Affordable Healthcare Act Brandon M. Speight Southern Illinois University Abstract When President Barack Hussein Obama ascended to power‚ he promised to transform the Health Care System in America to make it more affordable for lower and middle class citizens. The Affordable Care Act was met with stiff opposition
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The Stamp Act Crisis One major event that reveals insight on the cause of the American Revolution was the passing of the Stamp Act by the British Parliament on March 22‚ 1765. It required the colonists to pay a tax for stamped paper that all legal documents including marriage licenses‚ diplomas‚ newspapers and even playing cards were to be printed on. Prime Minister George Grenville proposed that a tax should be imposed among the colonies to help offset the costs of sending troops needed for their
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CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 1986 History of 1986 Act :- The consumer protection act‚ 1986 is one of the benevolent social legislation intended to protect the large body of consumer from exploitation. The act has come as a panacea for consumers all over the country and has assumed the shape of practically the most important legislation enacted in the country during the last few years. With the Introduction of this law‚ consumers now feel that they are in a position
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U.S. government passed the Helms-Burton Act in an attempt to pressurize Cuba into restructuring. Its enactment was controversial‚ provoking immediate and widespread debate around the world as to whether certain provisions of the Act violated international law principles and treaties to which the United States was a party. Opposition to the Act came from most countries outside of the United States. Many nations attempted to counter the Helms-Burton Act by implementing legislation that enabled
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a threat to our God-given freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution." In the following viewpoint‚ John F. McManus claims that the USA Patriot Act‚ which was passed in response to the September 11‚ 2001‚ attacks on the United States‚ gives the president authority and powers that are not limited to the pursuit of terrorists. McManus warns that the act licenses snooping on U.S. citizens‚ including the seizure of business records‚ the collecting of e-mails‚ and the wiretapping of phone calls. He sees
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Case Study 1 Question 1 Under the Sale of Goods Act 1979‚ A contract of Sale is a contract where a seller transfers or agrees to transfer goods or a service to a buyer for money‚ in the course of a business. The transfer must be for money‚ barter or exchange are not covered. The Act covers sales and agreements to sell. Question
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trials of 1949 and 1950‚ raised concerns to Congress about “underground” Communists within the government and others who could possibly commit acts of treason against the United States. 1 These concerns eventually lead to the passage of the McCarran Internal Security Act in the September of 1950. The McCarran Act‚ also known as the Internal Security Act of 1950 or the anticommunist law‚ is one of the most controversial and least understood laws in American History.2 Introduced by democratic Senator
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Treaties and The Indian Act Partially Affirm Collective Rights. Ever thought about the treaties and the Indian Act? Ever thought how it affirmed their collective rights? Well‚ they don’t really affirm collective rights‚ but then at the same time‚ they do. This essay is going to explain The Indian Act and the Treaties 6 and 7. It will review over all the facts and details to come to a conclusion if they do affirm collective rights. First‚ we’ll go over the Indian Act‚ the Treaty 6‚ and finish off
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Act utilitarianism is a utilitarian theory of ethics which states that a person’s act is morally right if and only if it produces the greatest overall utility. In assessing a moral theory there are four adequate criteria which are: completeness‚ explanatory‚ practicability and moral conformation. For completeness‚ an ethical theory should support all meaningful moral claims‚ neglecting none of the claims. Next‚ there is explanatory power. For this assessment a theory should provide insight into what
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)‚ a 1978 amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The impetus for the act was a 1976 Supreme Court decision‚ General Electric v. Gilbert‚ in which the Court held that denial of benefits for pregnancy-related disability was not discrimination based on sex (Gelb‚1996). This holding echoed past management decisions by which married women faced job discrimination and pregnant women were routinely
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