Welfare rights movement
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
The successes and failures of any rights movements can be defined by the victories and losses in the courtroom. The welfare rights movement had forward leaps and backward stumbles in its duration from 1960 to 1973 and Supreme Court cases to coincide. The movement's successes can be...
Death penalty: does the U.S. really need capital punishment?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
Capital punishment, which is the act of killing a criminal for a terrible crime, is a controversial subject in the United States. Over the course of history, public opinion has wavered on whether or not the death penalty should be administered. Decades ago in the 1970's, for example, public...
The British Constitution: debate about constitutional reform
Essay - 4 pages - Constitutional law
Once widely admired, especially during the seventeenth century by French philosophers, the British constitution has now become a target for criticism. There have been strong debates regarding constitutional reforms that emerged after the democratic reforms of the nineteenth century to the...
Bobby v. Dixon: Does the denial of Miranda taint a later, proper confession?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Archie Dixon, a murder suspect, claimed that the police violated his rights because they ignored his request for an attorney and by failing to Mirandize him when he was detained for forgery during a murder investigation. In a later relating to the investigation, Dixon was read his rights, and he...
Eminent Domain Use and Abuse in Long Branch, New Jersey
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
Eminent domain is, at its essence, the power of a governmental entity to take private real estate for public use, with or without the permission of its owner. The right is most often exercised as a last resort, when all other avenues of negotiations have failed, to acquire land for the...
Legal and economic analysis of the use of performance enhancing drugs
Thesis - 13 pages - Medical studies
Drug testing of athletes has been a controversial issue since the dawn of sports competition. The use of performance enhancing drugs remains a heavily debated issue of sports policy that has reached the congressional and Supreme Court level. Athletes of all ages use performance...
Feminism in France and in the US: A comparison
Thesis - 11 pages - Sociology
In 1991, the American feminist movement was revived by the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas case. In the same year, Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court nominee was accused a few days before his appointment of sexual harassment by one of his former co-workers, the Law Professor Anita Hill....
Criminal Evidence and Procedure- if judge decides to exclude the evidence can the prosecution introduce it at the trial?
Case study - 3 pages - Criminal law
The evidence falls under the Exclusionary Rule, which prevents the prosecutor from relying on evidence gathered through means that violate the Constitution. There was no search warrant in getting the evidence and it resulted in illegal search and seizure which is against the dictates in the...
Lower-class youth delinquency and incarceration in the United States
Essay - 5 pages - Criminal law
In 2016 in the United States, 11,745 youths were sentenced either to life with/without parole, or virtual life imprisonment (Sentencing Project, 2019). Thankfully, the Supreme Court barred the death sentence of youth offenders (Roper v. Simmons, 2005) even though life without parole...
Individualization the penalty for heinous crimes
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The past fifteen years in force gives law a tight vote (6x5) or the Supreme Court which declared unconstitutional laws on the art. Then it established penalty for heinous crimes that was complied with in dated regime. This issue deserves wide discussion in society, being...
Class action litigation
Essay - 2 pages - Services marketing
Class actions are a unique yet contentious procedural mechanism in which a single person represents the interests of a group of plaintiffs, who will collectively share in any damages rewarded. Allegedly, the use of this procedural method provides redress to many societal wrongs that may otherwise...
Is it a human rights violation and not enforcing the law
Thesis - 13 pages - Civil law
In Deshaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a U.S. state's failure to protect an individual against private violence generally does not constitute a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. The court...
Law, morality and religion
Thesis - 8 pages - Humanities/philosophy
On June 26, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law prohibiting the practice of sodomy "with a person of the same sex" unconstitutional, in the State of Texas. This called into question the laws that ban hanging in 13 U.S. states and homosexual practices, even in a private...
The army corps of engineers and their importance to trout streams.
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
The Army Corps of Engineers is the agent of land and waters resource projects. Its mission is to manage and conserve all the natural resources in consistency with the ecosystem management principles. It provides quality public outdoor recreational experience in order to serve the present and...
