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Famous Speech on the Rights of Women

opinions with regard to womens rights. Indeed, she did not apologize for her forceful tone or powerful declaration; rather, that ...

The Landmark Case of Roe v. Wade of More Than a Generation Ago

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

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...

Protocol of Public Schools and the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

The case is clearly poignant in a sea of cases concerning individual rights and freedoms. It is certainly apropos in todays climat...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

Reform of the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses reforming the U.S. Supreme Court in terms of habeas corpus. Two sources are cited in the bibli...

US v Ray 502 US 164 (1991)

In five pages this US Supreme Court case is the focus of this overview that includes facts, procedure, issue, holding, and rationa...

Antitrust Case of Microsoft and a Supreme Court Judge's Opinion

God-like, Bill Gates stands on the top of the highest monetary mountain. However, the Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Offi...

The Miranda v Arizona Case, Due Process, and Miranda Rights

with empirical studies. But interest in the subject quickly waned, and research in the last couple of decades has been virtually n...

Interstate Commerce and the Opinion of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice

lines. "Its no secret that criminals and minors will do the easiest thing they can in order to get guns" (Vertuno PG). The...

1962 U.S. Supreme Court Case Robinson v. California

In two pages this paper presents a brief of this 1962 Supreme Court case and how the California interpretation was found to be vio...

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...

Questions from "Gideon's Trumpet"

counsel. In fact "The United States Supreme Court had not said he was entitled to counsel; in Betts v. Brady and succeeding...

Reverse Discrimination Issues

to the equal protection claus of the fourteenth amendment. The case interpreted the amendment to be universal so that it should al...

Relationship Between the Judiciary and Gerald Ford

or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

Discussion of Brown v. Board of Education

initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on t...

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

Race and Emotional Distress in the Workplace

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

Women's Rights and Islamic Veiling Perceptions

To understand the relative impact of veiling upon Islamic women we must delve into the culture, religion and politics of Islam. I...

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....

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

Legal Business Meaning of Copyright

creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end ...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

A Case Involving the Pregnant Discrimination Act

Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to "prohibit sex discrimination on the ...