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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

Declaration of Independence/Constitution & Law

are ruled directly the people. In a republic, the government is run by the peoples elected representatives. Samuel Adams, a signer...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

Should Washington D.C. Become a State?

feel that they have enough representation as they live in districts with specific representatives who are numerous and carry elect...

Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

Constitutional Guarantees

the majority rule. Other nations which are considered incredibly different, and which further illustrate the complexity of constit...

Interrogation Rooms and the Mandatory Presence of Cameras

it mandatory for video and audio recorders to be in the interrogation rooms. This would aid in preventing excessive coercive pract...

New York State Constitution Creation

Boston Tea Party well and was suspicious of the federal governments plan for taxation. Still, when all is said and done, the bril...

Problems with the U.S. Articles of Confederation

been ineffectual at best, but, afterwards, the actions of Congress were actually hampering the viability of the new republic. One ...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

A Privacy Issue

policy of individual rights. However, those rights, it would seem, are the very ones that are being used against the United States...

Overview of NCAA

In terms of the scope of NCAA, in 1995-1996 over 323,226 students participated in NCAA-sponsored sporting activities (National Col...

Creation of America's Constitution

called upon each state to appoint a representative and attend a meeting he called the Continental Congress" (U.S. Constitution: Ba...

Is There a Constitution in Great Britain?

the best definitions can be seen as "A body of laws, customs and conventions that define the composition and powers of the organs ...

Impartial Government and the U.S. Bill of Rights

establishing America as its own liberated and democratic country, "the privilege of the informed and the involved" (Muczyk PG). M...

Protection for the Rights of the Individual in the U.S. Constitution

and prohibits someone from being tried twice for the same crime (Findlaw.com (a), 2002). In addition, this amendment states that n...

Unified Christian Belief

In six pages this paper examines the unity of belief that was called for by The Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on ...

US Constitution Reflections

them a reality. Democracy unleashed a joining together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in ...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

An Examination of Human Rights

academic degrees, but cannot find a job in a shaky economy, might feel that way about accepting a job that only pays a minimal amo...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

Political Document Relevance of the Constitution of the United States

and internal issues of social unrest and social justice. The U.S. Constitution is a document that does not deal with the limitati...

An Examination of the U.S. Constitution and the Articles of Confederation

history in relationship to other members of the Union. New York has remained under the control of the British for far longer than ...

Resources and Tools of a Consultant

Executives International, 2003). This software will "collate, share and analyze vital customer information" (Financial Executives ...

Living Constitution and the Opinions of US Justices

seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

U.S. Constitution and Benjamin Franklin

years before, a clause in a bill brought into Parliament by the ministry had proposd to make the kings instructions laws in the co...

American Criminal Justice and the Constitution

The result is that "there are not one, but fifty-five court systems in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, a...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...