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Although the problem of international liability and compensation for pollution caused by oil spills is specifically adressed by the 1969 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the 1971…

Australia Corporations Corporation Act 2004

The idea behind defamation law is very simple. If and when the reputation of an identifiable third person is lowered by the communication from one person to one or more person/persons and where the communicator has no…

In response to the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, an act that gives federal officials more authority to track and intercept communications, for both law…

Women in the United States made the fight for suffrage their most fundamental demand because they saw it as the defining feature of full citizenship. The philosophy underlying women's suffrage was the belief in "natural…

It has been two months since they have introduced H.R. 2009, the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act. During this time, people have been watching seen a growing amount of support from people living all over the nation for this common proposal seen as just common sense by many. Thanks to that drive, it has been proclaimed that the House of Representatives will have a vote on the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act before deferring for the August Region Work Period. In this essay, it touches on how this simple, two-page bill barricades the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from imposing or applying President Obama's health care law. This essay makes the point of how in its directing, abuse and of American citizens, the IRS surrendered its right to neutrality. This agency should not be involved in the private, personal choices of Americans as it narrates to their health care.

It was a case in 1965, Griffin v. California, where a man was convicted of murder in part because he did not take the stand in his own defense. During the trial the prosecution instructed the jury that because the…

There are so many varied policies towards gun control here in the United States. It is in the basic fabric of the Constitution, under the Second Amendment, that Americans are allowed to own fire arms for their own…

The journalistic side of the twentieth century can be defined as the struggle for democracy and an independent media against propaganda and subservience to the state. That struggle culminated during the first half of…

Cass Sustein's Politics By Other Means, which was published in New Republic in 2002; Mark Green's The Evil of Access, which was published in The Nation in 2002; Bill Moyers' Journalism and Democracy, which was published…