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Censorship and Lord of the Flies

The classic book "Lord of the Flies" by William Gerald Golding was first published in 1959. Although...

Outcomes/Pressy v. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FIRINGS: A BREACH OF ETHICS?

is another matter. The Merit Systems Protection Board has a whole list of reasons for dismissal; and not performing on the job is ...

The Right to Symbolic Speech

our right to freedom of symbolic expression have been based on the actions of students. It might be posited that as a group stude...

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

New Nation of America and its Founding Documents

official title of the document was unanimously passed on July 2, 1776, signed on July 4, 1776 with an official proclamation made i...

Criminal Law Considered in 4 Questions

fair and sensible legal procedure based primarily upon morality and justice. Alexander the Great was the instrumental force behin...

Constitutional Rights, Early Arrest Phase, and Mandatory DNA Testing

To tackle the question of the rights or wrongs of DNA testing at the point of arrest, it must be acknowledged up front that DNA ev...

U.S. Constitution and Classical Liberalism

for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...

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...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

Individual Rights and Liberties Evolution in England, the English Colonies, and States Confederation

Suddenly, natural rights were introduced into the constitutional equation, which suggested that man had certain inalienable rights...

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...

US Democracy and its Legitimacy

in some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blind...

Society and the Movie Mississippi Burning

the 20th century when most people would assume such problems were behind us. The producer of the film noted that the movie was sim...

America's Living Wills

terminal condition she might face. That is the precisely the purpose of a living will - to speak for the person who has been medi...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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...

Historical Significance of The Third Reich

This paper discusses the Holocaust, The Third Reich, and the concept of history repeating itself if people do not stay vigilant. ...

Montgomery Bus Boycott Participant Rosa Parks

In ten pages this paper discusses the fact and fiction connected with Rosa Parks' bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that resulted...

U.S. Religious Freedom

In six pages the U.S. church and state separation is examined in an overview that argues how the rights guaranteed by the 1st Amen...

Criminal Profitability at the Victim's Expense

In eight pages victims rights and restricting a criminal from profiting off of crime and victimization is discussed in a considera...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

Marketing Tobacco Products; The Ethical Issues

disadvantages are more subjective. Smoking may give many individuals a feeling of empowerment and freedom; a perception put forwar...

Due Process and Miranda Rights For Juvenile Defendants

This paper examines pertinent issues regarding the due process and Miranda rights of minors in the US criminal justice system. Th...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

US Aliens and Rights

human beings, and nowhere is that more clear than in the realm of constitutional rights" (Cole, 2006). However, in truth, non-citi...

US Human Rights Violations

reason they are not really noticed by the mainstream society is because the people of the nation do not really see a need to prote...

Miranda v Arizona, Implications for Law Enforcement

system of checks and balances in the national government the framers divided the duties of the government into three sections. Th...

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 ...