The exclusionary rule is a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial. Now imagine how our system would function without the exclusionary rule. A police officer could detain‚ arrest or search an individual and his property based on bias‚ a hunch or because they just felt like it‚ without reasonable cause. If the officer discovered in criminating evidence‚ it could be freely admitted at the individual’s criminal trial. And that evidence that is found without the
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the existence of climate change‚ to corporate handouts and under the table deals. One such scientist is Wei-Hock Soon. Justin Gillis and John Schwartz of the New York Times report that Soon‚ who has been called by Republican politicians to testify against the harm of global warming and climate change in front of Congress‚ has received upwards of 1.2 million dollars from the fossil-fuel industry in the last decade. The release of information like this only adds fuel to the fire surrounding climate change
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way the United States became involved. Because there was not a conclusive reason why our nation should be fighting‚ the Vietnam War affected the views and lives of the American people in different ways. At some point‚ several groups of people were against it‚ while others that were personally involved had a different definition of war‚ understanding all that soldiers were losing during the war. The war lasted the term of four presidents; Eisenhower‚ Kennedy‚ Johnson‚ and Nixon. Eisenhower did not agree
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The 2nd amendment is a very controversial topic‚ a lot of people support gun laws and vice versa. But why be against it if they can put strict laws against it that prohibits the guns getting in the wrong hands? One of the most controversial topics about gun laws is violence and crimes. Many people are worried that if it gets in the wrong hands of a criminal‚ they might use the gun against an innocent citizen. Which is a very true fact but there are other sides of the story. If an innocent citizen
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The Homestead Act was signed on May 20‚ 1862 by Abraham Lincoln. The Homestead Act was proposed by northern republicans. Southern representatives in congress kept voting against the Homestead Act because they saw it as an opportunity for the development of Free states that would tip the scale in the free vs. slave states. It was originally passed by congress in 1860 but then vetoed by President James Buchanan. After southern representatives left congress was when the act was then passed. The act
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Being a policeman is a very difficult job to consider‚ they catch criminals‚ rescue someone by sacrificing themselves‚ they even go to death for other ordinary people. However‚ not every police officer is not the same and many of them use their power against unarmed‚ innocent people. Some police officers have biased opinions about other race representatives and they judge people by their color‚ religion‚ gender‚ etc. Police brutality is the use of excessive and unnecessary force when dealing with civilians
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by an ’employer’‚ usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse; dehumanised‚ treated as a commodity or bought and sold as ’property’; physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.” It’s unclear what the motives of slavers is; it can be assumed that in order to abuse a living being in this way one would have to be in some form ill‚ or in some cases it is just something practiced in the culture for hundreds of years that has not yet been abolished
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same no matter what your skin color might be is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I think once he was murdered everyone including the people he couldn’t convince realized that this was just a ridiculous thing going on. The America I believe in has very hard working people with good work ethics and attitudes. Did you know that scientists once did a study and it showed that America is the hardest working country in the world? Americans are prided on the fact that they don’t quit no matter what circumstances
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would be gone. Lesbian and gay parents and their children are often subject to prejudice because of sexual orientation that turns judges‚ legislators‚ professionals‚ and the public against them‚ frequently resulting in negative outcomes such as loss of physical custody‚ restrictions on visitation‚ and prohibitions against
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Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s‚ southerners struggled with the inevitable confrontation of segregation. Living in the Jim Crow era‚ blacks grappled to gain the rights denied to them through Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)‚ “which gave legal sanction to “separate but equal”.” On the other hand‚ white southerners wrestled to maintain the white supremacy that the Plessy case allowed them to exercise. One of the largest areas of tension for the maintenance of segregation existed in education.
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