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    Why is the Bill of Rights Important? What is the Bill of Rights? The Bill of Rights is your unalienable rights. You receive these rights at birth and they cannot be taken away. For several states the only way that they would be given the ratification of the constitution was if or when a Federalist supporter promised to add a BIll of Rights. Anti federalist like George Mason feared an overly powerful Government. The first congress assembled in 1789‚ they immediately started deciding whether or

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    ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Why is Abortion Legal in the United States?  During the 1960s and early 1970s‚ U.S. states began to repeal their bans on abortion. In Roe v. Wade (1973)‚ the U.S. Supreme Court stated that abortion bans were unconstitutional in every state‚ legalizing abortion throughout the United States. For those who believe that human personhood begins during the early stages of pregnancy‚ the Supreme Court’s decision and the state law repeals that preceded it may seem

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    through the American school system for twelve years and then ask them‚ “Who was the first president of the United States?” They may give you a peculiar look as most Americans would instantly tell you it was American Founding Father‚ George Washington. While this has always been the basic idea we have lived off of‚ it is nothing but a myth. The actual first president of the United States was John Hanson from Maryland as he was elected by a group of men including George Washington to be the first president

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    placed essential laws. It was important because it laid down basic laws. The constitution also gave citizens basic rights. It was written at the Constitutional convention in 1787. There were fifty-five founding fathers at the convention. The most famous ones are Benjamin Franklin‚ George Washington‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ and James Madison. The first Constitution was the Articles of Confederation‚ which was approved in 1781. There were many issues with it‚ but the main one was that the government had

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    Why is God so important to Descartes’ philosophical project in the Meditations? Answer with reference to Descartes’ attempts to prove the existence of God in Meditation 3. The existence of God has an extreme influence on the majority of philosophical debate and questioning and no more so than with Descartes and his meditations. His meditations and his method of approaching philosophical questioning all derive from a rationalist ideology. Therefore he argues that all humans are thinking beings

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    The Cold War was caused by the United States. The Cold War was a series of battles in Russia during the 1940’s fought between the U.S and Russia. The U.S caused the war because they didn’t share information about the atom bomb with anyone and that scared Russia causing them to go to war with them. Another reason why the U.S caused the war was because they tried to turn the buffer states around Russia to a Democracy and Stalin really opposed that and was very angered. The last reason why the U.S caused

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    United states medical Choose one of the formal sub disciplines of Medical Sociology in your text and explain how it has influenced the overall concept of health in the United States. Several decades medical sociology has became a big major sub discipline of sociology‚ at the same time assuming an increasingly conspicuous role in health care disciplines such as public health‚ health care management‚ clinical medicine‚ and nursing. Many courses and texts‚ rather than using the term sociology

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    Why were plebeians so important to Rome? There are probably several reasons why the Plebeians were so important to Rome. But to comprehend these facts‚ we need to comprehend the origin of the Plebeian people. The Plebeian people were believed to have come to Rome after the Patricians had founded Rome. They probably were the descendant of immigrants who were poor and in search of a better life (Santarpia‚ n.d.). The Plebeians were a poor working class whose activities relates to working in farms‚

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    Estime Chapter 10 Critical Thinking Cases. 10.1. Was there a contract between the Mesaros and the United States? Answer: Yes. There was a contract between Mesaros and the United States. Above on the customers signature form it stated‚ “Yes‚ please accept my order for the U.S. Liberty Coins I have indicated.” This made it a contract between Mesaros and the United States. 10.2. Did a contract to convey real property exist between Heikkila’ and McLaughlin? Answer: No. A contract to convey real

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    UNITED STATES TITTLE: A Model of Christian Charity AUTHOR: John Winthrop BIOGRAPHY: John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ and the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. EPOQUE: Is a 1630 sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop‚ who delivered on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. TITTLE: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts AUTHOR: Maxime Hong Kingston BIOGRAPHY: Maxine Hong Kingston

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