are two terms to be recognized: “safe state” and “swing state”. In a “safe state” the presidential candidate of a particular party has the vast majority of support of that state ’s voters‚ regularly‚ so that he/she can safely assume the favorable outcome of the state ’s electoral college votes. Some well-known safe states are California for democrats‚ and Texas for republicans. On the contrary‚ there are states that are not like safe states and no single candidate or party has overwhelming
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independence from foreign domination‚ a mammoth task of uniting the princely states was still to be accomplished. So‚ this massive job was handed over to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel‚ the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India. With great wisdom and political foresight‚ Sardar Patel consolidated more than five hundred princely states and brought them under Indian dominion. In the face of great adversity from some states like the Nizam of Hyderabad and Nawab of Junagarh‚ he achieved the impossible
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7th Period 24 September‚ 2014 Dennis VS. The United States The case Dennis VS. The United States is a case that has largely to do with First Amendment rights. In this case‚ one side argues that the American Government should not be allowed to infringe upon an individual’s rights and the other side argues that the government should be allowed the power to limit rights dealing with freedom of speech in order to ensure national security. The findings in this case allow for many of the security precautions
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vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest. Gant‚ 556 U.S. 332 at 351. Courts have held that when police arrest a person on a traffic violation it is not reasonable to believe that evidence of the violation is in the vehicle. In United States v. Majette‚ the court held that it was unreasonable for the officer to believe he would find evidence of the arrestee’s suspended license in the arrestee’s vehicle. 326 F. App’x 211‚ 213 (4th Cir. 2009). There‚ the officer arrested the defendant
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one of the big cities or London as was the case for the little Oliver when he decide to path his way to wealth there. ’I am running away they beat and ill-use me‚ Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune some long away off There were ways of living in that vast city which those who had been bred up in country parts had no idea of Dickens ’(Dickens‚45). Ultimately‚ Victorian Britain
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Brown vs. Board From 1877 up to the middle of the 1960s there was organized racial segregation in the United States. This was achieved because it was thought that blacks were believed to be inferior to whites. This organized segregation was done by a series of changes to the law in the south known as the Jim Crow laws. The first time that the United States government made a ruling whether or not these laws were actually legitimate under the US constitution was with the Plessey v Ferguson case. They
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The story of Oliver Twist takes place at the time of the ‘New Poor Law’ of 1834. Oliver Twist is about an orphan Oliver Twist‚ who escapes from a workhouse and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger‚ leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin‚ naively unaware of their unlawful activities. Oliver is produced by the well known‚ Cameron Mackintosh. Also a famous name is Mickey Coburn the playwright. Creative Rupert Goold
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Garden State Equality vs. Dow A challenging dispute of minds As the case of Garden State Equality vs. Dow unravels into the Supreme Court hearings‚ there will be an indefinite variety of opinions and disputes of minds. There is room for controversy and disputes will arise. There are miss-interpretations and quotes that government officials and citizens against civil union rights have expressed and demonstrated about same-sex couples and their right to marry. This is an example of an interpretation
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Jason Certilman Book Review ------------------------------------------------- Oliver Twist "Please‚ sir‚ I want some more" Born into an England workhouse in the 1830’s‚ Oliver Twist‚ a nine year old boy makes it big while encountering interesting and malevolent characters along the way. On the run for most of his childhood Charles Dickens depicts Oliver Twist as an innocent young man. His adventures make him the best of friends and the worst of enemies. Despite being forced to commit
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Spectral evidence‚ as defined by the State vs. Dustin court case‚refers to “a witness testimony that the accused person’s spirit or spectral shape appeared to him/her witness in a dream at the time the accused person’s physical body was at another location”. The legal definition of the general term evidence is “information given personally‚ drawn from a document‚ or in the form of material objects‚ tending or used to establish facts in a legal investigation or admissible as testimony in court”. Spectral
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