2015 State vs. Federal Marijuana Legalization Marijuana usage in the United States is a controversial subject that tests the very fiber of the U.S. Constitution. The debate centers about the argument of each states rights under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Although many states have legalized marijuana for medical and recreational usage it is still against federal laws. The nation’s capital and eighteen states have legalized medical marijuana use and two states have legalized recreational
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established based on the revision of Burlinggame Treaty of 1868 made in 1880 .The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first immigration law of United States for a specific ethnic group. It marks a major turning point of the American foreign policy over immigration. This act prohibited Chinese workers into United States and deprives the American citizenship from Chinese immigrants for ten years .The amendment of 1884 further enhanced the requirements that allow earlier arrival immigrants to leave and return the
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others found the Populists ideals appealing. 3. The movement of the Populists gained support by thousands of reform-minded women, such as Mary Elizabeth Lease. a. Mary Elizabeth Lease was a former homesteader and was also one of the first female lawyers in Kansas. 4. A Populist presidential candidate, by the name of James
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necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” (The Charters of Freedom, n.d.). The National Rifle Association (NRA) is widely recognized as America’s foremost defender of the Second Amendment. Wayne LaPierre executive vice president and CEO of the NRA made the statement, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (LaPierre, 2012, p.5). Is LaPierre correct? Do more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens
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for equal rights. While there is still a long way to go, many significant strides have been made in this ongoing battle. One of the great achievements of the women’s movement was the enactment of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is the landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it is in academics or athletics. It states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in
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or filter certain visual depictions deemed obscene, pornographic, or harmful to minors” (para. 3). This implementation was successful after previous Congressional attempts to protect children from inappropriate content online. Congress' first attempt was in 1996 by passing the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The CDA restricted the introduction to inappropriate or obscene material via the internet to individuals under the age of 18; however, the Supreme Court found the law to be unconstitutional
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Abortion: A Never Ending Controversy Approximately 205 million abortions occur each year worldwide. Over a third are unintended and about a fifth end in abortion. What is abortion? Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus prior to viability. In other words, it is when a mother decides she doesn’t want to go through with her pregnancy. Abortion in today’s society has become very political. You are either pro-choice, pro-life, and there doesn’t
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Memorandum The Volcker Rule Introduction The regulation of financial institutions has long been a controversial subject in the United States of America, going through cycles of increasing or decreasing rigorousness. Following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, the US Congress enacted several laws designed to regulate financial institutions. One of these laws, the Banking Act of 1933, included four provisions limiting the ability of deposit-taking institutions to trade for their
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Research Paper in CORPORATE LAWS - I AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL REGIME OF COMPANY DEPOSITS Submitted By Sachin Malhan BLIG 757 Table of Contents TABLE OF CASES 3 INTRODUCTION 4 The Coming into Vogue of Company Deposits
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is huge when it comes to censorship because of the allusion to sex, drugs, alcohol, and violence. The Government believes that profanity is what they need to censor people from, though the freedom of speech is a First Amendment right to all people. The Government sees it as what the average person would find offensive and lacks any serious value in literature, artistic, political, or scientific. It is the sexually explicit and violent
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