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Journalism: First Amendment And Freedom Of Speech

was able to see harmful speech as a bridge between issue and resolution by applying the hateful commentary as a social awaken, cla...

The First Amendment and Art

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

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

The Nazi March in Skokie and the First Amendment

The writer considers the case of the Nazi Party and its plan to march in Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb heavily populated with...

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...

First Amendment Issues in the Film, The People vs. Larry Flint

This paper examines First Amendment issues seen in the film, the People vs. Larry Flint, which is based on actual events and case ...

Free Speech Issues Delegated by the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts

This paper examines First Amendment cases seen by The Supreme Court under different Chief Justices. This five page paper has one ...

U.S. Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment

In six pages this paper examines the amendment that abolished slavery in a background and case history. Five sources are cited in...

FERPA of 1974

educational records (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2001). Once the student reaches the age of 18, the rights under this Act tra...

Protocol of Public Schools and the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

The case is clearly poignant in a sea of cases concerning individual rights and freedoms. It is certainly apropos in todays climat...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Constitutional Law and the Illegal Acquisition of Evidence

are carried out because of precedent. Because laws are instruments which do not always map directly to the varying nuances of real...

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...

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

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...

The Increase in the Minimum Debt for Personal Bankruptcy in Australia

bankruptcy may be made. This may be seen as a change that has helped to bring the law up to date which may be seen by looking at t...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Past History of NEA

different media contributed to the "culture wars", photography--perhaps because of its relationship to reality--played a pivotal r...

Freedom of the Press and Its Appropriateness

In four pages this report examines whether or not the First Amendment goes too far in determining what is appropriate regarding th...

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...

NGRI Defense Plea

be considered. Expert witness testimony is necessary and, in fact of law, certain individuals always pose a danger to society or t...

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 Patriot Act Violates the Fourth Amendment

laws and by increasing terms of punishment" (p.134). The legal response had been driven by the public fear about attacks in the fu...

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 ...

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 ...

Examining the Bill of Rights

example provided is that one cannot yell fire in a crowded theater. Public safety cannot be compromised. Also, another point of th...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

'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...