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Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution

the right to counsel under Miranda, where there is a necessity to be clear and unequivocal, an invocation of the Sixth Amendment r...

Constitutional Protections Case Study

one where fear is in the air. Certainly, giving up a few rights is necessary. Of course, not everyone thinks so, and further, alth...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

Timothy McVeigh's Execution and Its Social and Legal Repercussions

suffering, and death upon fellow Americans. Evidence quickly developed to incriminate at least two individuals associated with th...

Overview of the 8th Amendment

their offense against society" (Hamden 15), which leaves a fine line between Eighth Amendment violation and standard procedure. ...

Analysis of 3 Legal Issues

adverse to removing them from the law abiding citizen, who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of ...

U.S. Prohibition Movement from 1920 to 1933

per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furtherm...

Adult Entertainment Television Station and Advice from Legal Counsel

be censored and deleted as it could be argued in court that such depictions had a significant influence that prompted the commissi...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

Civil War and Reconstruction Effects

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

1920s' Prohibition and Its Impact Upon U.S. Crime, Religion, and Economics

reality throughout the United States and many wished to end these corrupt practices seen in many a saloon across the country. T...

Issues of First Amendment Law

In the first of these cases, Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr, a trash hauler in Kansas had his contract terminated because...

4th Amendment and Thermal Imaging Technology Search Reasonableness

lack of narrow definition. It was not until 1967 in Katz v. United States (389 U.S. 347 (1967)) that the Supreme Court arrived at...

U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, and Slavery

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

Constitutionality and Capital Punishment

During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...

Changes to the Bank Secrecy Act

altered since the terrorist attacks. The BSA has many provision, mostly related to money laundering. To sum up the gist of the act...

Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

were needed, and with that, the Second Amendment guaranteed the right of individuals to bear arms in service of that militia, so t...

Education, the Separation of Church and State and the 2002 US Supreme Court Case of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

The controversy over this program surrounded the fact that in the 1999 to 2000 school year some 82% of the private...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

A Sample Appellate Brief Case Study

In six pages this paper presents an appellate brief sample that is based upon a student supplied New York case study of search and...

US Constitution's 14th Amendment

not be questioned; and 5) Congress is equipped with the authority to enforce aforementioned provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment...

History of the Wright Amendment

any of these deals simply because they didnt fly at the time the deals were made (Irving, 2003). After fighting many legal battle...

The Fourth Amendment and Airport Security

at the store. A reasonable belief that something is awry can requisite a search. Also, in some cases, searches are allowed on a ro...

Post 911 Considerations of Search and Seizure and the 4th Amendment

In the past our governments right to search our homes or our bodies was limited primarily to situations in which there was a warra...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

Illinois v. Robert S. Lidster and Search and Seizure

At issue in this decision is the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Under most interpretations our governments right to search our home...

Second Amendment Rights to Gun Ownership

Since the mid twentieth century our understanding of what our Second Amendment rights to gun ownership have been seriously challen...

Does the Fifth Amendment Protect Documents

There are three issues discussed in this essay. The first explains a scenario of a fraud examiner interviewing a person and all th...

Is There a Wall of Separation Between Church and State

This paper considers this important question. Does the wording in the First Amendment indicate a true wall exists? There are fiv...

Civilian Recording and Constitutionality

This research paper investigates literature that pertains to the constitutionality and the violation of First Amendment rights tha...