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Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Supreme Court Judicial Nominations and Traditional Values

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

Social Belief Systems and the Impact of Roe v. Wade

disingenuous. Yet, that is a valid view. Some people believe that abortion is not good. It is not healthy and impinges on some rel...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Procedure and Criminal Law IV

do not always perfectly align, however. Though the police had the right to arrest Frank and they needed to respond to the worried...

U.S. Supreme Court, William N. Eskridge, and Lochner v. New York

(Findlaw, 2005). The employee worked as a baker, and baking at that time was a dangerous occupation: bakers inhaled quantities o...

A Judiciary Overview

as well. Today, the Supreme Court consists of the following judges; their names and years or appointment are listed as follows: St...

The Supreme Court and Abortion

privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court primarily inferred that the Constitution...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

Violent Video Games: Who Takes Responsibility

This 4 page paper gives an answer to the question of who is responsible for violent video games. This paper includes the Supreme C...

The Rights of Women Seen in the Decisions of the Supreme Court

Second World War, the ongoing reluctance was seen, in the case of Tileston v Ullman 318 US 44 (1943) a doctor brought a case on be...

The US Supreme Court: An Overview of Powers

document of the United States of America and outlines the various rights and privileges that are guaranteed to citizens of the cou...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

This essay describes three Supreme Court cases, Bowers v. Hardwick, Lawrence v. Texas, and Bush v. Gore, which are described by To...

Wrongful Courtroom Decisions

In five pages this paper examines what happens when courts make the wrong decisions with the Supreme Court also considered. Three...

Supreme Court Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Many of the constitutional protections enjoyed by American citizens today could not have been envisioned by the drafters of the or...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Supreme Court Ruling on Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F.

In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...

Prayer at High School Football Games

In six pages the Supreme Court's decision to prohibit high school students leading public prayer prior to football games is examin...

Constitutional Provisions and Freedom of Religion

In six pages this paper presents a fictitious situation in order to consider the U.S. Constitution's provisions regarding religiou...

Closed Chambers by Edward Lazarus

In five pages Lazarus's text on the Supreme Court is analyzed with such issues as capital punishment and desegregation discussed a...

Re-Assessing Miranda Rights

This paper examines the US Supreme Court case of United States v Dickerson, as marking a return of Miranda issues to the highest c...

Life and Contributions of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In 5 pages this paper discusses this powerful and important woman's contributions to justice and her championing of women's advoc...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

how a previously made poor decision reached by the Supreme Court was ultimately corrected with the Gideon case. Contents : Chapt...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison

In five pages this research paper considers the history and importance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Marbury v. Madison decision. E...

Capital Punishment and Donald P. Roper v. Christopher Simmons

death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in resp...

US Supreme Court and its Power

the government to an extent. They must abide by local and national laws. Yet, sometimes these laws are deemed unconstitutional by ...

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act and the American Government

request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. A patient can rescind a request...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...