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

In ten pages this paper examines the controversy surrounding the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. Eight sou...

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

issues a deportation order to expel Mrs Carpenter from the country due to her overstay. This decision was challenged by Mrs Carp...

Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in p...

B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

The LPDC states that the AIM members came to oppose the Guardians Of the Oglala Nation (GOONS) (LPDC, Quick Facts, 2004). The GOON...

Campaign Reform Act of 2002, n.d.). The sponsors of the bill were John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WS), Christopher Shays...

threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...

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

and would continue until March of 2004 (2004). Broward Circuit Judge Dorian Damoorgian made a summary judgment in respect to th...

separate Texas lawsuits where insured parties had sued their HMO for failure to provide procedures or care recommended by their ph...

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

DeMoss, Circuit Judge, 261 F.3d 445, should have been granted, based on the assertion that the petitioner showed adequate evidence...

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

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

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

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

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...