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    much it cost it enforce the new law. The government had already lost a huge amount of money just due to not having the tax income from the alcohol and now they were losing even more money trying to enforce the new law. But the government couldn't enforce it as well as they had thought they could because of how little money they could afford to lose at this point. People had also started to ignore many of the laws. In addition “It created widespread disrespect for the law. Organized crime…

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    or “Reconstruction Amendments” were passed following the end of Civil War in 1965 in an attempt to grant legal and, presumably, social equally to newly freed Black Americans. Following the apparent failure of this goal, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed in an attempt to close the gap between Black and White legal and social equality. The apparent failure of the Reconstruction Amendments to resolve this gap is intricate problem that is obscured by the…

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    development of the civil rights movements. In fact at his beginning office, LBJ began the great society which is a program set up by president LBJ. Its main goal was to eliminate poverty and especially racial injustice. The great society speech in Michigan was very famous because president LBJ announced in details the content of the program which targets education, medical care, urban problems and transportation. The picture below shows president Lyndon Johnson with civil rights leaders…

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    Issues include the way women, black people, poor people, and people of different religion were treated. Living Conditions of rich white people, rural farmers, and people in poverty. The Women’s rights movement (1848-1920) was dedicated to grant women with equal legal, educational, social, and economic rights. Women at the time were supposed to learn how to stay at home and take care of a family. They didn’t get the same education as men did. They weren’t allowed to vote. No one wanted to hire…

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    Laws are placed to keep us, the people, safe. We even put people out there to regulate those laws, and to offer punishment to those who don't follow them. When people resist laws it puts the lawmakers in a bad place. People who are boycotting the laws because they don't want to support what goes against their values. You can't please everyone and keep everyone safe. Opposition to anything is almost always met with a wall of stubbornness from the other side. Take, for example, abortion. There are…

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    The Power Of Federalism

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    is to define and therefore more specifically limit government powers. After the Articles of Confederation failed to work in the 13 colonies, the U.S. Constitution was created in 1787. When thinking about the different things from North America, a lot of things come to mind. The themes are as flows, codification, republicanism, popular sovereignty, federalism, and separation of laws. Those are just to…

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    creations; classical and aesthetic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. What covers a range or personal property rights attaching to various products of the human mind is intellectual property, or also known as (IP). The area of law, for intellectual property, deals with, for case, patents, registered designs and trademarks, which lets companies to gain recognition or benefits in financial from what they conceive or design. Intellectual property rights can be sold or…

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    An educator who saw children getting taken out of school to go work once said, “Man is the only animal that lives on its young.” Child labor has been an ongoing debate in American culture. Although there are many reasons why the Child Labor Amendment should be ratified, states were, and are still today, justified in their refusal giving the government too much power, organizations and laws being created , and its decline in popularity over the years. Child labor has been a problem in America…

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    at the same time keep the rights and freedoms of individuals, the current American justice system faces problems. The Main question has become if it is possible or not to be just to the citizens and maintain the authority of the government fairly And how it can be done if possible. Although it is hard for the justice system to protect the rights of the people and equally protect the legitimate power of the governing bodies, it is possible. Striking the balance of the rights as well as the…

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    Over the course of history and throughout works of literature, our society has come to know civil disobedience as an act that defies certain laws as a way of peaceful protest. Sophocles’ Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, are two works of prose that exemplify two different ways in which civil disobedience can be carried out. Antigone acted out of selfishness when defying the law of Creon and wanted self-satisfaction through her engagement in civil disobedience…

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