"Salamander! Call it a Gerrymander." A federalist paper editor is said to have declared this after the signing of the 1812 redistricting law. Governor Elbridge Gerry had found a way to expand his political power by gerrymandering the districts. (Boston Gazzete) Even now‚ gerrymandering remains a threat as the power struggle sways back and forth between leading politicians. Is there a better way to redistrict? The answer is no. Gerrymandering will always involve politics since it in itself is
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enough to fight‚ old enough to drink.” The con side disagrees however stating that lowering the drinking age would bring about a rise in traffic accidents‚ and encourage young adults to binge drink. My understanding of the pro side is that they feel that lowering the drinking age from twenty-one to eighteen or nineteen would reduce the amount of binge drinkers in college aged students‚ and help teach people to drink responsibly. (Holder‚ 2003) The pro side makes the argument that if the drinking
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With a cost ranging from three hundred to five hundred dollars‚ these contraptions cause conflict in the society. Shortly after users purchased this item‚ the media erupted with issues that
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the reproduction of those who possess hereditary defects. Some of the degenerative traits can be classified as mental illnesses‚ physical defects‚ inferior races‚ and even individuals who commit illegal acts. Certain states have these sterilization laws in place to ensure that the general public who are economically unstable do not procreate. Between the years of 1930 and 1974‚ the practice of genetic sterilization in North Carolina began to dramatically increase. The term eugenics‚ known as in
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facilitating the negotiations on minimum wages‚ negotiations on employee benefits‚ pressing concerns affecting the employees and other concerns almost everything that are good for the employees and also helpful for the organization. There are many pros and cons with joining unionization. The benefits of union include the following: First‚ unions help in containing attrition. Second‚ labor unions play a role in production.
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They may be major or minor. “The pros of nuclear medicine are that it can diagnose several diseases that are very harmful for the people‚ the x-rays can scan the most sensitive parts of the body‚ and it has brought a lot of advancements in the field of medicine. The cons require a huge amount of investment‚ as some facilities are expensive‚ it produces mild radiation‚ if users are not careful it can
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Focusing on economics of a crime and discuss about the pros and cons of a decision to commit an offense‚ Wilson uses the classical model of human choice to assume that criminals have enough intelligence to calculate the cost and benefits of committing a criminal act. His example of a male robbing an old lady‚ has a situational factor preceding the male considering committing the offense. Before the potential offender weighs any pros and cons of potential offense‚ he has gone through a process of
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Murder is a common law crime which carries a mandatory life sentence for those found guilty. As in all areas of law‚ the accused may put forward a defence so as to seek an acquittal. In murder cases‚ there are statutory defences which may provide a partial defence which allows the charge of murder to be reduced to manslaughter. The unique defences to murder‚ as provided by the Homicide Act 1957 are diminished responsibility and provocation . If a person is charged with a non fatal offence they
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The “State of Nature” in this post-9/11 21st Century America is one of self-induced fear‚ not by the US citizens but by our president. With constant reminders of terrorist threats against the US‚ as well as the constant state of high alert‚ the president has placed Americans in a tough place. US citizens are in constant fear and are looking to their government for protection. This idea stems back to the writings of Hobbes in Leviathan. Hobbes critiques the effects of government‚ or as lack there
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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS - A NEED FOR THIRD PARTY VALIDATION A. Deficiencies of the TNCs’ Self-Regulation Model The essence of Transportation Network Company (“TNC”) laws revolves around a “we can do it faster and better than government” attitude. TNC laws generally transfer the responsibility of conducting background checks and vehicle inspections with less stringent requirements from regulators to the TNC so that they can sign up as many drivers as possible. However‚ there is an ulterior
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