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Essays 211 - 240

U.S. Supreme Court and the Case of Fletcher v. Peck

In five pages this report considers the 'Yazoo Land Fraud' in the Fletcher v. Peck Supreme Court decision of 1810. Three sources ...

A Matter of Interpretation Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia

in the US. Glendon says that it no longer seems to limit even judges in the civil law tradition. Tribe and Dworkin argue that to i...

Nancy Cruzan Case

In five pages the right to die U.S. Supreme Court case involving Nancy Cruzan is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Supreme Court Case of Stenberg v. Carhart and Partial Birth Abortion

In eight pages this paper examines privacy issues with regards to partial birth abortion as addressed by this April 2000 Supreme C...

Quebec and Secession from Canada

if in fact a majority of Quebec residents wanted to secede, the prime minister and premiers were obligated to negotiate Quebecs in...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

78 in The Federalist Papers and Alexander Hamilton

This paper analyzes no. 78 in seven pages in regards to Hamilton's contention that the Supreme Court needs a permanent appointment...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

face of all odds endows Gideons Trumpet with all the elements that typically comprise an American bestseller. On the other ...

4th Amendment Rights and the Practice of Search and Seizure

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights guaranteed by the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in terms of search and seizu...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sexual Harassment

In five pages this paper presents the history of a sexual harassment case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and discusses w...

Texas Flag Burning Case Arguments

In three pages this paper argues that the overturning of this decision by Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist was correct. On...

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...

Cultural Climate of the Period and the Dred Scott Decision

even if the federal government could buy the slaves, the freed slaves could not be turned into citizens without an amendment to th...

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...

Tolerance, Freedom of Speech, and J.S. Mill

in his views. Freedom of speech should be given precedent over the reaction which that speech may cause. This precept has been u...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

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...

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...

Race and Emotional Distress in the Workplace

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

Court Appointments as a Means of Altering Policy

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Relationship Between the Judiciary and Gerald Ford

or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

Economy, Decisions, and Elected Leaders

north-east Prussia should be ceded to the USSR; other territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line should be placed under Polish admin...

Legal Business Meaning of Copyright

creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end ...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Bench Memorandum Example

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...

The Landmark Case of Roe v. Wade of More Than a Generation Ago

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

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...