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In 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was passed by congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. SOX was written as a response to several major accounting scandals that occurred at large companies (including Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco) in the early 2000’s. These scandals forced capital providers and the general public to question the judgement of public accounting firms as well as at the overall reliability of the financial reporting and audit process. The requirements included in…

1798, the Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in hopes of protecting America from being infiltrated by spies. The spies they were most worried about were French spies. The reason Congress worried primarily about the French was because during this time the Federalists dominated Congress. Alexander Hamilton led the Federalists and openly supported the British. These acts left President John Adams with a difficult decision, should he pass acts that violate the constitution or protect the…

Tools Within the Agencies. Information sharing is not the only tool that comes along with the Patriot Act. Agencies such as the Secret Service, Air Marshals, and Border Patrol exist to help prevent terrorism. Another agency where anti- terrorism acts have been exemplary is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. There was an instance in an airport in Miami where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a suspected foreign money launderer named Libardo Florez-Gomez. He laundered…

revenue in America, Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764. The Sugar Act would reduce the tax on imported molasses from six pence to three pence, but this tax would be collected by British soldiers. The act also made it illegal to trade molasses with other countries, such as the Spanish and French, regulating trade between the colonies and Britain. The practice of smuggling illegal molasses to make things like rum would also be put to a halt with this act in place. Needless to say, the…

was seen in the creation of the PATRIOT Act. This was a law that encroached on the rights of the American people and contributed to the deterioration of the normative ideals the United States was founded on. Having been, in essence, revised by the Freedom Act signed into law on June 2, 2015,…

The Communication Act of 1934: A Critical Critique The author holds the assumption that the majority of Americans would not believe it to be true that the laws which govern access to the Internet were enacted prior to the start of World War 2. However, this is most certainly the case. The Communications Act of 1934 was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934 (cited). 5 years, 2 months, and 13 days prior to Germany’s invasion of Poland. 2016 marks 82 years since…

Bruce Ingram Granger’s main argument throughout the article “The Stamp Act in Satire” is that the colonist’s disapproval of the Stamp Act is the force that unified the colonists the most before the revolution (granger, 1956, pg. 368). The article focuses on the effect that the Stamp Act had on the colonies in relation to each other, the press came together and published writings to voice their resistance to the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act brought the colonists together because they felt that the…

The Patriot Act was instated in 2002 after the tragic 9/11 event. Times have changed and so have the objectives of the Patriot Act. The government should not have the power of surveillance because it is not being used as intended and gives the US a bad reputation. The government should not have the power of surveillance because it is not being used as intended. As a result of 9/11, the government understandably was committed to keeping Americans safe at any cost. Setting overly protective…

The Patriot Act issued a new era in electronic surveillance. Expanding the intelligence after the wake of the September 11th attacks. (Kevan, 2015). It specifically changed Section 215 which allowed the United States National Security to collect phone records in bulk. After this act was issued the list was expanded to include computer crimes, terrorist, and chemical weapons. (Hall, 2015). In conjunction with this there is no warrant required to retrieve voice-mail only an administrative…

Wow the stamp act happened 250 years ago .The stamp act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The stamp act was where they put taxes on every single thing that you could buy.They were even putting taxes on newspaper. Anything that was paper or anything that you could eat was or would be taxed for more money for the king. The colonist were getting really mad because it was taking money out of your pocket. Since everything cost so much people could not afford to feed their…