Essays on Voting Rights

Introduction

Universal suffrage is one of the cornerstones of democratic governance. Suffrage enables people to exercise their democratic rights without any contravention. One of the primary democratic rights is that of voting. A truly democratic nation is one where all citizens have the freedom to vote in any way that they like and for any candidate that they desire without oppression. In the United States, one issue of concern in regard to this democratic right has risen up in recent years. The issue has been subjected to intensive debate across the political divide as well as in the society. The ...

Voting Rights Act 1965

Introduction The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a very important piece of legislation in the history of American civil rights. The voting rights act has a long history of alterations and revisions before it was consented in 1965. The effects of the legislation had, and still have far reaching implications. The Voting Rights Act of 1965was assented to law by the then president Lyndon Johnson on the sixth of August in 1965. The new legislation outlined the disenfranchisement of African Americans characterized by discriminatory voting practices that were adopted by many Southern states after the end of the civil ...

Shelby County v Holder is a famous case that deals with the constitutionality of certain provisions, given in voting rights act, 1965 which was enacted in order to address deep-rooted racial biasness in voting system of America. American Supreme Court elaborated this issue in changing circumstances and made it more effective while deciding this case. This paper intends to discuss Shelby County v Holder case and further examines several other related aspects of the subject. The voting rights Act of 1965 was enacted with an intention to expand the periphery of civil rights and make it reach to everyone ...

Prisoners' Right to Vote in the UK and the Need for the Current law Reforms

Voting is the most common way of choosing leaders in the continents. Voting rights are the privileges given to those who have acquired the requirements to vote, for example, attaining the required age of eighteen years. However, restrictions are placed on some people as prisoners and ex-members of parliament. A case in point is observed in the UK where prisoners are denied the right to vote. This may be a major setback to the social life of those citizens behind bars, but may also act as a control measure for security reasons in the state of UK. Issuing the inmates with a ...

Introduction

The right for vote was very important for women in all ages, as it proved their significance and made them feel like the worthy members of societies of their countries. There is no doubt as well that not every woman could put all at stakes and choose the path of struggle in 18th or 19th century. These were difficult periods for many countries of the world, and specifically for the USA, when people were fighting for their freedom to express what they think and what they feel. However, some women had courage to put everything at stakes and sacrifice ...

The following paper discusses in detail the issue of under participation of the minority population in voting. Minorities in the US do not actively participate in voting and thus hamper the development of the nation. This paper aims in understanding the underlying reasons for such lack of participation and offers some solution to ensure that the minorities exercise their voting rights.

The Minority vote

Introduction Voting has many implications as it can make or break governments and can largely affect the smooth functioning of a government. Economic developments are significantly dependent on the voting turnout. Voting is an ideal weapon granted to ...

(Name of Professor) U.S. Supreme Case of Shelby County v Holder 1. Shelby County v Holder is a landmark case involving the Supreme Court ruling declaring the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, particularly sections 5 and 4 (b), as unconstitutional. Section 5 of the said Act requires the local government to get a pre-clearance from the US Attorney General or three judges acting as a panel of the US District Court in Columbia prior to changing the laws on voting to ensure that the new law will not result in the denial of the right to vote ...

In 1965 Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Among a number of goals, one of the fundamental purposes of the Voting Rights Act was to protect the right of all citizens to vote and ensure that they would be no barriers for anyone to vote. In short, the Voting Rights Act was passed to eliminate voting discrimination. In 2013, the Supreme Court found a provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. In one stroke, the Court’s ruling undid almost 50 years of work in voting rights. The fear among many now is that the nation will see a return to the ...

ABSTRACT

In his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, Martin Luther King referred to the founding documents and principles of the United States that promised liberty and equality for all, and noted that the country had failed to fulfill these in practice, especially because blacks had suffered centuries of slavery and segregation. His main concern was to secure basic citizenship and voting rights for blacks, and his speaking style was far more like that of a preacher and prophet. A century after slavery was abolished, blacks still faced segregation, discrimination and lack of voting right in many parts of the United ...

