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    pseudoephedrine in order to eliminate methamphetamine labs. Policy Proposal By Summary: Methamphetamine (also known as meth) is a very serious and dangerous drug that has become a huge problem particularly in the state of Missouri. Over the past 5 years‚ Missouri has become the number one state for meth related incidents. My partner Alex and I are proposing a law that requires a prescription for all sales of cold and allergy remedies containing pseudoephedrine; the main ingredient used in

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    other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States‚ and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Moreover‚ Scott ’s temporary residence outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation under the Missouri Compromise‚ which the court ruled unconstitutional as it would improperly deprive Scott ’s owner of his legal property. While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional

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    1820 (Missouri) and 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 each were ways for the south to gain more power so that eventually‚ it could secede. First‚ the Missouri Compromise of 1820 established the slavery line that allowed slavery below it and forbid slavery above it. It also gave the South another slave state in Missouri and the north a free state in Maine. Although each region gained a state in the Senate‚ the south benefited most from the acquisition because Missouri was

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    Bibliography: 1. JEB ”Was slavery the main cause of the Civil War” page 13 4-7-10 http://www.civilwar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2&page=13 (web site) 2. Burgan‚ Michael. The Missouri Compromise. Minneapolis: Compass Point Books‚ 2006. (BOOK) 3. Williams‚ Scott k “Slavery in St. Louis” USGenNet‚ 02 Sept. 2006. Web. 02 Dec. 2012. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/country/stlouis/slavery.htm (Primary source)

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    JJ waas a great man Jesse Woodson James (September 5‚ 1847 – April 3‚ 1882) was an American outlaw‚ gang leader‚ bank robber‚ train robber‚ and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive‚ he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Some recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness

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    1. The three components of the American System were establishing a new protective tariff‚ starting a new transportation system and restoring the national bank. Henry Clay thought that each of these components would strengthen and unify the nation because he thought the American system would unite the nation’s economic resources because the south would grow food and raise animals that the north would eat and in return the south would by the manufactured goods the north made. A new transportation system

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    Hiroshima‚ Japan on August 6‚ 1945 then attacked Nagasaki three days later‚ ending the war itself. On May 8‚ 1884‚ was when Harry S. Truman came around. He was born in Lamar‚ Western Missouri‚ he was raised by John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman

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    In addition‚ there were some major Civil War laws of the Western Expansion‚ such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ the Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort to conserve a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states‚ by the U.S Senate and the House of Reps. The slaveholding states feared of being outnumbered in the Congressional Representation. They feared because they would lack the power to protect their interest

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    DBQ # 2 Nationalism v. Sectionalism “Era of Good Feelings” The years following the War of 1812 became known as the “era of good feelings”. During this time you see the expansion of nationalism within the United States. It started mainly in the 1816 shortly before Monroe took office‚ and lasted until the end of his Presidency in the year of 1824. Before the “era of good feelings” there were certain events taking place that will lead up to this era. The first of these is the acquired land

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    Worksheets‚ such as the Missouri and Washington Risk Assessments are valuable tools used by criminal justice practitioners. Moreover‚ Risk Assessment scales are used in both formal and informal capacities‚ to determine the potential risk or harm an individual poses to society should he or she be released from detention or custody. The following is an example of how the Missouri and Washington Risk Assessment worksheets can be utilized when applied in two completely different cases; it is important

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