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How to vote in USA
... vote for the Republican candidate. The candidate who wins the popular vote in a state wins all the pledged votes of the state's electors. Am I eligible to vote?According to the Federal Election Commission, you must:Be a citizen of the United StatesBe a resident of the state ...
Case study on granting domestic partnership benefits.
... legalizing domestic partner marriage. The Supreme Court's decision is a major victory in the equal rights movement for gay and lesbian couples but until now, the state of California or those doing business in California had no legal obligation to offer benefits to same-sex couples. Will the Supreme ...
Employment Law
... civil rights laws. The acts help to provide damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, and to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions. (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1997)The Pregnancy Discrimination ...
Argument Against Gun Control
... laws would infringe upon our rights as American citizens. Certainly the most troubling problem that would be caused by tighter gun control would be the increase in illegal arms trade. As an analogy, while marijuana and other drugs were legal in the United States, the government profited greatly and ...
Right To Privacy
... The United States now plays a leading role in the creation of a big brother society. With the excuse of anti-terrorism the U.S. has passed the USA Patriot Act. This new act allows the police to search your home, interrogate people by means of racial profiling, and would allow non-citizens ...
Limiting of Civil Liberties
... of our civil liberties. Many cases have gone through the supreme courts pertaining to just this subject, from very large cases i.e. Korematsu vs. United States (arguing the constitutionality of FDR's executive order 9066) to the free speech cases, Tinker vs. Des Moines, or Schenck vs. United States ...
Pro-Affirmative: Benefits for the Minority
... the U.S. Bureau of the Census in the year 2000 do not support this myth. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, there are 1.3 million unemployed Black civilians and 112 million employed White civilians. Thus, even if every unemployed Black worker in the United States ...
Gun Control
... and our posterity. The bill of rights is the set of amendments to the constitution intended to secure these objectives for the individual citizens of the United States. The second amendment states: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the ...
How the military as an institution promoted prejudices against the black man
... the right to citizenship in the United States." Fredrick Douglass spoke these words out against the restraints held against the black man, the man of African descent, and the man in chains of bondage. The prejudices, the stereotypes and dislikes held against the Black man ...
Family and Medical Leave Act.
... and child care is only one part of the picture. FMLA leave is more likely to be taken by employers to take care of their own maladies, but little research has been done on this area. The track record of the FMLA has been mixed. While it has clarified the rights of ...