Other laws protect journalists from revealing confidential sources, but not other information. While some state legislatures have adopted protections into state law, others such as New Hampshire and West Virginia rely on state court precedents. This inconsistency is the foremost reason why journalists desire a federal shield law. Judith Miller, a former investigative reporter for The New York Times, feels as though a federal shield law is needed because “individual journalists and individual news organizations shouldn't have to be in the situation of deciding like this, on a case-by-case basis, whether or not we're going to go to jail or violate our commitment”(Miller). Miller went to jail for 85 days after refusing to reveal her source in the Valerie Plame investigation, and as a result many can see that she is not basing her notions on hypothetical situations but through proof of testament.
Doublethink in the book is different from doublethink today because the government is not forcibly putting examples of it everywhere in an effort to brainwash the population. (Raskin and Kolet). In the novel, Newspeak was the official language of Oceania. It was constantly being thinned out as to limit the range of thought among citizens in order to eventually make thought crime impossible. In today’s world, this is similar to the abbreviations used when texting.
Why or why not? Political Correctness is silencing what the people really think but ultimately it’s really keeping the city from stirring up trouble. It marks the end of free expression and the flow of information and ideas that are the basis for the informed debate that is essential to democracy. 5. How do you imagine the authors of the declaration (p.625) and the bill of rights (p.628) would feel about political correctness?
Travis Garrett November 11, 2009 Being an American The civic value that I think that is the most important is our freedom of speech. The United States Constitution includes our freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights as part of the first amendment. Although there is freedom of speech there are some exceptions such as the regulation of commercial speech such as advertising. And things such as property rights for authors and inventors. Hate speech is not protected by freedom of speech.
Patent systems prevent copyright on products e.g. the HIV drug is copyrighted and remains at a too high price for people in need to access it but costs little to make. At the end of 2000, there were 36.1 million people living with HIV/AIDs in the world. More than 95% of them lived in the developing world and it is estimated 800 people die from it each day. Most political decisions are made on a national or global scale and can prevent the access of some technology to particular places.
US government should be trying to regulate businesses With the current global economic situation in turmoil, I truly believe that the regulation of businesses by the United States (US) government is justifiable and they should not let the market handle the matter. I say this only because the market players, i.e. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan as well as other financial banks are the only one who truly benefit from these crisis. Most free market societies always have protracted economic downturns or even slower than expected recovery’s when they allow the market to correct itself without the intervention by government. It can be the fastest way to economic collapse or a deterioration of any recovery.
This showed the UK constitution to be very beneficial, and furthermore the Queen and the Royal Prerogative did not have to be consulted, which would have been different in a codified system and made the process much slower than in an uncodified constitution. Some may disagree with what seems to be one of the reasons why the uncodified constitution is advantageous and turn it on its head and say that the easiness of changing the constitution creates instability and unlawful action. An example of this was the use of rubber bullets and water cannons on the rioters in London. If the London riots occurred under an entrenched constitution there would have been no chance of the police being allowed to act in such a way legally, but under an
Policy needs to address the need the economy has for the undocumented workers in the U.S. and find a way to authorize their presence. Deporting all of them is not a realistic solution, as it would cost too much. As long as they are contributing to the economy and not involved in criminal enterprises, there should be a more realistic approach to obtaining legal
* Honig v. Doe (1988) – This case basically prevents a disabled student from being expelled for more than ten days or without parental or other legal means if the incident is part of the disability. Legislation That Leveled the Playing Field Not all of the advances for disability rights came from lawsuits. The government has been proactive in the equalization of societal and educational goals for disabled people. I found the data gathered (Hardman 2011, et al) coving the major laws passed: * Public Law 93-112, Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 (1973) – This law basically prevents a person that is disabled form being discriminated by any one that receive federal
Why for instance, should it be said, that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?” I think it speaks for itself. Why you’ll always say things should be but yet doesn’t give opportunity to be. Anti-Federalist wanted the states to have most of the powers, and have one government. If that was the case we wouldn’t have a really stable