.... aggression, which have been recognized by Congress" ( Caplan P.32). The second amendment should help secure right of the people to have a gun in their home. " The government should not be permitted to declare who would or would not be able to bear arms on the basis of vague religious tests or any other nebulous standard or artifice" ( Caplan p.39). The first infringement on the Second Amendment came on November 30, 1993 when President Clinton signed Brady Bill I. The law required that there be a five day waiting period on all hand gun purchases. The Brady Bill also banned semi-automatic rifles and other military type weapons. ( Moore 1994 p.434) The five day waitin ....

.... age is not going to stop underage people from getting alcohol. That is why lowering the drinking age to 18 in not inciting young people to drink. During the Prohibition , people managed to drink and regardless of the government regulations, people will drink: "Despite a legal drinking age of 19 in Ontario, most other provinces, and both territories(Single et al., 1995), statistical reports indicate many Canadian teens drink alcohol." Furthermore, Many high school students have been to parties ( at which a large number is not of legal age drinking) which involve much drinking of alcohol. Liquor is also obtained at home where an open bar is accessible without parents even ....

.... nervous feeling, and giddiness. Some of these effects are desired effects, but not a whole lot of them. How many people really love to get nauseated. I sure don't like to have that feeling. Some of these things are not such a big deal either. This is because it is such a small dose. However, it is still abusing your body, and your body's functions. Besides all that, there are also legal consequences. When someone takes Psilocybin Mushrooms in a medium size dose (1.25 grams - 4.0 grams), there are effects that are a little more serious than taking psilocybin in a small amount. These effects are things such as open-eye visual effects, lights gain auras, star-pattern e ....

.... common to see after a hard day’s work to see the male members of the colony at the local tavern to enjoy a drink. Alcohol was seen as a medicine, an alexr to soften the hard edges of a rough life.() “By the 1820’s, people in the United States were drinking, on the average, the equivalent of 7 gallons of pure alcohol per person each year.”() This amount of alcohol is in about 70 gallons of beer, 39 gallons of wine, or 151/2 gallons of distilled liquor. Some people, including physicians and ministers, became concerned about the extent of alcohol use. They believed that drinking alcohol damaged people’s health and moral behavior, and promoted poverty. People c ....

.... states that do have it, then those that do not. In order for capital punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must be present in the criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The criminal must be aware that others have been punished in the past for the offence that he or she is planning, and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can also happen to me. But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a personal set of conduct. How much they wi ....

.... murder, rape, arson, and perjury. In America today, the main crime deserving death is obviously murder. ( p.11-15). Does the death penalty truly deter crimes and murder? This question is at the heart of a heated political controversy over the punishment. Opposers to the death penalty say no because of the large amount of people on death row today. They also say that states that have the death penalty have a higher crime rate than those that do not, and therefore it is not effective and somewhat contributes to the problem. I must point out though that states that have the death penalty are usually highly urbanized areas that most likely will have high crime rates because ....

.... enforcement’s efforts to curtail prostitution. Proponents of keeping prostitution illegal contend that prostitution is immoral, degrading, and contributes to the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Nevertheless, legalizing and regulating prostitution will provide greater benefits for society. Supporters of banning prostitution insist first and foremost that selling a person’s body is immoral. Yet in one way or another, all people who work "sell" one or more parts of their body in order to complete their jobs. Athletes, bus drivers, and construction workers all "sell" their bodies to perform physical work. These people would find themselves out of wo ....

.... Due to these aforementioned factors, there are several problems raised by the existence of . Problems such as the actual possibility of determining mental illness, justifiable placement of judged "mentally ill" offenders, and the overall usefulness of such a defense. In all, I believe that these problems, as well as others which will be mentioned later, lead us to the conclusion that is useless and should be abolished entirely. The major difficulty with a theory such as mental illness is that it is just that, a theory. To scientists theories are a way of life, but applied to the concept of law theories become somewhat dangerous. By applying a loose theory such as m ....