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    The Three Branches Paper Have you ever wondered how the three branches that makeup our government works? For starters, the three branches are the Legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch. The three branches were made to distribute power among our government. This makes it where there is not one man or woman with complete power over the country. There are many responsibilities for each branch of the government. To begin with the legislative branches responsible for…

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    Society without laws would be absolutely chaos. Everyone would run wild with no control from anyone. This is where the Legislative Branch of the United States government comes in. The power to make laws is given to the congress, which also represents the legislative branch of government. There are a few ways that the legislative branch checks on the other two branches of government. The best example of this is how the legislative branch has the power and authority to investigate national…

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    The Three Branches of Government In the United States, our democratic system of government consists of three branches: the Judicial branch, Legislative branch, and the Executive branch. Each branch is responsible for a specific section of government and are meant to work for the betterment and protection of the citizens they represent. The Judicial branch is responsible for ruling if cases are constitutional or unconstitutional and is the head of the U.S. justice system. States are represented…

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    Analysis Of R V Askov

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    In past 30 years Canadian courts are struggling with the Charter’s emphasis under section 11(b) that “any person charged with an offence has the right to be tried within a reasonable time”. There has been still not any clarity what is “reasonable time” despite courts has described some factors to determine it. The most important case with reference to reasonableness was R v Askov (1990), where the Supreme Court held (9-0) that accused rights have been violated under section 11 (b) of the Charter…

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    Government In Balance

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    Watching America grow throughout time as been a ferocious journey this semester, from learning just where America began, our founding fathers to the Constitution. Even with all this greatness there still seemed to be a particular unbalances in our system. With the Constitution we had based rules on how our country should look and behave, yet something was still missing. This huge shift of unbalance came from the views of our Federalist Papers. When opinions were brought together between the…

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    8th Amendment

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    Capital punishment is an ongoing issue in our society. The 8th amendment was annexed into the amendments because many individuals received and endured such harsh punishment,such as getting shot up by a fire squad, hanged, beaten, and much more. The 8th amendment limits such harsh death or crucial penalties of those accused of a crime. However, as our society continues to expand and progress, the law is being taken for granted. Our society learned to adopted new forms of capital punishment to…

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    Triple E Senate Case Study

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    The “Triple E Senate” model will be proposed as a viable tool for Senate reform, stressing the importance of an elective, effective, and equal Senate. The history of the Senate will first be analysed to demonstrate the superfluous nature of the chamber in a twentieth-century democracy. The following paragraph will then examine the Senator appointment process, arguing in the defence of an elected senate. Following that, the effectiveness of the Senate will be criticized proving a lack of…

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    Evaporation Lab

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    Purpose: We already knew that the chemical properties of each pure substance are not are not changed after separation in a mixture. The key to find a physical property that one part of the mixture does have but the parts of the mixture doesn’t. In magnetism a magnetically susceptible material is extracted from a mixture depending on a magnetic force. Filtration is separation of an insoluble solid and a liquid. Filtration depends on solubility, the filtrate is the one want to keep (liquid) and…

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    Treatise 4-6: John Locke defines Political Power with the use of state of nature or simply the natural instinct a person has. All people are naturally in the state of perfect freedom. They have the ability to control their own actions or do as they please. In this state everyone is treated equally and nobody is over or under powered. People will always be present in this state unless their freedom is stripped from them. The only possible way a person would lose their right to freedom…

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    One reason the boys on the island failed to effectively govern themselves is because they lacked a system of separation of powers/checks and balances to prevent any one person from becoming too powerful. Baron de Montesquieu believed that the best government is one in which power is balanced among three separate branches of government with equal but different powers…

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