Civil Liberties‚ Civil Rights and Congress Knekiida Jenkins-Hicks Lincoln College Online May 26‚ 2013 Forty-five days after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States‚ Congress passed the US PATRIOT Act‚ also known as the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” Act‚ or more simply‚ the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was created with the noble intention of finding and prosecuting international terrorists operating
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When the Puritans first settled in New England‚ they sought religious freedom from England‚ but by no means did their no civilization separate church and state. Their church and government interwove and they used religion to keep people in line. For instance‚ the Puritans required everyone to attend church every Sunday and the government could punish parents who did not teach their children about Puritanism (Dolan‚ 1995). In addition‚ anyone who dissented from the Puritans‚ such as the Quakers
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Unit 1 Assignment 1 Executive Summary on Risk Analysis Premier Collegiate School is a private school with 300 students ranging from grade 7 to 12‚ and 30 staff members and teachers. At the request of Principle Symonds‚ an asset list followed by a qualitative risk assessment was conducted and documented in order to ensure the proper level of protection required for each asset. There are two servers running services for Premier Collegiate School‚ the first for administration businesses and the
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The first 10 amendments form the Bill of Rights. An amendment is an addition to the constitution that lists rights given to the people of the United States. Without these amendments many freedoms would be restricted and citizens would lack certain rights that promote a better life. The first amendment gives the right to the freedoms of religion‚ speech‚ the press‚ assembly and the right to petition the government. The right to freedom means that we may worship freely and believe in any religion
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is known as “dual sovereignty‚” which implies that State and federal governments are “foreign” to each other; each is sovereign in its own right. By 1857‚ Taney presided over a Court that had expanded to nine justices and was divided—four Northerners and five Southerners‚ including Taney‚ sat on the bench. 2. Dred Scott was a Missouri slave. Sold to Army surgeon John Emerson in Saint Louis around 1833‚ Scott was taken to Illinois‚ a free State‚ and on to the free Wisconsin Territory before returning
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"establish justice." This phrase is used to express that every citizen is equal under the law‚ so that justice will uphold. Therefore‚ anyone who breaks the law is equally subject to punish given by the law. Amendments 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ and 8 of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution directly relates to establishing justice in the US. The second goal is to "insure domestic Tranquility."
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db The important source of correctional law according to my instructor she acknowledged that the bill of rights is very important basically that’s not only a source it’s a big one for our correction system throughout the United States (Bartollas‚ 2002). The prisoners from our system rights are strictly limited and rights that fall under the bill of rights in addition to the bill of rights must be important to them and restore to prisoners. And not all of them they keep contact to courts and
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time. The preamble states the purposes of the United States government‚ the first of which is to form a more perfect union. Framers of the Constitution included this in the preamble because the US is a collection of states run by state governments that are united under one national government. The national government was supposed to make the country stronger together than individual states. The provisions that achieve this are Articles four and six. Article four says that states must honor laws and
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Who’s Left Standing for State Sovereignty?: Private Party Standing to Raise Tenth Amendment Claims By: Katherine Connolly Section 1: The most critical topic raised in Who’s Left Standing for State Sovereignty?: Private Party Standing to Raise Tenth Amendment Claims by Katherine Connolly is the Supreme Court and State courts oscillating view of the Tenth Amendment‚ the contradictory views between circuit court of appeals on the Amendment‚ and an analysis of private party Tenth Amendment standing
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Snowden’s post on the social media website Twitter‚ “Can you hear me now?”‚ can be inferred as an allusion towards him now having a “voice”. In 2013‚ his “voice” was silenced when Snowden was forced to flee the United States after disclosing several highly classified information held by the United States’ Central
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