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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

ADA And Fourth Amendment Rights

Section 504 was enacted in 1973, its full implications are only now being realized. This is particularly true of those components...

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...

Examining the American Constitution's Victims' Rights Amendment Proposal

and pardon or commutation decisions; To be notified of a proposed pardon and to be heard on the proposal; To be notified of esc...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Landmark 1959 Case Barenblatt v United States

In five pages this case's circumstances, claims, and findings are outlined along with an explanation of the findings provided with...