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    smaller states, where they liberally distributed the stocks and gained the support of many people including the governor of Maryland. This caused the smaller states to join the Confederation. The land out west was unorganized without federal government, but this changed due to efforts made by Congress. Their first act was the Ordinance of 1784 which created ten new states out of the land. Each new territory had to form a republican government and could become a state if their population was…

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    offender was arrested the next component of the justice system is the courts. The offender was given a swift trial and the jury found the defendant guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. The defense appealed unsuccessfully however, the Governor of New Jersey granted the defendant a 30-day reprieve. After the 30 days he was resentenced and was set to be put to death by electrocution. As a last ditch effort the defendant requested a pardon which was denied. The third and last component…

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    today, and without them, things would probably be a lot different. Before the 1920s, most of the films created were based out of New york or New Jersey, and it was very rare for films to be shot anywhere else. Because of California’s warm year round weather and cheap land,…

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    Benjamin dropped out of school at the age of ten and at age twelve he was working as an apprentice as a printer. Benjamin became a contributor. The brothers argued and Benjamin ran away first heading to New York but ended up in Philadelphia working as a printer. After a few months he was persuaded by Governor Keith to go to London. He arrived there finding that Keith's promises meant nothing, so he again worked as a compositor, until he was brought back to Philadelphia. Benjamin, came back…

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    write these 85 articles and essays with the sole purpose of influencing and urging citizens of the new great nation to agree and ratify the new U.S Constitution. They intended to achieve this by explaining the different ways on how the government was going to operate and why this was the best choice for the United States. Additionally, they published these…

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    When she worked as Wayne State University’s governor, she supported numerous initiatives and organized various efforts to help create a stronger earlier childhood education and also co-chaired for the Children’s Leadership Council in which promoted this system. While she was helping the education procedure…

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    over the years; in 1625 they only had 23 slaves, in 1649 they only had 300, and in 1690 they had 950 slaves in Virginia. New England was next to have slaves and the were only slaves if they had one of the three requirements; they had to be captives of war, they sold themselves into slavery/ or the government sentenced them to slavery. In New England they were called “Strangers”. New…

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    English founded colonies and in 1607 the first successful colony, Jamestown (in Virginia), was founded. Others had came soon after, such as Massachusetts (the Puritans), Pennsylvania (the Quakers), Maryland (the Catholics), New York, the Carolinas, and New Jersey. Britain used the new resources and industrial opportunities from their colonies to their advantage, soon the colonies soon grew more wealthy than Britain. More people began to move from Europe to the colonies and when the time came…

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    Hugh Finn Case Study

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    by Hugh’s wife , Michelle to remove Hugh’s feeding tube. They lost in court but Governor James Gilmore asked the Virginia Supreme Court to continue Finns feeding tube. Gilmore stated that its removal would be “mercy killing or euthanasia”. The high court disagreed deciding the removal would mercely “permit the natural process of dying” and would not be euthanasia. Hugh Finns body died shortly thereafter but Governor Gilmore had set a precedent for escalating a private family dispute about a…

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    The Death Penalty should be enforced for more crimes other than Murder and Gang related activities. The Death Penalty should be notice in the Constitution and it should be used for more charges like Rape of a Minor, Murder of a Police Officer, Involved in a Gang Shooting, and Terrorist Attacks . The Death Penalty should also be used for killing of a family member. Inmates that get the Death Penalty should not be placed on Death Row for more than 5 years. If an Inmate gets a life sentence they…

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