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Constitutionality and Capital Punishment

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

1920s' Prohibition and Its Impact Upon U.S. Crime, Religion, and Economics

reality throughout the United States and many wished to end these corrupt practices seen in many a saloon across the country. T...

Issues of First Amendment Law

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

4th Amendment and Thermal Imaging Technology Search Reasonableness

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...

Adult Entertainment Television Station and Advice from Legal Counsel

be censored and deleted as it could be argued in court that such depictions had a significant influence that prompted the commissi...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

Civil War and Reconstruction Effects

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

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...

The History of the 16th, 17th & 18th Amendments

party "bosses," as well as state political "machines," and, in the process, eradicate the undue influence of special interest grou...

Procedure and Criminal Law V

was properly arrested or whether he was offered counsel. He could not be made to incriminate himself, and it is likely that an at...

Is There a Wall of Separation Between Church and State

This paper considers this important question. Does the wording in the First Amendment indicate a true wall exists? There are fiv...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

Expectation of Property and the Fourteenth Amendment

wrongful, and was purely a reaction to unpopular statements made by the complainants against the faculties of their respective uni...

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

Contrasting the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the 13th Amendment. The key points on which it differs from the Emancipation Proclam...

Civilian Recording and Constitutionality

This research paper investigates literature that pertains to the constitutionality and the violation of First Amendment rights tha...

GCSB Legislation, New Zealand

This research paper describe the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment and discusses the way...

The Seventeenth Amendment and Insuring the Peaceful Transition of Presidents

1. Prior to the 17th Amendment positions in the US Senate were elected by state legislature. The thought at...

The Constitution and Bill of Rights

United States. The federal courts are responsible for addressing offenses against the country, including issues of treason. Ou...

Educators and Copyrights

or translating copyrighted materials for visually handicapped persons (NLS, 2010). Prior to this amendment, authors and publishers...

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 ...

The 4th Amendment

The new nation did not wish to allow the government the right to search an individuals property, or seize anything they wanted, be...

The 4th Amendment

this clause it is stated that if an unreasonable search was conducted nothing found in the search can be used in a court of law fo...

Vietnam War, The New York Times v. United States, and Striking a Balance Between National Security and the First Amendment

defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...

The Role of the U.S. Constitution in Business Regulation

attempted to do via court action (Lester, 2008). Before it opened the club, Barnett "filed a civil rights lawsuit in U.S. Distri...

Case Study; Freedom of Speech and Satire Criticizing a Company

attentions to flaws, such as unfairness, stupidity and existing vices. The first amendment has been found to protect the use of sa...

Colorado’s Amendment 36 - Why It Failed

of the states nine electoral votes and Kerry the other four (Saffron, 2005). As the system is structured now, all nine went to Bus...

First Amendment & Tort Law, UK & US

law began with the injustices incurred by the public due to the Industrial Revolution (France, Woeller and Mandel, 2005). Until 19...

Examining the American Constitution's Victims' Rights Amendment Proposal

and pardon or commutation decisions; To be notified of a proposed pardon and to be heard on the proposal; To be notified of esc...

In Custody Search and Seizure Searches

is most typically the police who conduct search and seizure but it is the courts which decide exactly in which contexts search and...