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- 851: Law of Precedent
- ... have been hung by the laws of capital punishment. Yet nowadays, the taking of a convicted killer's life is deemed as cruel and unusual punishment, even if he murdered the Prime Minister on national television. If that example is too drastic, here is another, more reasonable example. In the United States, court rulings dealing with personal injury or damages are becoming out of this world. Here are a couple of ...
- 852: Mitchell v. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell v. Wisconsin Sucked
- ... tends to forget why those opinions were deemed unacceptable in the first place. (More specifically, nothing makes a skinhead seem more stupid than allowing him to voice his opinion under the scrutiny of a national television audience.) Finally, when society allows the free expression of all ideas, regardless of its disdain for those ideas, it is a sign of strength. So when a society uses all its power to suppress ideas ...
- 853: The Law Enforcement Profession
- ... severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers after being stopped at the termination of a vehicle pursuit, which was originally started by the California Highway Patrol. A videotape of the incident is shown repeatedly on television over the next few days. The aftermath of the trial that acquitted the officers involved in the Rodney King beating speaks highly of the sentiment felt in the minority community (ICLAPD, p. 14-15). Another ...
- 854: Insights on De Tocqueville's Democracy In America
- ... and watches for the United States. What I mean by watches is that they practically always know what's going on (except for the top-secret things) in the United States, whether it be by television, computers, or satellites they know what the U.S. is doing. The U.S. is basically a "free-for-all" county; the laws and schools are less strict than other countries such as, Japan in ...
- 855: Russian Reform and Economics: The Last Quarter of the 20th Century
- ... the administrators. Gorbachev promised that unemployment would not be an outcome of the new economic reform, while consumers are now able to choose imported or domestic goods in the newly created open economy. The Russian television programs now covered more and are becoming more exciting. They are covering international news, doing investigative type reports, and are even having phone-in programs on controversial topics. All of the new implementations are bringing ...
- 856: The Communications Decency Act
- ... anonymous names and restricted access to provider's data on users, it becomes harder to catch the criminals on-line. The "[Wire Fraud Act] makes it illegal for anyone to use any wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreigncommerce to further a scheme to defraud people of money or goods." (Cavazos 110) This is interpreted to include telephone communications, therefore computer communication as well. There is much fraud on ...
- 857: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became mixed up in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966, he was elected governor of California by a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970. Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as ...
- 858: Should the President Be Impeached?
- ... empty handed ,Starr finally had the largest sex scandal of the ninety's. The allegation of perjury is a very strong factor in the Impeachment trial. The president was believed to have lied on national television, when responding to the sex scandal. Any family man accused of such a scandal will most likely deny it as well. Imagine a family man with the stature of the president with everything to lose ...
- 859: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of Justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas." (Watergate) Millions of people watched the committee vote on television. There were twenty-seven votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it. He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret ...
- 860: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of Justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas." (Watergate) Millions of people watched the committee vote on television. There were twenty-seven votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it. He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret ...
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