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    Essay On Felons To Vote

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    convicted felons to vote has been a controversial topic due to the fact thhat the felons are restrained from voting. As citizens of the United States, felons are looked down upon in our country’s society. However, after the time they serve in prison, it is believed that they have changed for the better. While the eligibility for felons to vote in the United States has grown into a critical topic of discussion, the debate between convicted felons voting and not voting will continue to be…

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    No people in the United States rely more on the federal government than those who are housed by it, fed by it, employed by it, and barred from voting to change it. These people are incarcerated felons, and their disenfranchisement is a barrier to democracy and dialogue in America. According to The Sentencing Project, felony convictions have stripped 6.1 million Americans of the right to vote, enough to swing the popular vote in five of the last seven presidential elections. Of those…

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    Some states, such as Colorado and California, have already legalized marijuana; this has been to their benefit. These have seen an increase in tax revenues and colorado has only a observed small increase in hospitalization (Andrew A Monte, 2015). A high tax system may create a new source of income for individual states and the federal government. A low tax system may stimulate the economy and drive out illegal…

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    Constitutional Law on Education The primary purposes of a constitution include creating a government, defining its power, and protecting its people. Constitutional law is the interpretation and implementation of both the federal and state constitutions; in addition, it is the foundation of the nation’s current educational system, creating a legal chain of power and responsibility to educate the nation’s youth. Following the delegation of education by the U.S. Constitution to the state…

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    Chinese immigrants started to arrive in the United States in significant numbers in the late 1840s, specifically 1848, when the California gold rush began to make headlines. People from around the globe came to California in hopes of getting rich quick, and then returning to their home countries. By 1852, California had passed a Foreign Miner’s Tax, specifically targeting the Chinese and forcing them to pay $3 a month for a license to be able to mine for gold. Chinese immigrants were in numbers…

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    older and they commit a felony and go to prison, depending on what state they’re is in, their right to vote may be suspended for a certain period of time or taken away completely. I don’t think it is fair how some states take away a felon’s right to vote once they get out of prison. States who enforce laws that take away the right to vote do not treat criminals as if they are normal U.S. citizens. All states have different voting laws for felons which comes from the constitution, however,…

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    Effective Legal System

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    The Law can be interpreted as the system of rules socially made or governmentally developed to influence people of a system as a whole. Laws also enforce impositions and penalties for those who violate it. To many people it is the essential tool to keep people safe. Whether that be physically, emotionally, religiously, economically, and the list goes on. The law also includes compromise amongst citizens and even governments. However, in my opinion, Laws can be effective or ineffective, I believe…

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    Conquest By Law Analysis

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    Lindsay G. Robertson's Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands centers on the landmark 1823 Supreme Court case Johnson vs. M'Intosh. Robertson's research provides previously undiscovered knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the case, placing the case in a new context. Robertson tells the story of a costly mistake, one made by the American judicial system but paid for by indigenous people who to this day suffer from the effects of…

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    Duel Court System

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    Justice The United States of America utilizes a duel court system in its judicial system. The two courts systems are federal and state. Courts that exist at the state or local level are established by the individual state, and exist “within states there are also local courts that are established by cities, counties, and other municipalities, which we are including in the general discussion of state courts.” Courts that exist at the Federal level have been established under the United States…

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    sacrificed his way of life to expose an unbelievable breach of privacy. We will examine both sides and attempt to draw conclusions on this well-known event by searching for the details that to this day are still quite a mystery to most. Our first step to uncover some of the mystery is to ask a though question, did our government breach the law? This approach inevitably leads to additional questions like the following, if they did break U.S. law, how many did they break and how many times? What…

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