Protected areas of the United States

Most people in the United States today are familiar with the idea of hate crimes, and there are. Of course, those who have been subjected to them. Simply put, a hate crime is determined to be, “… a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2017) These prejudicially-based crimes target victims who belong to, or increasingly, are perceived to belong to, a particular group of people, such a race; a religious affiliation; gender

Introduction: In 1967, the petitioner Charles Katz was charged in violating 18 U.S.C. § 1084 for transmitting illegal gambling information from a payphone booth from the city of Los Angeles to individuals in Boston and Miami (Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)). The FBI had been aware of Katz illegal activities after following him extensively, and in an effort to bring evidence against him, placed an electronic eavesdropping device on the phone booth he had made calls from during previous

In the United States the Federal government owns land; these lands are often used for national parks, housing or recreation. The way the federal government uses the land it owns is often criticized due to corporations, lobbyist and organizations who all want to see it used a certain way. Currently land that is developed on is done so because of the ever-increasing population in the US either from more births than deaths or from immigration this also brings the need for more resources to maintain

vitality is threatened. Parks are government protected areas by the National Park Service within the United States boundaries that house various types of ecosystems. Yellowstone National Park was the first National Park created by congress and Ulysses s. Grant by the Act of March 1, 1872, making it exclusively under the control of the Secretary of the Interior. With the creation of Yellowstone, more than 100 countries contain around 1,200 preserved areas similar to that of a park. June 8th of 1906

wildlife and its environmental areas protected. This act is the greatest form of protection. The Wilderness Act is recognized as the value of saving “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” There are many reasons why this act is so important and many reasons why these lands are being protected. Only five percent of the United States is Protected (Boyes). The five percent of the United States is the only untouched nature

Amendment rights, because there was no physical entry (Hall, 2016.) They declined the formulation of the issues because the correct solution of the Fourth Amendment problem is not necessarily promoted by incantation of the phrase “constitutionally protected area” (Hall, 2016.) Secondly, The Fourth Amendment protects individuals privacy against certain kinds of governmental intrusion, but its protections go further and often have nothing to do with privacy at all (Hall,

Both of these have goals that both overlap, and yet are distinctly different. To better understand the similarities and differences let us first examine Homeland Defense. Homeland Defense refers almost exclusively to the protection of the United States, her land, territories, critical infrastructure, and even her

The New York Times Co. V. United States case of 1971 examined the Nixon administration's prevention of the New York Times’s publication claiming that the information they were publishing the Pentagon Papers was not in the best interest of the Country.The articles in question contained studies done on the United State’s activities in Vietnam done by the Defense Department. The Supreme Court of the United States decided in a 6 to 3 vote that the United States wrongfully prevented the New York Times

The Clean Water Rule The United States government should uphold the Clean Water Rule for several reasons. Keeping the Clean Water rule ensures that the environment is protected which will help in many other aspects such as protecting drinking water and maintaining the outdoor portion of the economy. The economy needs clean water to sustain itself. If the Clean Water Rule were dropped, then there would be a decrease in the clean water available across the nation. Clean water doesn’t just affect what

Design of the Fourth Amendment The Fourth Amendment was not designed to serve as a fixed protection against government abuse. There is no amendment to the Bill of Rights whose contents should be taken at the face value they were written for. Keeping any amendment in its’ historical context would solidify the amendment as a defense for the historical incidents that occurred in late eighteenth century, rather than a guarantee that law enforcement officers act accordingly in present day. As times change