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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...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

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...

Internet and the US Supreme Court

and useful information about the Supreme Court, and how it is both dealing with and using the Internet. Recent Court Cases ...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

The Hearsay Rule

Rehnquist. Reasoning of the Court: The court claims that a conspiracy had been discovered between Bourjaily and Lonardo and this p...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

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

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...

Supreme Court and Commercial Speech Issues

concept refers to the rights of businesses to advertise in any manner that is not in opposition to laws requiring truth in adverti...

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...

Hugo Black

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

Bench Memorandum Example

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...

General Motors v. Romein Analysis

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

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...

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...

Abortion and the Law

not be given to the judicial system via the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Autonomy is an essential American value and shou...

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...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

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...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

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...

Limiting Liability in Effective Employee Handbooks

exposure to various legal liabilities. They help in documenting, the fair and equal treatment required by federal laws while prese...

Supreme Court Questions

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

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...

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...

Economy, Decisions, and Elected Leaders

north-east Prussia should be ceded to the USSR; other territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line should be placed under Polish admin...

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 ...