Suffrage rights should be mandatory in every jurisdiction around the world. One thing that is worth noting is that governments derive their legitimacy from the electorate. Voting is a democratic right that gives power to the elected officials to work for the people. The yielding of the power by the electorate to their elected officials through democratic processes such as voting is known as the social contract (Scher 55). This means that any government that does not make voting rights mandatory is illegitimate. This is because the government is not representative of the entire citizenry which the government rules over.

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In the 100 years between the end of the Civil War and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans continued to experience the violence and racism that they had endured as slaves. This racism was not only social and political separation, but also legal separation. The legal segregation was codified into law so that African Americans were denied equal access to service and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, transportation, and entertainment. Because this separation was established in state and local laws, any resistance by African Americans resulted in arrest and prosecution. However, ...

ABSTRACT

There are many definitions of the word ‘hero’ in the world, and it is regularly applied to courageous individuals in many areas of life, such as soldiers in a war, athletes who set new records, scientists who make great discoveries that benefit humanity, or astronauts traveling to the moon. Marin Luther King was certainly a person of exceptional courage who risked death many times before he was finally assassinated in 1968. He was also beaten, imprisoned and attacked by the Ku Klux Klan as well as the state and federal authorities in the cause of civil rights for blacks. On one ...

Currently, approximately close to 5 million citizens of the United States that represent close to 2 percent of the United States population is denied the right to vote because of felony conviction. Among all democratic nations, the U.S has the most limiting laws in this font amongst all major democracies in the world. Democratic nations such as New Zealand, Denmark Israel, South Africa, Finland among others give right of voting to felons upon completion of the sentence. In my view, denying the vote to ex-offenders is antidemocratic and compromising to the values of freedom and self-determination. Upon completing their ...

Women's Suffrage

Introduction Voting right for women seems a very logical action now but it was not the same 200 years back. In fact, there were no voting rights granted to women anywhere in the world till the 19th century when men were only allowed to vote in all democracies. United States was notan exception either. As per the documented history, Lydia Taft of Massachusetts was the first woman to be allowed to vote in town meetings during 1750s (Bridgman and Mills 1994). New Jersey had a law that restricted a person from voting on the basis ofa minimum level of wealth. Sexual ...

Investment Options Recommendations

Introduction This paper entails an analysis and review of the available investment options in companies that fall within the start-up economy category. This analysis is based on the specific investment needs of a client who wishes to invest some of his capital in a non-publicly owned firm. The client is 50 years old, and this implies that his investment risk profile is not as high as that of relatively younger investors. In this regard, this paper will advise the client on the stock investment options that are available in his preferred company profiles. Accordingly, this paper will focus on the ...

Introduction

A pretty, articulate African-American woman stands before a University of Chicago audience to deliver a lecture on her latest book. She is Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights attorney and Associate Law Professor at Ohio State University. The Stanford Law School graduate is the author of the book, which discusses the modern effects of a viciously racist Jim Crow system on today’s society. Significant patterns have continued to emerge regarding racist voting practices in the United States. Is it little wonder, given the historical debauchery that has occurred? Various inconsistencies in prison policy practices (and voting rights discrepancies) have engaged critical ...

1. Why was the term “gilded” an accurate description for the last quarter of the 19th century? Mark Twain is credited with using the term ‘gilded’ to describe the last quarter of the 19th century America, particularly the years from 1870 to 1900. Twain had used the term ‘gilded age’ in a satirical manner. He draws an analogy with the thin covering of gold on various artifacts that provides a shiny veneer to the object and hides the baseness of the material used to make it. This is an apt description because towards the end of the 19th century, United ...

