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President Clinton has declared that "the enemy of our time is inaction,"
pledging to forge bipartisan agreements on a balanced budget and campaign
finance reform within months, and to lead a "national crusade" to improve
education by the turn of the century. Education, Clinton vowed, would be his
"number-one priority for the next four years," and he devoted the longest
portion of his address to this. He appealed for "national standards" to improve
student performance and pledged to promote such standards with voluntary tests
prepared by the federal government.
Most of the ideas Clinton presented last night first appeared as poll-
tested proposals in his reelection campaign last fall: expanding the 1993
"Family and Medical Leave Act" to include time off from work for parent-teacher
conferences; school curfews; and tax credits and deductions to subsidize college
education. But he presented these ideas using more encompassing and urgent
language than before.
"We face no imminent threat, but we do have an enemy: The enemy of our
time is inaction," Clinton declared at the start ...
The Clean Water Act has made advances to our society that have helped our environment to flourish with life. The objective of the Act when it was enacted in 1972 was to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's water. This objective was accompanied by other statutory goals to eliminate the discharge of po...
Theocracy A state dominated by the clergy, who rule on the grounds that they are interpreters of God's will and law Maharajas India's traditional rulers'monarchs'who retained their positions during the colonial period but were removed from power when the Indian Republic was formed Coup d''tat A forceful, extra-constitutional action resultin...
Wilson: 'The Imperial German Government' put aside all restraints of law or humanity and use(d) its submarines to sink every ship that tried to approach Great Britain and Ireland, the western coast of Europe, or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean' etc.' Bush: 'Saddam Hussein systematically raped, pillage...
Amendment I (1791) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II...
Our founding fathers thought it best for the United States that they create a country based on freedom and rights, than being ruled in absolute tyranny. In result the Constitution was written. When writing this document many issues were raised in thought of the future of our country in terms of powers and rights. They made the document flexible...
You could be the next presidential candidate! Sound good? You must file papers with the Federal Election Commission to run. You also have to pay the nominal filing fee charged to candidates entering the New Hampshire primary. That doesn't sound so difficult. Anyone who can accomplish these two tasks may run for President. Usually, some unlikely peo...
With out the death penalty families of murder victims would be delt a double blow. Many families feel that the only justice they could posiblly recive is having the murder put on death row. In the book "Rights of execcution" by louis Mansor there was a case where a girl had both her parents brudally murdered, the book reads "She cries every day,...
During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyone's life. The natural evolution of computers and this need for ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnceted computers to develop. This glo...
As his final presidential act, John Adams appointed 42 new Justices of the Peace, the appointments were officially certified by Marshall, then Secretary of State, but all of them were not delivered before Jefferson took office.Jefferson then directed Madison, the new Secretary of State, not to deliver the remaining commissions. Marbury was one of t...
One of the major considerations on how someone is tried in a court of law depends upon the previous convictions of similar cases. This law of precedent (stare decisis) was founded hundreds of years ago as part of our common law. The literal translation of stare decisis is "that like cases be decided alike." Precedents in law play a fundamental rol...
The American juvenile justice system was designed over 100 years ago to reform kids who were found guilty of minor crimes such as petty theft and truancy. It is a network of agencies that deal with juveniles whose conduct has come in conflict with the law. The system acts as a shield for juveniles who perform adult criminal acts or status offences-...
Thomas Jefferson's idea of democracy was one in which people had the right to question the government. Just as Socrates' mission was that of questioning everything and everyone. Socrates educated many and created followers intent on continuing Socrates' work. In effect this is quite similar if not the same as Jefferson's ideas that the people have...
An Analysis of The Term Actually Incurred In Section 11(a) of Income Tax Action STUDENT NO. CRWPET005 APRIL 1996 A TECHNICAL REPORT TO BE PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQ...
Affirmative action policies do not benefit those who are supposed to be helped in any way. Instead of Affirmative action decisions in their favor, minorities and females are entrenched in their status because of the lowering of standards and expectations imposed on them by businesses and educational institutions due to the cries of racism and sexi...
