happen again passed the USA PATRIOT Act, which is an acronym that stands for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. The major goal of this act is to combat terrorism by giving the government more leeway in what areas they are allowed to use their surveillance tools and also to what circumstances these tools can be used. The major issue that arise with this act are the fact that many of the act can be seen as unconstitutional
No one will ever forget the tragic events that happened on September 11th 2001. The largest act of terrorism on citizens this country has ever seen. The next month Congress passed The USA PATRIOT ACT, a clever acronym for Uniting and Strengthening of America through Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. This act, designed to halt terrorism, gives the government more power than the constitution provides. No one should bear the power to spy on you, hold you without
Dictionary as "a refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government." The most popular example in U.S. history when this was used was during the Civil Right Movement in the 1960's. The Jim Crow laws at the time restricted African Americans from being able to attend public schools or use public restrooms that were designated as "white only." Despite the fact that they had paid taxes like anybody else, these
intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment,” and in this he stated that even though this section does not exclusively or explicitly address privacy as a right, it still is one assured to Americans (Hamm). Brandeis believed that whenever the federal government learns confidential information about one of its citizens, it is effectively working against the very laws it was made to uphold. In addition, he Fifth
that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression (Inaugural Addresses, 1989).” Jefferson was not alone in this thinking. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and others understood that the unbridled power of the majority, which is the life-blood of a democracy, could be easily used to ignore or degrade the rights of a minority group. The framers of our nation intended for the protection of minority rights over the
On Feburary 28, 1993, at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, agents from the ATF launched a morning raid against the Branch Davidian compound as part of an investigation involving the group and the illegal possession of firearms and explosives. The Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh were a splinter sect of the Seventh-day Adventist. As the agents attempted to breach the complex, gunfire erupted, that begin a fierce bun fight that ultimately left four ATF agents dead and 15 others wounded. The Branch
of cheating is to “act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination,” (Merriam-Webster dictionary). When it comes to college sports, it is easy for a player to be persuaded to shave a few points for money. A typical question asked about sports is what happens if a team or player is caught cheating? Cheating is widespread it just depends on if the team or player gets caught. Recent examples of the cheating culture in sport includes Bill Belichick, coach