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A Historical Analysis Of Written Obscenity And The First Amendment Freedom Of Speech, Jaime Willis
A Historical Analysis Of Written Obscenity And The First Amendment Freedom Of Speech, Jaime Willis
Honors Theses
The unalienable rights delineated in the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution, our Bill of Rights, has sparked many noteworthy legal, political and moral debates in the short history of America. The freedom of speech noted in the First Amendment is no exception.
Registration Laws And Their Impact On Voter Retention, Tom Lenard
Registration Laws And Their Impact On Voter Retention, Tom Lenard
Honors Theses
The literature on voting participation suggests a number of factors that should affect voter turnout differences including the legal incentives or hindrances acting directly on individual citizens. In this study I examine registration laws and how they may play a role in the stability over voter turnout between presidential and midterm elections. Specifically, this research concentrates on classifying each individual state into groups with easier and those with more strict registration requirements. With this done, I compared the voter turnout for the 1990-1996 elections between the two groups. Also, I looked at the drop-off rates in percentage of turnout for …