It is common knowledge that the United States of America is a country of immense opportunities and equal rights founded by a group of refugees from the British Empire who sought possibilities to enjoy civil rights; however it was not until the second half of the 20th century that African Americans were granted such a franchise. If there was one event that was so crucial as to determine the way the whole nation would be moving for years to come, it was Civil Rights and Black Power movement. It came to pass that racial inequality, apartheid or racial segregation got to the ...

Introduction:

Brief introduction of what the civil rights movement was about; Reasons why the black population of the America rose against the whites Three major issues that the discrimination was about; role played by martin Luther king jr. Native Americans Brief discussion of the sufferings the natives had to face; how they were inspired by martin king; kinds of discrimination against the natives. Some facts regarding the discrimination;

Vision of equality and non-violence in protests;

African Americans Since the period of reconstruction, the problems and issues; violence against the black; denied voting rights; poll taxes, and literacy tests to discriminate; south public ...

The Voting Rights Act 1965 in the United States was enacted at the time, in a bid to stem the high level of state disenfranchisement at the ballot mostly on the basis of race. It also was enacted following a struggle by civil rights activists and demonstrations that were marked by violence and deaths. The law was meant to cure the discriminatory restrictions that were present at the time especially against the Blacks, Asians and the Hispanics. The law was subsequently followed with amendments of which the latest was in the year 2006. The 2006 amendment sought to validate the position ...

I. What was going on in America during this time (1865-1877) known as "the reconstruction? (1-3 Page) (Talk about Lincolns 10% plan, Charles Sumner,Preston Brooks, Lincolns death, The Reconstruction act, Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Freedmans Bureau, Birth of the KKK, etc.) There were two Reconstructions in American history, although the first one in 1865-77 ended with restoration of home rule and white supremacy in the South, rather than equal citizenship and voting rights promised in the 14th and 15th Amendments. In fact, it ended in extreme violence, with perhaps 50,000 blacks being murdered when the Ku ...

Booker T. Washington was willing to accommodate to social and political inequality for blacks in favor of a policy of gradualism and improvement through education and economic status, while W.E.B. DuBois insisted on full civil, political and economic equality for blacks. As Washington informed the white audience at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, blacks should be willing to forgo opposition to segregation or demands for civil rights and voting rights in favor of education, training and advancement in the commercial world. His own Tuskegee Institute was the model for his version of industrial and agricultural training for blacks, and despite ...

Today, we take civil rights as granted, as what we are entitled to by default, but more than half a century ago, people fought, struggled and died for them. History not only takes you back to times forgotten but it also reminds you of what once was and how things evolved overtime. Sometimes, there are certain movements which alter the fortune of millions and this is what the Civil Rights Movement was all about; the African Americans making a strong foothold on the map of the world.

One of the oldest races in the world, the African Americans were deprived of their ...

Introduction

Stockholders are individuals who own shares in a public or private company. In most circumstances, the shareholders are the legal owners of the limited companies. There exist common and preferred stockholders. Common stockholders partially own the company and have the voting rights on issues affecting the company. Preferred stockholders also partially own the corporation although they lack voting rights on issues affecting the company.

Rights of common stockholders

Right to share company assets-common stockholders have an equal share of the company profits based on per share basis. The common stockholders are the main claimants of the income and the assets of the corporation. ...

A. Timberot plc

Timberot plc can only go after Leonard, but not Mashup plc. The reason for this is at that time the parties entered into an agreement, Mashup plc had no legal personality yet and, therefore, did not have the capacity to contract. Such legal personality only became real as of the date of its incorporation stated in the certificate of incorporation, which evidences conclusively that the company has complied with all the requirements of registration and is thus, duly registered as a company. As of the date of incorporation, a company is given a legal personality and all the capabilities owing it as a ...

In 1965 after state police gunned down peaceful, unarmed people who were marching to the Capitol, in Alabama, President Johnson realized the increasing violence involved in discriminatory actions against those working towards civil rights. He signed and enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which not only ensured all citizens the right to vote but also included sections to protect those who voted. Special sections included the provision that citizens couldn’t be discriminated against for voting purposes based on the results of literacy tests and a provision that provided protection for all voters in areas of the country where ...

