Law of the United States

New York City is the largest city in the United States, with its metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world. Located on the country's east coast in New York State, it was founded as a commercial trading post by the Dutch in 1625, and has been the largest city in the United States since 1790. It also served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. Located on one of the world's natural harbors, New York is one of the world's major centers of commerce and finance

US Education: The hot potato. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "What are the objects of an useful American education? Classical knowledge, modern languages and chiefly French, Spanish, and Italian; Mathematics, Natural philosophy, Natural history, Civil history, and Ethics. In Natural philosophy, I mean to include Chemistry and Agriculture, and in Natural history, to include Botany, as well as the other branches of those departments." Thomas Jefferson had faith in a strong and rich education for

 Business in United-States plays a very important role in the nation, plays the key economic, social and cultural role. The United-States are conceded as the most powerful and richest nation in the world thanks to infancy of its business. The story of capitalism in the United-States began in the second part of the 19th century mostly after the Civil War (guerre de Sécession) in 1865. From 1855 to the end of the Civil War, the United-States experienced an incredible economic development which symbolizes

and implemented in the United States and the European Union? STUDY GROUP PROJECT – COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS Abstract This paper deals with a presentation of the fiscal policy in United States and in the European Union. This is a research proposal paper of the main differences between these policies. In economics, fiscal policy is the use of government expenditure and revenue collection to influence the economy. Fiscal policy can be contrasted with the other main type of economic policy, monetary

INTRO The America is the country where we can reach most easily weapons. We list more than 200 million weapons in this country. Weapons are profoundly anchored in their culture Weapons belong to the American culture since the period of the pionners. In the United States, the access to weapons is free for all the citizens on the condition of having an ID card. The Americans buy weapons as if they bought common(current) products. There is for example a bank which offers a weapon as

THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE WTO: HOW FAR CAN WE GO? By Joost Pauwelyn* How does the World Trade Organization (WTO) relate to the wider corpus of public international law? What, in turn, is the role of public international law in WTO dispute settlement? This paper aims at resolving these two difficult questions. No straightforward answers to them can be found in WTO rules.1 Yet answering them has major ramifications both for the WTO (is the WTO a largely “self-contained regime” or

November the 2nd of 2010, during the same day as the mid-term election in Congress, the Californian voters had the opportunity to vote to a referendum about the proposition 19 also known as the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act. We want also explain you what happened before this date about cannabis in the USA and what was this proposition about. History of the question of cannabis in american laws History of the prohibition of cannabis at the federal level The prohibition of cannabis

Biography of Barack Obama His child hood Barack Obama was born to a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six.. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his

Teachers packing heat at school The article that I chose is entitled “Teachers packing heat at school”. It has been published on August, 26, 2008. This article is talking about weapons and guns at school. This year, in Harrold (Texas), a new law authorizes teachers to carry guns to school. In fact, this is the first time in the United States that guns are allowed in classrooms. This situation creates tensions. One part of the parents feels shock about it and is scary, whereas another one feels

abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus/embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced, in humans and other species. In the context of human pregnancies, an abortion induced to preserve the health of the gravida (pregnant female) is termed a therapeutic abortion, while an abortion induced for any other reason is termed an elective abortion. The term abortion