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- 241: Canada - Of The United States of America
- ... subtract the U.S.'s excessive national defense spending, the gap between the two countries considerable widens.2 The United States has adopted a more Freudian “survival of the fittest” concept towards government where the rights of the individual are predominant and industry is publicly owned and run with little help from the government. Although there is some government control and ownership of industry in both countries it is much more ... Good Government” which implies control of, and protection for the society. The parallel motto developed by America's founding fathers is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, this model suggests the upholding of the rights of the individual. Due to the Canadian motto being geared towards the rights and obligations of the community “ the crime control model .... emphasizes the maintenance of law and order, and is less protective of the rights of the accused and of individuals generally”.11 Due to the ...
- 242: Censorship In The United States
- ... to intelligently think for ourselves and make our own intelligent decisions. We all right from wrong and are freethinking liberated people. The fore founders of this indeed blessed and splendid country also granted us many rights that are documented within the US Constitution. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are both guaranteed to all of us in the glorious first ten amendments to the Constitution—the Bill of Rights. Somewhere along the line, someone got the idea that Americans are not smart enough to view “questionable” and “objectionable” material. We are being told what we can and can not see and that is ...
- 243: The Influence of Green Groups on the Policy of the United States
- ... policies of the United States. The United States political system has been historically anthropocen-tric, or human centered. Environmental groups have been attempting to change this to a biocentric or ecocentric viewpoint, which includes the rights of animals and the environment. These views are nature centered instead of human centered. This study will answer the question of whether these groups have been effective at altering United States policies. This will be ... same protection as humans have. An ecocentric viewpoint establishes the right of the environment to have legal standing. This gives people the ability to defend the right of an animal to exist with the same rights as humans. Without this protection, people will be just as negatively affected as the environment. The earth must be thought of as a living organism, if one part is hurt then the whole planet will ... efforts to roll back environmental laws (Foley, 1995). Congress has been modifying the country's environmental policy to suit business interests during its first eight months in power. Senator Bob Dole sponsored a risk assessment bill. This bill required that new federal human health and safety standards be weighed against their economic costs. This bill was defeated by the Natural Resources Defense Council lobby. Congress has also attached over fifty ...
- 244: Jefferson and Socrates' Idea of Democracy
- ... I would not go there at all." (Peterson, 1984, 941). While he did grossly disagree with Hamilton and the federalists he did approach the world with and open mind. Jefferson was always a proponent of rights of the people, and feared the threat of an elected monarchy. It was for these reasons that Jefferson led the fight for the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Jefferson's fears were very real, in a letter to James Madison discussing details of the yet unratified constitution Jefferson wrote "Reflect on all the instances in history ancient & modern, of ...
- 245: The Failures Of Affirmative Ac
- ... took place before 1964, the answer would be obvious. However, with the somewhat recent adoption of the social policy known as affirmative action, the answer becomes unclear. After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964,it became apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude tests, prevented total equality in employment. Then President, Lyndon B. Johnson, decided something needed to be done to remedy ... 24, 1965, he issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors “to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed . . . without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin (Civil Rights).” When Lyndon Banes Johnson signed that order, he enacted one of the most discriminating pieces of legislature since the Jim Crow Laws were passed. Affirmative action was created in an effort to help minorities leap the discriminative barriers that were ever so present when the bill was first enacted, in 1965. At this time, the country was in the wake of nationwide civil-rights demonstrations, and racial tension was at its peak. Most of the corporate executive and managerial positions ...
- 246: Colorado River
- ... in the United States, very little of the Colorado River was in Mexico (2,000 sq. miles), and therefore they deserved very little. Herbert Hoover stated, "We do not believe they (Mexicans) ever had any rights." The Indian tribes along the river were treated the same way. Hoover inserted what was called the 'Wild Indian Article', "nothing in this compact shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the United States ... s water. Arizona wanted more water from the Colorado River, they continued to fight California for it. In 1930 Arizona filed what was to be many lawsuits against the State of California for more water rights. It wasn't until Arizona was granted electricity from Hoover Dam, and given assurances for the Central Arizona Project, that Arizona ratified the 1922 Colorado River Compact, 22 years later. Nevada, the one state that ... acre feet for federal lands. This gives them sufficient water to meet needs of reservation. Recently the tribes have reasoned that farm lands were omitted from the original estimate and that they want more water rights. If tribes receive more water, this could mean less water for the lower basin. Opponents argue that the Navajo Tribe bargained away some rights for other developments, such as the huge coal burning power ...
