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- 581: Housing Discrimination And Hou
- ... and selling blacks into slavery, an issue that tore our country in two. Yet through trying and often tragic efforts, minority leaders have elevated the legal status of blacks. With the passing of the Civil Rights Act early this century, the 1968 signing of the Fair Housing Act, and the recent enactment of Affirmative Action, it seemed as if African Americans would now have the same opportunities as white Americans. However ... deliberate segregation; It is illegal. As a result, the justice system and its enforcement of the Fair Housing Act becomes an important factor in eliminating housing discrimination. This aspect of the problem is addressed in Bill Lann Lee's article, An Issue of Public Importance: The Justice Department's Enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Bill Lee is a civil rights lawyer with the U.S Department of Justice, and his article focuses on the "Department of Justices role in enforcing the Act and ensuring that fair housing is not ...
- 582: The Alien And Sedition Acts
- ... he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United Sates." Most Americans had little problem with the first part of the Act, but the latter parts were controversial. The Republicans viewed this bill as nothing short of an attempt to strengthen the federal government and subvert the power of the States. Edward Livingston, a Republican congressman from New York, in a speech to the House of Representatives on ... to narrow the federal authority...[They] in my judgement, are subversive to the principles of good government and dangerous to the Union, peace, and happiness of the country." The debate over federal authority and states' rights continued on and the parties continued to bitterly attack one another. In late 1798 and early 1799, a young Englishmen visiting the United States, D. M. Erkshire, noticed the ferocity of the attacks. "...they think ... body and solidarity." Hamilton's hope was not realized though, as the republicans were given body. Albert Gallatin, a republican congressman from Pennsylvania, in a speech before the House of Representatives in 1798, concluded, "...this bill must be considered only as a weapon used by a party now in power in order to perpetuate their authority and preserve their present places." Gallatin, for the most part, appears to be correct. ...
- 583: Reconstruction
- ... were the Radicals. Many of them argued that the confederate states had lost their constitutional identity; however the Republicans would only go so far as to say that by seceding the southerners had forfeited their rights. They were to be kept out of the Union until they had demonstrated a proper spirit of repentance. Radicals convinced enough moderate Republicans of this that Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill, which postponed Reconstruction until a majority of a state’s white males (not just 10%) took an oath of loyalty. Lincoln, however, not wanting to abandon his own approach, pocket-vetoed the bill. Another issue to be dealt with was blacks’ voting rights. Although this was once only an issue among radicals, a clear minority, all of Congress was beginning to give it light. The republicans now ...
- 584: Computer Crime
- ... of such devices as homemade telephone boxes. They are often much more extroverted than their computer equivalents. Phreaks have been known to create world-wide conference calls that run for hours (on someone else's bill, of course). When someone has to drop out, they call up another phreak to join in. Hackers come from a wide variety of odd subcultures, with a variety of languages, motives and values. The most ... that has very little to do with the technical details of computers or telephone systems. It is referred to by those who practice it as “social engineering”. With the information found on someone's phone bill (account or phonecard number), an enterprising phreak can call up and impersonate an employee of the telephone company- obtaining useable codes without any knowledge of the system whatsoever. Similar stunts are often performed with ATM ... of June 12, 1996, the censorship section of the Communications Decency Act was overturned by a three-judge panel of the federal court of appeals, who stated that it violates Internet user's first amendment rights, and that it is the responsibility of the parents to censor their children's access to information, not the government's. The court of appeals, in effect, granted the Internet the protections previously granted ...
- 585: The Constitution
- ... that was being formed derived its sovereignty from the people, which would serve to prevent it from becoming corrupt and disinterested in the people, as the framers believed Britain's government had become. If the Bill of Rights is considered, more supporting ideas become evident. The First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom could have been influenced by the colonial tradition of relative religious freedom. This tradition was clear even in the early ... to a government. Second, it specifies that each state shall be represented in both houses of Congress. The lower house, the House of Representative, furthermore, is to be directly elected by the people. If the Bill of Rights is considered, the religious aspect of the tradition becomes apparent. The First Amendment states, "Congress may make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... ," showing that, ...
