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An Analysis of Our Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms

In this six page paper the author explores one of the most controversial topics of today, the right granted by the Second Amendmen...

An Argument Against the Balanced Budget Amendment

This eight page paper argues against the Balanced Budget Amendment. The writer presents facts and statistics to support their ar...

2nd Amendment and Gun Control

In fourteen pages this research paper supports the 2nd Amendment's declaration of an American's 'right to bear arms' and opposes g...

1992 Case of Luke Records v. Navarro, 960 F.2d 130 Legal Brief

In two pages this paper presents a background of the case involving the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech as it relates to the roc...

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Involving Freedom of Religion

In eight pages this paper examines the 1st Amendment's free exercise clause as it has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court i...

Precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech

In five pages this paper examines how the 14th Amendment's free speech provisions affects symbolic acts in case considerations of ...

Should Schools Allow Spanking?

Once a staple along with eraser dust and gym class, corporal punishment has fallen into disfavor in public schools. This paper exa...

Education and the Constitution

involves school and the condition of religion in schools. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy over the simp...

Punishment for Crime in the U.S. China, Germany, and Israel

Israels rehabilitative methods, a turn toward changing attitudes fostered in great part by public opinion and public policy. Whil...

Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow

of "real-world effects" anyway . In other words, the penalty will not act as a deterrent if in fact murderers are oblivious to the...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

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

Capital Punishment and Donald P. Roper v. Christopher Simmons

death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in resp...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

Due Process Clause and Punitive Damages

be considered a violation of the due process clause? The doctrine of Substantive Due Process contends that the actual clause does ...

Examining the Bill of Rights

example provided is that one cannot yell fire in a crowded theater. Public safety cannot be compromised. Also, another point of th...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Individual Protections Offered by the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

when the worst impact of colonial times was taking place and people held no inherent human rights when it came to search and seizu...

1800 Great Britain and Imprisonment

In five pages this paper examines how capitalism influenced the system of punishment in Great Britain at the beginning of the nine...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

4th Amendment of the US Constitution and the Exclusionary Rule

when Fourth Amendment concepts have been violated, the Supreme Court often applies what is called the exclusionary rule (McWhirter...

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...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Mercy, Goodness, and Simplicity and the Films of Frank Capra

himself because of his innocence, in many ways they begin to feel protective of the character, in the same type of way that a pare...

Society's Cruelty in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Crucible The student requesting this particular paper notes (the source of this quote is unknown), "One is to believe that r...

Educational Strategies and Teaching Approaches According to Chickering, Gamson, and Angelo

content, ideas, issues and concerns of an academic subject" (Klein 146). A middle school English teacher might promote active lea...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital

especially unhappy time in the dreadful lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and if you have any sense at all you will shu...

The 'Rights' and 'Wrongs' of Animal Testing

In an argumentative essay consisting of three pages this issue is evaluated in terms of its pros and cons and serves to debunk any...

Old English Poem 'The Dream of the Rood'

In five pages this paper analyzes this poem within the context of English life during the 7th and 8th centuries and the relationsh...

Employment Conditions and Legal Terms

In five pages the Fair Labor Standards Act and Employment at Will are considered within the context of the cases Donovan c. Transw...