Introduction

The right to suffrage is accorded to every citizen of a nation given some of the limits dictated in the constitution. When limits are discussed, these pertain to restrictions awarded to an individual that deters their free participation in the process of appointing the rightful individuals who would take office a seat in a public office. This makes the right to vote one of the supreme and basic rights of individuals. However, as mentioned earlier, this can be suspended as deemed necessary by law or as previously decided by the drafters of the constitution or legislation warranting sufficient basis for the decision. ...

Currently, approximately close to 5 million citizens of the United States that represent close to 2 percent of the United States population is denied the right to vote because of felony conviction. Among all democratic nations, the U.S has the most limiting laws in this font amongst all major democracies in the world. Democratic nations such as New Zealand, Denmark Israel, South Africa, Finland among others give right of voting to felons upon completion of the sentence. In my view, denying the vote to ex-offenders is antidemocratic and compromising to the values of freedom and self-determination. Upon completing their ...

The American Civil Rights Movements are and were social movements in the United States that aimed at outlawing the high racial discrimination against the black Americans and restore their voting rights. As such, the article strives to cover the movement, particularly in the south, between the years of 1955 and ’68. The later emergence of the Black Power Movement, which then lasted from about early 1966 to 1975, did not support the establishment of black leadership for its great cooperative attitude and its nonviolent nature and instead demanded for political and economic self-sufficiency. The modern civil rights movement started ...

Introduction

This is granting of voting rights to women as well as running for office. In the 19th century in most parts of the word women were not granted the right to vote. This led to the formation of international organizations to advocate for the rights of women all over the world. In 1893, adult women were granted the right to vote in New Zealand by the British Colony. In 1895, the British Colony in Australia allowed women to vote as well as the right to run for ofiice.Thereafter the women were granted voting rights as well as running for ...

ABSTRACT

In the years 1870 to 1900 the U.S. had become the leading industrial power in the world, with more railroad mileage and a larger steel industry than the rest of the world combined. As it became an urban, industrial society with a rapidly growing population and millions of immigrants, it faced new social and economic problems, which were addressed by an expanding government at all levels. In the Progressive Era of 1900-20, some limited gains were made in the regulation of capitalism, as well as granting voting rights to women, passing constitutional amendments for an income tax and the direct election ...

ABSTRACT

Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and Ph.D. in theology who had led the civil rights movement in the South since 1955. He referred to the founding documents and principles of the United States that promised liberty and equality for all, and noted that the country had failed to fulfill these in practice, especially because blacks had suffered centuries of slavery and segregation. His main concern was to secure basic citizenship and voting rights for blacks, and his speaking style was far more like that of a preacher and prophet. A century after slavery was abolished, blacks still faced segregation, ...

The United States was the dominant military and economic power in the world from 1945-73, since World War II had left both its allies and opponents defeated and bankrupt. In this period, the American middle class was also growing at an unprecedented rate, and by the 1960s women, youth, blacks and other minorities were also demanding reforms and social changes, and sometimes even revolution. At the same time, though the Vietnam War was also a symptom of American decline, and in addition to derailing Lyndon Johnson’s Great society it also opened the door to the revival of conservatism and ...

Essay for Exam Chapter 18

With the curtains drawn on Napoleon’s conquests, the entire European continent had to be restructured to balance power and collectively suppress revolution in 1815 and so the Concert of Europe was set up to meet from time to time under the leadership of Austrian foreign minister Clemens von Metternich. Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia who emerged as victorious powers sent delegates to Vienna to organize this reconstitution forming the Congress of Vienna. Count Metternich allowed Prussia and the Kingdom of Netherlands to grow and a large number of small states were grouped to form the German Confederation. At the ...

