Federal Acts and Social Justice – The Patriot Homeland Security Act’s On September 11‚ 2001‚ 2‚996 innocent people lost their lives and left more than 6‚000 others seriously wounded. This horrendous act of terrorism waged against the United States‚ on American soil‚ forever changed the country. After the initial disbelief and shock had subsided‚ the anger rose and turned into rage. American citizens were united and demanded action be taken to prevent such an event from ever occurring again. Hence
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The Homestead Act of 1862 made surveyed lands obtainable to homesteaders. The act stated that men and women over the age of 21‚ unmarried women who were head of households and married men under the age of 21‚ who did not own over 160 acres of land anywhere‚ were citizens or intended on becoming citizens of the United States‚ were eligible to homestead. This paper will show how the Homestead Act came to be enacted‚ who the homesteaders were and the effects of the Homestead Act on the pioneers
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The Patriot Act was signed into law on October 26‚ 2001 by President George Bush. USA Patriot Act is actually an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. Since it has passed‚ it has been one of the leading roles in preventing many terrorist attacks that are planned to hurt innocent civilians. Its goals were to strengthen the power of law-enforcement agencies and the domestic securities. Not only was it extremely controversial
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As was mentioned‚ Section 504 of the rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)‚ are just a couple of the aforementioned mandates. Napoleon Bonaparte stated that “The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague”. If anyone hasn’t noticed‚ Temple is located in the heart of North Philadelphia‚ where crime runs rampant daily. I can only imagine the concern of the president of the university when the Clery Act was introduced. This mandate‚ while being a most
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African Americans have been fiercely fighting for their rights as equal citizens even before the Civil Rights Movement. Despite how long they have been asking for proper treatment‚ they were not always successful. The path to progress was not easy. Events dating to Reconstruction have greatly impacted the Civil Rights Movement by paving the way toward progress through trial-and-error‚ and the event itself presented a path toward the end of segregation and better rights for blacks. Because the Civil
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Introduction The Indian Partnership Act‚ 1932 lays down the important provisions relating to partnership contracts. The subject of partnership is included in item 7 of the Concurrent List of in Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India and therefore Parliament and Legislature of any State have power to make laws with respect to this matter as provided in Article 246 of the Constitution. According to the Section 4 of Indian Partnership Act‚ 1932 “Partnership is the relation between persons
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2002 Customs & Excise Act Cap.472 LAWS OF KENYA The Customs and Excise Act CHAPTER 472 First Booklet This booklet contains the Act and subsidiary legislation made there under‚ or a note thereof‚ but excludes the First‚ Second‚ Third‚ Fourth and Fifth Schedules to the Act which set out the rates of import duty‚ suspended duty‚ export duty and excise duty and‚ in the case of the Third Schedule‚ exemptions from duty. These Schedules are published in a separate booklet. (Revised Edition 2000
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Anna Jardot Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Writing Assignment Affirmative action is the practice of improving educational and job opportunities of groups of people who have been treated unfairly in the past due to their race‚ sex‚ etc. In the US the effort was to improve the educational and employment opportunities of women and men of minority. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ affirmative action was designed to counteract the lingering effects of generations of past discrimination
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1.THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE (CADRE) RULES‚ 1954 SERVICE In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section 1 of Section 3 of the All India Services Act‚ 1951 (LXI of 1951)‚ the Central Government‚ after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned‚ hereby makes the following rules namely:1. Short title: - These rules may be called the Indian Administrative Service (Cadre) Rules‚ 1954. 2. Definitions: - In these rules‚ unless the context otherwise requires (a) ‘Cadre officer’ means
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Tue/Thur 9am #2 paper The Stamp Act Riot‚ 1765 Francis Bernard wrote the document “Stamp Act Riot‚ 1765” about the colonies response to Parliaments stamp act. The colonies or the Stamp Act Congress questioned whether it was right for Parliament to tax the colonies. In doing so Parliament created a rebellion within the colonies who only wanted a say in their Government and decisions being made. If Parliament had treated the colonies better‚ respected their rights to govern themselves‚ and had given
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