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    who obtained guns legally in the United States. The Virginia Tech massacre sparked the idea of gun control. It has been a controversial issue in American politics ever since, yet Congress refuses to strengthen restrictive gun control laws. Although background checks have prevented 2.8 million gun sales to unqualified purchasers since the enactment of the Brady Bill in 1994, guns still sneak their ways into the hands of the deranged. Each year in the United States, the number of people killed by…

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    INVITATION TO TREAT UNITED STATES In United States the invitation to treat is known as invitation to bargain. Invitation to bargain in the US also same as invitation to treat in UK, because the primary sources of the US law is from English common law, case law, statutes and the constitution. Therefore, the English common law was used as foundation of the US law. The UK and US lawyers break down the procedure of contract information into three steps, which are invitation to treat (invitation to…

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    The Common Law tradition is a uniform set of rules applied to a country as a whole. Founded in the Kings courts in England 1066 by William the Conqueror and his successors these rules unified a country according to the crimes committed; before this, disputes were settled according to traditions depending on the region lived. (Miller, R. 2013) According to Roger Miller, author of Fundamentals of Business Law, common law is a body of general rules that applied throughout the entire English realm…

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    to the United States and for this reason it is been more complicated to apply for a visa. The United States embassy wants to make sure visitors do not overstay in the country. Data shows that there are many over stayers and the punishment is not as harsh as to enter illegally to the country. In the book punishment, politics deviance and injustice Martinez explained how people are been affected psychologically and emotionally for continuously being discriminated and punished by racist laws and…

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    USA PATRIOT Act, as civil liberty violations, it set the baseline for the implementation of the USA Freedom Act. Additionally, if one decides to participate in any activities that are a direct or indirect threat to the homeland security of the United States, then your civil liberties should be taken away. Every means needed to stop said direct or indirect threat should be implemented, regardless if the person is a citizen or not. There are seven characteristics in which every…

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    are now it would do better for the United States economy, personal privacy, veteran treatment, and military success. If there were more regulations placed in terms of surveillance it would greatly help stress the importance of the fourth amendment and the privacy of citizens. People currently have problems with the National Security Agency spying on calls of the American citizens. Even though it is in a clear violation of the basic fundamentals the United States were founded on. However, drone…

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    alone, there were 1,472 civilian casualties due to drone strikes in only Syria and Iraq, which was found by a British monitoring group called “Airways” (VICE). With all these deaths, pointing right back to where those drones are sent from, the United States is heading into it’s own grave, sooner or later, these countries will fight back and the U.S. will not be able to aerially strike them down anymore. When that happens, everyone in the U.S. is in big trouble, because these countries will not…

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    JL Guest's Analysis

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    a nation of laws where everyone is treated fairly and equally. Guest states that with a nation of laws, there is a greater balance of human nature, avoidance of government atrocities, and no corrupt officials that could use the imbalance of laws as a weapon to take over people’s basic rights and liberties. On the other hand, Skwirk, an online interactive learning portal, strongly puts in confidence that we are a nation of laws in order to implement rights and to solve clashes. The laws keep or…

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    Wayne County Case Study

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    WOOSTER — No matter the metric one uses, Wooster, Orrville and Wayne County continue to be a top performer when it comes to economic development among 18 counties in Northeast Ohio. Wayne Economic Development Council President Rod Crider and Project Manager Shawn Starlin met with the Wayne County commissioners to talk about some of the latest projects and the key success metrics released by Team NEO/JobsOhio. Wayne County was second in number of jobs created through the end of the third quarter…

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    government is granted authority to make all laws that are necessary and proper for the United States. These laws are to be the supreme law of the land. The Antifederalists disagreed with this idea because they believed it would give too much power to the Federal Government leaving the people and the state governments vulnerable. The federalists saw the idea of doing what is necessary and proper for everyone the best possible solution to the United States. It is necessary for the federal…

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