The right to vote is the principal right an individual living in a democratic country is entitled to. In fact, voting is a fundamental right that every citizen must exercise, as a part of the larger duty of decision making for the government. There are one hundred and seventeen recognized electoral democracies. Of these twenty two have laws making it compulsory for citizens to exercise their voting rights impending which they may face punitive action (Frankal). Also out of these twenty two democratic countries, eleven countries implement these laws. Australia is one such democratic nation with compulsory voting for all citizens (Mackerras & ...

Slide 2: Introduction

- Homecomings offer people an opportunity to reconnect with the traditions and the developments of a place they once called home. - Educational institutions offer great homecoming events that are filled with nostalgic moments. Besides the reconnection with colleagues, the alumni also get to catch up with the latest developments and traditions of their former college. - Indiana University (IU) celebrates its Homecoming week every fall. The weeklong event features an exciting homecoming parade where alumni clad in the university’s iconic crimson color. - The event brings together close to 580,000 IU graduates in forums ...

Internet Assignment

I did not encounter any difficulties in logging into either site. I just typed the address and googled the sites. For the second website, I had to log in through Facebook. On both websites, there are visible attempts requesting people to donate or contribute to the party.

The purpose of the Democrats is to build an economy that lasts. The resultant economy should lift up all Americans. The Democrats are working to advance issues like job, creation, education, healthcare, and clean energy. The website provides links that direct visitors to information about the party, the people who form its ...

Introduction

Women's suffrage is the right given to women to exercise their voting rights and to stand in elective office. After slavery was abolished, women wanted to have other rights such as voting rights. In the 19th century, women were not allowed to vote since their main responsibilities were to look after children at home and do household work. There are many convention movements that were formed to campaign for voting rights of women. Those who were allowed to vote were women with property and educated. These movements also campaigned for equal civil rights of women. It was after a long ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Improvement in the Social Status of African Americans, Women, and Native Americans, Between 1865 and 1912 One of the tenets of the American Dream states that, in this country, regardless of race, color or creed, everyone has a fair chance to chase and accomplish their ambition. However, American dream in the past few centuries had excluded many factions of the society including, women, Mexican Americans, immigrants, African Americans and Native Americans. For many a period in American history, all these factions were treated inhumanely, discriminated and was denied their basic rights. With the end of the civil war, many crucial ...

The freedom of African- Americans came as a result of the abolition of slavery after the Civil War. Nearly all black persons were enslaved and endeavored to liberate themselves from the white masters. This essay examines the economic, political and social challenges that the freed African- Americans encountered and how they responded to overcome them. The most severe difficulty after freedom was in the economic sphere. Though the freed men were emancipated and could enjoy constitutional freedoms just like the white Americans, their economic power was badly distorted by slavery. They found themselves extremely poor. As slaves, the blacks ...

The Supreme Court is the highest federal court that is entitled to giving judicial Powers to the nation especially in the United States. It was established through the Judiciary Act of 1789 and formally received recognition in 1790. The Supreme Court receives recognition in Article III of the Constitution. This essential aspect of the judicial system ensures that various functions are fulfilled accordingly. These functions include: put in place proper procedures and rules for the federal courts and acting as the interpreter of the states and federal law. The Supreme Court comprises of a chief justice and other eight associate ...

The evolution of human society passed through various different stages, the first being the family heads enjoying privileged positions extending to tribe heads, being equivalent to the head of the state. Hence, the final stage rested with a politically organized society having a full-fledged government machinery and authority. A study of world history is a roof of the fact that states have arisen at different times in different countries. Hobson defines the concept of state as: “State is a community of people, occupying a definite territory, organized under a government, which is supreme over all persons and associations within its territory and independent of all ...

Introduction

Any form of social movement requires active involvement of the stakeholders. In addition, social movements have the characteristics of providing general solutions to common problems. These social movements are, therefore, crucial in our day to day life affairs. In the United States of America, the pioneer social movements faced out racism and its attendant segregation and oppression of the Black minority. The Populist Party and the Black Freedom Movement reshaped the political landscape of both North and South of America. In the long run, it is such that promoted social cohesion and coexistence in the plural society that defines ...

