Topics for Opinion Paper

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• flag burning
• militia groups
• racist comments
• cults
• school prayer
• demonstrations/protests
• papparazi
• limits on the press
• cameras in courtrooms
• militia groups
• importing weapons
• concealed vs. open weapons
• process of optaining weapons
• hunting weapons v. other weapons
• drug testing
• searching school lockers
• stopped for one offense, but evidence for another is found
• Miranda law
• Should politicians be able to "plead the fifth?
• double jeopardy
• rape/assault victims confronting attackers
• impartiality of jury of peers
• sequestering of jurors vs. freedom of press
• morality of death penalty
• innocence proven after being put to death
• cost of putting someone to death vs. cost of life imprisonment
• abortion - mother's rights vs. child's rights
• euthanasia/Right to Die movement
• living wills/physician assisted suicide