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The Patriot Act Violates the Fourth Amendment

laws and by increasing terms of punishment" (p.134). The legal response had been driven by the public fear about attacks in the fu...

Due Process and the Definition and Delineation of Individual Rights

Due process has had a definitive impact on the delineation and definition of the rights of American citizens. Interestingly, howe...

The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act

Then there was reform. The Poor Law Amendment Act which was passed in 1834 is "a classic example of Benthamite reforming legisl...

The Victims' Rights Amendment

federal and state courts. But that didnt sit well with senators who favored a statutory approach" ("Senate Affirms," 2004). The...

The Talking Cat Strikes Back

they violate the First Amendment (1961). However, if the ordinance is issued for some other legitimate reason, such as crowd contr...

Stifling Talk Radio/First Amendment Issues

the Bill of Rights. The rights ensured in these amendments were considered by the Founding Fathers and the original States to be f...

The 19th Amendment

women finally truly focused on their own needs and fought for the right to vote. As one author notes, "The 19th amendment...

Constitutional Law and the Illegal Acquisition of Evidence

are carried out because of precedent. Because laws are instruments which do not always map directly to the varying nuances of real...

Freedom of Religion, A First Amendment Right

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...

CREDIT DERIVATIVES AND DISCLOSURES

could measure all financial assets and liabilities on a company balance sheet at fair value, with hedging fitting into an overall ...

Legalizing Marijuana Compared to the Prohibition

Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

The Increase in the Minimum Debt for Personal Bankruptcy in Australia

bankruptcy may be made. This may be seen as a change that has helped to bring the law up to date which may be seen by looking at t...

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 ...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

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...

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...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

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

NGRI Defense Plea

be considered. Expert witness testimony is necessary and, in fact of law, certain individuals always pose a danger to society or t...

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...

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 ...

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...

Japanese Women and Their Changing Status

In nineteen pages this research paper examines post Second World War changes in Japanese women's roles and the impact of the Japan...

Going from the Articles of Confederation to the U.S. Constitution

In five pages this argumentative essay favors the Constitution's granting of federal government powers to regulate states over the...

Controlling Women in 'Measure For Measure'

Controlling 'mother' and avoidance by controlling women is the thesis of this paper that consists of 7 pages. The men, the Duke i...

Terrorism and The First Amendment

the correlation between terrorist activities and what has been described as "hate speeches."1 In order for terrorist behaviors to...

Arguments Favoring the Demise of Hate Speech

In ten pages this research paper advocates an abridgement to the 1st Amendment that would prohibit hate speech in the U.S. with a ...

Congressional Bill on Repeat Child Sex Offenders

In five pages this paper discusses the life imprisonment advocated for offenders who have repeatedly sexually abused children as d...

U.S. Constitution and the Rights of States

In six pages this paper discusses the Constitution's awarding of states' rights but how the Civil War, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New...

1st Amendment and Hate

In five pages this paper examines the ongoing conflict between the protection of free speech as guaranteed by the 1st Amendment an...

Buckley v. Valeo, the 1st Amendment, and Free Speech

the United States Senate has commented twenty-three years after the decision, "We believed that these restrictions were fundamenta...