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Violence Against Women Act
1055 Words - 4 Pages.... has no right to pass a law that legislates for the
common welfare.
However, Congress has a clear Constitutional right to regulate
interstate commerce. This act is based solely on interstate commerce
and is thereforeConstitutional. Because of abuse, Sara Benenson was
afraid to get a job because it would anger her husband. She was afraid
to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any
money on her own. All three of these things clearly interfere and
affect interstate commerce. Women like Mrs. Benenson are the reason
the act was ....
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Capital Punishment
2101 Words - 8 Pages.... and murder. Many ancient societies accepted the idea that certain crimes deserved . Ancient Roman and Mosaic law endorsed the notion of retaliation; they believed in the rule of "an eye for an eye." Similarly, the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks all executed citizens for a variety of crimes. The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. Only in England, during the reigns of King Canute (1016-1035) and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies.
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Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does
884 Words - 4 Pages.... group in society and
morality is a justifiable excuse in breaking the law.
Those who oppose my view on this question may be quick to ask me how
come we go by law and not morality in society. Last year at St. Louis
University I had a roommate with the complete opposite view on this question.
He explained himself this way:
Human nature consists of three basic components. These are to
live,
propagate, and to dominate. If humanity was left without any
other
parameters, this natural state of existence would govern its
behavior. Fortunately there are parameters, and they are laws.
(Mosier)
What this basically says is that laws are made u ....
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Crimes In Schools Lower Academic Levels
449 Words - 2 Pages.... focus on what were doing, but the younger children who are not yet as understanding and mature will not feel secure in such a situation.
Even though I am a young adult and I am able to understand many things I personally feel that I would not be able to focus on my schoolwork if I knew that such violent crimes are happening everyday. That is mainly because I would never know when such a crime like that would happen in my school or somewhere nearby.
After reading many articles there was this one article that grabbed my attention right away. The title of the article was “Violence against U.S. kids is common”. Just imagine how many students must have read that heading ....
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Raising The Minimum Age For A Driving License: Necessary Or Useless?
250 Words - 1 Pages.... Whether it would reduce or even prevent accidents of this sort
or will simply do no good is the heart of this argument.
Some would say that raising the minimum age for a driving license will
clearly reduce the amount of car accidents in Israel. There will be fewer
drivers on the road, and this means fewer accidents, mathematically
speaking. Young drivers aren't mature enough to drive. They can not
comprehend the responsibility that is given to them by letting them sit
behind the wheel of a potentially lethal machine. It is risky to hand them
the access to this sort of transportation which can be misused in the form
of car races and speeding. The excessiveness of this a ....
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The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
2445 Words - 9 Pages.... true.
Marijuana and Medicine
Both pro and anti-marijuana groups have discussed whether or not
marijuana can be used for medicinal purposes. Mainstream groups do not
believe that there are any convincing reasons to make marijuana a
treatment to sick patients. Their position is that marijuana can have
harmful long-term effects. The Anti-Legalization Forum explains that some
of these effects are: impairment of the immune system due to the inability
of T-cells to battle off diseases, delaying puberty in both males and
females, and unhealthy and smaller children born to women who used
marijuana during pregnancy. The
Drug Enforcement
Administration believes that since marijua ....
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The Death Penalty
597 Words - 3 Pages.... they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and
revenge." (Euripedes, Orestes 408 B.C.) By 1500 in England only major felonies
carried the death penalty. Reform of the death penalty began in Europe by the
1750's. By the 1850's these reform efforts bore fruit. Michigan first
abolished the death penalty in 1847. Various public opinion polls report that
more than 70% of Americans favor the death penalty for murder. By 1991, some
2,350 persons were under the death sentence in 36 states. The death penalty
should be moral because, " a life for a life." Is the death penalty immoral?
Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is a realistic alternative
f ....
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Capital Punishment
1118 Words - 5 Pages.... These laws were the Code of Hammurabi. Some of the punishable
crimes mentioned included adultery, robbery witchcraft, and murder. During the
Middle Ages, the Church assumed the responsibility of administering punishments.
During the late 1700's the death penalty steadily grew in acceptance. Over
200 crimes were punishable by death at the beginning of the 1800's. There were
just as many methods used to execute wrong-doers as there were crimes. Some of
the techniques used included beheading, stoning, drowning, hanging, crucifying,
and burying people alive. Also used were many nontraditional forms of
execution. One type of execution utilized elephants to crush the cr ....
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