Campaign Finance Reform
.... flow of soft money must be stopped and lastly, a reconstitution of the Federal Elections Commission (who Cox believes has not done much as an enforcement agency).
Mr. Smith argues that it costs money to communicate with the public. He says, “…from every ballot referendum to races for every office (the amount spent yearly)…is less that the amount spent on potato chips. (p 54)” Later in the article, Smith argues that, “On a per-voter basis, our expenditures are equally low: less that $2.50 per eligible voter per year, or the cost of a video rental. (p 55)” Smith believes that victory may attract the money, not the other way aro .....
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In Practise The American Colonies Were Self Governing In 1776
.... enjoyed considerable independence. There was an annual election for a governor and key officials including judges in Rhode Island so that there was a minimum of interference from Britain, this situation can be described as a sort of Republic. Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware were proprietary colonies (the proprietor of the colony was granted a charter), the British still held a lot of rights but they were allowed an Assembly. Pennsylvania had a governor who was the proprietor’s deputy and an annually elected Assembly. The Assembly could lay down the legislation which would then be sent to Britain where it could be .....
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Egyptain Foreign Policy In Regards To Israel & The United States
.... in Tel Aviv. The Egyptians, like most of the Arab states saw this as a creation of a Western State, backed by the British Empire, and thus an imperialistic entity in the Arab homeland. Considering the past 20 years of the Egyptian state, and of most of the Arab nations, was a continual conflict again imperial powers, the Egyptian were naturally weary and afraid of any new imperialistic powers developing in the Middle East. In September 1947, the League of Arab States decided to resist by force the plan for the partition of Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish State, and when the Jewish state was created, the armies of the various A .....
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Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution To Natural Resources
.... nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the Museum¹s collection. At age thirteen Roosevelt took lessons in taxidermy and started a book-study on mammals and birds. In Roosevelt¹s freshman year of college at Harvard, he intended to become an outdoor naturalist. Discouragement in the naturalist field instead led him to politics, where his interests could translate into more visible activism.
In 1881, Roosevelt was elected to the New York State Assembly, and in December of 1887 he hosted a dinner for ten of his sportsmen friends. The group recognized that the extinction of the buffalo and the passenger pigeon coul .....
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Brown Vs Board Of Education
.... case with his doll experiment. This experiment had four dolls, two female and two males, with one black male and one white male. There were also one white female and one black female. The experiment asked questions to children who would respond by picking up the doll. Some questions were, which doll is the nice doll? Which is the doll would you want to play with? Which is the bad doll? All of these questions and others were asked to black children. Kenneth Clark concluded that this hurt the blacks mentally and also hurt their learning ability.
Once the court decided what the decision would be, Chief Justice Earl Warren .....
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McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
.... in the U.S. State Department. He especially blamed the 1949 Chinese communist takeover on treachery within the U.S. State Department. In that speech, McCarthy stated fifty-seven Communists were working in the State Department (Matusow 48).
Even when Senator McCarthy was giving his very first accusing speech in Wheeling he had not any factual information whatever to support his accusations. The truth is that in making his speech in Wheeling, Senator McCarthy was talking of a subject and circumstances about which he knew nothing. After the specially-appointed Tydings Committee reviewed McCarthy's work, they concluded .....
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Fidel Castro's Reign In Cuba
.... It killed its own citizens, it stifled dissent. (1) At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion. Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government. Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed to accomplish. This promise was looked upon benevolently but watchfully by Washington. Castro was believed to be too much in the hands of the people to stretch the rules of politics very far. The U.S. governmen .....
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Harris V. City Of Zion/Kuhn V. City Of Rolling Meadows
.... own interests, but for something used to strike down and inhibit the free exercise of religion itself.
It is quite clear and has certainly been made quite clear by each of the city councils present here today, that there was no true emphasis on sectarian religion in either city. The designs of each emblem and logo have certain historical pretenses that explain the origins of each logo in question. Granted, the Zion city logo had certain religious intent, but as anyone can see by the testimony given by the mayor and city council members, the only reason it [the seals and logos] remained unchanged all these years was in hon .....
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The Inevitable Inequality In Modern Democracy
.... of Independence states that ‘all men are created equal.’ This statement assumes that at birth we all enter the world with the same abilities and that it is our environment in life that shapes what kind of people we will eventually become. Thus, it is arguable that because all men are created equal, all men have the equal opportunity to succeed, at least in today’s modern times. The reason that economic disparity surfaces is because some do not choose the path of education and thus create a difference in skill and talent between themselves and those who chose to attend school, university, or another educational instituti .....
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A Debate On Federal Funding Of The Arts: Pro
.... She defines the terms clearly and doesn’t present her argument in a confusing manner. Schneider is fair in that she supports the NEA in a calm manner and doesn’t attack the opposing side.
I strongly agree with Schneider on the controversy over the NEA. I believe that art is an important part of society and that it reflects society. Some may think the art is vulgar or graphic, but that is how society is. Society is harsh and changes all the time like art. Society can also be vulgar and graphic by the way that people talk or act. I agree with Schneider that art is a form of speech and that it can’t be taken away. Schneider .....
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Is The United States Giving Too Much To The United Nations?
.... UN does, we are the US, the most powerful country in the world? It should be a matter of your concern since the US is vulnerable, maybe not from some other falling superpower, but to some third world country that is trying to get their hands on a medium yield nuclear weapon. How does this effect the UN? Well the UN works with small third world countries to get them developing in the right the direction, away from weapons of mass destruction and more towards a better agriculture system of infrastructure.
What type of military support does the US give the UN? Currently the UN has around twenty peacekeeping operations going on .....
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The Writing Of The Federalist Papers
.... The legislative branch creates laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets them ( Janda 72).
Madison felt that an important aspect of Separation of Powers is that the power of one branch should not be exercised by anyone who also holds a position in another branch. Madison states, “ It is equally evident that the members of each department be as little dependent as possible on those of the others…” ( Fed. 51 pg. A18). As for the Constitution, Article I, Section 6, states, “ No person holding any Office during the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in .....
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