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Rights under the 6th Amendment

In a paper of five pages, the author provides the seven different rights under the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, including ...

Rights and Language

In five pages this paper discusses the 'language of rights' within the context of 'Practical Philosophy and the Bill of Rights: P...

Legal Right Versus What's Right

must be viewed as if they were universal laws (Johnson, 2004). An unethical act according to Kants categorical imperative theory b...

Issues Related to Investigations

A case study of a woman cashing her deceased mother's checks is the final part of this essay. Topics discussed in essay include Mi...

Slavery Aspects

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

Internet Research on 1996's The Communication Decency Act

the World Wide Web. In some cases the information required is easy to locate - in this instance, for example, the CDA is a popular...

Ethics, Eco Sabotage and Civil Disobedience

for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...

Section 215 of the U.S. Patriot Act

the "things" searched go beyond the business records as the Department of Justice notes, and means that it can search "any tangibl...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...

Internet Regulation and Civil Liberties

In nine pages this paper discusses legal regulation of the Internet in a consideration of the F.C.C., Communications Decency Act p...

AN ARGUMENT FOR REPEALING THE U.S. PATRIOT ACT

whim of the FBI or CIA. The ACLU points out, for example, that Section 215 of the Act allows the FBI to...

THE PATRIOT ACT, AN OVERVIEW AND THE 14TH AMENDMENT

"wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism..." (Ball 51). Along with this, Title II also allows the seizing ...

Vigilantism or Civil Disobedience

his objective was not to inflict harm but rather to remove the catalyst for drug activity. Is that not what resides at the founda...

English Law and Unorthodox Family Rights

prejudicial to disqualify same sex partners form marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same...

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...

Angela Davis and Her Impact

prisoners who were apparently being held wrongly. It was this situation that ultimately led her to be on the FBIs most wanted list...

Transgendered Community and Civil Rights

themselves. There is a definitive move in fact, to abolish the term from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorde...

Psychosocial Behavioral Theory of Erik Erikson Applied to Rosa Parks

how Parks various crises directly associated with each stage were more easily addressed, inevitably elevating her to the next stag...

Struggle for Black Equality from the Reconstruction to the Present Time

the same way livestock was cared for, consequently they even lacked the experience to care for their most basic of needs (McGuire ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Achievements

the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed and Dr. King was deemed president (1998). It was on that same day that the well...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

Language Cases of Discrimination

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

South Africa and the Impact of Nelson Mandela

is something which has frequently been reiterated by other civil rights activists: in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, for instanc...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

August 28, 1963 'I Have a Dream' Speech of Martin Luther King Jr.

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...

President Abraham Lincoln's Role in the US Period of Reconstruction

Eric Froner Consider Reconstruction a Failure? The reasons for the failure of reconstruction are itemized in the article....

The Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Views of Terrorism

since history was first recorded (OConnor, 2004). Acts of terrorism can be found in the Bible and they are recorded in Roman histo...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on Black Manhood

that fight. Black manhood to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be equivalent to standing up for individual rights. T...