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John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

Legal Brief on United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

should be awarded the equivalent of funds equal to the obligation from 1877 through the present plus interest. That is exactly wha...

Court Administration Issues

family reasons (United States: Rehnquists legacy, 2005). If either of these justices retire, the country, President George W. Bush...

Supreme Court Judicial Nominations and Traditional Values

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

Chief Justice John Marshall's Supreme Court Influence

found in the Constitution are specific and straightforward as well; however, many are not ("Marbury," 1992). Much is up to the cou...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...

Business Issues in the Music Industry

acquired by larger companies seeking to grow through that route. Traditional retailers have blamed Internet retailers, piracy and...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Comparison of Obscenity

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Gathering Evidence, Ethics, and US Supreme Court Guidelines

common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

The Implications and Impact of Eminent Domain

is expected to result in a greater benefit to the community as a whole, is not a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitut...

The Supreme Court, Amicus Curiae, and Abortion

U.S. 173 (1991)), the ACLU filed a brief of amici curiae in conjunction with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists,...

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...

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...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

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

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...

David O'Brien's Storm Center The Supreme Court in American Politics

written and deserves accolades for its insights and attention to detail. At the same time, OBrien sometimes misses the major point...

Judicial Activism and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

has identified himself "with a jurisprudence of original intent" and adds that he shares the same opinion with Rehnquist that "onl...

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...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Active Political Actor of the Canadian Supreme Court

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

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...

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...

Necessity of the US Bill of Rights According to William J. Brennan Jr.

Brennan, Jr. points out that it is only during the last forty or fifty years that the Bill of Rights has been enforced by the cour...

Alexander Hamilton and Judicial Review

alternative of force, in an organized society. It is the right, conservative of all other rights, and lies at the foundation of or...