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Examining the American Constitution's Victims' Rights Amendment Proposal

and pardon or commutation decisions; To be notified of a proposed pardon and to be heard on the proposal; To be notified of esc...

Women's Rights and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

clause. In fact, the court gave V.M.I. and the commonwealth of Virginia (a co-defendant in the case) three options which would sat...

International Participation, the United Nations, and Human Rights

In eight pages this research paper examines how the U.N. approaches human rights issues in a discussion of organizations such as t...

Examining the U.S. Constitution

Few documents since the Magna Carta have had such a profound influence on social and political history as the Constitution of the ...

New York State Constitution Creation

Boston Tea Party well and was suspicious of the federal governments plan for taxation. Still, when all is said and done, the bril...

Historical Changing of America

authorized veto power over state legislation. New Jersey also argued that there was no need for two houses, which prevente...

Texas and Illinois Governmental Differences

even to this day (Ginsberg et al, 2001). There really is no "common political culture," and this is a state of huge economic diver...

The Vagueness of the United States Constitution

existing. One can well argue that the founding fathers were incredibly wise, or that they were very lucky, when they put the Const...

In Pursuit of Small Government

to negotiate with governmental powers ultimately ended in the form of the Revolutionary War in which the colonies won their indepe...

U.S. and the Rights of States

about. The issue of state power versus central power has been significant throughout American history, but was most significant d...

Articles in the Constitution

same system as Britain, which was a system that was also immersed in a separation of powers. As one author notes, "the theory of c...

Analysis of Jack Nelson Pallmeyer's The School of Assassins

In five pages this paper analyzes the text that recommends closing the 'School of the Americas' that contributes to Latin American...

Conflict And Crime Control Models Versus Consensus And Due Process Models

crime speaks to how competition and inequitable distribution of norms and values play a significant role in why race and crime are...

Basic Human Rights Undermined by the Human Rights Act of 1998's Margin of Appreciation

may be seen as conflicting. However, the effectiveness of the Act given by the margin of appreciation may be argued to undermine t...

Democratic and Nondemocratic States and the Concepts of Sanctions v. Rights

In three pages this essay uses the example of Bosnia in a consideration of why sanctions fail in nondemocratic states with inalien...

Aristotle and the Moral Law of Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

New York Penal Law § 215.14 and the Rights of Victims

compares it to other state laws as well. Applicable federal law is duly noted and the importance of the victim impact statement is...

Summry of Jefferson Davis' Speech on Property Rights

This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...

Discussion on Articles 1 - 4; Rights of Children and Health

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

The History of States vs. Federal Rights.

government control, where the Republicans want the people to have more power. That is a generalization but gets to the heart of th...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

Individual Rights and Liberties Evolution in England, the English Colonies, and States Confederation

Suddenly, natural rights were introduced into the constitutional equation, which suggested that man had certain inalienable rights...

Formidable Issues Confronting Kenya's Constitution

be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

Modern State and Human Rights

The rationale is that people who fear the repercussions of breaking the law tend to be more obedient. Authority then becomes legi...

The Origins of Western Law

But surprisingly, even after the Protestant Reformation and native languages began supplanting Latin in speech and literature, "a ...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

Freedom of Religion, A First Amendment Right

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...