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    What is the state of emergency? A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive‚ legislative and judicial powers‚ alert citizens to change their normal behaviours‚ or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending rights and freedoms‚ even if guaranteed under the constitution. In some countries‚ the state of emergency and its effects on human rights and freedoms and

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    members worldwide‚ mostly in the United States and other English-speaking countries. With adherents in almost every nation where Freemasonry is not officially banned‚ it forms the largest secret society in the world. There is no central Masonic authority; jurisdiction is divided among autonomous national authorities‚ called grand lodges‚ and many concordant organizations of higher-degree Masons. In the United States and Canada the highest authority rests with state and provincial grand lodges. Custom

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    paper will look at the acts of naturalization which made up the citizenship of the American people based on the practice and incongruity in the citizenship of women‚ blacks‚ and the Native Americans. The conceptualization of citizenship in the United States of America has been billed to have come of precedents from Europe‚ and then the pioneer leaders of the new world made their identity from them. During and after the Revolutionary war the Americans always believed that they had been liberated from

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              Separation of Church and State  Madison Marshall                              The Crucible Essay Two                     2            Arthur Miller’s play the Crucible‚ was written in a setting of a time before America  was ever established. After reading Miller’s play of the witchcraft trials that occurred in  the town of Salem‚ I have found examples as to why our founding fathers made the  decision to include a separation of church and state during the creation of our nation.  

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    No matter how much the United States tries to stop children from crossing the border there will always be some that make it across. However‚ that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be policies put in place to help alleviate issues in regards to migration. Children are thought of in the world as innocent and harmless and they should be treated as such. One policy that would help children is to provide them with adequate legal counsel (attorney) before their date in immigration court. Children do not

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    The shootings that occurred at Kent State University‚ Ohio‚ on May 4‚ 1970 have been a dark spot in American history for almost 36 years. It is a day remembered by many names‚ THE KENT STATE SHOOTINGS‚ MAY 4 or the KENT STATE MASSACRE. Four students were killed and nine were wounded‚ all of America suffered. The student body at Kent State numbered about 20‚000 and had been considered conservative‚ but not overly political. In fact they were thought of as rather passive politically. The shootings

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    Folsom State Prison Isaac Avila CJ 211 08.09.2012 Mrs. Rayes Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located in the city of Folsom‚ California‚ 20 miles northeast from the state capital of Sacramento. Opened in 1880‚ Folsom is the second-oldest prison in the state of California. Folsom was one of the first maximum security prisons‚ and as such witnessed the execution of 93 condemned prisoners over a 42-year period. It is possibly best known in popular culture for two concerts

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    Separation of Church and State “…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof‚’ thus building a wall of separation between Church [and] state.” These words‚ spoken by Thomas Jefferson in his letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802‚ reassured the nation of his support of the First Amendment. The wall Thomas Jefferson illustrates

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    The individual and the state have been a force against each other throughout the beginning of society. Despite the conflict‚ the individual cannot flourish without the support by the state and vise visa. The individual help support and develops the state while the state provides order and protection. The state brings pressure and expectation to the individual to act accordingly. The individuals are put in a box and if the individual steps out of the box the state begin to criticize the individual

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    United States Undemocratic

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    century‚ the United States of America was both democratic and undemocratic. As a newly independent country from Great Britain‚ the U.S tried to stay away from the tyrannical government which they had before. America believed that by giving people a say in the government and granting more rights to citizens‚ they would prove to be a successful government. However‚ although they seemed to be democratic‚ the United States still had some undemocratic aspects. The United States during the mid-1800s

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