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This 9-page paper examines the Patriot Act, which was passed just weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The paper researches the hypothesis that 9/11 triggered passage of the Act by Congess, and discusses if the Act would have passed without the event taking place. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
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with the fourth crashing in a Pennsylvania field), the United States was, in a word, shell-shocked. Although terror was something that happened far away, in distant lands, never before in
history had terrorism in such mass proportion occurred on U.S. soil. There had been two terrorist events during the 1990s - the initial bombing of the World Trade Center in
1993 and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. In the first event, ties were made to Muslim terrorists, while in the second attack, "lone
wolf" terrorist Timothy McVeigh confessed to the crime and ultimately was given the death penalty. But 9/11 represented wholesale destruction and forever
shot any notion that people were safe from terrorism in the United States. Within weeks of the attack, therefore, the Congress passed a sweeping piece of legislation, The Patriot Act,
to try to give the government and justice system more power when it came to rooting out and finding terrorists, thereby preventing another 9/11 from occurring.
Entitled the "United and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001," the act, at the time, was
geared to protect the homeland, something that Americans were desperately searching for at the time. But is it safe to assume that
the Patriot Act I (and the Patriot Act II which, in many forms, is making its way through the legislative process) a direct outgrowth of 9/11? If the terrorist attacks
had not occurred, would this act ever have existed? In this paper, well investigate the Patriot Acts as an outgrowth of a
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