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- 1541: The Nation Takes Shape
- ... John Adams (a Federalist) was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson (a Democratic -Republican in 1819) was elected vice. Since the Supreme Court was the place where a final decision as to the constitutionality of a bill or action was made, they were the determining factors for the implied powers of the constitution. In 1819 Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall, in the case McCulloch v. Maryland, decided that, indeed the constitution did ... military, it did not want to be involved in the French-British conflict of the time. America tried to stay neutral while trading with Europe, but France and Great Britain kept on violating their neutrality rights. The United States kept on trying to trade, but both sides put blockades on each other s ports. This meant that the other countries took their ships. The British, however, not only took their ships ...
- 1542: Accountability of Our Government
- ... which Government can be held accountable to the people. Difficulties will arise in trying to convince back benchers to essentially vote themselves into the unemployment line, however if the government fails to pass a ‘substantial' bill nowadays that is consider a vote of non-confidence. Opposition parties also use this accountability measure to heighten public awareness of questionable government practices or policies. Individual ministerial responsibility can be divided into two sub ... that where not satisfactory answered through the normal bureaucratic channels. As the opening quote indicates all elected officials must be held accountable if the government waste public funds, break the law or violate citizen's rights. Voters want someone to be held accountable and if the ministers do not take public blame than it usually falls to the public servants. However, political conventions that protect civil servants identity raises the question ...
- 1543: Gun Control
- ... gun control that portrays the slightest bit of common sense. Is owning a gun a protected act under the constitution? Yes it is. The first 10 amendments of the constitution are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else can not take one’s right to life. However there are times ...
- 1544: Loss of Freedom Through Apathy
- ... voters will have their rap music censored for being too explicit and their action films for being too violent. The Internet that this generation seems to embrace so dearly will be censored by the telecommunications bill and its television programming will include little ratings on the top left of their screens. Politicians will have no problem abusing the rights of this Generation X because simply put, they don't go our and vote. In this way the government pays more attention to the elderly as compared to the young. They will care more about ...
- 1545: Dorothy Parker
- ... were labeled in this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed into something of a national frenzy, while giving the reader the impression that she recklessly stretched a woman's equal rights to include sexual relationships. It seemed that infidelity was included among these "rights." Her admirers culled quotations from her poetry that, while seeming to be among the most clever, were also among the least sincere. These epitomize the apparent lack of emotional range displayed in her verse. The ... Bumping off a number of People whom I do not love. But I have no lethal weapon- Thus does Fate our pleasure step on! So they still are quick and well Who should be, by rights, in hell.' The mental anguish of many of the female characters in her work, brought about by love or a cunning illusion thereof, is lucidly illustrated in two of her short stories, "Dusk Before ...
- 1546: American Labor Movement: Development Of Unions
- The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves, and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more ... the demand for skilled labor. Yet, eighteen million immigrants between 1880 and 1910 entered the country eager for work. With an abundance of new immigrants willing to work, and no laws protecting a worker’s rights, businesses disregarded the lives of the individuals. (Department of Humanities, 1) This began to change with the formation of National Unions, collaborations of trade unions created to be even more effective than the local unions ... included three hundred thousand workers working for increasing wages, reducing hours, and improving working conditions. (AFL-CIO American Federationalist, 2) Gompers believed that everyone should receive equal pay for equal work, and that everyone’s rights should be protected. He also thought the unions should be primarily concerned with the day-to-day welfare of the members and should not become involved with politics. He also thought that socialism would ...
- 1547: Commonwealth
- ... which discriminated against Catholics ans concerning the right to practise their religion, have an education, own property and vote. Wolfe Tone, an Irish Protestant wanted complete independence from Britain and an Irish Republic with equal rights for people of all religions. In 1798 a rebellion led by Wolfe Tone failed. Ireland unites with Britain: Protestant Irish Parliament was abolished by the British. Ireland was united with Great Britain into the United ... Catholics and Protestants grew more and more apart. They had separate schools, separate churches and separate traditions. The Troubles: In the Protestant Northern Ireland state the Catholic minority had faced discrimination and started a civil rights movement. The British Government suspending the Northern Ireland Parliament and established direct rule from London. British troops were sent in to keep the peace. They were welcomed at the beginning by the Catholic community. In 1972 in which 13 unarmed civil rights marchers were shot dead. This period has seen almost 3.200 killed and over 36.000 injured. Orangemen: An Orangemen is a person who belongs to an organization called the "Orange Order". The movement ...
- 1548: Annotations From The Narrative
- ... slavery. They allowed him to express his own feelings and opinions. Yet the more he read, the more he began to hate slavery. He began to see the way it was inhumane. Everyone has certain rights, human rights. You are born with these rights. It isn’t something the government can take away. So what Douglass’ master had said came true. The more knowledge he aquired, the more useless he would be as a slave. As I read ...
- 1549: Anselms Ontological Argument
- ... depend solely on what properties it has; whether or not something exists in reality or only in the understanding does not affect its greatness in any way. For example, consider an imaginary one hundred dollar bill with all the same properties as a one hundred dollar bill that does exist in reality. The only difference between the real bill and the imaginary one is that the former exists both in reality and in the understanding while the latter exists only in the understanding. But this difference is not a difference in any set ...
- 1550: Society and Euthanasia
- ... and the more common usage of artificial measures to prolong life, many people today are more fearful of the process of dying than of death itself (Anderson, 1980). In a society where freedom and personal rights are fought for everyday, it is no surprise that euthanasia has become such a predominant issue for us. However, because our society is so committed to making sure that everyone's personal rights are met and appreciated, it is shocking that there is such a controversy over it. The word Euthanasia comes from the Greek language: eu means "good" and thanatos means "death". The meaning of the word ... for a person to aid her in terminating her life, when she cannot do it with out assistance, therefore it deprived her of liberty and security of a person under the Canadian Charter of Human Rights. Her pleas were considered invalid by the panel (Levy, 1994). After another trip to court in February of 1993 and again to no avail she finally appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada on ...
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