Essays Tagged: "Clause"

This essay discusses the second amendment right to bear arms. It also has a cited source at the end

(as in Ohio, Texas, Florida) right and not an individual right. However, it is clear that the first clause, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," means a free Am ...

(2 pages) 121 1 2.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Race

s in the United States. Another landmark case was the notorious Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That clause revoked all Chinese immigrants to emigrate to the States for a period of ten years. It is so ...

(4 pages) 79 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Race

s in the United States. Another landmark case was the notorious Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That clause revoked all Chinese immigrants to emigrate to the States for a period of ten years. It is so ...

(4 pages) 82 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Finely v. the National Endowment for the Arts: One Battle in America's War over the Arts

an eight to one decision the Supreme Court upheld that Section 954(d)(1), the "decency and respect" clause, passed by congress in 1990. On the surface this judgment is a settlement against public fund ... Court used complicated legal maneuverings to support the Endowment's creative interpretation of the clause, while at the same time avoiding a confrontation with congress general by declaring its claus ...

(7 pages) 85 0 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

The government style of Japan after WWII. It was changed and reformed by America with American ideas.

y in marriage, and minimal standards of wholesome and cultural living. Not only that but the no-war clause, stipulated, "the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation" an ...

(1 pages) 29 0 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The importance of Jury service The conclusion may need some work

the right to be tried in court without undue delay and by an impartial jury"(Article III Section 2 clause 3). This should show us exactly how important Jury service is not only as a local community b ...

(1 pages) 68 2 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Government Espionage and the 4th Amendment.

se are chiefly the programs Echelon and Carnivore, two uses of technology that violate almost every clause of the 4th amendment and should be dealt with.Shortly after the second world war, the governm ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

An overview of what modern historian Hammond wrote about the Peloponnesian League.

permanent settlement with her on the basis of a defensive alliance. The treaty probably contained a clause under which Tegea undertook to banish all Messenians from her territory. This soon after 560. ...

(4 pages) 38 0 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

10 commandments. Should the 10 commandments be allowed in our judicial system?

stone marker constituted a government endorsement and also violated the establishment (of religion) clause of the First Amendment and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. With the removal of ...

(5 pages) 78 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Do the benefits of tourism outweigh the problems it brings in its wake? Critically analyse

rder to fast track their way through the development process, LEDC's see tourism as a quick get-out clause. However, whilst foreign money can cause the improvement of infrastructure, there are many pr ...

(5 pages) 127 1 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's views on the interpretation of the Constitution (DBQ)

felt that the Constitution was elastic and that many different laws could be derived form a single clause. Their views, however, seemed to have switched over the period of 1801-1817 to fit the needs ... hat the broad use of phrases in the Constitution could become dangerous because the stretching of a clause so much that a new law could be created was unfair to the people (this law was the right of t ...

(2 pages) 78 0 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

California World History Standard 10.2.

views.The Magna Carta greatly influenced future governments. The Magna Carta contained 63 important clauses. Two of them established rights for individuals. Clause 12 proclaimed that the king could no ... the king could not demand taxes but rather had to ask for some type of formal and common agreement Clause 39 declared that a person had a person had the right to a jury trial and to the protection of ...

(2 pages) 41 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Was the Treaty of Versailles Fair? - by Laura Aberle

ritish leaders were standing, it seemed impossible to place the entire blame on one country, so the Clause 231 must have seemed quite harsh. But the treaty was a compromise - no one got everything the ...

(4 pages) 62 2 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Constitutional Politics and Federalism

s the major provisions of the Charlottetown Accord and divides them into four sections; 'the Canada clause; institutional reform; distribution of legislative authority between Ottawa and the provinces ... r as to support the use of constitutional conventions and broader interpretations of constitutional clauses so long as Canada does not become consumed, and complicated by them, as history has shown.Bo ...

(6 pages) 106 0 3.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Discuss the idea of a untied Cyprus, putting forward a basic outline of a solution to re-unite the divided island of Greeks and Turks.

as and Mercedes. Turkish settlers are also opposed to a solution, as they fear that a very possible clause in any reunification treaty would see them expelled form Cyprus and returning to Turkey.There ...

(5 pages) 42 0 4.1 Mar/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

New York City Draft Riots

1863 was unconstitutional, and that a revolt was indeed necessary. The Conscription Act included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid service. This sum, about half the annual wage of worki ... s an additional irony to the attention centered on the riots and its three hundred dollar exemption clause. A hefty amount of congressmen and senators were against the exemption because they felt it ...

(7 pages) 49 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

How should France feel about the Treaty of Versailles?

a mere settlement to prevent future wars.France should be happy with the Treaty of Versailles since Clause 231 forced Germans to accept all responsability for the war and was made for all damage cause ...

(1 pages) 34 1 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY

clause two of the United States Constitutionstates, "under the Authority of the United States, [the ... maintaining navies,and supplying militias (Holder 29). Article One also contains, insection eight, clause 18, and elastic clause which allows Congressto "make all laws which shall be necessary and pr ...

(8 pages) 98 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

"A Bird Came Down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson.

orm in halves and ate the fellow raw." The rhythm makes the poem very easy to read. The sentence or clause always ends in the end of the line with a punctuation sign and never get carried over to the ...

(2 pages) 32 0 0.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Explanation for why the Big 3 at Versailles were in such disagreement.

d, and saw fit to make sure that Germany never be able to do it again. Although he was content with clause 231, in which Germany accepts the blame for the entire First World War, he thought that the r ...

(2 pages) 15 0 1.7 Oct/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War