- 247: A Political Biography On Jfk
- ... and China. In doing so, he prevented many people of the world from being harmed. Kennedy ensured equality for all Americans, rich or poor, black or white. He led an advance in civil and human rights, and was well liked by many of the American people. He is seen as one of the most influential Presidents ever to have been elected. Many people regard JFK as legacy. He changed the views ... he was not liberal at all. But by 1957, he was taking mildly liberal positions on the difficult question of civil liberties. He helped arrange a compromise between Northern and Southern positions on the civil rights bill passed in 1957. In Jackson Miss., he frankly asserted that he accepted the Supreme Court decision of 1954 on desegregation of the nation's public schools. Campaign for president Beginning in 1956, Kennedy aimed ...
- 248: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... announced plans to establish a "neighborhood police post" on the Internet to monitor and receive complaints of criminal activity- including the distribution of child pornography. And in the United States there has been introduced a bill- vocally opposed by civil liberties organizations and computer-user groups- that would outlaw the electronic distribution of words and images that are "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent." However, Federal agencies lack the manpower to ... manipulators of new information and communications technology to build up files on individuals are private companies collecting personal data on tens of millions of people. Simon Davies, the British head of Privacy International, a human rights watchdog group, says that every citizen of an industrialized country appears today in about 200 different data bases. Such mines of information are centralized, sifted through and correlated to produce very detailed profiles of consumers ... that privacy is an intrinsic good, implying that the right to privacy is fundamental and irreducible. Others contend that privacy is more of an instrumental good. Hence the right to privacy is derived from other rights such as property, bodily security and freedom. While both approaches have validity, the latter seems more compelling. It is especially persuasive when applied to those rights involving our liberty and personal autonomy. A primary ...
- 249: Drugs Debate
- ... to them since they are readily available and legal difficulties would not exist. If there was an increase in addicts of mind constricting drugs, productivity would decrease. Even when considering that some people, such as Bill Nelles, a senior manager in Britain's National Health Service, are addicted to opiates and lead functional lives, the majority do not and productivity would therefore decrease. If productivity were to decrease further during a ... to consume substances which, although might increase risks of bad health and communication problems, do not lead to unacceptable consequences and furthermore, stimulate creativity and thoughts which would otherwise not exist, is to infringe on rights of choosing one's own values. If a person values perceiving the world through different eyes, for example, over being able to communicate efficiently with friends and family, that is a personal choice which should ... encouraged. On the other hand, if one wishes to consume a substance which affects one's morality, rationality and ability to learn, such as mind constricting drugs, the consequences are that one infringes on the rights of oneself and others and in this case, the government must interfere. The argument that drug use is a victimless crime and therefore should not be illegal is one of the stronger ones for ...
- 250: The Failures Of Affirmative Ac
- ... took place before 1964, the answer would be obvious. However, with the somewhat recent adoption of the social policy known as affirmative action, the answer becomes unclear. After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964,it became apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude tests, prevented total equality in employment. Then President, Lyndon B. Johnson, decided something needed to be done to remedy ... 24, 1965, he issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors “to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed . . . without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin (Civil Rights).” When Lyndon Banes Johnson signed that order, he enacted one of the most discriminating pieces of legislature since the Jim Crow Laws were passed. Affirmative action was created in an effort to help minorities leap the discriminative barriers that were ever so present when the bill was first enacted, in 1965. At this time, the country was in the wake of nationwide civil-rights demonstrations, and racial tension was at its peak. Most of the corporate executive and managerial positions ...
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