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Is the Supreme Court Protecting the Rights of Americans to Equality?

This 3 page paper argues that the Supreme Court’s decisions in Loving and Brown v. Board of Education demonstrate its ability to p...

U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

In five pages this paper discusses how the 14th Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court. Five sources are cited in th...

Gideon’s Trumpet & Constitutional Law

a capital case, Gideons request did not fit the parameters of Betts. In the early chapters of his book, Lewis provides this backgr...

The Supreme Court: Role Played In The American Political Process

physician assisted suicide and affirmative action most certainly involves heated discussions in the courtroom, however, it is not ...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

AGING, STEROTYPES AND SEXUALITY

(When Alzheimers Patients Fall in Love, 2007). In a USA Today article that further explored the John OConnor love affair,...

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell

not be "reasonably understood as describing actual facts...or actual events" (Hustler v. Falwell, 1988). But while the libel charg...

3 Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and Equal Protection According to the US Constitution's 14th Amendment

the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT

irritable (Wilson, 2003). Hes a not very likeable individual in Lewis book, but the point stands that according to the Constitutio...

US Supreme Court Case

In a paper of three pages, the author relates the specific details of the case of Salinas v. Texas, a US Supreme Court case. Ther...

The Right to Bear Arms

The U.S. Constitution has an amendment that addresses this issue. Numerous Supreme Court cases have been filed regarding the Secon...

Outcomes/Pressy v. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

The Supreme Court, Its Importance and Powers

is often called the "court of last resort," since it is the highest court in the nation. This paper considers how the court is str...

Herring v. U.S. and the Exclusionary Rule

proceedings provides a means whereby any evidence that was obtained by law enforcement officers by violating the Fourth Amendment ...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

of their respective families to go to college (Kagan, Elena, 2011). The only daughter sandwiched between two boys - both of whom ...

Judicial Activism and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

has identified himself "with a jurisprudence of original intent" and adds that he shares the same opinion with Rehnquist that "onl...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...

Comparison Between the Nigeria Election of 1993 and the United States Election of 2000

the deadline mandated by federal law. "That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the state Supreme Co...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

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...

Reverse Discrimination Issues

to the equal protection claus of the fourteenth amendment. The case interpreted the amendment to be universal so that it should al...

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...

Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

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...

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...