tests conducted to ensure a defendant’s insanity. The first of these tests is known as the M’Naghten test. Daniel M’Naghten was a Scottish woodturner who assassinated Edward Drummond at point blank range because he thought Drummond was conspiring against him. M’Naghten was found not guilty by reason of insanity‚ and was remanded to a mental institution where he eventually passed away. Now‚ this test is used on insane defendants to determine if they know the difference between right and
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Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925. Out of this Executive Order the term Affirmative Action came about. Affirmative Action is a set of policies and orders passed for the purpose of countering the effects of hundreds of years of discrimination against minorities‚ like African Americans‚ Hispanics‚ and Native Americans. It counteracts the centuries of discrimination by promoting equal opportunity such as giving opportunities to minorities in increasing their representation in areas of employment
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they would get taken down instantly because of ‘Title IX’. “Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 bans sex discrimination in schools receiving Federal Funds‚ whether it is in academics or athletics. The majority of Title IX cases are files against K-12 schools and they are mostly involved on the athletic side.” (www.education.com/definitions/title-ix/) Basically it keeps athletic teams available equally to both men and women. Title IX has a few policies that high schools and colleges have
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Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s‚ southerners struggled with the inevitable confrontation of segregation. Living in the Jim Crow era‚ blacks grappled to gain the rights denied to them through Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)‚ “which gave legal sanction to “separate but equal”.” On the other hand‚ white southerners wrestled to maintain the white supremacy that the Plessy case allowed them to exercise. One of the largest areas of tension for the maintenance of segregation existed in education.
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deliberate termination of a human pregnancy affects approximately twenty-one percent of all U.S pregnancies. There are usually about three stances that are taken when speaking about abortion‚ for it‚ against it‚ or both. Personally‚ I can see reasons why one would be for it and why one would be against. Although I don’t like or encourage abortion‚ I feel that a woman should have the privilege to do what she pleases with her own body. Many feel that abortion should be the woman’s choice. Some claim
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policy is based‚ as stated in the Declaration‚ recognizes that any government‚ at any level‚ can become oppressive of our rights. Therefore‚ we must be prepared to defend ourselves against its abuses‚ but the movement against 2nd Amendment rights is not just a threat to our capacity to defend ourselves physically against
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For my opinion I’m going against racial profiling meaning that I’m going to talk about it in a CON perspective. To me racial profiling can cause a lot problems‚ and the reason for that is because when the police are racial profiling they could be going for the wrong person because of the color of their skin‚ the person that the police stopped could be innocent and while the police is there trying to see what that person has done wrong the police could be missing out on catching a real criminal. Racial
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system of voting for compulsory voting? If the United States were to change the law so that citizen were obligated to vote what would be the consequences for those who chose not to vote? If the government fined those who didn’t vote wouldn’t that go against the constitution? The first amendment gives those the right to freedom of speech‚ free exercise of religion‚ the freedom of press‚ and the right to peacefully assemble. If a person chose to not voice their opinion aren’t
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Due to the rigorous amount of research and evidence Holocaust denial should not subsist. : According to the deniers‚ the Nazis did not murder six million Jews‚ the notion of homicidal gas chambers is a myth‚ and any deaths of Jews that occurred under the Nazis resulted from wartime privations‚ not of systematic persecution and verbalize-organised mass murder. Some even claim Hitler was the best friend the Jews had in Germany‚ and that he worked to bulwark them. Deniers dismiss all assertions that
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Should torture be used on suspected terrorists? I think it is fairly evident that we should. In light of recent events‚ we as an international community should take more drastic actions to take care of the current terrorist problems. Recently‚ 150 died in the bombing in Paris‚ almost 3‚000 people died in the horrible event of 9/11 and about 150 a day die in Syria‚ which is the place most effected by the terrorists. Terrorists first came about in in the western world in 2001 during‚ and in the
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