- 586: Euthanasia: When Life Is To Be Feared More Than Death
- ... Francisco Chronicle. The measure, by Assemblywoman Dion Aroner, D-Berkley, mirrors Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law, enacted in 1997, which allows terminally ill patients to ask a doctor for lethal medications. Araner said her bill “will provide people suffering from terminal illness the peace of mind to know that if their symptoms become so severe and debilitating, or their pain so great, they have the choice to end their suffering.” Similar to Oregon’s law, Araner’s bill would require that the doctor determine that candidates for the prescriptions be 18 or older, of stable mind, and have fewer than six months to live because of an incurable and irreversible disease. A patient ... request, especially when pertaining to quality of life, is indeed a humane act. Human compassion is allowing for the best interests of the patient. The Declaration of Independence states that a person has certain unalienable rights, which are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. “According to this interpretation, to interfere with a person acting on his or her considered judgments, when such an action does not harm anyone else ...
- 587: The Gilded Age
- ... and allows them to become skilled at their respective craft. The market model of economy, developed by Adam Smith entails a freely flowing economy that places little or not restriction on occupation allowing individuals utmost rights. America took on an ethos of a mixed economy of market and command that struck a successful economic equilibrium. American economy also changes with different periods of history. The Civil War had lit the spark ... the time that the wealthy controlled the senate. Many of the elite upper class would not even deny this accusation. “…these men constituted a ruling clique that through the committee system of legislation controlled every bill that tried to run the gantlet of the Senate. And pressing over their activities was Vice President Levi Morton, who ranked with Belmont and Morgan as one of the greatest bankers in the land. This ... Government. Now, however, the lack of regulation would be frozen in place because of the social status of the men in the senate, who understood the power of their position. To put it plainly, no bill would be passed by the Millionaire’s Club that would in any way cripple themselves. The millionaire’s did not just control the legislature, either. “Harrison’s cabinet was sometimes called the ‘Businessman’s ...
- 588: Helen Keller
- ... been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960, she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring woman of America. She was a writer and lecturer who fought for the rights of disadvantaged people all over the world. Most importantly, she overcame her two most difficult obstacles, being blind and deaf. Helen Keller devoted her life to improving the education and treatment of the blind, deaf ... My Later Life, was published. Helen continued to change the world during the 1930s. She began to urge the public in Washington for legislation for the blind. She was extremely successful and got the Pratt bill passed. The Pratt bill provided federal funded reading services for the blind. She also became the vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom in 1932. In 1935 she helped enforce Title ...
- 589: Federalist Party
- ... look to for future loans. This policy received strong opposition from Madison and other soon to become Republicans (second political party in America). The federalists held strongly, but only with the passing of the Assumption Bill (movement of capital more toward the South) where they able to pass the bill. This achievement was significant, but lacked two things which would be necessary to carry it out. For one it lacked a circulating medium, and two it lacked a central bank. Hamilton then proposed a remedy ... had a choice of either maintaining the ways of the Federalists or vote for Jefferson and the republicans. The people, who were mostly farmers at the time, saw the threat to the common man's rights and so they voted Jefferson and other Republicans into office. This was probably the only thing that the federalist ever really messed up. They made the country strong but then went too far and ...
- 590: Thomas Jefferson
- ... only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for ... work on reforming the laws of Virginia. He also proposed a rational plan of statewide education and attempted to write religious toleration into the laws of Virginia by separating Church and State by writing the "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom." In June of 1779, Jefferson was elected Governor of Virginia. He commenced his career as a public executive, confident of his abilities, assured of the respect and almost the affection of ... 549). His popularity during his first term was greater than at any time during his career. In this term he was confronted with the most momentous problem of his career. Spain transferred to France its rights to the port of New Orleans, and the stretch of land constituting the province of Louisiana. Louisiana in the strong hands of the French rather than the weak hands of Spain placed an almost ...
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