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Essays 211 - 240

The Right to Privacy: A Constitutional Provision?

presented above. Obviously, the most important source that must be used in discussing our so-called Constitutional Rights is the ...

Habermas on Nations, States and a European Constitution

the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...

The Constitution and Its Relation to Military Officers

July; all the delegates considered it in August, 1787 (Wright and MacGregor, 1987). Unfortunately, the delegates never reached a d...

Role Of Congress In National Security

any other official militia of the country.4 The Constitution divides the powers regarding war between the President and the Co...

The Eleventh Amendment

the Revolution" (Orth, 1987, p. 7). The case that started the furor, as mentioned, was Chisholm v. Georgia, which was heard by th...

Originalism and Non-Originalism

be" this "promotes serious public debate about government and its limitations" (Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, 2008). ...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

U.S. Constitution and Benjamin Franklin

years before, a clause in a bill brought into Parliament by the ministry had proposd to make the kings instructions laws in the co...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

Declaration of Independence/Constitution & Law

are ruled directly the people. In a republic, the government is run by the peoples elected representatives. Samuel Adams, a signer...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

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...

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...

Better to Live in the US than Mexico

Constitution. There are also financial advantages to living in the US. In American culture, owning your own home or business is ...

The Vagueness of the United States Constitution

existing. One can well argue that the founding fathers were incredibly wise, or that they were very lucky, when they put the Const...

The First Amendment

Klan can exist in the same nation and put out their own particular beliefs. People can agree or not agree with the government and ...

Constitutional Guarantees

the majority rule. Other nations which are considered incredibly different, and which further illustrate the complexity of constit...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

Legalizing Abortion

are not right to lifers, the idea that someone is not born would immediately prompt the idea that the individual is not a person. ...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Gun Ownership and the Rights of the People

Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what theyre increasingly demanding is rational cont...

U.S. Articles of Confederation

trade, and it provided for a comparatively weak executive" (About The Articles of Confederation, 2003). As a result of these re...

Is There Too Little or Too Much Presidential Power?

first settlers made agreements to respect each others rights and not establish mandatory arbitrary regulations which would deprive...

Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution

the right to counsel under Miranda, where there is a necessity to be clear and unequivocal, an invocation of the Sixth Amendment r...

Twenty First Century and Appropriateness of Australia's Constitution

to address the current realities of the American people. As visionary as the men who created the American constitution were, they ...

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 ...

Rethinking Construction by Sir John Egan

This report looked at the construction industry as a whole, and the ways in which it needed to improve. In making his recommendati...

Communities and the Negative Effects of the Adult Entertainment Industry

"these amendments affirm the Citys determination to protect neighborhoods from the adverse impacts of adult entertainment business...

Draft European Constitution and the United Kingdom's National Press Coverage

assess the coverage and whether or not it is favourable they will be coded. The coding will have three options, where the constitu...