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The Seventeenth Amendment and Insuring the Peaceful Transition of Presidents

1. Prior to the 17th Amendment positions in the US Senate were elected by state legislature. The thought at...

Expectation of Property and the Fourteenth Amendment

wrongful, and was purely a reaction to unpopular statements made by the complainants against the faculties of their respective uni...

Vietnam War, The New York Times v. United States, and Striking a Balance Between National Security and the First Amendment

defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...

Educators and Copyrights

or translating copyrighted materials for visually handicapped persons (NLS, 2010). Prior to this amendment, authors and publishers...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

Constitutional Amendments Affect on African Americans

No constitution is perfect, but the beauty of it is that it is always changing as the countrys needs change. Instead of scrapping ...

The Fourth Amendment and Airport Searches

Abstract This paper examines some of the impacts the Patriot Act has had on our rights as US citizens....

The 4th Amendment

this clause it is stated that if an unreasonable search was conducted nothing found in the search can be used in a court of law fo...

The 4th Amendment

The new nation did not wish to allow the government the right to search an individuals property, or seize anything they wanted, be...

The American With Disabilities Act Amendment

The intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the provision of social and economic justice for people with disabilities (St...

Burning the Flag - A Constitutional Right

rants in which nothing is resolved and people become progressively angrier. In order to address the issue, taking a strictly legal...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

An Examination of The Fourth Amendment

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...

Amend the Constitution to Ban Gay Marriage

It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...

October 2001 Patriot Act Passage

provision. The objections that required this were due to the impact that the powers would have in terms of freedom and libraries. ...

Constitutional Amendments and Their Significance

Many people will find personal significance in terms of the fourth amendment. One does not have to be a criminal to receive this p...

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...

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...

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...

Fair Use Doctrine and the Rodney King Videotape

of communications between Holliday, KTLA and the national networks, the outcome was that two days later the images had been transm...

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...

2003 New York Smoking Ban and its Constitutionality

there are a lot of other things that people do not like such as talking loud on cell phones or wearing an extraordinary amount of ...

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...