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Middle And Upper Lottery Ticket
1,692 wordsPolicy-makers are assessing the advice from Kenny Rogers, "You got to know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um, know when to walk away and when to run. " They are trying their hand at new and old forms of gambling in the hopes of generating additional revenues. One of the revitalized ideas of the past is to legalize gambling on historic riverboat replicas. Yet riverboat gambling won't be restricted to the Mississippi, but will appear in towns like Gary, Indiana and even our own Jefferson Cit...
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Compulsive Gamblers Legalized Gambling
1,612 words... to support the riverboat gambling industry, (Eckert, 1991). He also believes after all 10 boats authorized under the law are operating Illinois will receive $ 40 million in additional revenues, (Eckert, 1991). This is bound to please Illinois' taxpayers. Yet with all its promises it would seem governments are promoting gambling in order to pay a insignificant portion of the bills. Iowa expects to generate $ 10. 8 million from all her riverboat casinos this year. But that is a rather small sh...
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Method Of Execution Percent Of The Cases
2,050 words... d 42 percent of those awaiting execution on death row. This over-representation has long been the case and has been addressed by virtually every legislative body in America as well as by the Supreme Court. In the landmark case Furman Vs. Georgia in 1972 the Supreme Court overturned existing death penalty statutes on the grounds that those selected to die were chose primarily on the basis of race. In this case the Supreme Court issued a temporary moratorium on capital sentencing. The moratori...
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U S Law Public Schools
1,657 wordsShould Prayer be permitted in Schools The issue of prayer in schools has been sharply debated since the First Amendment. Though, according to this law, students are allowed to exercise freedom of their speech in schools and on campus, the freedom of religious speech, i. e. prayers, remain not clear, because: 1) prayers in schools are very close to the problem of separation between religion and state; 2) in fact, the Constitution allows religious activity in public schools, but there are many lim...
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Death Row Inmates Put To Death
4,171 wordsCapital Punishment Capital Punishment? An Overview? The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available. ? - Justice Thurgood Marshall Imagine a man who commits murder once, is given a fifteen-year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again on...
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Negative Aspects State Sponsored
1,049 wordsSo many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination (J. B. S. Haldane). Whether parents are censoring material for their children or the media is presenting to the public only the things it deems newsworthy, a nearly infinite amount of censorship's are being exercised every day around the world. More significantly, every legislator or person of political power must consider carefull...
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