Constitutional Act of 1791

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    political procedure and of the significance of the systems for authorizing limits on discourse as a part of securing its freedom. Allen and Chenoweth (n.d.) recommends that after the American Revolution, the US Constitution 's First Amendment, embraced in 1791, set up

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    Protests by patriots, as rebellious colonists were called, continued to escalate. In 1773, patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea in what was famously know as the Boston Tea Party. The British responded by imposing stiff laws called the Coercive Acts. In 1774, the patriots set up an alternative government to try to better coordinate their efforts to resist

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    Abstract: Such many shootings as Denver Theater shooting, the Sikh Temple shooting, not only tear the heart of Americans, but also arouse the rest of world’s curiosity about this heated matter, having a great impulse to explore the reason behind the problem. Uncovered in the United States "foreign policy", from the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 till now, there are about 30000 people die each year under shooting, that means more than 80 people were killed by guns

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    According to the U.S. Constitution, the Second Amendment states that the right to bear arms should not be altered.(Bill of Rights). Many American citizens believe this amendment is an individual right, while others believe that it is a collective right intended to restrict Congress from taking away a state's right to self-defense. This, along with other current events, has given rise to heated debate on the topic of gun control. History has shown that there are positive and negative effects of gun

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    Founding the New Country and Third Branch The American Revolutionary War originated by the resistance of the Americans Patriots to the unfair taxes imposed by the British parliament. The resistance movement led into boycotts of British goods and the destruction of a shipment of tea at the Boston Tea Party. The British government retaliated by shutting down the Port of Boston and taking away the limited colonial self-government. The Patriots responded by taking control of the provinces governments

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    Essay on The Death Penalty: Right or Wrong?

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    This essay will discuss the various views regarding the death penalty and its current status in the United States. It can be said that almost all of us are familiar with the saying “An eye for an eye” and for most people that is how the death penalty is viewed. In most people’s eyes, if a person is convicted without a doubt of murdering someone, it is believed that he/she should pay for that crime with their own life. However, there are some people who believe that enforcing the death penalty

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    articles of confederation was our first written constitution of the new United States of America. It was our first attempt to organized and establish roles of the national government. Even though it was unsuccessful, it eventually lead to the constitutional convention where it became enhanced and improved. The unsuccessful article of confederation is now replaced by the newly improved constitution that is still used today. The article of confederation and the Constitution are both foundations in

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    creates a clear and present danger?" Congress has a right to prevent those instances that will bring about substantive evils. In the end the question is one of proximity and degree (Holmes, 1999). Since this amendment first appeared in December of 1791, there have been hundreds of court cases, ruling on the religious rights of students, teachers and other officials in public schools. These court cases with their extraordinary impact, have paved the way to the educational system we have today. Though

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    Amendment Iv, 8

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    Amendment IV (1791)- 8.) Government must have a search warrant based on probable cause Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones Source: The NY Times November 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/technology/legality-of-warrantless-cellphone-searches-goes-to-courts-and-legislatures.html?ref=searchandseizure&_r=0 This right states that government make the search and seizure warrant based on the cause. For example, if a person was accused for some crime and that person already have

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    Abstract: This article concerns itself to the protagonists of the novels Citizen Tom Paine (1943) and Freedom Road (1944). Citizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast depicts the conditions during The American Revolutionary War and its after math (1765-83). Freedom Road depicts the conditions of the former African slaves after The Civil War (1861-65) Thomas Paine is a political philosopher and thinker who has strived for the liberation of the Americans and African slaves since the time of American Revolutionary

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