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Texas State Legislature and Meetings Full Time Rather Than Biannually

But should being on the Texas legislature be a full-time job? Is it fair that these folks are being paid for their efforts, only t...

Income Comparison Descriptive Statistics

a few minutes. Selection of the sample asked to complete the long form is performed by the Census Bureau. In past censuses...

Comparing Federal and Texas State Judicial Systems

well as handling legal matters. Although literature is sparse as to why the Texas justices are elected rather than appoint...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Professional Counselor

related to the board. The chair establishes the committees that are comprised of board members. committees must be comprised of at...

Statistics on Crime One State vs National

a family member, and 5 percent were killed by a friend (National Crime Victims Rights Week Resource Guide, 2011)., Campus crimes ...

Texas Senate Bill 42 and School District Programs of Drug Testing

by engineers and trainmen" (pp.310). Justice Scalia also pointed to the special vulnerability of children to the addictive...

School Quotas, the Hopwood Case, and the Response of Texas Colleges and Universities

test to pick students. However, studies have found that using an across-the-board type of admissions program could cut the minori...

Texas and the Republican Party

THE PROGRESS OF THE REPUBLICANS IN TEXAS The last half of the nineteenth century was a time of significant political growing pang...

Texas Governors James Edward Ferguson and Miriam Amanda Ferguson

In fifteen pages this husband and wife team of governors are examined in terms of Miriam being the first state governor elected an...

Texas Governorship and the American Presidency

appoints the Secretary of State, as well as members of boards and commissions who oversee the heads of state agencies and departme...

Welfare System of the State of Texas

In eleven pages this paper discusses the Texas state welfare system in a consideration of reform approaches including potential so...

Texas Court Case of Sylvester Turner v KTRK Television

In five pages this paper presents a case history and also considers its possible impact upon the libel laws of the state of Texas....

Waco and David Koresh

In five pages David Koresh's Waco standoff is examined in terms of how the crisis situation was handled by Texas state and federal...

Comparing the Governments of the States of California and Texas

citizens; and corruption is not tolerated because government service is seen as public service. This perspective was brought to t...

States of Illinois and Texas and Their Political Structures

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the political structures of Illinois and Texas. Six sources are cited in the bibl...

Judicial System of the State of Texas

and municipal courts. Judicial Hierarchy The Texas State Legislature has created municipal courts in each of the States in...

Overview of the United States' Patriot Act

bill was pushed through so quickly that many were taken unaware before they could examine and act on it. "It is a large and compl...

Tom Nairn's Article on 'Micro States'

In three pages an article summary pertaining to the micro states' sensation is presented in a consideration of concept, statistics...

Overview of Washington State's City of Seattle

than make up for its seemingly endless days of damp, gray mistiness. Style Surrounded by Green Seattle can easily be associated w...

U.S. Constitution and Policies of George W. Bush

has been asserted that in both cases the underlying aim is to accustom the public to the circumscription of civil liberties, the c...

History of Texas and the 'Runaway Scrape' Battle

their homes and their towns to somewhere out of Texas that would be safe (Bredeson, 1996, See also Texans Return to 1836, 2001)....

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Habermas on Nations, States and a European Constitution

the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...

Essay on the Chicago Tribune

in the country at the time were pretty much in the minority. During the 19th century, illiteracy was far more common than it is to...

Originalism and Non-Originalism

be" this "promotes serious public debate about government and its limitations" (Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, 2008). ...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

A Comparison of Two Documents

law, except when they have been judged as criminals. The Magna Carta specifically maintains that no one should be imprisoned or l...

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RESOPNSE AND MITIGATION IN TEXAS

Provides an overview of Texas' emergency preparedness and mitigation. There are 5 source listed in the bibliography of this 8-page...

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...