The Pros And Cons Of The Morrill Act

The state of Maryland has had four constitutions with the first one being adopted in November of 1776 by the Ninth Provincial Convention. The state of Texas has had eight constitutions including the Mexican constitutions. The first constitution of Texas was adopted in 1827 when Texas was still part of Mexico. On February 15, 1876, the last constitution took effect, which is the current constitution of Texas. The second constitution of Maryland was adopted in June 1851. The third constitution was written during the Civil War in 1864. The last constitution replaced the third one written in 1864. It was drafted by a convention meeting at the state capital, Annapolis, and submitted for ratification. On September 18, 1867, the people of the state ratified it. The most recent ratification was done on November 4, 2014 on Article 17, Section 2.

America’s bloodiest war fought was on its own soil, and it is known as the Civil War. The road to the Civil War will begin in 1798 with the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. The Resolutions were drafted as an opposition of the Alien and Sedition Acts signed in by President Adams. These Acts were passed due to a foreseen war with France. The Naturalization Act made it more difficult for an immigrant to become a citizen of the United States by increasing the amount of time it takes to complete citizenship from five years to fourteen years. The Sedition Act forbid public opposition towards the government, which goes against the first amendment in the constitution which states that “Congress shall not prohibit freedom of speech and of the press.” The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed through Congress in 1798 which prompted the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions published by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. According to Britannica the Kentucky Resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson declared that the national government did not hold supreme authority and that states would get to decide what is passed within the state and were voted to be invalid while the Virginia Resolutions published by James Madison proclaimed the acts to be unconstitutional because the states have supreme authority over what is occurring in the state.

My thinking is that for the most part the Tenth Amendment has out lived its usefulness. I am all in favor of local communities having a say in what their community looks like in regards to keeping certain business out of their community, such as liquor stores and the sex industry in its various forms. What I am not in favor of, and this will comprise many more than one issues - but I will keep it to one as instructed - is the penalties for and the differences in the criminal code.

Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on June 25th, 1933. From 1951 to 1960 he served in the American Air Force. After this, Meredith studied at Jackson State College for two years. Following this, he applied to start a course at the University of Mississippi. He was rejected twice. Meredith filed a complaint with the courts that he had been rejected by the university simply because he was black. His complaint was rejected by a district court, but on appeal, the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court supported him and ruled against the district court stating that the University of Mississippi was indeed maintaining a policy of segregation in its admissions policy.

While I’m in agreement that the PATCH act is the best thing we have at the moment, I still wonder whether it will be enough to prevent incidence like WannaCry from happening in the immediate future. And even though the bill has met positive reviews from a number of lawmakers, many experts contend that it would not have prevented the WannaCry ransomware attack from occuring, and it won't be able to prevent many future attacks either (Carberry, 2017). Part of the reason is that the government will still need to keep some vulnerabilities undisclosed for intelligence gathering purposes, and the immediate concern is that the NSA have not been able to prevent their hacking tools from being stolen and leaked to the public. There is still

Amendment 70 is seeking to raise Colorado’s minimum wage, which is currently at $8.31 an hour, to $12.00 an hour by 2020. The first peak in minimum wage is to $9.30 in the year of 2017, and then increase it by $0.90 cents per year until 2020. There are multiple pros that follow with the passing with amendment 70, however there are multiple cons that trail the passing of this amendment.

On September 11th, hijackers took over four planes; collided into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the fourth into a field near Skanksville, Pennsylvania. 2,973 victims and the 19 hijackers died in a result of these attacks. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks) They were conceived to be a range of suicides by al-Qaeda. In return, Americans assembled together like never before. The Nation was in need of answers and subject to vulnerability. The president at the time, George W. Bush, launched the War On Terror and also put into effect the Patriot Act.

The society that has created these sets of laws or were created by a strict government to control a religious person, hinted by the lack of a 13th law. The laws seem to be a type of constitution created by the king Hammurabi, while the laws themselves seem to show that the king had influence in most matters, one can infer that this is in fact not a democratic government. Assuming a large population, most laws seem to be made to settle the matter quickly being that there is only one king. The society shown would have been one of the wealthiest and highest population due to the number of rules revolving around slaves, prostitution, inherited land, and crop or animal trade. These laws show that the society in agrarian, with slaves to work the fields, merchants delivering grain and oxen. Also the form of punishment included is thrown into the river or water, so they either the city itself, it close to a nearby river or has a canal or irrigation system that runs through the city.

Ethics is the unwritten rules of society. It is a code that guides acceptable behaviour through action. Ethics is about you and how you should act a certain way to fit a set of beliefs to please society. It contributes to guiding your morals and setting a foundation for your decisions. Prostitution is a heavy weight on society's unwritten rules of ethics, and in the eyes of many canadians, prostitution is morally wrong. Knowing prostitution will never be diminished, Bill C-36 was introduced to counteract the issues of prostitution in Canada. Bill C-36 continues to allow the selling of sex, but prohibits the buying of sex. As result, this allows sexworkers to continue to support themselves without being

Gill, C. (2014, December 14). “How Does the U.S. Constitution Get Amended?” Retrieved January 25, 2016, from http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/amendments.htm

As a Canadian in today’s society we believe we have a certain set of inalienable rights. One of those rights that seem to be at the forefront of the 2015 Canadian election is privacy. As Dr. Kent Roach and Dr. Craig Forcese state, “privacy is, in our society, the right to be left alone by the state.” The Conservative upbringing of Bill C-51 challenges the ideology around our right to be private, as well as our government’s role in the protection of Canada from threats of terrorism. The Harper government essentially, will increase their role in national security to keep a constant watchful eye on potentially harmful situations and end them before anyone is hurt or killed. If passed, the bill would allow the government to arrest anyone suspected of terrorism without that person even committing a crime. Furthermore, the language used in the bill is extremely vague and makes one question, where the line will be drawn? Will our basic rights to peaceful protest and free speech be affected? Unfortunately perhaps they will. One of the most concerning parts of the bill in regard to privacy is the fact that the government will now be able to access several sensitive documents about citizens from top agencies such as the Public Health Agency, Canadian Border Services Agency as well as the Canadian Border Services Agency. Privacy is changing in Canada. This is a landmark bill and as such it is creating quite a splash in the ongoing Canadian Election.

When this act was made effective in October of 2001, many people came out and criticized it. They claimed that the act infringed on some of their rights and their privacy.

The Morrill Act of 1862 is what eventually led to the development of Cooperative Extension. Land-grant universities were started because of the Morrill Act, and in 1914 the Smith-Lever act allocated funds to land-grant universities.

In this case, Elizabeth is the TDA president had driven several kilometres and so was expected to pay tax as per the law. However, according to the statement of the law, several issues should be noted. First, the constitution Act bared the Commonwealth Act from making valid laws. Second, the South Australian Parliament had enacted the NRTA 2014. S109, Commonwealth Constitution stated, if the state legislation is inconsistent with Commonwealth legislative, latter prevails. Despite the fact that she wasn’t legible to pay the 5 cents per kilometre travelled under the law Elizabeth is liable to pay public road tax.

While the death penalty laws have changed a lot over the years since the 18th century. “Who, exactly, gives us the right to kill? If killing is wrong, then why are we allowed to kill? (John Grisham)”. After the death penalty they moved to the electric chair is that any better? If you don't get the death penalty what will your sentence be or do you get a plea- bargain and is it fair that the government gets a say in who gets the death penalty or not.