Essays Tagged: "importation"

Drugs and legalization

in substances illegal and prohibit others from using them bycreating penalties for their use?If the importation, sale and use of drugs were legal, the open competitionwould eliminate the profitability ...

(2 pages) 174 0 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Legalization

ssion was virtually scare enacted.people feared the effects of it and wanted to stop the growth and importationof it. Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, which 'requires all personswho import, manu ...

(3 pages) 77 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Gun Control legislation

. Manufactures stamp serial numbers on guns for law purposes. The government also has regulation on importation on guns brought into the country. Also, most states restrict the purchasing of long guns ...

(6 pages) 227 1 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Gun and Weapon Control

The Opressed. Speaks of Dr. Howard Zinn's " A People's History of the United States"

European invasion, the equality of these peoples in many regardsto their European counterparts, the importation of slaves into Americaand their unspeakable travel conditions and treatment, the callous ...

(8 pages) 176 2 2.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Gun Control (an issue that effects us all)

f assault weapons.Two years ago, congress passed a landmark bill, banning the sale, manufactureand, importation of semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition clips.Due to this ban, t ... t they both think.Two years ago, as I mentioned, Congress passed a ban on the sale, manufacture,and importation of all semi-automatic assault weapons. Soon after the 104th Congressresumed power, The H ...

(10 pages) 432 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The History of Beer in America: Describes the early roots of beer in America from the first breweries til the days of prohibition til present day.

re afraid of drinking the water.The early English settlers of North America relied primarily on the importation of English beers. However, two breweries were established in 1629 which used maize inste ...

(3 pages) 80 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

A diary entry about the writing of the constitution, by George Mason.

if it shall be abolished, then the law shall be upheld. Then it was decided that 20 years of slave importation would still be allowed, and changes would be made from there.Today on August 31st, a stu ...

(2 pages) 36 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Time to end reverse discrimination.

built its first slave ship, the DESIRE, this was the first of many American ships to be used in the importation of slaves, by then, the English colonies, then later, the United States of America. The ...

(7 pages) 108 0 3.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

The Involvement of Unfree Labor in the Coffee Trade

much as possible. This required a vast amount of man-power that led to the enormous increase in the importation of slaves from Africa. Most of the slaves on Caribbean plantations worked in the ... ere imported from Africa against their will to work on plantations run by rich, white families. The importation of slaves to North America, though, was much less than to the West Indies. They did not ...

(2 pages) 33 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

How do institutions shape policy? Neo-Institutional theory and Parliament and Cabinet

licy process. Key influences in the Neo-Institutional approach to the study of policy have been the importation of ideas from organisational sociology and a growing recognition of the need to employ h ...

(6 pages) 71 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

"The Principle of the Mercantile System" (1776) Summary

ticle that England has lost it's focus on the industry of the consumer and concentrated more on the importation of the money they receive from their colonies. The wealth is only considered to consist ...

(1 pages) 27 0 2.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Gasoline - Supply, Demand, and Cost

co where several refineries were disrupted and several ports were closed that were dependant on oil importation. These hurricanes as well as several other storms this year have disrupted the supply of ...

(3 pages) 149 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Social Policy initiatives in response to Combating Social Exclusion.

among individual and collective responsibilities. In the last two decades, the UK has witnessed the importation of the 'underclass' debate from the USA, a decrease in the application of the concept of ...

(6 pages) 137 1 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Discuss the establishment and development of the Chesapeake/Virigina colonies from the mid 1650s to 1763. How did they compare to those in the Spanish and French areas?

. Leaving the less wealthy to fend for themselves as far as labor on their crops was concerned. The importation of African slaves greatly increased the population after 1698 when the Crown dropped the ...

(4 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Notes on Slavery in the USA

d: New York City in the 1690s had proportionately as many as Virginia.In the early 18th Century the importation of slaves rose rapidly and slavery took firmer roots. Slavery had a number of distinctiv ... in 1808, the number of slaves in the South continued to double every thirty years. Some clandestine importation continued after even after 1808 - one authority has put the total between then and 1860 ...

(4 pages) 76 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Importing and Marketing Canadian Patented Pharmaceuticals in the United States

ally in the United States. There has been a number of congressional bills that would facilitate the importation of Canadian drugs into the United States.The driving force behind this subject is the di ... is in the $50 Billion dollar range2 and is growing with the average age of the population.Although importation on a grand scale is not possible, as will be discussed, small-scale importation is a vas ...

(5 pages) 59 0 4.3 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The creation of the United States Constitution: was it based on compromises, or consensus?

cessary. It was indispensable to bring several hot issues to compromise, including elections, slave importation, and the bill of rights. The authors of the Constitution were building for the future as ... "from the many to the few".Another issue dealing with compromises in the US Constitution was slave importation. Luther Martin said "allow a prohibition or tax on the importation of slaves. First, as ...

(5 pages) 54 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Consumerism: And the effect on American People.

aving devices are both major factors why our country is so hard to get used to. Not to mention, the importation of cheap goods, and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs! These new ways of life have ...

(2 pages) 67 0 2.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

International Trade Concepts

e readily abundant in one country may be in high demand for another country, therefore resulting in importation and exportation of goods and services.What are the advantages and limitations of Interna ...

(3 pages) 354 0 2.5 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Drugs and Prohibition

s ratified. It stated "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subjec ...

(5 pages) 131 3 4.8 Dec/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol