hate we are not only threading our way through a maze of malaise and venom, we are weaving th...
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Taft Hartley Act Fair Labor Standards
5,353 wordsHow the Rich Benefit From the Poor The United States is the most developed capitalist economy in the world. The markets within the economy provide profit-motivated companies endless potential in the pursuance of pecuniary accumulation. Throughout the twentieth-century competitive companies have implemented modernized managerial procedures designed to raise profits by reducing unnecessary costs. These cost-saving procedures have had a substantial effect on society and particularly members of the ...
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Pornography On The Internet Sexually Explicit
2,921 wordsInevitably, being an uncontrolled system, means that the Internet will be subjected to subversive applications of some unscrupulous users. (Kershaw) The concept of the Internet was created in answer to a strategic problem faced by the United States government during the Cold war era. A nuclear attack would easily disrupt a traditional computer network and hence make communication impossible. The solution was found in a new type of network. A network where all nodes would be equal in status, that...
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Marijuana For Medical Medical Use Of Marijuana
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Three Strikes Law Twenty Five Years
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