Gay Rights Violation

Being a citizen of the United States comes with advantages that no other country can match. We are granted rights and privileges just for being born within our borders. Others can also gain these rights by adopting our way of life and swearing to uphold its values. Being a citizen or not, we are expected to obey laws that the U.S. Government has put in place to maintain order and balance. When we don’t obey these laws the government has the right to punish us. Luckily for us, our Bill of Rights has even granted us rights until proven guilty. It gives us rights to a fair and speedy trial as well as the right to representation during trial. So many rights and procedures have come about since the birth of our nation. We are constantly making

In a recent podcast regarding a transgender high school student being forced to change in the nurse’s office instead of in the locker room with other students addressed the controversy regarding the treatment of members of our society who identify as LGBTQ. Throughout the podcast, multiple individuals have voiced support for the school’s decision to isolate the transgender student when changing. Do to the opinions voiced in the podcast regarding this case, I realized that the treatment of the high school student is only one example of the existing discrimination towards those who identify as LGBTQ. As such, I intend to explore the controversy of LGBTQ and our obligations that we have as members of the same society. Throughout this paper, I

After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President he recommended legislation design to provide temporary assistance to the "deserving” poor and ongoing economic insurance to those who were making it but might need help in the future (Guyer, 1987). The Social Security Act incorporated bureau plans to aid dependent children, welfare services for children needing special care and MCH services including services for crippled children. There was also the title IV which provided cash payments to the mother who had lost fathers' support for their

The section of the AFDC program was one of the most questioned of the welfare prior to 1996. AFDC welfare program was originally created by congress with the intention to provide essential necessities and protection to children and their families. This program however was eliminated when the 1996 welfare reform act was enacted. The reform act was distributed by block grants which provided welfare benefits to the recipients under new sets of rules and requirements. TANF, the new block grant transforms ADFC to a pre-established funding. TANF provided states a pre-established scale of funds for income funding and work programs based on what they spent on these programs in 1994. The succeeding variations in the scale of demand for this program

In the United States, citizens have rights, and the United States Constitution guarantees these rights. The Bill of Rights states the basic liberties of the people of this nation in the first ten amendments in the U.S. Constitution. However, these liberties can be met with denied liberty, while sacrificing freedom, as people live in fear threatened by racism, religious beliefs, police brutality, invasion of privacy, and the horrific terrorism acts on United States soil.

The United States Constitution guarantees each American certain rights and freedoms. This is one of the foundations that our country is built upon. Therefore it is important that we are willing to acknowledge when there could be issues that may be affecting the rights of our citizens.

Finally, the other issue in the 1960’s that has affected my personal life is public assistance. Public assistance provides medical coverage, and food assistance for families of low income. The programs goal is to alleviate hunger and malnutrition by permitting low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet through normal channels of trade (Federal Food Programs). This program affects me personally, because without this program I would not be able to put food on the table. My husband and I both work and it still seems like it is not enough to pay all the bills, let alone having to worry about putting food on the table. This program relieves a lot of stress from worrying about how I am going to feed my family. This is not something that anyone should have to worry about. These programs also help with medical coverage. Even though my husband and I both work, we simply can't afford health insurance.

After the flaws present in the Articles of Confederation, the Founding Fathers devised the Constitution, a completely new chapter in American history that would fix and tweak the insecurities of the previous supreme law of the land. Originally, the Bill of Rights was not intended to be included, but it was soon added thereafter to ensure the rights of the people. Back then and still today, the Bill of Rights still holds the government accountable for the protection of its people’s liberties and rights. However, the government has not lived up to this heavy responsibility because they have compromised our liberties and rights in the name of security and general welfare one too many times. The internment of Japanese-Americans, the privacy invasion of Bush’s administration, and the hasty decision-making of Barack Obama on Anwar al-Awlaki are all examples of times when our so-called trusty government failed to keep our rights in mind.

In America, you hear that citizens have and are entitled to many “rights.” You have a right to remain silent. You have a right to free speech. You have the right to “keep and bear arms,” a right to have “equal protection under the law,” and a right to education. When these rights are infringed on, Americans get very defensive. But yet in today’s individualistic society, many forget that as citizens of “The Land of the Free,” you also have responsibilities. You are responsible for supporting and defending the Constitution. You are responsible for respecting and obeying federal, state, and local laws. You are responsible for staying informed of the issues affecting your community, for participating in the democratic process, and for respecting

The Constitution “does not give you rights.” The founders considered your rights to be "God-given" or "natural rights" — you are born with all your rights.” Laws that protects your rights,example right to vote for who you feel is best for the job, going to church of your choice,freedom to speak what's on your mind. Even though mine gets me in trouble. To live where and how you want to live.

Our nation's Constitution is said to address the rights of every citizen. But U.S. laws have not always been fair.

We live in a world in which it could be perceived all humans have rights, which are protected and respected by all governments regardless of ideology. For all of those who see things beyond the walls of politics, it is clear that for the majority of the world’s population their reality implies otherwise. While every violation of civil rights and liberties should be addressed, given my personal experience, I consider the violation of 12th and 13th article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights the most important civil liberties or rights issue of the moment. The 12th article states that everyone has the right to liberty of movement and to choose his residence, everyone is free to leave any country, including his own, and

Unfortunately, in 1929 funds for Mothers Pension started to steadily decline due to the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would discuss the lack of aid for single mothers at his State of the Union Address in January of 1935, as he stated, "the time has come for action by the national government to provide security against the major hazards and vicissitudes of life”(Warner, 2008). Following his address President Roosevelt would replace Mothers Pension with Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). AFDC was the first

In 1997, the AFDC program was replaced by a more restrictive, state designed and operated, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.4 The main differences between AFDC and TANF are the time limits in which support can be received (both food stamps and cash aid), the requirement for those who receive aid to work, immigrant eligibility, and the requirement of cooperation from female recipients in identifying the father of their children. The AFDC program did not have any limits on how long income and food stamp support could be received nor did the program require applicants to participate in work activities to remain eligible. Developmentally disabled children as well as non-citizens qualified for a wide variety of programs, and female recipients were not required to name the father of their children.4 The TANF program limits

In 1935, AFDC, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children was created mainly to provide federal grants to help the states maintain their mothers’ aid laws to help out needy mother. Designed to support children in need in where one parent was absent, deceased, unemployed or disabled. With AFDC the U.S. government agreed to provided 1/3 of costs, the program offered aid to poor parents, initially envisioned to be