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- 531: Gun Control and Freedom
- Gun Control and Freedom In America, freedom is not only revered, it is defined. Our rights and liberties as Americans are outlined and rendered precise in the Constitution and The Bill of Rights. Certain freedoms may be philosophically demanding for some Americans to accept, such as the ever controversial right to bear arms, but nevertheless they exist, and they persist. Handgun violence is ... the more difficult. The aim should be to reduce violence no matter what the cost. Those who take refuge in the Second Amendment need to place issues in their proper proportion. Since Jeffersonian times, the Constitution has been interpreted loosely. We no longer are under British rule, we no longer need to guard against invasion of our homes by unwanted soldiers. Restrictions on the amendment, however, would certainly serve as a ...
- 532: Ireland 2
- ... O.l% Jewish. About 3% of the population belonged to other religious groupings or have no specific religious beliefs. No information on religion was supplied in respect of 2.4% of the population. The Irish Constitution guarantees freedom of conscience and the free profession and practice of religion to all citizens. Food & Drink: NEVER skip breakfast in Ireland. Not only is it typically included the price of your hotel room, but ... new State. From the 1930s until the 1970s the Fianna Fail party, founded by Éamon de Valera, dominated Irish politics. Building on a progressive diminution of the constitutional links between Britain and Ireland, a new constitution was introduced in 1937 and Ireland remained neutral during the second world war. In 1948, the Republic of Ireland Act severed the remaining constitutional links with Britain. Ireland was admitted to the UN in 1955 ...
- 533: Brief History of the NRA
- ... have access through some type of electronic method. The reason for the delay lies with the fact that U.S. Circuit Courts have split on whether the Brady Act violates the 10th amendment of the Constitution by allowing law enforcement agencies to conduct criminal records checks in association with the purchase of a handgun.4 It also may involve the access of medical records since some states require that hospitals report ... answer to stopping crime, it only serves to delay one's constitutional right to possess a handgun. The Brady Act infringes one's right to own a firearm according to the Second Amendment of the Constitution. It says that "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The court recognized that the ...
- 534: The Contenders
- ... Republican party for the specific purpose of opposing slavery. In the meantime, pro-slavery factions, many from across the Missouri border, held a bogus election in the newly formed Kansas Territory, adopting a pro-slavery constitution and electing a pro-slavery state government. When anti-slavery citizens learned what had happened, they organized their own elections. President Pierce, in a serious error of judgement, recognized the first government as the official ... the document. [Brinkley, pg 375] Buchanan, against clear evidence to the contrary, decided to side with the Lecompton proposal. Stephen Douglas, in another bizarre moment of political suicide, argued against the Lecompton document. The statehood constitution was ultimately submitted to the general population of Kansas, who overwhelmingly defeated the illegitimate document. However, Kansas was not admitted to the union, as a free state, until the closing days of the Buchanan administration ...
- 535: The Influencing Factors On The
- ... consent of the people through a contract. Another influence was Montesquieu, who provided inspiration for the system of checks and balances as well as the federalist structure that can be found in the United States Constitution. Which was put into place in order to protect the covenant the people of the United States made with their government. An inspiration for our agreement was the covenant at Shechem, which was recorded in ... witness against us. It has heard all of the words the Lord has said to us. It will be witness against you if you are untrue to your god." This in essence is what our constitution does. Another example of a covenant that had an impact on the formation of our government, was the Mayflower Compact. The reason I say that impacted the formation of our government is that in the ...
- 536: President Jackson and the Removal of the Cherokee Indians
- ... years. After 1825 the federal government attempted to remove all eastern Indians to the Great Plains area of the Far West. The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia, to protect themselves from removal, made up a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were sovereign and not subject to the laws of Georgia. When the Cherokee sought help from the Congress that body only allotted lands in the West and urged them ... correct by saying that the territorial boundries and land of the Cherokee Indians is soverign to the Cherokee Indians. Marshall announced that the laws of Georgia are not applicable within the Cherokee Lands, and the constitution acknowleges the soverignty of it's bordering territories. Since the Supreme Court couldn't enforce this opinion, Jackson carried through his act of moving the Indians west of the Mississippi. All in all, from the ...
- 537: Susan B. Anthony and The Women's Movement
- ... Elizabeth Stanton, worked to pass the first laws guaranteeing equal rights for women with regard to their children, property, and wages. Anthony was a heroine in North America for her tests of the U.S. Constitution, though the right to vote was not secured until after her death. Susan B. Anthony taught school in New Rochelle and Canajoharie, NY, and discovered that male teachers were paid several times her salary. She ... to own property and to enter professions. In 1920, after a long-lasting struggle for Women’s Suffrage, they obtained the right to vote through the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Women were given the right to vote in Britain by 1928 and throughout most of the world by 1950. In the 1960’s, feminists began to fight hard for the acceleration of women’s education ...
- 538: The Publics Right to Know
- ... is to inform the public. The First Amendment comes into direct conflict with the rights and responsibilities of media coverage. There is a fine line between personal privacy and the publics right to know. The constitution overrides the option of privacy beside the amendment of freedom of speech or freedom of the press. Freedom of the press is to be guarded as an inalienable right of the people in a free ... and wrong . The press holds the responsibility to inform the people of the news whether it is logical or not. The Government imposes restrictions despite the apparently absolute nature of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states “Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Keeping this in mind gives any journalist the right to write, print, or speak about any thing. If any ...
- 539: Internet And Internet Security
- ... legislative security is necessary. The government gives citizens the privilege of using the Internet, but it has never given them the right to use it. The government seems to think that the makers of the constitution planned & plotted at great length to make certain that the corrupt pornographer and the pervert has to be free to practice their hunt in the company of childrenon a multi-million user network that is ... indecency” is usually allowed to adults, but that laws protecting children from this “lesser” form are acceptable. It's called protecting people among us who are children, from the nasty minds of some adults. 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 US at 24-25, the court announced its "Miller Test" and held ...
- 540: The Need for an Official Language
- ... know how to answer the questions in English. Moreover, they will not be able to vote because they don't know how to fill out the ballot which is in English. However, according to the Constitution, everyone in the country should have equal rights. So, should we ignore the spirit of the Constitution? For the good of the whole society, we definitely need to have an official language. However, we cannot ignore the rights of those who don't speak English. They are also part of our society ...
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