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Unfulfilled Promises of Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

In five pages this paper examines how education programs at the elementary and secondary levels often violate Title IX of the Educ...

ADA And Fourth Amendment Rights

Section 504 was enacted in 1973, its full implications are only now being realized. This is particularly true of those components...

Overview of the Bill of Rights and the First, Fourth, and Tenth Amendments

In about seven pages this paper discusses the Bill of Rights with the focus being on these particular amendments and how contempor...

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...

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...

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...

Examining the American Constitution's Victims' Rights Amendment Proposal

and pardon or commutation decisions; To be notified of a proposed pardon and to be heard on the proposal; To be notified of esc...

In Custody Search and Seizure Searches

is most typically the police who conduct search and seizure but it is the courts which decide exactly in which contexts search and...

O.J. Simpson Double Murder Case and the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

to exercise over things or people before they could be considered seized. From 1886 on, the Court assumed that the Fourth Amendmen...

Women's Rights and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

clause. In fact, the court gave V.M.I. and the commonwealth of Virginia (a co-defendant in the case) three options which would sat...

Flag Descration

In five pages this argumentive paper supports a constitutional amendment prohibiting American flag desecration. Four sources are ...

Law and Due Process

In ten pages the law's due process applications to the 5th and 14th Amendments are examined as they exist under Gideon and Miranda...

Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

In five pages this paper examines the women's suffrage debate both in support and opposition and how the movement eventually led t...

The 1st Amendment and Astrology

In fifty pages this question 'Astrology, Psychics, Superstition, Cults in America: Symptoms of a malfunctioning First Amendment?' ...

An Overview of the Expectations Surrounding the Implementation of the First Amendment

situation arising under the new constitution. Correspondingly, the original intent in framing the first amendment lay in prohibit...

Terrorism and The First Amendment

the correlation between terrorist activities and what has been described as "hate speeches."1 In order for terrorist behaviors to...

First Amendment and Free Speech

In six pages relevant Supreme Court cases are discussed in a consideration of the 1st Amendment and the importance of free speech....

Arguments Favoring the Demise of Hate Speech

In ten pages this research paper advocates an abridgement to the 1st Amendment that would prohibit hate speech in the U.S. with a ...

First Amendment and Pornography

In nine pages this research paper discusses the 1st Amendment and pornography in a consideration of the Paris Adult Theater v. Sla...

Examination of the U.S. Constitution's 2nd and 4th Amendments

in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrants s...

US Constitution's 4th Amendment

In five pages this paper analyzes the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution as it pertains to privacy rights and 'search and seizur...

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...

Hate Crimes, Wisconsin, and the 1993 Case of Wisconsin v. Mitchell, U.S. # 92-515

In eight pages this legal brief discusses the 1993 case and whether or not hate crime penalties like those in the state of Wiscons...

1989 Case of Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 109 S.Ct. 2533, 105 L.Ed.2d 242

In eight pages this paper features a legal brief involving protections of the 1st Amendment, federal and state laws regarding free...

Capital Cases and VIS' Constitutionality

In twenty five pages this paper examines capital case sentencing in an overview of Victim Impact Statements and their constitution...

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...

Expectation of Property and the Fourteenth Amendment

wrongful, and was purely a reaction to unpopular statements made by the complainants against the faculties of their respective uni...

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...

4th Amendment Assessment

the grounds for getting writs of assistance for various kinds of raids and dragnet seizures. The goal was to suppress sedition an...