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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...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

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...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

Reflections on the First Amendment

burned an American flag, so although he did not literally speak, his act is still a form of protest. The facts are these: during t...

The Role of the U.S. Constitution in Business Regulation

attempted to do via court action (Lester, 2008). Before it opened the club, Barnett "filed a civil rights lawsuit in U.S. Distri...

Case Study; Freedom of Speech and Satire Criticizing a Company

attentions to flaws, such as unfairness, stupidity and existing vices. The first amendment has been found to protect the use of sa...

The Fourteenth Amendment

the objections of the womens movement, the amendment passed with the inclusion of the offensive and unjust focus on male voters. ...

The Right to Symbolic Speech

our right to freedom of symbolic expression have been based on the actions of students. It might be posited that as a group stude...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

An Argument Against the Balanced Budget Amendment

This eight page paper argues against the Balanced Budget Amendment. The writer presents facts and statistics to support their ar...

Rights and Language

In five pages this paper discusses the 'language of rights' within the context of 'Practical Philosophy and the Bill of Rights: P...

Precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech

In five pages this paper examines how the 14th Amendment's free speech provisions affects symbolic acts in case considerations of ...

1992 Case of Luke Records v. Navarro, 960 F.2d 130 Legal Brief

In two pages this paper presents a background of the case involving the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech as it relates to the roc...

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Involving Freedom of Religion

In eight pages this paper examines the 1st Amendment's free exercise clause as it has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court i...

Gun Control Debate, An Overview

This research paper offers background information pertaining to the gun control debate and then reviews 5 articles that pertain to...

Legalizing Marijuana Compared to the Prohibition

Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

4th Amendment of the US Constitution and the Exclusionary Rule

when Fourth Amendment concepts have been violated, the Supreme Court often applies what is called the exclusionary rule (McWhirter...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Due Process Clause and Punitive Damages

be considered a violation of the due process clause? The doctrine of Substantive Due Process contends that the actual clause does ...

The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act

Then there was reform. The Poor Law Amendment Act which was passed in 1834 is "a classic example of Benthamite reforming legisl...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...

The Talking Cat Strikes Back

they violate the First Amendment (1961). However, if the ordinance is issued for some other legitimate reason, such as crowd contr...

Amendment to the Constitution to Ban Tobacco

Convention that is called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures (Mount, 2010). The second method has never been used, but, i...

CREDIT DERIVATIVES AND DISCLOSURES

could measure all financial assets and liabilities on a company balance sheet at fair value, with hedging fitting into an overall ...

Due Process and the Definition and Delineation of Individual Rights

Due process has had a definitive impact on the delineation and definition of the rights of American citizens. Interestingly, howe...

The 19th Amendment

women finally truly focused on their own needs and fought for the right to vote. As one author notes, "The 19th amendment...

Stifling Talk Radio/First Amendment Issues

the Bill of Rights. The rights ensured in these amendments were considered by the Founding Fathers and the original States to be f...