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Effective Weapon of Nonviolence and Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper examines the factors that fueled the civil rights movement including 'Jim Crow' laws and the Supreme Cour...

Reform of the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses reforming the U.S. Supreme Court in terms of habeas corpus. Two sources are cited in the bibli...

Alexander Hamilton and Judicial Review

alternative of force, in an organized society. It is the right, conservative of all other rights, and lies at the foundation of or...

Criminal Profitability at the Victim's Expense

In eight pages victims rights and restricting a criminal from profiting off of crime and victimization is discussed in a considera...

Interstate Commerce and the Opinion of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice

lines. "Its no secret that criminals and minors will do the easiest thing they can in order to get guns" (Vertuno PG). The...

New Jersey and New York Supreme Courts Compared

Decisions of New Jersey and New York Supreme Courts are compared in a paper that consists of five pages. Seven sources are cited ...

Antitrust Case of Microsoft and a Supreme Court Judge's Opinion

God-like, Bill Gates stands on the top of the highest monetary mountain. However, the Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Offi...

2000 Santa Fe Independent School District v. DOE

This US Supreme Court case is the focus of this argument, findings, and final decision overview in five pages. There are no other...

US v Ray 502 US 164 (1991)

In five pages this US Supreme Court case is the focus of this overview that includes facts, procedure, issue, holding, and rationa...

Comparison Between a Preliminary Case and One Decided by California's Supreme Court

In five pages this paper examines how a similar judgment in a preliminary case regarding liability in a shopping center parking lo...

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court Cases with Controversial Issues

This single, historic decision brought forth a great many opportunities for each state to recognize the importance of allowing peo...

Salting as Defined and Practiced

treated as employees at the companies for which they had applied (Baskin PG). Other courts were split on the issue and so the Supr...

Reverse Discrimination and Regents of University of California v. Bakke

history of slavery alone but also that a whole people were marked as inferior by the law. And that mark has endured. The dream o...

Brook Thomas' Edited Text Plessy v Ferguson A Brief History with Documents

In three pages this paper provides a history and general overview of this landmark case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court as prese...

Jim Crow's Emergence and Decline

The Jim Crow laws are examined in five pages in an overview of the 'separate but equal' 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court deci...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Her Life and Career

Court in August of 1993 by a Senate vote of ninety-seven to three (Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Indeed, it can e...

Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court Nomination

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

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...

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...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

Judicial Activism and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

has identified himself "with a jurisprudence of original intent" and adds that he shares the same opinion with Rehnquist that "onl...

U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

In five pages this paper discusses how the 14th Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court. Five sources are cited in th...

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...

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...

A Consideration of the 14th Amendment

In 5 pages this paper discusses the purpose and subsequent Supreme Court decisions that affected this Amendment. There are 5 bibl...

1962 U.S. Supreme Court Case Robinson v. California

In two pages this paper presents a brief of this 1962 Supreme Court case and how the California interpretation was found to be vio...

Necessity of the US Bill of Rights According to William J. Brennan Jr.

Brennan, Jr. points out that it is only during the last forty or fifty years that the Bill of Rights has been enforced by the cour...

Comparison Between the Nigeria Election of 1993 and the United States Election of 2000

the deadline mandated by federal law. "That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the state Supreme Co...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...