United States is a democratic country which, as Abraham Lincoln puts, has "government of the people, by the people, for the people". To simplify, in a democratic nation, it is the citizens who form and run the government and the government takes actions listening to the voice of the citizens. A citizen is defined as an official member of a country. In USA, anyone born in the country gets citizenship by birth. Immigrants also become citizens of USA through naturalization. But one doesn't become a true American and citizen of a country just by acquiring citizenship. In order to be a true citizen of one's ...

- The interest rate required by investors on a debt security can be expressed by the following equation: Interest rate = RRF + IP + DRP + LP + PRP + CRP. Define each term of the equation, and explain how it affects the interest rate. RPF stands for real risk-free rate. Real risk-free rate is the minimum percentage of return required by investors identified for the moment of calculating the interest rate. RPF identifies maximum value of the risk that could be accepted. In practice, risk-free rate is bound to a three-month US Treasury bills. There is directly proportional to the interest rate and the ...

Introduction

Martin Luther King gave his famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, before a crowd of 250,000 supporters and a television radio audience of hundreds of millions worldwide. It is widely considered one of his greatest speeches and indeed one of the greatest of any American in the 20th Century, with a brilliant use of Ethos, Logos and Pathos to support the Civil Rights bill being debated in Congress and to call for full and equal citizenship for all people in the United States. Today the speech is best remembered for the pathos of ...

Introduction

The Civil Right Movement refers to the revolutionary and reformatory movement in the US purported to remove racial discrimination against black Americans and instituting suffrage in the South. The Civil Right Movement is a defining chapter in the US history because it earned the black Americans the equal right of citizenship as whites. It also brought about a significant change in the social and economic structure of the US, contributing to the passing of Civil Right Bill in 1964 and the Voting Right a year after. This movement had witnessed the emergence of a great many leaders still worshipped for their fortitude and ...

Introduction

The civil rights movement provided a significant chapter to the history of democracy in the United States (US), in that it enabled the empowerment of African-Americans towards freedom from discrimination. While much activity related to the movement is attributable to the string of protests undergoing in the US between 1955 and 1968, it also influenced uprisings in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The prevalence of discrimination against African-Americans has prompted activists to fight for the eventual recognition of their entitlement to civil rights. Race is the primary focus of discrimination, with the ...

Introduction

The voter identification laws have brought controversy and suits in the courts of law. The policy is seen as discriminative by those opposing it, while its supporters see it as a way of preventing voting fraud and malpractices. This paper shall analyze the voter identification law and policy, with focus on California State, in determining its value in the society.

Federal Identification Requirements

Help America Vote Act (HAVA) 2002, created the requirement of a voter ID for first time voters who register by mail. The requirements must be met the first-time one vote’s in any state in a federal election - even regardless of ...

We are focused on the Liberal Party of the UK in this write-up. The direction of our lens will be on the challenges faced by the party during the years 1910 to 1914.

Background

The Liberal Party of the UK was created by the merger of the Old Whigs Party and the Radicals group. The new Liberal Party was very interested in crushing absolute monarchism where the parliament and constitution draws power from the Crown; it would rather want the reverse as the case (Greenleaf). This pitched it in the opposition for a very long time and was only able to ...

America's history, from the Constitution to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, is full of fascinating social, political and cultural changes, all of which were vital components to making this country what it is today. All this started with the forming of the American Constitution, which has its own storied history stemming from previous attempts to create a governmental document for the new nation. The Articles of Confederation, Prohibition, and lack of voting rights for women and minorities presented the most important hurdles for the country to overcome in its infancy. Before the drafting of the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation ...

