False Claims Act

President of the United States during this time kept the White House well stocked with bootleg liquor even though when he was a Senator, he had voted for Prohibition. The Volstead Act was legislation to carry out the 18th Amendment. The Senators and Congressman who voted for a “dry country” are violating the Volstead Act persistently. In fact, many many of these Congressmen and Senators appeared in a drunken condition in the halls and corridors of Congress. Corruption infested the government…

In January 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment became law, banning the manufacture, transportation, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors in the United States. Known as Prohibition, the amendment was the culmination of more than a century of attempts to remove alcohol from society by various temperance organizations. Many large cities and states actually went dry in 1918. Americans could no longer legally drink or buy alcohol. The people who illegally made, imported, or sold alcohol during…

that the colonist pay duties for doubling in size and seizing massive control over valuable resources. In addition, England passed numerous Acts to gain money from the colonist. At first, Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765; however, this act was later repealed due to the heavy protest and hostile acts of the colonial settlers. The repeal of the Stamp Act was a slap in the face toward Parliament. England was viewed as a major military power, and now was being told what to do by a…

Back in 1925, the school board had a law (Butler Act) that evolution (the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth) or any theory of creation other than the biblical Creation could not be taught in public schools. This law was targeted at English scientist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which was that human had ascended from apes. Some people did not agree with this law but others…

Also, the members of the defense were unable to negate the claim that guards were killed by the colonists disguised as Native Americans upon invasion of the ship. Eventually, however, the judges came to the decision that the Sons of Liberty were not guilty of treason, placing victory in the hands of the defense…

1. The first type of involuntary action Aristotle describes is those done under compulsion, where the individual is not in control of what is happening. In other words, external cause is the only factor that contributed to one’s actions. The latter type is involuntary actions done through ignorance. This is dependent on the degree of one’s ignorance; ignorance that isn’t one’s fault is considered excusable, and it does not include willful ignorance, ignorance of the law, and recklessness or…

memories. Loftus realized found herself in the midst of sexual abuse stories and defending accused offenders. In 1974 her research pushed her into the courtroom to testify over 200 trials as an expert witness. Which she thinks this happened based on false memories, which she believed triggered, suggested, implanted or created in the mind. Her trial have included those of mass murders Ted Bundy and…

to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and congress quickly passed the law with virtually no debate or opposition. The 9/11 crisis united the country in the desire to try to prevent future terrorist attacks, and the Patriot’s Act’s supporters claimed that its provisions were necessary to give the nation’s police and intelligence officials the power to collect information about potential terrorists living in the country. The Patriot Act, however, soon became very…

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…

American History on the meaning of the First Amendment and of freedom of speech and press. Thomas Jefferson called the Alien and Sedition Acts “an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear all avowed violation of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson and James Madison helped draft the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which both protested the acts through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. "That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution…