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An Overview of the Sixth Amendment

is the right that some reporters claim allows for cameras in the courtroom. Certainly, even if cameras are not allowed by the judg...

A History of Women's Suffrage

he should remember the ladies (Adams, 2003). Of course, the term "ladies" would be discarded down the road as being derogatory. To...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

Should Washington D.C. Become a State?

feel that they have enough representation as they live in districts with specific representatives who are numerous and carry elect...

In Custody Search and Seizure Searches

is most typically the police who conduct search and seizure but it is the courts which decide exactly in which contexts search and...

Allowance Trading Program and Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide

in the Midwest as that is where most of these plants are located. As a consequence of the continued emission problems EPA require...

Procedure and Criminal Law V

was properly arrested or whether he was offered counsel. He could not be made to incriminate himself, and it is likely that an at...

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...

US Constitution's Fourth Amendment and Search and Seizure That is Unreasonable

a deep desire to be secure in their own homes. Interestingly, the question arises "whether the Fourth Amendments two clauses must...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

Constitutional Issues Q and A

systems as well as other venues. Schools are notoriously at odds. What occurs sometimes is that religious groups object to scienti...

The History of the 16th, 17th & 18th Amendments

party "bosses," as well as state political "machines," and, in the process, eradicate the undue influence of special interest grou...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Wording of the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution

to practice his or her religion but also notes that the state will never have an official religion. This has been the subject of m...

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...

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...

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 ...

Overview of the 8th Amendment

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

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...

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...

Overview of the Budget Deficit

In three pages the budget deficit is examined in terms of its past and future economic effects and impact with the Balanced Budget...