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» Politics and Government Essays and Papers
Gay Parenting
<view this essay>.... I will attempt to analyze the Con side which expresses the fact that two people of the same sex should not be raising and rearing children together. Many believe that if the couple is unable to produce children together, then they shouldn’t be raising them as parents. Children need a balance in their lives and different sexed parents can provide that balance efficiently. Each parent (mom or dad) socializes the child differently and the child needs to be introduced to both worlds.
I will then proceed to critique both sides on strengths and weaknesses, based on facts, studies, and my own opinion, and then draw some of my own conclusions on this controversial .....
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The Presidio Trust
<view this essay>.... of the San Francisco Peninsula the Presidio occupies over 1,433 acres.
During the 1960's there was increased pressure to develop remaining open spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area. Local environmentalists urged representatives to preserve the beauty and history of the Presidio by including it within the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. In 1972, when the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was created, it was mandated that the Presidio be transferred to the park when it was no longer needed by the Army. In 1988 the Presidio was slated for closure by a BRAC (Base Realignment and Closures) commission and thus began the transfer of .....
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Term Limits For Legislators
<view this essay>.... States Congress.
The structure of the Congress supports members who have held office for several
terms thereby undermining the idea of the citizen-legislator put forth by the
founders. Instead of citizens who will soon return to the community that
elected them, professional Congress-people spend more time in Washington than in
t heir home states, and usually make Congress their career. What has developed
in recent years, in response to congressional careerism, is the drive to impose
limits on the length of time someone may serve in Congress. Currently,
advocates of term limits are calling for two terms in the Senate, and three in
the House. It is possibl .....
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Pro-Death Penalty
<view this essay>.... from ever murdering again. It also deters potential murderers from ever committing the crime. Unfortunately, the death penalty is currently used so rarely that it isn’t nearly as effective as it could be. In order for it to work, we must put it into practice more often.
In recent years, crime in America has been on the rise, in particular, violent crime. This has led not only to an overcrowding of prisons in our country, but also to an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by the courts. Despite the fact that the number of inmates on death row is climbing, the number of death sentences actually carried out in any given year lags far behind. .....
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Human Rights In China
<view this essay>.... a national order (Muzhi Zhu). The People's Republic of China (PRC) is actually an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the main source of power. At the national and regional levels, party members hold almost all the top government, police, and military positions. The country's authority rests with members of the Politburo (China Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1999). CCP stresses that it needs to maintain stability and social order. The Government's poor human rights record in 1999 shows the extent at which the Government intensified efforts to suppress its 1.27 billion people. A crackdown against a newly formed oppo .....
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Apartheid In South Africa
<view this essay>.... poorly educated and without even
the basic rights and freedoms that all Canadians are guar-anteed.
Apartheid - 'separateness' - made South Africa separate - shunned by much
of the civilized world as a police state as hateful as any in world
history for anyone but white citizens..
Apartheid laws 'sorted' people in terms of racial origin, to ensure white
citizens got "the best land, the best jobs, the best social services; all
other races got the leftovers" according to a 1989 Canadian Government
report,
South Africa has changed in just a few years... the first election to allow
all citizens to vote for a new government and a new system came took place .....
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Governments In Star Wars V.S. Governments In The Home
<view this essay>.... a total anarchist state for they will eventual have to answer to their
parents when they return.
The next most primitive form of government is a direct democracy as
shown by the Ewoks. The Ewoks probably started out as many small groups that
lived separate from one another and grew into what they are now through the
evolution theory where, over time banned together in order to provide an easier
means to access the necessities of life for the groups. At the time you see
them in the movie they seem to be using a tribal form of government where the
elders make up the governing body, but let every one else take part in the
policy making process. Besides using .....
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Marrying Homosexuals
<view this essay>.... has always been based on the fundamental principles of freedom expressed in the Declaration of Independence and through our Constitution. The opponents of homosexual marriage need to remember what freedom means to America, and understand the significance of setting a precedent that denies that freedom. The Supreme Court has long recognized that the institution of marriage is one of the rights guaranteed to all Americans by our Constitution. On the Internet, you can find the full text of the following Supreme Court cases. In the case of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court said, “The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal right .....
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