It would seem, therefore, that the professionalism of a majority of the police officers in society is not in any doubt, but whether becoming a police officer is a profession or not would largely depend on the definition of the word and the attitudes of the people employing such debate. Question There are a number of methods to determining what would be an appropriate number of police officers assigned to any geographic

The Effects of Early Christian Attitudes and Beliefs -- Positive and Negative -- On the Development and Emergence of Islam in AmericaCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. � Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1789As the epigraph above makes clear, America�s Founding Fathers embraced religious tolerance to the point they codified it into law. Today, despite political and ideological differences

Public School Prayer: Is it Constitutional and Moral? Proponents of allowing public school prayer cite both legal and moral reasons to allow prayer in public schools. On a legal basis they state that banning prayer in public schools is a violation of our First Amendment right of Free Exercise. From a moral standpoint they cite the so-called degeneration of the public school system and the so-called declining quality of public education

The setting up the king's supremacy instead of the usurpations of the papacy, and the rooting out the monastic state in England, considering the wealth, the numbers, and the zeal of the monks and friars in all the parts of the kingdom, as it was a very bold undertaking, so it was executed with great method, and performed in so short a time, and with so few of the

God was not part of the original pledge written in 1892 and adopted by Congress 50 years later as a wartime patriotic tribute. Congress inserted the "under God" phrase in 1954, amid the Cold War when some U.S. religious leaders sermonized against "godless communists." (Gearan) Works Cited All Things Considered. "Interview: Dr. John W. Baer discusses the history of the Pledge of Allegiance" All Things Considered (NPR reprint) 6/27 (2002). Baker, Tod

Sandra O'Connor Sandra Day was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas to Harry and Ada Mae, owners of the Lazy-B-Cattle ranch in Southeastern Arizona, where Sandra grew up (United States Supreme Court 2003) as an only child until she was eight. In those early years, her family lived in isolation and with strained resources. The ranch did not have electricity and running water until she was seven years