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- 11281: Why the Death Penalty is Dead Wrong
- ... someone to 120 years in a maximum security facility. The death penalty is also not a detterent to crime. >>> Texas, one of the leading states in the number of people executed, also has an extraordinarily high homicide rate. Much higher then that of states such as Michigan, which has no death penalty. In fact, a study conducted for the United Nations found that the number of homicides actually INCREASE around the ...
- 11282: Canada - Of the United States of America
- ... have drained from Canada more wealth than they have hauled out of all other countries combined. And the government is still allowing more and more foreign investment. No other country seems prepared to tolerate so high a degree of foreign ownership as exists in Canada.27 And now, with free-trade, it has become even easier for America to control Canada and exploit it for all America's wants and needs ...
- 11283: Affirmative Action
- ... Sometimes courts allow someone to choose the minority if they are less qualified, while in other cases they don't allow it. For example in a supreme court decision, it was allowed for a Michigan school district to layoff non- minority teachers in order to hire minority teachers with less experience(Altschiller, p13). If a similar case were to appear again the result would most likely be different. In no case ...
- 11284: Why Do Governments Find It So Hard To Control Public Expenditure?
- ... they believe public expenditure is limited by available revenues. They suggest that we have seen increases in revenue occurring because after the two world wars the level of taxation, although falling down from the enormously high levels in wartime, did not recede back to the old level. Thus their hypothesis is that major crises expand the public tolerance for increased levels of taxation. An argument against this hypothesis is that why ...
- 11285: Direct Democracy vs Representative Democracy
- ... For a direct democracy to work, face to face communication between all members of the community is needed. The only way this is possible is to meet in large groups. Due to the fear of high tension, many citizens "will not participate in these large group meeting. So in order for these fearful people to voice their opinions they must get together in smaller, less tensions groups, where they are not ...
- 11286: Natural Law
- Natural Law The School of Natural Law Philosophy was an intellectual group of philosophers. They developed new ways of thinking about religion and government. Natural law was based on moral principles, but the overall outlook changed with the times ...
- 11287: Young Offenders Act in Canada
- ... treatment like probation. The authors also make some concrete conclusions as to early interventions such as education, early diagnosis of mental disorders, and the strengthening of institutions such as the home, the church, and the school.
- 11288: Mitchell v. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell v. Wisconsin Sucked
- ... test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion..." -Justice Jackson in W.V. Board of Education. v. Barnette Bibliography Cacas, Samuel. "Hate Crime Sentences Can Now ...
- 11289: Justice
- ... of a society breaks down, and this deviance from the "norm" must be corrected. Personal feelings, morality, religious beliefs, and inflammatory, biased feelings towards certain laws cannot supersede the concrete social laws. This type of high emotion was apparent when dealing with the facts in the murder of a Topeka police officer. In the recent trial Steven Shively was prosecuted for shooting a police officer. The prosecutor was caught up in ...
- 11290: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- ... Because of past and present forced Turkish assimilation practices, the Kurds live in all parts of the country, but most of the Kurdish population is concentrated in the southeastern part of Turkey. They represent a high percentage of the population in fifteen provinces and take up a total of thirty percent of all of Turkey (Kendal). Economically, the Kurds are the poorest inhabitants of the country. The per capita of a ...
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