Papers on Legal Issues
Why The Legal Driving Age Should Be Raised
Words: 839 - Pages: 4.... night was just a blur. I remember sitting in my rocking chair, freezing to death. I was so cold . . . yet I must have had the heat up to 90 and wrapped in blankets.I couldn't focus on anything. It seemed my life had been ripped away from me.
That was only one of the millions of tragic stories that parents sometimes have to face. A 16-year-old just receiving his or her license and thinking that they can do anything. What they don't realize is what danger they are putting themselves, as well as others into.
As a group, teenage drivers have high crash rates per mile driven. What isn't so widely known is that the problem is worst among .....
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Gun Control: More Or Less?
Words: 420 - Pages: 2.... idea that has been executed is the filing of lawsuits against the gun manufacturers. That is downright ludicrous. How are the gun manufacturers to control what is done with their products? The companies make the guns for law-abiding citizens and cannot control whom the products are sold to. Suing a firearms corporation is like filing a lawsuit against the Toyota and Jack Daniels Corporations when someone becomes intoxicated and kills another in a drunk driving accident. Why not sue McDonalds when somebody eats too many Big Macs and becomes extremely overweight?
Still some extremists call for an outright ban on all firearms. Not only is it e .....
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Prohibition: The Ignoble Experiment
Words: 562 - Pages: 3.... crowded prison systems, and
the uprise of the Mafia. Not only was this a step in the wrong direction, it
was an action that increased the problems that America was already facing.
People believed that prohibition would fail and that it was a violation
of a person's privacy while other people thought that prohibition would do
nothing but improve America. People who were against prohibition were called
wets and people for it were called drys. Wets mainly consisted of democrats who
refused to stop drinking and who were usually older men or immigrants who drank
all their life. The drys were usually republican Protestants who believed
alcoho .....
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Drug Legalization
Words: 1225 - Pages: 5.... cause of
crime and social disruption. The drug problem has been so enormous that some in
our society , misguided by frustration , are listening to the arguments to
legalize or decriminalize drugs. The solution to the drug problem is not to
repeal the drug laws. The solution requires commitment to a balanced effort on
drug education , prevention , treatment, and law enforcement. Softening our
drug laws would be a major mistake. Research and data clearly shows the
problem is not drug prohibition , but drug use. When drugs are cheap and
easily accessible , more people will use them. It is a frightening scenario
that envisions more .....
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Divorce Litigation
Words: 289 - Pages: 2.... court on the basis of some
wrong, such as adultery or abandonment, done by the defendant to the
plaintiff.
In the past, almost every state divorce law required the plaintiff
to prove one of a number of recognized grounds for divorce, included
adultery and desertion, even when both spouses wanted the divorce. The
divorce system also required that the plaintiff be without fault, and
therefore a variety of fault-based defenses were recognized.
By the mid-20th century most state legislatures had recognized one
or more no-fault grounds for divorce, usually consisting of a substantial
period during which the spouses had liv .....
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Capital Punishment
Words: 1317 - Pages: 5.... belief; however,
"all the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4)
In relation to the times in the French Revolution where murderers and thieves heads were thrown into the guillotine, our society today is at a much higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred years ago? The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that
"…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence .....
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Prohibition
Words: 491 - Pages: 2.... an alexr to soften the hard edges of a rough life.() “By the 1820’s, people in the United States were drinking, on the average, the equivalent of 7 gallons of pure alcohol per person each year.”() This amount of alcohol is in about 70 gallons of beer, 39 gallons of wine, or 151/2 gallons of distilled liquor. Some people, including physicians and ministers, became concerned about the extent of alcohol use. They believed that drinking alcohol damaged people’s health and moral behavior, and promoted poverty. People concerned about alcohol use urged temperance- that is, the reduction or elimination of the use of alcoholic beverage .....
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The Penalties Of Drunk Driving
Words: 1172 - Pages: 5.... complete. New York is the first municipality in the nation to seize the
vehicles of motorists arrested for driving while intoxicated. Under New
York City's new drunken driving policy: motorists with a blood alcohol
level of .10 percent -- the legal limit -- or higher will have their
vehicles seized on the spot; while the motorist faces prosecution in
criminal court, the vehicle seizure will be part of a separate proceeding
in civil court under state forfeiture laws; because civil proceedings
require only a preponderance of evidence for guilt -- rather than guilt
beyond a reasonable doubt -- motorists acquitted of drunken driving in .....
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Pornography
Words: 5241 - Pages: 20.... problematic for liberals and legal conservatives
because it creates a cause of action for a person contrary to the
traditional conception of a rights holder's cause of action. This
subsection reads:
Any woman has a claim hereunder as a woman acting
against the subordination of women. Any man, child or
transsexual who alleges injury by pornography in the
way women are injured by it also has a claim.
[emphasis added]
My goal in this paper is to suggest that a slight modification to
this subsection of the ordinance would make it very difficult for liberals
and legal conservatives to obje .....
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Computer Crime
Words: 1512 - Pages: 6.... and gets on he's presented with a logon prompt, this is
where the hacking really begins, the hacker tries to bypass
this anyway he knows how to and tries to gain access to the system.
Why do they do it, well lets go to a book and see "Avid young
computer hackers in their preteens and teens are frequently
involved in computer crimes that take the form of trespassing,
invasion of privacy, or vandalism. Quite often they are mearly
out for a fun and games evening, and they get entangled in the
illegal use of their machines without realizing the full import of
what they are doing" , I have a hard time believing that so lets see
what a "hacker" .....
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