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Military Pay
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... Being a soldier means uprooting your family, moving them to a new duty station several times and spending lots of time away from your family.
The military has shrunk since 1986 due to the draw down yet, it has experienced a fourfold increase in the number of deployments. This has increased responsibility and stress on the soldier. I believe that the soldier is underpaid when compared to the private sector. They deserve annual pay raises that at least match the average American's as measured by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics" Employment Cost Index. The government should also have a "catch-up ...
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The Bill Of Rights
Number of Words: 329 / Number of Pages: 2
... of
Rights is that they are enforced by the courts.
From the time they first settled in Virgin and Massachusetts, the
American colonist relied upon the rights enjoyed by Englishmen. The struggle for
independence, however, demonstrated to them that rights not specified and
codified in constitutional documents were insecure. The result was a movement
as soon as independence was declared, to adopt bindings constitutions that
limited governmental power and protected individual rights. Seven of the
thirteen states adopted constitutions that included specific bills of rights.
The first state bill of ri ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... is currently being exercised
by 70 million Americans. (METSKA)
I believe that the governments struggle to keep guns out of the hand of
juveniles and criminals is a worthy one, but when it comes to unconstitutional
interrogation then its getting out of control. The government is currently
trying to implement laws that will keep weapons out of the hands of every one.
The people on capital hill say that they want a safer America, they want the
youth of America to grow up in a caring non-violent environment, yet all they
really want is a more productive best in its class nation.
History proves th ...
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Democracy Best Form Of Government?
Number of Words: 981 / Number of Pages: 4
... beliefs of the people they are representing. Indirect democracy is usually found in large areas like the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. A word closely associated with democracy is equality. The only way a for a government to be a true democracy, there must be certain kinds of equality in society. The four most well-known are equality of rights, suffrage, schooling, and justice. The equality of rights means that “all men are created equal”. This being true, all people have the same natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Suffrage is the most basic right because ...
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Political Parties During The Civil War
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... and the
country was plunged into the Civil War (1861-1865).
The Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed gave the
Republican Party a solid core of strength and permanence. Republicans
controlled most elective offices in the Northern states during the war, and
for a generation afterward they were able to make full use of patriotic
fervor to denounce the Democrats as traitors and friends of the South. This
was an effective campaign tactic. “Waving the bloody shirt” against the
South and the Democrats united all Republicans behind their memories of the
great crusade to save the Union. ...
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European Union
Number of Words: 1685 / Number of Pages: 7
... however Europeans are asked to put aside their
differences and become one. With nationalism still strong throughout Europe
many people are strongly against the E.U. Analysts strongly suggest, however,
that the E.U. is the only way Europe can improve it's economy. Unemployment in
most of Europe is running above 10 percent and countries like Germany and France
are suffering from net investment outflows, European economies are groaning
under the weight of rigid regulation, high labor costs, high taxes and generous
social services that have become too expensive to sustain. Meanwhile, labor
protests ...
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Juvenile Crime And Prevention
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... family functioning, rather than substituting for family functioning." 40
Testifying to the Little Hoover Commission about the proper state role, the California Youth Authority said that while history shows that the juvenile justice system has been a shared state-local responsibility, prevention activities have been primarily local activities:
The state role is limited to advising, evaluating, coordinating and providing technical assistance and information. Indeed, the juvenile justice system in its entirety is somewhat limited in its ability to fundamentally alter the causes and correlates of ...
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Models Of Political Ideology
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... left-liberals "want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality" (Libertarian 1). The opposite of the left-liberals is the right-conservatives. This group believes in free-markets with government putting a check on personal freedom. "Right-conservatives prefer self-government on economic issues, but want official standards in personal matters. They want the government to defend the community from threats to its moral fiber" (Libertarian 1). The next group is the libertarians. The libertarians want little government ...
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What Is Legislation
Number of Words: 227 / Number of Pages: 1
... to subject all other men to their will and their service. It is an
assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to abolish outright all
the natural rights, all the natural liberty of all other men; to make all
other men their slaves; to arbitrarily dictate to all other men what they
may, and may not do; what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and
may not, be. It is, in short, the assumption of a right to banish the
principle of human rights, the principle of justice itself, from off the
earth, and set up their own personal will, pleasure, and interest in its
place. All this, and noth ...
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Canada - Of The United States Of America
Number of Words: 2713 / Number of Pages: 10
... or a not quite United State
of America?
In Canada, strong government involvement plays an immense role in
determining the destiny of its people for the good of the society.
In Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades before you.
It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master...
Henry David Thoreau, 18861
Although slightly outdated, as of 1982 47.3 percent of Canada's GNP was
in government hands, compared with 38% in the United States. Government
spending in Canada was 24.4% greater than in the U.S. and if you subtract the
U.S.'s excessive national ...
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