SEARCH RESULTS

level of representation within the House have persisted as matters for debate and legislation for so long, it is helpful to consid...

The case is clearly poignant in a sea of cases concerning individual rights and freedoms. It is certainly apropos in todays climat...

not be given to the judicial system via the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Autonomy is an essential American value and shou...

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

exposure to various legal liabilities. They help in documenting, the fair and equal treatment required by federal laws while prese...

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

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

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

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

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

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

regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...

B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...

Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in p...

door bell ring at an early hour, that she looked outside and saw a naked man with an erect penis (2003). She was frightened. This...

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...