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- 3061: Jefferson and Socrates' Idea of Democracy
- ... believed could perform a service well enough to make a living.(A&E Biography) In many respects Socrates and Jefferson are alike. Socrates was accused of atheism, so was Jefferson. The 1800 presidential race between John Adams and Jefferson was, even by current standards, an extremely negative campaign. One of the accusations brought against Jefferson was that of atheism.(A&E Biography) The truth being that Jefferson was indeed skeptical of ...
- 3062: The Search for a Better Tax System
- ... encourages evasion (Adams 118) As taxes rise so does the temptation for evasion and avoidance. We usually think of tax evaders as criminals. However, early in our countries history, a rich and powerful merchant named John Hancock was the colonies most notorious tax evader (Adams 29). He was wanted by the British tax ministry for evading what would be millions of dollars in taxes today. He "enraged the British tax bureau ...
- 3063: Freedom of Speech
- ... the incident. I feel that in this case the principles of free speech have been abused because young children can purchase and listen to this obscene music. A more famous incident was the trial of John Peter Zenger which established the principle of a free press. In his newspaper he published satirical ballads regarding William Cosby, the unpopular governor, and his council. His media was described "as having in them many ...
- 3064: Canada Immigration Laws
- ... entry, while encouraging others to settle. The Federal government decided in the early 1900's to take action against Asian immigration and devised different methods for discouraging immigration from China, Japan and India. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald commented in the late 1800's that a Chinese person was a sojourner in a strange land..and he has no common interest with us, he gives us his labour and is paid ...
- 3065: Battle Royal
- ... Affirmative action measures were established to fight racial discrimination. The federal government mandated affirmative action programs to redress racial inequality and injustice in a series of steps beginning with an executive order issued by president Kennedy in 1961 (Thomas4). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal and established equal employment opportunity for all Americans regardless of race, cultural differences, colo or religion. Subsequent executive orders in particular executive order11246 ...
- 3066: Medicare in the '96 Elections
- ... had no concrete plan of his own. According to Senator Bob Kerry, the Republican "balanced" budget plan is a phony; "we'll tax our children to poverty -- unless we get control of Medicare." GOP Senator John Danforth agrees that the Republican proposal is tenuous but goes on to say, "
it [Medicare] should definitely be means-tested, without a doubt." By means-tested, Senator Danforth means each potential recipient of Medicare should ...
- 3067: Canada's Immigration From 1852-1990
- ... promotion program in 1850s. In the 1840s the main problem was lack of control over the immigrants now the problem was getting immigrant particularly British ones to start small farms. Over the next 30 years John A. MacDonald did little to attract new immigrants to Canada. In about 1879 a new immigration law was passed that was designed to keep out paupers and destitutes. This would be the start to "weed ...
- 3068: Apartheid in Modern South Africa
- ... Mandela and former President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk will keep South Africa on its road ahead as the ultimate goal for the multiracial, antiapartheid South Africa is within reach. Works Cited Greenwald, John. "The Twilight Of Apartheid." TIME Magazine Multimedia Almanac. CD-ROM. Cambridge: SoftKey, 1995. Kanfer, Stefan. "Cries of the Beloved Country." TIME Magazine Multimedia Almanac. CD-ROM. Cambridge: SoftKey, 1995. Lacayo, Richard. "Apartheid Apocalypse." TIME Magazine ...
- 3069: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
- ... have been willing to lay aside their deep ideological differences in order to unite behind a principle -- religious liberty for all Americans.(Questions and Answers, Map of the RFRA) The lead Senate sponsors were Ted Kennedy and Orin Hatch. (Questions and Answers, Map of the RFRA) Among the House sponsors were Newt Gingrich and Barny Frank. (Questions and Answers, Map of the RFRA) This act was enacted for one main reason ...
- 3070: What is Fascism and Why does it Emerge?
- ... University Press, 1977. Ebenstein, Alan O. "Today's Isms" New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1985 "The Fascist Beast" Economist, Apr 9' 1994. Groth, Alexander. J "Major Ideologies: An Interpretation Survey of Democracy, Socialism and Nationalism". Toronto: John Willy and sons INC., 1971. Kolinsky, Martin "Social and Political Movements In Western Europe". London: Croom Helm, 1976. "The Comparison from the Existence of Communism to the Community of Existence" Political Theory, August 19995.
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