Download or read book Learn about the United States written by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.
Download or read book Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement written by Hasan Kwame Jeffries and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Know Your Rights written by American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bilingual Voting Assistance written by and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on obtaining more detailed information about bilingual voting assistance from selected jurisdictions across the country. The book's objectives were to determine: the ways that selected jurisdictions covered under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act have provided bilingual voting assistance as of the November 2006 general election and any subsequent elections through June 2007, and the challenges they reportedly faced in providing such assistance; the perceived usefulness of this bilingual voting assistance, and the extent to which the selected jurisdictions evaluated the usefulness of such assistance to language minority voters. This is an excerpted and indexed edition.
Download or read book Understanding Your Civil Rights written by David Seidman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses civil rights in the United States and the historical struggle to obtain such rights, including the notable civil rights movments of African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, gay and lesbian Americans, and women.
Download or read book Understanding Human Rights written by Elisabeth Reichert and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Human Rights: An Exercise Book provides a concise, hands-on roadmap for learning about human rights within a social work context. By illustrating the importance of human rights to the social work profession with understandable explanations and exercises, author Elisabeth Reichert highlights why social workers need to embrace the concept of human rights.
Download or read book Know Your Rights written by U.s. Attorney's Office and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 200 years, the Constitution of the United States has been a “working” document, maintaining the original principles upon which our nation was founded while, at the same time, changing with the country, as reflected in its amendments. While the U.S. Constitution itself outlines the basic structure of the federal government, its twenty-seven amendments address many subjects but primarily focus on the rights of individual American citizens. This booklet outlines those rights, offering historical context and other information that is both interesting and informative.The continued vitality of our democracy is dependent upon an informed citizenry. Understanding the history of the Constitution and its amendments will assist all of us in more fully appreciating these rights and responsibilities as they have evolved over time. Moreover, such understanding will ensure that these rights will continue to be exercised, valued, and cherished by future generations.
Download or read book Understanding Your Right to Free Speech written by Sally Ganchy and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the right to free speech in the United States as outlined in the Bill of Rights, describes the history of the first amendment to the Constitution, and discusses the controversies of free speech throughout American history.
Download or read book Students Know Your Rights written by American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pagans and the Law written by Dana D. Eilers and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Age, Pagans & law
Download or read book Deadly Force Understanding Your Right to Self Defense written by Massad Ayoob and published by Gun Digest. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massad Ayoob draws from an additional three decades of experience to educate responsible firearms owners about the legal, ethical, and practical use of firearms in self defense-the armed citizens' rules of engagement. Deadly Force discusses: Understand the legal and ethical issues surrounding use of lethal force by private citizens Learn about the social and psychological issues surrounding use of lethal force in defense of self or others Preparation and mitigation--steps the responsible armed citizen can/should take "After forty years as a practicing criminal defense attorney, I know that what Mas says, teaches, and writes is the best, state-of-the-art knowledge you can get." ~Jeff Weiner, Former President, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Download or read book Understand Your Rights Because You re About to Lose Them written by Revolutionary War and Beyond and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time when millions of Americans are not aware of their history. Many people do not have even a basic understanding of the ideas of the Founding Fathers - the principles they believed in, fought for and even died for. Understand Your Rights Because You're About to Lose Them! shows how the most fundamental individual rights our Founders fought and bled for are now at risk. You will learn: *Why the Founding Fathers wanted to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new Constitution. *Why some Founders wouldn't accept the Constitution without the addition of a Bill of Rights. *The history and purpose of each Amendment to the US Constitution in the Bill of Rights. *The rights each amendment protects and why those rights are just as important today as they were to the Founders. *How our most basic rights are being threatened today and, even more importantly... *What to do about it. In addition, you will receive America's most important founding documents, including: *The Articles of Confederation *The Declaration of Independence *The US Constitution *and more! Understand Your Rights Because You're About to Lose Them! instills a solid understanding of our basic rights as Americans. After reading this book, you will be sure to recognize government overreach when you see it by politicians. The days of Americans being ignorant of the Constitution and their individual rights must come to an end. By reading Understand Your Rights, you will be well equipped to help reverse the decay in modern American life. The America we have always known is disappearing before our eyes, but if we will educate ourselves about the principles in this book and put them to practice, we will see a turnaround in this nation and our BEST days will be ahead of us!
Download or read book Understanding Mass Incarceration written by James Kilgore and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant overview of America’s defining human rights crisis and a “much-needed introduction to the racial, political, and economic dimensions of mass incarceration” (Michelle Alexander) Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world’s largest jailer: the United States. Drawing on a growing body of academic and professional work, Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice—from rehabilitation to retribution, from restorative justice to justice reinvestment. In a lively and accessible style, author James Kilgore illuminates the difference between prisons and jails, probation and parole, laying out key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken windows policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, recidivism, and prison privatization. Informed by the crucial lenses of race and gender, he addresses issues typically omitted from the discussion: the rapidly increasing incarceration of women, Latinos, and transgender people; the growing imprisonment of immigrants; and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on communities. Both field guide and primer, Understanding Mass Incarceration is an essential resource for those engaged in criminal justice activism as well as those new to the subject.
Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Download or read book Know Your Rights written by American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America written by Richard Rothstein and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
