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Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

The Role of the U.S. Constitution in Business Regulation

attempted to do via court action (Lester, 2008). Before it opened the club, Barnett "filed a civil rights lawsuit in U.S. Distri...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

Should Washington D.C. Become a State?

feel that they have enough representation as they live in districts with specific representatives who are numerous and carry elect...

The First Amendment

Klan can exist in the same nation and put out their own particular beliefs. People can agree or not agree with the government and ...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

The Right to Symbolic Speech

our right to freedom of symbolic expression have been based on the actions of students. It might be posited that as a group stude...

In Pursuit of Small Government

to negotiate with governmental powers ultimately ended in the form of the Revolutionary War in which the colonies won their indepe...

Amendments V and VI of the U.S. Constitution and the Magna Carta

such a system was ripe for bribery, corruption and extortion, and complaints such as these had been made before King John took the...

The Eleventh Amendment

the Revolution" (Orth, 1987, p. 7). The case that started the furor, as mentioned, was Chisholm v. Georgia, which was heard by th...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Constitutional Amendments and Their Significance

Many people will find personal significance in terms of the fourth amendment. One does not have to be a criminal to receive this p...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

5th and 14th Amendment Applicability of Palko vs. the State of Connecticut

In five pages this paper examines this case in terms of the rights guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut...

What To Know in Obtaining an Arrest Warrant

is the personal experiences of the arresting officer. An officers training and experience is presumed to allow them to infer to a...

2003 New York Smoking Ban and its Constitutionality

there are a lot of other things that people do not like such as talking loud on cell phones or wearing an extraordinary amount of ...

Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution

the right to counsel under Miranda, where there is a necessity to be clear and unequivocal, an invocation of the Sixth Amendment r...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

'The Noble Experiment' of Alcohol Prohibition in the United States

In a paper consisting of five pages the many problems caused by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution are examined. There ...

Establishment Clause, the 1st Amendment, and School Prayer

The reasons that have been purported in favor of re instituting school prayer are numerous. One of the primary arguments for schoo...

April 1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham, Alabama

had defended his presence in Birmingham as an apostle of non-violence and justice, and appealed persuasively to America to grant r...

1st Amendment Rights and Paparazzi

In seven pages this paper argues in favor of the paparazzi profession because its prohibition would be a violation of freedom of e...

Gun Control an the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution

argue, the amendment is no longer necessary--we have won our civil war. To them, the amendment represents a guarantee to form mil...

2nd Amendment 'Right to Bear Arms' of the US Constitution

"The right to keep and bear arms originated in the common law right of self-defense."3 The Common Law was established to give men ...

Crime, the Exclusionary Rule, and Constitutional Amendments

the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendments of the Constitution to comprehend the length to which Americas foref...

1968 Case Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889

In four pages this U.S. legal brief involves such issues as the Fourth Amendment and search and seizure with probable cause....

Freedom and Rock Star Marilyn Manson

In eight pages this paper examines the freedoms guaranteed in the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in a consideration of how...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...