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    A. Fourth Amendment: Reasonableness Requirement The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of persons‚ papers‚ houses‚ and effects by the government. A search or seizure occurs when the government violates a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy. Under two-prong Katz test‚ a reasonable expectation of privacy exists‚ where (1) a person exhibits a subjective expectation of privacy‚ and (2) society deems the expectation objectively reasonable. Under the subjective

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    With reference to TWO characters in The Miller’s Tale analyse how Chaucer both asserts and challenges the values and attitudes of his 14th Century context. “The Miller’s Tale”‚ the second poem of “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer questions against the values and beliefs of the fourteenth century. The first poem of “The Canterbury Tale” was the “Knight’s Tale” a honourable and virtuous tale. Breaking the social status of the narrator‚ from the Knights tale to a juxtaposed tale told by

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    The Constitution of the United States has twenty-seven amendments and out of those twenty-seven‚ I believe the first amendment is the most important. The first amendment protects your most basic needs. The first amendment consist of freedom of speech‚ freedom of religion‚ freedom of assembly‚ freedom of press‚ and freedom to ask the government to right their wrongs. The freedom of speech allows a person to say what they think within reason. When speaking your opinion‚ you should be careful not slander

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    BUS230 23 April 2013 Gun Control & The Second Amendment The second amendment states “A well regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right to the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” To an average person this means that anyone at anytime should be able to possess a gun without being questioned. However‚ if you interpret the amendment based on vocabulary I believe this means that a trained group of people who have the countries best interest at

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    Prior Restraint and 1st Amendment Rights The American government has long feared that the release of classified information may jeopardize national security and has made special efforts to prevent publication of information considered top secret. There has been extensive debate over freedom of the press versus the right of the government to prevent publication of certain material. When the government intervenes before publication has occurred‚ it is called prior restraint. This paper seeks

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    Americans scrambling through the streets to buy every last ounce of their final legal drinks from liquor stores and salons. Well‚ this is what the streets would have looked like on January 15‚ 1920‚ because the next day the 18th amendment would be passed. The Eighteenth Amendment made “the manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors” illegal. This time where buying‚ selling‚ and transporting alcohol was illegal‚ was known as the prohibition. It came with many unintended consequences

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    supposed to be protecting‚ begin to be ignored? Fourteen words protect all of our guaranteed rights as citizens of the united states-“...the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” That is why gun control violates the second amendment. “By restricting gun ownership only to law enforcement officers and the military‚ the government violates individuals’ rights to possess firearms that they might need to defend their basic freedoms.” When the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights

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    when cattle had diarrhea. It was also known as shite until the 1700s. Since then‚ we have used the current spelling of the word. A** / A**HOLE Since the 11th century‚ the word arse has been used to describe the buttocks of an animal. In the 14th century‚ the word began to be used to refer to the human’s buttocks. In the 1500s‚ it was combined with hole to form arsehole. To many people though‚ a** is used to represent a donkey. FU** This work is thought to have originated from Germany

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    A Distant Mirror: The “Calamitous” 14th Century Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror is about as entertaining as a history book can get or should be. Tuchman is a captivating storyteller and the quality of her history of France in the 14th century speaks for itself as the book has remained in print after 25 years. Famous for her engaging‚ narrative style that makes history flow like a thrilling novel‚ Tuchman presents a comprehensive review of 14th century Europe (via France‚ the dominant European

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    The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for the protection of citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. Because of this‚ our legal system requires that a warrant be obtained prior to a search of people or their homes or property. Without this provision‚ citizens would be subject to invasions of privacy without probable cause. While the idea behind the protection from unreasonable searches and seizures was well-intentioned‚ in practice it did not immediately

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