Constitutional and Administrative Issues
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Daniel C. Smith is an employee of the RidgeMont Township Board of Education. He serves as a high school teacher. He has served under the board for 20 years. Mr. Daniel telephoned the Bill Gallo show in New York City. He proceeded to enter into a discussion with the host of the show letting him...
U.S. history: America before and after 9/11
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
In 2001 after a controversial election, the U.S. had a new President, George W. Bush. Bush had lost the popular vote to Al Gore but had won the election due to the electoral college. But even in the case of the electoral college, he only won because of Florida, which he had only narrowly won by...
International law and normative unity
Thesis - 5 pages - International law
In the Supreme Court of Canada's 1993 judgment in Hunt v. T & N Plc, Justice La Forest laid down the following goal to international law : “develop (…) co-ordination in the face of [the] diversity” of the international system. In other words, international law has to...
"Freakonomics" of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (2OO5)
Thesis - 13 pages - Economy general
Unlike the corporation that attempts to describe the living world as we would prefer, the economy seeks to describe the actual working based on incentive mechanisms. This field of study is not limited to businesses, unemployment and growth: it can provide an analytical model for virtually all...
Deterministic Human Freedom
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
One of the key contemporary issues identified in society is the use of contraceptives. Recently there has been a controversial debate about the use of contraceptives. We cannot refute the reality that technology has taken over every aspect of life. We should also recognize the reality that the...
Inside criminal law
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
There are four sources of American criminal law. The four sources have been codified. They have been put in writing and made accessible for all. The first of four sources is the U.S. Constitution. “The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. As such, it is the basis of all...
An investigation into the general issue of censorship on college campuses
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
This issue of censorship is one that continues to promulgate considerable public debate. While some individuals believe that social and government institutions have an obligation to protect the general public from materials that may be harmful or offensive, other individuals firmly believe that...
The Comeback Kids
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The greatest among us once were small. The movies 8 Mile and Ali showcase how two historical figures who are still alive today, Marshall Mathers (Eminem) and Muhammad Ali, succeeded despite facing great obstacles throughout their lives. The biographical film, Ali¸ directed by Michael Mann,...
Is there a French Affirmative Action Policy?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Affirmative action was born in the United States. It was originally designed to favour Black people, whose ancestors where slaves. Then, such programs extended to other underprivileged categories of the population: the disabled, the women, the Latinos. The first to use the phrase...
Illinois state constitution vis-a-vis federal constitution
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
In state constitutions, more rights are expressly enumerated than in the federal Bill of Rights. In Illinois, its constitution contains all of the protections afforded in the federal Bill of Rights and much of the same language as well. It also contains further rights such as Crime Victim's...
Judicial activism in Canada
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In 1982, Canada has known a very significant shift with the adoption of the Charter of Right of Freedom. Before this date, Canada only had a Bill of Rights (1960's) which was a statute and did not allow the courts to restrict the action of the Parliament. But the 1982 Charter of Rights...
Primacy / Supremacy of European Community Law against Sovereignty of the Member States
Essay - 25 pages - European law
Today the European Union (EU) consists of 27 Member States; it reaches from the Atlantic coast of Western Europe all the way to the Black Sea of Eastern Europe. In the European Union, the most important and closest collaboration between the Member States happens via the European Community (EC)....
Essay on "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Dr. Martin Luther King, raises an interesting point about the civil right's movement. He notes those who rallied for the government to enforce the landmark decision of 1954, in which the Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of the school...
The role of litigation in intercollegiate athletics of title IX
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act reads “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial...
To what extent might the constitution of the United Kingdom be improved if provisions from the constitutions of other states were incorporated into it?
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
All modern states have a constitution, albeit each is very different. The main purpose of a constitution is to restrain government, in the sense of ensuring that governments are not arbitrary. Government must be carried out according to established rules. These rules are the constitution. The...
The separation of powers, checks and balances in the United States
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
The American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' It is with these words that William Gladstone describes the Supreme Law of the United States. This famous document, written by the Founding Fathers and ratified in 1789,...
