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Essays 601 - 630

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

Supreme Court Questions

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

Powers of the President and Special Prosecutors

In four pages this research paper considers a hypothetical decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in an examination of a presidential ...

Punitive Damages and Their Constitutionality

In ten pages this paper discusses the awarding of punitive damages and the judicial review process of the U.S. Supreme Court. Eig...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

Pros and Cons of Prayer in School

In ten pages this research paper assesses the historical pros and cons associated with school prayer in American public schools be...

Decision Making, Politics, and Public Policy

In seven pages this paper examines the roles of the Supreme Court, the president, and the significance of public interest groups i...

Paradoxes of Legal Science by Benjamin N. Cardozo

The text written by a prominent Supreme Court Justice is discussed in a paper that consists of nine pages. There are no sources l...

Campaign Finance Issues and the US Supreme Court

a negative concept, the idea of proposing limits based upon monetary consumption is a direct violation of the democratic system up...

Bill of Rights as Treated by the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses how the Bill of Rights are treated by a supposedly liberal U.S. Supreme Court. Five sources ar...

US Supreme Court and Women

are clearly in the minority. There seems to be less women taking judgeships in the high courts, even though there are increasing...

Canada's Abortion Laws

This is a paper consisting of ten pages and discusses the topic of abortion as it relates to Canadian law and includes the 'Bubble...

AGING, STEROTYPES AND SEXUALITY

(When Alzheimers Patients Fall in Love, 2007). In a USA Today article that further explored the John OConnor love affair,...

Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

Two Legal Questions

from terrorism, no rights should be accorded to suspects captured in the war on terror. Terrorism is not an activity endorsed by ...

The Implications and Impact of Eminent Domain

is expected to result in a greater benefit to the community as a whole, is not a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitut...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...

Judicial Activism and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

has identified himself "with a jurisprudence of original intent" and adds that he shares the same opinion with Rehnquist that "onl...

U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

In five pages this paper discusses how the 14th Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court. Five sources are cited in th...

Reforming the British House of Lords

level of representation within the House have persisted as matters for debate and legislation for so long, it is helpful to consid...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

Active Political Actor of the Canadian Supreme Court

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

The Supreme Court, Its Importance and Powers

is often called the "court of last resort," since it is the highest court in the nation. This paper considers how the court is str...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Quebec and Secession from Canada

if in fact a majority of Quebec residents wanted to secede, the prime minister and premiers were obligated to negotiate Quebecs in...