The years 1945-60 really were an American High, to use the title of William O’Neill’s book, and the main reason for that was that every other great power in the world had been knocked so low by the Second World War. The Greatest Generation had indeed rendered a great service to their country and to those who had not yet been born: they had kept Adolf Hitler 3,000 miles away from the U.S. and helped destroy his regime forever, and there would have been no Affluent Society had this not occurred. No other nation on earth was ...

Introduction

Martin Luther King was a Ph.D. in theology who had led the civil rights movement in the South since 1955. He referred to the founding documents and principles of the United States that promised liberty and equality for all, and noted that the country had failed to fulfill these in practice, especially because blacks had suffered centuries of slavery and segregation. His main concern was to secure basic citizenship and voting rights for blacks, and his speaking style was far more like that of a preacher and prophet. A century after slavery was abolished, blacks still faced segregation, discrimination and lack ...

As the United States industrialized the role of the federal government expanded, especially in the New Deal Era of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s. At the same time, the U.S. became a global power for the first time, which led to a major expansion of the military, intelligence agencies and defense industries (the military-industrial complex, as Dwight Eisenhower called it in 1961), which was simply unprecedented in U.S. history. With programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the federal role in social welfare and regulation of the economy was far greater than it had ever been in ...

Chapter 16: Reconstruction

The period preceding the World War 1 between 1860 and 1877 saw America undergo major reconstruction. The country faced numerous challenges and controversies among them handling of freed slaves. There were also challenges about land and labor particularly in the south. The government was also challenged on how to engage former slaves, slave holders, Union military commanders and Federal government officials. There were also challenges on the expansion of federal and black rights, the southern resistance and the black codes (Roark et al 138).

The Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution in April 1866 gave universal citizenship to both native ...

Over the past twenty-five years, African Americans have made significant progress in the civil rights. Several laws to abolish the slavery of African Americans, to enforce housing law, Equality law and voting rights have been established and the African Americans have benefitted from these. The onset of 1960s has witnessed the enforcement of these laws though they have been established long back. African Americans have come a long way from 1800s when they were treated unequally. Due to these laws, the living and social standard of African Americans have also increased and there are several families which are educated and ...

Financial Contracting

Introduction

According to Hart, (2001), financial contracting refers to the theory where there is a compromise between the investor and the entrepreneur in matters relating to running the business. An entrepreneur can obtain capital from various sources that are: personal savings, angel, venture, private, banks, and credit unions. In this paper, the source of capital is venture capital financing which is whereby an investor provides capital to a start up entrepreneur that has no operating history. However, Ellingsen & Kristiansen, (2010), proved that financial contracts might prove disadvantageous to one party hence the need to select a specific type of financial contract that ...

The forming of the American Constitution lasted much longer than the initial signing; it is a living document that continues to change with each new amendment. That being said, there were many problems present in American Constitutional history – foibles and mistakes that needed or still need to be corrected. The Articles of Confederation, Prohibition, and lack of voting rights for women and minorities presented the most important hurdles for the country to overcome in its infancy.

Before the drafting of the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation were the official governing documents for the United States. However, they were fraught with ...

Imperial diet is the first modern legislature to be established in 1890; it was established under Meiji Constitution of 1889; this was Japan’s first constitution. The Meiji Constitution was based on the assumption that the Emperor of Japan possessed all the powers and sovereignty of Japan’s government. The Imperial diet was comprised of the House of Representatives and the House of Peers; the two houses were responsible for aiding the emperor in exercising his legislative authority. Only the members of the House of Representatives were elected directly by the public, while the voting rights were assigned to a ...

In light of the Trayvon Martin Controversy, it seems again obvious to all that police enforce the law differently across the United States. Trayvon Martin’s only crime was being the wrong color, in the wrong place, at the wrong place. Unfortunately, in America that crime all too frequently carries vigilante justice, carried out by the very people who are supposed to prevent it. We see this as case after case first comes into media focus then fades as another takes its place. It now is a deeply embedded assumption that the circumstances, race and gender must be considered ...