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The Constitution and Bill of Rights

United States. The federal courts are responsible for addressing offenses against the country, including issues of treason. Ou...

The Seventeenth Amendment and Insuring the Peaceful Transition of Presidents

1. Prior to the 17th Amendment positions in the US Senate were elected by state legislature. The thought at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

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...

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...

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...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

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...

Capital Punishment and the U.S. Constitution

In five pages this paper discusses the 5th and 8th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution with regards to capital punishment. Five s...

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...

4th Amendment and Advances in Technology

In 6 pages this paper discusses the impact of technological advancements on the privacy issues detailed by the 4th Amendment of th...

4th Amendment's Search and Seizure and the Article 'When An Officer Doesn't Have to Follow Procedure'

A critique of this article as it pertains to the practices of search and seizure as described in the 4th Amendment of the US Const...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Protection for the Rights of the Individual in the U.S. Constitution

and prohibits someone from being tried twice for the same crime (Findlaw.com (a), 2002). In addition, this amendment states that n...

Free Expression and Obscenity

In eight pages this paper discusses the rulings on obscenity and their impact upon the guaranteed free speech of the 1st Amendment...

Developing the U.S. Constitution

The U.S. Constitution has grown and changed greatly since its ratification. This paper examines how amendment and reinterpretation...

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...

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 ...