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- 511: Cyberspace
- ... world, legislative safeguards are imperative. The government gives citizens the privilege of using the Internet, but it has never given them the right to use it. They seem to rationalize that the framers of the constitution planned & plotted at great length to make certain that above all else, the profiteering pornographer, the pervert and the pedophile must be free to practice their pursuits in the presence of children on a taxpayer ... while "indecency" is generally allowable to adults, but that laws protecting children from this "lesser" form are acceptable. It's called protecting those among us who are children from the vagrancies of adults.8 The constitution of the United States has set regulations to determine what is categorized as obscenity and what is not. In Miller vs. California, 413 U.S. at 24-25, the court announced its "Miller Test" and ...
- 512: Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace
- ... world, legislative safeguards are imperative. The government gives citizens the privilege of using the Internet, but it has never given them the right to use it. They seem to rationalize that the framers of the constitution planned & plotted at great length to make certain that above all else, the profiteering pornographer, the pervert and the pedophile must be free to practice their pursuits in the presence of children on a taxpayer ... while "indecency" is generally allowable to adults, but that laws protecting children from this "lesser" form are acceptable. It's called protecting those among us who are children from the vagrancies of adults.8 The constitution of the United States has set regulations to determine what is categorized as obscenity and what is not. In Miller vs. California, 413 U.S. at 24-25, the court announced its "Miller Test" and ...
- 513: The Effects of Over-Population on the Earth's Water Supply
- ... dry for periods of each year. Anyone who studies world history knows that these are the rivers where civilization began. In the southeastern United States a "Water War" is being fought. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution has published a series of articles over the last ten years documenting a court battle between the State of Georgia, the State of Alabama, and the State of Florida. At issue are water rights to ... Postel, Sandra. Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last. New York: Norton, 1999. Public Broadcasting System. The Population Bomb- Population Timeline. 7 Sept. 1999 . Seabrook, Charles. "Water Wars: Seven-year battle." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 18 Oct. 1999: home ed C1.
- 514: Prohibiting Speech That Offends
- ... adopted codes or policies prohibiting speech that offends any group based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. That's the wrong response, well-meaning or not. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content. Speech codes adopted by government financed state colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution. And the ACLU believes that all campuses should adhere to First Amendment principles because academic freedom is a bedrock of education in a free society. No social institution is better suited to fight bigotry than ...
- 515: Censor the Internet?
- ... and money, attempts to censor the Internet violate freedom of speech, a right that is included in democratic constitutions and international laws (Silencing the Net
). It would be a breach of the First Amendment. The Constitution of the united States of America Declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to asse3mble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" (Constitution). Therefore it would be unconstitutional for any sort of censorship to occur on the Internet. Even though it is illegal, restrictions on Internet access and content are increasing worldwide under all forms of government. In ...
- 516: Civil Liberties
- ... After establishing that the equal protection clause prohibits discrimination against the poor, one needs to decide whether the clause includes the right to appeal a lower courts decisions. The State could argue that the Constitution only provides for one fair trial with an impartial jury, and if one wishes to pursue future judicial review, he can do so based on a number of conditions, such as providing a transcript. The ... does itself. A person who has the means will go ahead with the appeal process even if no evidence exists for an overruling of the decision against him. Our great country, which guarantees in its constitution that all men have the same freedoms, should not discriminate against the poor and prevent them from pursuing justice.
- 517: Invasion Of Privacy
- ... the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. - U.S Constitution, First Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. - U.S. Constitution, Fourth Amendment - It's two o'clock on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon and your sleeping in your dorm room. The ringing of the telephone awakens you. You drudgingly get out of bed and pick up ...
- 518: Napoleon 2
- ... move was to obtain leadership. With the help of Pope Pius VII Napoleon was named First Consul of France. Though France was now declared an empire, it was technically a Republic because of the set Constitution. Through this Constitution, Napoleon set up a system of government that helped settle the disputes of France. Napoleon s career was arranged into a series of both accomplishments and defeats. He demonstrated his accomplishments during battle as well ...
- 519: Censorship On The Internet
- ... with a German shepherd, can create false images of women and a pseudo reality. It also introduces kids to sex at a much earlier age than ever before (Levy 55). President Clinton expresses, ...that our Constitution allows us to help parents by enforcing this act (censorship of the Internet) to prevent children from being exposed to objectionable material transmitted through computer networks (Bray C7). Many parents are in an uproar since ... not justify an unnecessarily broad suppression of speech addressed to adults (Tipton 12). So far they have not figured out a way to be able to regulate cyberporn and the Internet with out violating the constitution. If the government had successfully regulated cyberporn, there is no telling where the censorship would stop. Government tried to regulate adult-oriented words with the CDA. This would mean that topics such as safe sex ...
- 520: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... challenge for policy in the 1990s is to permit, even encourage, dynamic competition in every aspect of the cyberspace marketplace. The Nature of Freedom Overseas friends of America sometimes point out that the U.S. Constitution is unique -- because it states explicitly that power resides with the people, who delegate it to the government, rather than the other way around. This idea -- central to our free society -- was the result of more than 150 years of intellectual and political ferment, from the Mayflower Compact to the U.S. Constitution, as explorers struggled to establish the terms under which they would tame a new frontier. And as America continued to explore new frontiers -- from the Northwest Territory to the Oklahoma land-rush -- it consistently returned ...
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