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Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...

The Moral Issue of Abortion

A ten page realistic examination of the abortion argument from political and social perspectives includes relevant issues and beli...

Reforming the British House of Lords

level of representation within the House have persisted as matters for debate and legislation for so long, it is helpful to consid...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

Comparison Between the Nigeria Election of 1993 and the United States Election of 2000

the deadline mandated by federal law. "That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the state Supreme Co...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

Herring v. U.S. and the Exclusionary Rule

proceedings provides a means whereby any evidence that was obtained by law enforcement officers by violating the Fourth Amendment ...

Twenty First Century Policing

Policing today shares many similarities with policing of any particular era. At the same time...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Was the 2000 Presidential Election Stolen by George W. Bush?

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

Court Appointments as a Means of Altering Policy

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

Cultural Climate of the Period and the Dred Scott Decision

even if the federal government could buy the slaves, the freed slaves could not be turned into citizens without an amendment to th...

4th Amendment Rights and the Practice of Search and Seizure

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights guaranteed by the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in terms of search and seizu...

Texas Flag Burning Case Arguments

In three pages this paper argues that the overturning of this decision by Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist was correct. On...

Quebec and Secession from Canada

if in fact a majority of Quebec residents wanted to secede, the prime minister and premiers were obligated to negotiate Quebecs in...

78 in The Federalist Papers and Alexander Hamilton

This paper analyzes no. 78 in seven pages in regards to Hamilton's contention that the Supreme Court needs a permanent appointment...

3 Law Questions

and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...

Issues Facing the Police Administrator in Community Policing

"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...

Conservative Response to Roe v. Wade

threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...

Campaign Reform Bill and the Opposition of the American Civil Liberties Union

Campaign Reform Act of 2002, n.d.). The sponsors of the bill were John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WS), Christopher Shays...

Brown v. Board of Education, History and Analysis

This research paper/essay draws on sources to discuss the history of the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. T...

Analysis of Brown v. Board of Education

This paper provides an analysis of this monumental decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in seven pages with its significance emphasi...

Pros and Cons of Prayer in School

In ten pages this research paper assesses the historical pros and cons associated with school prayer in American public schools be...

A Matter of Interpretation Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia

in the US. Glendon says that it no longer seems to limit even judges in the civil law tradition. Tribe and Dworkin argue that to i...

Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

Two Legal Questions

from terrorism, no rights should be accorded to suspects captured in the war on terror. Terrorism is not an activity endorsed by ...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Effectiveness/Judges and Justices

are the prominent and well-known judges in the criminal justice system of the United States, they are not precisely typical, as fe...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

A Court Divided by Tushnet

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...