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Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

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 ...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

The Fourth Amendment and Airport Security

at the store. A reasonable belief that something is awry can requisite a search. Also, in some cases, searches are allowed on a ro...

Pledge of Allegiance and the U.S. Supreme Court

lawsuit was filed in 2000, but failed to draw any media attention until a Ninth Circuit Court panel handed down a 2-1 ruling in Ju...

1st and 2nd Amendments' Examination and Revision

the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) is a living document, which was written in such a way so as to fit the times. While this...

Civil Liberties, Terrorism, and Immigration Laws

the arrests and the consequent interrogations that they were outraged and told officials that these tactics would not prove to be ...

Washington Community's Importance According to James Sterling Young

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

Workplace and Hidden Cameras

fit, even if that extends to protecting that which is his. However, while this seems logical, one has to wonder about the vast amo...

An Overview of Chandler v. Siegelman and Adler v. Duval

establishing a precedence that requires public schools to remove any private religious expression during graduation, an inevitable...

1787's Constitutional Convention

wherein there would be two houses in the government, the lower house being elected by the people and the upper house elected by th...

Royal Prerogative and the Unwritten Constitution

Hallam (1992) however, points out that citizens of the U.K.: "cannot fairly consider as part of our ancient constitution w...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

U.S., Free Speech, and Engel v. Vitale

prescribing religious devotions; the idea being that by keeping a strict line between religion and state, religious freedom is ens...

Constitutional Law - An Overview

and each is also imposed with unique limitations, such that the overall power wielded by any one branch of government is not suffi...

The US Constitution of 1787

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 had to overcome three primary challenges. This four page paper lists one source. ...

Summry of Jefferson Davis' Speech on Property Rights

This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...

Patriot Act Evaluation

This essay asserts that the Patriot Act is detrimental to American constitutional rights. Two pages in length, one source is cited...

Constitutional Reform and the Middle East

This paper pertains to constitutional government and reform, with a special focus on the nineteenth century and the Middle East. T...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

Crime Reporting Techniques and an Examination of the U.S.A. Patriot Act

under surveillance for perceived terrorist activities, which includes the use of weapons (a right guaranteed citizens in the Const...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

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 History of Government in Italy

of the House of Savoy became King of Italy in 1861 and Rome was incorporated in 1870 (U.S. Department of State, 2006)....

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

The History of the 16th, 17th & 18th Amendments

party "bosses," as well as state political "machines," and, in the process, eradicate the undue influence of special interest grou...

Texas and Wisconsin Judicial and Constitutional Structures

states and joining the Union. One of the features of the United States government is that individuals can disagree yet stil...

History of the Gay Marriage Debate

In eight pages gay marriage is examined from a historical perspective in a consideration of constitutional and legal rights and al...

3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...