Should Felons Be Able to Vote? “We let ex-convicts marry‚ reproduce‚ buy beer‚ own property and drive. They don’t lose their freedom of religion‚ their right against self-incrimination… they can’t be trusted to help choose our leaders… If we thought criminals could never be reformed‚ we wouldn’t let them out of prison in the first place (Chapman‚ Steve).” Many believe that felons should be able to vote due to the fact that they served their time in prison and already received their consequence
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criminal is then excepted to enter a plea. Then the accused may not be able to post bail/bond or even be denied realase. This indvidual must stay in jail until his court hearing‚ the time the person waits in jail is called pretrial detention. Today throughout the world pretrial detention has caused many issues in which this paper will look further into. Some of the issues that will be explored in this paper are how pretrial detention is causing overcrowded prisons‚ and how that is affecting our society
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Analyze the externality of detention basin By providing public participation to Sa-eab citizen and Sueb Foundation‚ the government will able to communicate with the people in developing acceptable alternatives. The public proposes several alternatives‚ but one alternative seem to be feasible to implement. The alternative of detention basin or monkey cheek will be taken into government consideration that its feasibility assessment will be conduct before implementing the project. To put it more
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Review Questions When should a judge recuse himself or herself from a case? A judge should recuse himself or herself from a case when he or she may be biased towards a certain party. For example if a party might be a company in whom the judge has invested heavily‚ if its a friend or family member or the judge may feel that‚ for personal reasons where she or he may not be able to act impartially in case. What kinds of court cases are heard by federal courts
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How should judges be appointed? Judges in the UK are often upper class‚ white men who have become judges through a good higher education and then a further training in judiciary. Currently‚ there are no black high court judges however the black population in prison is for ever growing. For the purpose of this essay‚ I shall be arguing that judges should be appointed based mostly on life experience and relativity. Of course a standard law degree and a solid understanding of the law is necessary but
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English‚ the Official Language in the U. S. Michele Hoard ENG 122 Instructor Nelly Aguilar March 7‚ 2011 English‚ the Official Language in the U. S. The researcher stated that English is now the official language in the United States. There are documents that discuss the importance of an official language in America‚ which supports this statement. In this research there are further details about English as the Official Language in the U. S. and how language can unite people in society
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honest with its citizens. The question is though‚ should our government actually be completely honest with us? I believe they should be‚ but I also believe it’s too late for them to become honest. The train of honesty should have been rolling since our nation was first created. Their honesty would not only affect us as citizens‚ it would probably affect their relationships with other countries. This could lead to war. Now we are faced with the question‚ “who will provide citizens with the truth when
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Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is not imposed as the punishment for a crime‚ but in order to prevent a person from committing a crime‚ if that person is deemed likely to commit a crime. In most democracies‚ no one can be arrested without being told the grounds for such an arrest‚ except under rare and special circumstances (usually anti-terrorism legislation). An arrested citizen has certain rights: He/she must be subject to and informed of a criminal charge and brought before the nearest
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Beauty contests have been in the American society since the 1920’s (Kareen Nussbaum). Just like football and dancing‚ beauty contests are also a hobby. Beauty contests are not harmful in anyway‚ and are just a unique interest to women all over the world. The unique thing about beauty contests is the fact that it is strictly for women. Through hobbies such as football‚ there are women teams; in beauty contests though‚ there are no men. So‚ beauty contests a very unique piece of American culture
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way people‚ who look beautiful for person A‚ might not be person B’s type. As the saying goes‚ “tastes differ‚” and it is exactly the same with the perception of the beautiful. However‚ one might counter-argue that there are several things that are beautiful for all people on the planet‚ something like Niagara waterfall for instance. This phenomenon is completely logical because after all we all are one species‚ and there must be some
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