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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...

Analysis of 3 Legal Issues

adverse to removing them from the law abiding citizen, who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of ...

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. ...

Obscenity and the US Constitution's 1s Amendment

what is or is not obscene (Regulation of Obscenity and Nudity, 2002). Different commissions have arrived at different answers how...

Justice and Ethics II

it is likely that he is carrying a significant amount. If he reaches his destination in no worse physical condition than that whi...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Consideration of the 14th Amendment

In 5 pages this paper discusses the purpose and subsequent Supreme Court decisions that affected this Amendment. There are 5 bibl...

The 4th Amendment and Aviation Law

find drugs. In looking at fourth amendment rights as it involves air travel many issues crop up. First, a student writing on this ...

Workplace Privacy and Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association, 489 U. S. 602, 1989

In five pages this paper examines privacy in the workplace with regards to this case that considered whether or not mandatory work...

American Constitution, the Second Amendment, and the National Rifle Association

the Second Amendment, bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individu...

Civil Liberties' Protection and the U.S. Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson this should be a task of the federal judiciary, James Madison also agreed that a system that utilised independent...

5th and 14th Amendment Applicability of Palko vs. the State of Connecticut

In five pages this paper examines this case in terms of the rights guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut...

1962 U.S. Supreme Court Case Robinson v. California

In two pages this paper presents a brief of this 1962 Supreme Court case and how the California interpretation was found to be vio...

Arguing Against Gun Control

have also pointed out that those who are involved in a gun fatality are also involved in alcohol, drug abuse and domestic violence...

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...

FERPA of 1974

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

What To Know in Obtaining an Arrest Warrant

is the personal experiences of the arresting officer. An officers training and experience is presumed to allow them to infer to a...

Bench Memorandum Example

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...