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- 7391: Affirmative Action: Solution or Confusion?
- ... them as being hired because of affirmative action. This type of criticism is received by many minorities holding good jobs, whether they are qualified or not. To quote William Reynolds, assistant attorney general in the civil rights division: In many cases, affirmative action takes away from legitimate minority success. People look at the black banker downtown who has made it on his own and say, "He got his job because of ...
- 7392: An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action
- ... concerns that continuing such programs may raise. Perhaps the biggest complaint that one hears about affirmative action policies aimed at helping Black Americans is that they violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and the Civil Rights laws. The claim is that these programs distort what is now a level playing field and bestow preferential treatment on undeserving minorities because of the color of their skin. While this view seems very ...
- 7393: Affirmative Action
- ... the positions in a training program for minority workers with less seniority. The Supreme Court overruled this case by a 5-2 vote holding that the Kaiser program did not violate title VII of the civil rights act of 1964. The ruling was that, private employers could voluntarily adopt plans designed to eliminate conspicuous racial imbalance in traditionally segregated job categories. Then in 1984 and 1986 the justices ruled against upsetting ...
- 7394: Stephen King
- ... went to college at the University of Maine at Orono, at which, during his spophomore year, he worte a weekly column for THE MAINE CAMPUS. During his years at college he was opposed to the war in Vietnam, declaring it unconstitutional. After his graduation in 1970 Stephen had aquired a Bachelor of Science in English and immediately was qualified to teach at the high school level. As a student Stephen worked ...
- 7395: Australians Against Further Immigration
- ... features of British culture - the balance of law, freedom and order, separation of public services and politics, conflict solving by debate and not by force, violence and insurrection, tolerance of minorities, economic opportunity, fortitude in war without militarism and provision of social services. We have our distinctive art, music, theatre, literature, sport and film with achievements in science, medicine, social welfare and a unique quality of life. Our culture developed from ...
- 7396: Independence of Judiciary in Australia
- ... case that she or he have just presided over, this would lead to an inconsistency in deciding the appeal. Judges also have judicial independence. They have a law that protects them from having threats of civil litigation for their statements in their judgments. It is also a criminal offence for a person to interfere with a judge's performance while they are performing their duties. The rule of law is strictly ...
- 7397: Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
- ... John Locke, William Walwyn and John Milton. Madison and other previous libertarians of his time were transposed into seventeen different rights which were to be secured to all those in the United States. These seventeen civil liberties were compressed into ten different groupings which were designated as the "Bill of Rights." In this document lay the First Amendment which stated that the people of the Uni ted States had the "freedom ...
- 7398: The Corruption of Power
- ... Schott. By exercising her freedom of speech and her opinion, she was forced to lose her property, being her Major League Baseball team the Cincinnati Reds. She stated that what Adolph Hitler did in World War II to the Jewish people was right. To most people, this statement has many arguments that are very different from her opinion. Given the fact that out of all Americans today, two percent are millionaires ...
- 7399: The Context of The Second Amendment
- ... goverment can employ; and because it is composed of the armed [citizens], it will prevail over the mercenary professionals who man the armies of neighboring monarchs (Nesbit,318). This is how we won the Revolutionary War, by using state militias. The Second Amendment was important to the people then, but now does it really have any meaning? In modern times, we have what the founding fathers feared the most, a national ...
- 7400: Haig v. Agee: Power to Revoke Passports
- ... such as treason. If you consider that Agee's passport was revoked because he was uncovering secret CIA agents, he was undoubtedly committing treason. Though treason is usually considered to be evident during times of war, treason can also be defined as placing national security in jeopardy, such as the case of Agee. Agee's passport should not only have been taken, he should have been extradited and tried by a ...
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