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case was a huge breakthrough in the fight against segregation, saying that any form of discrimination is a “badge of slavery,” (Jacobus, 412) and therefore violates the Thirteenth Amendment. “The Supreme Court stated that in enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Congress is empowered under the Thirteenth

Rental assistance programs are offered to those living in the United States to provide affordable rent and flexible accommodations to fit participant need. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, often called Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD for short, offer three types of rental assistance programs that include privately owned subsidized housing, public housing, and the Housing Choice Voucher Program. “Privately owned subsidized housing is a program in which apartment

clear codified interpretation in 1990, following the same strain of thoughts as the Civil Rights Act of the 1960’s, advocates of the disabled community lobbied for the equal protections that had been previously granted to racial minorities. In subsequent acts, the disabled constituency had gained protections in 1973 with the amendment of the Fair Housing Act and again in 1988 with the Rehabilitation Act. The final step for equal protections came in 1990 under the 101st

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:______________________________________________________ The Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, in short: The Brady Act, was United States legislation that was passed by Congress in 1993. The Brady Act required a five-day waiting period and criminal background check, performed by state and local law enforcement, for the purchase of a handgun. The Brady Act was instituted to curtail handgun violence and decrease the probability of a handgun ending up in a criminal’s hands

powerful gun control advocate in the country. Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars to support pro-gun control candidates of both parties. He and his supporters can play a big role in primaries if gun control supporters feel that they can counter-act the NRA 's influence. A main argument that is made is that if guns really

types of background-information check required by states prior to firearm purchases, and firearm deaths and the results of the study concluded that more background checks are associated with fewer deaths. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act is an Act of the United States Congress that mandated federal background checks on the purchasers of

“The boundaries of the Second Amendment do not coincide with the boundaries of gun control” (Blocher and Miller, 2016, p.296). Guns and the idea of gun control have been a high valued topic, between the Federal Government and state governments since the beginning of the 20th century. How strictly guns should be regulated is a common topic between the Federal Government and state governments, especially with the increase in mass shootings over the years. Although there are regulations set by the

Gentrification has become a common phenomenon throughout many major cities in the United States and it is impacting millions. Gentrification can be dated back to the urban renewal and slum clearance, and post-war reconstruction programs implemented during the 1950s and 1960s Schaffer and Smith 1986). Although the main idea of gentrification is to, from an economic standpoint, rebuild the city and redevelop its urban core, some people are in fact negatively impacted. There seems to be a trend of the

The free range of interpretation of the Constitution by the branches of government has allowed the country to continue to function and not become stagnant. This is important because the laws of the 18th century United States would not be relevant to that of the 21st century. Technology and the complexity of the world are examples of why interpretation of the constitution is important because no can say for sure any of the original drafters of the constitution anticipated the size the United States

The Necessity of Gun Control Gun control is one of the most debatable topics today. Thirty-three million Americans own firearms for hunting (Aitkens 9). But hunting is not the sole reason for which many individuals buy firearms. Of all countries, the United States is the one which is troubled most by a large number of criminals who are in possession of guns. The U.S. has the highest firearm murder rate of any democracy in the world (Aitkens 5). Where is the country going wrong as far as gun