America proclaims its freedoms and rights of the people to any ear that will listen. Our country is founded on democracy and the free electoral system. Even the United Nations holds a document adopted sixty years ago entitled the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (UDHR) drafted by participating UN countries. According to this document we as human beings are said to have equal rights. Article 3 of the UDHR states “Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and security of person.” (un.org‚ article
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The Supreme Court decision consenting gay and lesbian couples the right to marry in all the states was a landmark victory for the Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. It was a hard fought victory spanning years of hard work and activism. Nonetheless‚ even in the wake of that substantial step in the court’s ruling‚ many members of the LGBT community still have work to do (“How So-Called ‘Equality Act’ Threatens Religious Freedom”). This comes to the realization that several same-sex
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The DREAM Act‚ which stands for Development Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act‚ is an American legislative proposal providing permanent residency to undocumented youth who entered the U.S. as children‚ graduated from U.S. high schools‚ and attend college or enter the military. Of the three million students that graduate from U.S. high schools every year approximately 65‚000 students are exported back to the country where they came from. For many of these young people‚ the United States is the
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To understand the Telecommunications Act of 1996 we must first know what the Act was brought on by. In 1974 a major antitrust case was brought on by the United States opposing AT&T. The government believed that AT&T was running a monopoly because they felt the relationship between AT&T and Western Electric was illegal. The United States proved to be right and judgment resulted with AT&T breaking up into seven companies. Another contributing factor to the Act was that telecommunications had not been
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morally justifiable/permissible only with situations‚ in which you can guarantee the best possible outcome. In this particular situation with the bomber‚ I believe we should take the Utilitarian-Act Consequentialism approach; and torture the bomber as an attempt to get him to reveal the location. Simply because‚ Act Consequentialism will focus more on the overall happiness that it will bring to all those involved. Seeing as how they have apprehended the bomber‚ and interrogated him to no avail. It is the
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INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ACT‚ 1999 An Act To provide for the establishment of an Authority to protect the interests of holders of insurance policies‚ to regulate‚ promote and ensure orderly growth of the insurance industry and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto and further to amdend the Insurance Act‚ 1938‚ the Life Insurance Corporation Act‚ 1956 and the General Insurance Business(Nationalisation) Act‚ 1972. BE it enacted by Parliament in Fiftieth
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believe that voting age is not the only reason as to why the teenagers are not paying attention to the politics and there is no evidence that lowering the voting age would increase political participation. They believe that there are major reasons as to why the political participation has declined rather that the issue of the voting age. While the view is probably wrong when they claim that there is no evidence to prove the connection between voting age and political participation‚ it is right that voting
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Patents Act‚ 1970 Patents Act‚ 1970 is designed to protect inventions in respect of manufacture‚ machine or process of manufacture. On the other hand‚ the Copyright Act‚ 1957 is to protect rights of artists‚ authors‚ producers of films‚ computer software owners etc. Patent is an exclusive rights granted to the patent holder‚ for a limited period‚ as a reward for creative work based on his private initiative. ‘Creativity’ is accorded the status of ‘property’ which can be bought‚ sold‚ licensed or
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Introduction The Indian Partnership Act‚ 1932 lays down the important provisions relating to partnership contracts. The subject of partnership is included in item 7 of the Concurrent List of in Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India and therefore Parliament and Legislature of any State have power to make laws with respect to this matter as provided in Article 246 of the Constitution. According to the Section 4 of Indian Partnership Act‚ 1932 “Partnership is the relation between persons
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the campus. One of the major implications is the Dream Act to help increase immigrants chances to get into an institution. Since then‚ I feel that a Scholarship based program should be implemented onto the campus for the Asians and Latino population‚ just as there is one targeted for the African-American population. The Dream Act is a legislation that provides a potential pathway to legalized status for undocumented youth. The Dream Act has been trying to passed since 2001‚ but the government
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