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    pregnancies. The law requires an employer to allow twelve unpaid work weeks to be taken in a twelve month period every year. The United States Department of Labor states, “This law covers only certain employers; affects only those employees eligible for the protections of the law; involves entitlement to leave, maintenance of health benefits during leave, and job restoration after leave;. . . ” This may guarantee your job and health benefits to be kept during the twelve week period, but the law does not

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    number of states in the United States of America have passed right-to-work legislation and the idea has recently been trending as more states are enacting the laws. There are still plenty of states that do not follow the right-to-work provisions, but in those that do, significant effects have been witnessed. Right-to-work legislation allows workers to collect the benefits of any union agreements within their company, but can choose to forego paying fees. Also, the employees in the states with right-to

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    Worth Doing Right: How the NLRA’s Goals Are Defeated Through Inadequate Remedies, 38, U. RICH. L. REV. 1073, 1083 (2004) (“[l]abor law is so weak that companies often treat the minor penalties as a routine cost of doing business, not a deterrent against violations.”). Henry S. Drummonds, Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine to Allow the States to Make More Labor Relations Policy, 70 LA. L. REV. 97, 120 (2009). “It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer . .

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    legal truth that ignorance of law is no excuse (ignorantia juris non excusat) i.e., every prudent man of the society is supposed to know the law of the land which concerns about his right, life, liberty, duty, obligation, powers, privileges and immunities. The workmen, the employers engaging such workmen and the law enforcement agencies (Inspectors), it is expected, are required to know the law (Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act) with which they interact. Awareness of law for all such classes of persons

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    The United States of American is a society built upon principles and laws. These laws and principles were decided to keep Americans safe and help one another co-exist. In the beginning as laws came into being law makers would play it by ear as they decided what could remain legal for the public to take part in and what would be illegal and frowned upon by society. One of the many issues American government has come face to face with issues about making legal or illegal is drugs. Drugs since their

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    The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America which defines the structure of national government and dictates the capacity of its powers and limitations. The U.S. Constitution maintains its purpose as the fundamental application of law in the United States where all other laws are measured against it. Furthermore, the Guarantee Clause of Article 4 specifies each state to maintain a degree of sovereignty over its own forms of government (U.S. Const. art. IV, § 4)

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    A copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to authors of original works of authorship. “Copyright law in the United States is based on the Copyright Act of 1976, a federal statute that went into effect on January 1, 1978,” according to FindLaw. FindLaw also states that, “Individual states cannot enact their own laws to protect the same rights provided by the Copyright Act. Original multimedia works are protected by Copyright.” Literary, dramatic, musical, artistic

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    its beginning, the United States based its code of laws on the British Law (Moser & Slay, 2011, 16). Connecticut passed the first state copyright bill: an Act for the Encouragement of Literature and Genius in 1783 (Moser & Slay, 2011, 16). By 1786, twelve out of the thirteen states had passed copyright statutes. However, the fact that each state had its own copyright laws created inconsistency and inconvenience for enforcement from one state to another. A federal copyright law was necessary. On March

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    The most destructive and destabilizing state crimes are wars of aggression. Under George Bush, neoconservatives ushered in a climate of unilateralism as well as militarism which stemmed from America’s lengthy experiences involving “open door” imperialism. State crimes are defined as criminal acts perpetrated by state representatives in an attempt to serve in their job’s capacity. However, some have promoted an expanded description of state crimes which includes behavior which violates international

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    Rule of law: Everyone has to follow the rules no matter the power they hold, their position, and authority Constitution example Article ll, section 4, clause 1 - “The President, Vice President, and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” This passage of the indicates how federal officials will be removed from office if they commit crime or abuse their power because they

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