Part one of term paper
With the recent decision by the Hawaii courts regarding the legalization of marriage between same-sex couples, a political debate across the United States has begun. Many people believe that this is a monstrous step to legalizing same-sex unions country wide, especially since legal tradition recognizes marriages performed in other states as ...

Part two of term paper
... and man or a woman and woman as a man and wife. What is marriage anyway? Isn't it the union of two people who love each other to prove their commitments to one another for the future? Yes, but there is more. Webster's Dictionary defines marriage as: "a) the state of being joined together as husband and wife, b) the state of joining a man to a woman as her husband or a woman to a man as his wife." Legally, however, marriage is more than just a statement of love. Marriage comes with economic ...