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    The United States’ Senate should ratify the United Nation’s human rights treaty, The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The CRC is the most widely ratified human rights treaty with over 193 states parties ratifying it (unicef.org). The CRC was adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 20th, 1989 and promotes the rights of children worldwide (childrightscampaign.org). The treaty recognizes that children have certain unalienable rights. These rights are to develop physically, mentally

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    high in one state, then a consumer can shop online to avoid excessive sales taxes in another state. This is why many states are pushing Congress to adopt legislation to make all online retailers pay sales-tax regardless of their state of operation. Sales taxes through internet transactions have become a hot topic in the political arena, and there are plenty of politicians who are in agreement of collecting taxes from the internet including Alabama. Economically there are some states that are losing

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    The Congress of the united States adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It stated that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." At the turn of the 20th century, many progressives argued

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    Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated

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    The United States congress is the most powerful group of politicians within the Governmental system under the United States Constitution. Congress is the glue that holds the United States together upholding its roles and responsibilities detailed in the Constitution on a daily basis. Which so much power Congress members are held in high regard for what they do, Congress’ main responsibly stems from making laws to declaring war. With all this power and responsibility you would assume that there would

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    Guide to Comp I John Beckley, the first librarian of the United States Congress, once said, “Most people don’t plan to fail; they fail to plan.” I have found this to be true in many areas of life, including my college classes. Having almost completed my first semester of Composition I, I have realized that college presents a new arena of life, and therefore demands thoughtful planning, planning made necessary by new found freedom. Freedom is a relative term in college; it is experienced in and out

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    politics scholars have sought to understand the causes of increasing partisanship and polarization in the United States Congress. Since the 1970s, the ideological positions of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic and Republican parties, have widened (Abramowitz and Saunders, 2008; Levendusky; 2010). This ideological divide also promotes a perception among the American public that Congress has increasingly become ineffective and polarized to a point where political parties in government no longer

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    n 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which basically opened all new domains to servitude by declaring the guideline of well known sway over congressional decree. Master and abolitionist servitude strengths battled viciously in "Draining Kansas," while resistance to the demonstration in the North prompted the development of the Republican Party, another political substance in light of the standard of restricting subjection 's expansion into the western domains. After the Supreme

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    Ozair Manji Dr. Moses Capstone 24 September 2015 Should the United States congress adopt the presumed consent method for organ donations? Introduction to Policy Controversy The current system of the United States as well as most of Europe for organ obtaining is through presumed refusal, which is also known as the “opt-in” system. In this system a person’s organs cannot and, “will not be removed from his/her postmortem body unless he/she has explicitly consented to this being done.” (Taylor 383)

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    be referred to in the future as NTHP in this paper), the concept is reflected in their decision to break away from government funding. Because Congress had designated them as a trust, they had a large portion of their budget in their hands, about a fifth. When budgeting constraints began to be too close for comfort, the NTHP was done dealing with Congress. They were done being “lobbyists on our own behalf” (Adelman, 2005) and wanted to do more with what resources they had from other grants and memberships

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