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During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...

altered since the terrorist attacks. The BSA has many provision, mostly related to money laundering. To sum up the gist of the act...

were needed, and with that, the Second Amendment guaranteed the right of individuals to bear arms in service of that militia, so t...

In the first of these cases, Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr, a trash hauler in Kansas had his contract terminated because...

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...

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, but it can also be said that this testin...

provides protection for innocent citizens, it is only to some extent, when circumstances are such that a judge will rule that the ...

property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."1 This parti...

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

racial profiling as the dog days of September lingered. It was simply a non-issue. As weeks and years pass, airport security will ...

and prohibits someone from being tried twice for the same crime (Findlaw.com (a), 2002). In addition, this amendment states that n...

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

one where fear is in the air. Certainly, giving up a few rights is necessary. Of course, not everyone thinks so, and further, alth...

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

smoking in a restroom ("New Jersey," 2003). A teacher escorted the two girls to the principals office, and one of the girls was T....

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

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

of communications between Holliday, KTLA and the national networks, the outcome was that two days later the images had been transm...

at the store. A reasonable belief that something is awry can requisite a search. Also, in some cases, searches are allowed on a ro...

not be questioned; and 5) Congress is equipped with the authority to enforce aforementioned provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment...

any of these deals simply because they didnt fly at the time the deals were made (Irving, 2003). After fighting many legal battle...

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

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 ...

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

In eight pages this paper examines the freedoms guaranteed in the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in a consideration of how...

In eight pages this legal brief discusses the 1993 case and whether or not hate crime penalties like those in the state of Wiscons...

In eight pages this paper features a legal brief involving protections of the 1st Amendment, federal and state laws regarding free...