Tag: Civil rights

  • Freedom of Speech

    Freedom of Speech in the United States Some Supreme Court Decisions The Supreme Court has long held that the First Amendment does not protect "true threats." But the Court has never developed a standard for determining what constitutes a true threat, an issue that comes up with […]

  • LGBT

    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) in the United States “We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started […]

  • LGBT

    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) in the United States “We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started […]

  • Money Laundering

    Money Laundering in the United States Definition and Introduction to Money Laundering By Steven Mark Levy, who is an attorney in Los Angeles. He is the author of Federal Money Laundering Regulation: Banking, Corporate and Securities Compliance (Aspen Publishers). Before 1970 anyone could […]

  • Money Laundering

    Money Laundering in the United States Definition and Introduction to Money Laundering By Steven Mark Levy, who is an attorney in Los Angeles. He is the author of Federal Money Laundering Regulation: Banking, Corporate and Securities Compliance (Aspen Publishers). Before 1970 anyone could […]

  • Persons With Disabilities

    Persons With Disabilities in the United States There are approximately 50 million people in this country living with disabilities. In an increasingly global economy, we simply cannot afford to leave talent on the table. Individuals with disabilities possess the skills and talent to support […]

  • Electronic Communications

    Electronic Communications in the United States Patriot Act Provisions of the Patriot Act Electronic Communications Introduction to Electronic Communications The Patriot Act expands the government's ability to eavesdrop on or to monitor electronic communications, such as telephone calls and […]

  • Electronic Communications

    Electronic Communications in the United States Patriot Act Provisions of the Patriot Act Electronic Communications Introduction to Electronic Communications The Patriot Act expands the government's ability to eavesdrop on or to monitor electronic communications, such as telephone calls and […]

  • Civil Rights Bill

    Civil Rights Bill in the United States Speech by George C. Wallace in 1964: (…) It is therefore a cruel irony that the President of the United States has only yesterday signed into law the most monstrous piece of legislation ever enacted by the United States Congress. It is a fraud, a […]

  • Civil Rights Bill

    Civil Rights Bill in the United States Speech by George C. Wallace in 1964: (…) It is therefore a cruel irony that the President of the United States has only yesterday signed into law the most monstrous piece of legislation ever enacted by the United States Congress. It is a fraud, a […]

  • Liberty

    Liberty in United States Liberty Definition (Lat. Uier, free; Kbertas, freedom, liberty). Freedom from restraint; the faculty of willing, and the power of doing what has been willed, without influence from without. As used in the constitution means not only freedom of the citizen from […]

  • Liberty

    Liberty in United States Liberty Definition (Lat. Uier, free; Kbertas, freedom, liberty). Freedom from restraint; the faculty of willing, and the power of doing what has been willed, without influence from without. As used in the constitution means not only freedom of the citizen from […]

  • Terrorism

    Terrorism in the United States Terrorism Definition It means the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. The U.S. Army definition is as follows: the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to attain political or religious ideological goals through […]

  • Majority

    Majority in United States Majority Definition The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy. The greater number; more than all the opponents; more than half of the whole number or […]

  • Majority

    Majority in United States Majority Definition The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy. The greater number; more than all the opponents; more than half of the whole number or […]