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1776 to 1914 Global Power Rise of the US

In five pages this paper chronicles the rising world power of the US during this time period in an overview of change, geography, ...

1985 Robert Echols v. State of Florida State Supreme Court Case

wife unconscious. On their way to the airport, they discarded the gun, jewelry boxes, the victims wallet, and a bag taken from th...

Paradoxes of Legal Science by Benjamin N. Cardozo

The text written by a prominent Supreme Court Justice is discussed in a paper that consists of nine pages. There are no sources l...

The Challenge, Denial, and Impact of Anita Hill's Allegations

In ten pages the 1991 sexual harassment case Anita Hill brought against then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas are examined in...

Title VII Affirmative Action, Workplace Discrimination and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case of Taxman v. Piscataway

In five pages this paper analyzes how the United States Supreme Court would have analyzed the Taxman v. Piscataway case. One sour...

The Supreme Court In American Life

In this five page paper the writer explores The Marble Palace The Supreme Court in American Life, the book by John P. Frank. The ...

How Justice William Brennan and Edwin Meese Would Have Decided the 1952 Case of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579

This Supreme Court Case and how Justice William Brennan and Edwin Meese would have articulated a majority opinion are examined in ...

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...

First Amendment and Free Speech

In six pages relevant Supreme Court cases are discussed in a consideration of the 1st Amendment and the importance of free speech....

Analysis of Abortion Law Evolution

an 1879 Connecticut state law which made contraception in any form illegal and also forbade the assistance of anyone wishing to us...

Kluger and Brown v. Board of Education

In five pages the implications of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision are examined. There is no bibliography i...

Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision Examined

In three pages this essay supports Dred Scott with an argument based upon freedom constitutional rights and argues that the Suprem...

Should Supreme Court Decisions Be Considered Groundbreaking 'Landmarks?'

In four pages the argument is presented that Supreme Court decisions are not in effect as groundbreaking as they are portrayed and...

Progressive Reform Movement and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses how the Progressive Reform Movement perspectives relate to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell...

Students, Constitutional Rights, and Tinker v. Des Moines School District

In five pages this paper discusses students 1st Amendment rights to protest were violated in this consideration of this Supreme Co...

The Moral Issue of Abortion

A ten page realistic examination of the abortion argument from political and social perspectives includes relevant issues and beli...

Concept of Eugenics

In six pages the eugenics concept is examined as its political development pertains to Social Darwinist Oliver Wendell Holmes and ...

Private Commerce and Criminal Justice Productivity Measures

notes, do not abide by this same economic equation; in fact, their productivity versus ever-growing taxpayer-funded resources more...

Legal Representation as Depicted in the Book by Anthony Lewis? ?

the offices of the Supreme Court. He was, however, just one more convicted criminal in a long list of criminals that was pleading...

Analyzing the Fourth Amendment

persons or things to be seized." This is very specific as to what can be done, what is needed to get permission to conduct a searc...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE

resort for all litigants" (Supreme Court of Canada). The jurisdiction involves the civil law of Quebec and common law of Canadas o...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment

the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest" (G...

3 Law Questions

and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...

Issues Facing the Police Administrator in Community Policing

"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...

U.S. Soft, Military, and Economic Power

the Iranian hostage crisis. We survived the Cold War and witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union and today we are engaged i...