Essays on Constitution

Article Review

Natalie Wolchover in her article devoted to the issue of gun control develops her point through the dialogue prism. It means that the article does not itself support certain point of view, but insists on the need for the dialogue between two sides to reach the common ground. Ms. Wolchover bears in mind the tough situation in terms of the strong opposition to the gun control issues and, thus, supports the dialogue arguments. The author refers to the most-known scholars in the area of constitutional law from Harvard, who has a similar way of argumentation: firstly, the dialogue, then, ...

There are various instances where an officer in the criminal justice system finds themselves in situations where their integrity is put to test. One such instance is the scenario where a deli owner offers to pay for a sandwich that a uniformed police officer goes to buy. The professional and ethical standards that should be in place from the police department to assist the officer in his decision making is that a uniformed police should not accept gifts from civilians under any circumstances. This is because an officer who receives gifts from civilians might have a hard time maintaining ...

Where did the idea of the American Dream first originate? Immigrants to the New World were bent on creating a new society, one that thrived on democratic principles, where they could worship freely and having equal standing in the eyes of the law regardless of their financial situation or social status. We believe these ideas to be our own, but they are not; these ideas are not uniquely American ideas. They are drawn from the beliefs of the early Protestants, specifically the ideas of separation of church and state, equality for all and hard work and integrity. The first ...

The Issues

The Asian Americans are groups of the Asians that inhabit the United States of America. Critical issues are affecting the group. The issues may be considered adverse about how the minority groups live in America. One of the significant problems that the group faces includes lack of political access and limitation of minority rights. The issue is related to the political representation of the Asian Americans as well as the minimal rights they face as minorities within the United States of America (Lin and Scherz 13). For instance, there are no policies that exist to protect the interest of ...

Introduction

Marriage is the central issue of the family relations. The people of different religions, status and nationality enter into marriage in order to create valuable element of the society. For significant amount of people, the marriage plays crucial role in the further establishment of the priorities for living. Hence, the marriage can not be regarded as the trivial issue due to the consequences it causes. Besides, the current state of the globalization of the society and ongoing changes of the moral values have resulted into appearance of new social institutions as same-sex marriage. In fact, there are extremely opposing ...

Perhaps one of the most commonly known rights guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution is the Fourth Amendment’s “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches” (U.S. Const. amend IV). Interestingly, while the meaning of the term “unreasonable” might seem intuitive, the Framers of the Constitution did not provide a specific or detailed definition of it. However, after the Supreme Court; relying on the fact that Article III of the Constitution vested the Court with the judicial power to “all cases” that arise under the “Constitution, ...

A Review of Literature

INTRODUCTION The United States has currently been struggling with a great deal of political warfare, social unrest and public protest from the inside and from terrorism, global criticism and immigration battles from the outside. There are so many issues that the subjects of debate seem endless. One of the most controversial and often debated issues today is gun control. There is no doubt that it is incredibly dangerous when offenders are armed when they commit crimes like burglary or in a car-jacking; more so when these offenders have every premeditated intent to kill. At the same time, not everyone ...

Nebraska was the thirty seventh state admitted to the Union. It is located in the middle of the United States and borders the states of South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming. Initially, the state was used mostly as a point of rest as people travelled to the west, but the state eventually became a location for crop growing and cattle raising, ultimately establishing itself as a significant producer of food in the United States. Nebraska is nicknamed the Cornhusker State and has its capital in the city of Lincoln.

Nebraska Government

Separation of Powers Nebraska has three branches of government: ...

Introduction

Pre-Spanish Era Religious Practices Political Structure Material Culture Spanish Occupation Material Culture

The Culture after the Spanish Conquest

Religious Influence of the Catholic Spanish and the Remaining Ethnic Groups Influences of the Protestant Church Religious Fighting between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church Current Economic and Cultural Development Cultural Development Introduction Argentina is considered by Calvert, Donghi and Eidt (2016) as the eighth largest country in the world but is considered to be only third within Latin America (Buenos, 2014). The reason for this is that the land area of Argentina with 2.78 million square kilometers is larger than Mexico and the Texas state combined ( ...

Introduction

The federalists and the anti-federalists has critical and huge differences. The faith followed by the federalists can be superior to explain them as the supporter of the federal formation. The negotiation that took place in 1787 helped to build the formation of the US. The purpose of this writing is to discuss the political divide of that time.

Summary

The antifederalists were the one to stand against the formation of the US. The antifederalists groups failed to be powerful among the thirteen states as well as they had to work hard in order to get the approval at every single ...

Search and seizure legal procedures draw much controversy because most people have a high level of expectations regarding privacy. This high level of expectations can be traced back to England’s ‘castle doctrine’ wherein the law recognizes the right of a person to defend one’s home or property from unlawful entry (U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1992, p. 1199). Such expectations regarding privacy, however, is not absolute. In fact, the law provides that intrusion on private property can be made lawful under certain circumstances prescribed by the law. There are several provisions under the United States constitution that can ...

The Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) is the statute that allows for the recovery of damages against the United States (Cann 487). This Act allows prisoners of the federal government and pretrial detainees in federal correction facilities to file lawsuits against the United States if a federal officer injures them. The Federal Torts Claims Act enables a litigant to sue the federal government over torts committed by its employees (Cann 487). The United States has no qualified immunity under this Act. It is important to note that the Act does not limit a noncitizen from suing the federal government. ...

Emmanuel Kant describes enlightenment as a situation of self-awareness where an individual emerges from self-imposed immaturity. Thus, this state marks a transition from darkness to awareness, and it comes with freedom. Moreover, Kant regards immaturity as a complete inability of an individual to use his conscience or understanding without the intervening guidance of another person (Deligiorgi, 2005). A clear lack of resolve and courage precipitates to the denial of personal freedom, but an affliction on others for sole guidance. Principally, Kant’s assertion about enlightenment is entrenched on having the courage to use personal understanding and courage to dispense ...

Incident Background

It has come to the attention of the facility’s security management team that there is a plan to steal a portion of the facility’s nuclear waste and release it into the community. We believed that the threat is credible. Naturally, if such a release of nuclear waste were to occur, the potential loss of life and damage to the environment would be substantial. Accordingly, we have developed this incident action plan in order to effectively deal with the risk by either stopping it from ever happening or mitigating its effect and quickly resolving and problems in the ...

After reading the second chapter of the book, I learned that Constitutional democracy in the United States was not naturally implemented and practiced in the country. The constitution of the United States has undergone many amendments before it became the constitution that is no practiced and applied in the entirety of the country. During the years that the country was under the colonization of Great Britain, the need for concrete and strong laws to help build the nation again. After being colonized, the United States employed the use of a federal system of government. This means that the power ...

A. Beyond the merits of the case, the chances of Edie in winning this case depend completely on the investigation of the behaviour of the defendant as the reasonable person in the similar conditions. This approach is regarded as the main pillar of the tort law that is used for the determination of the liability between the parties during legal proceedings. With that, it should be noted that there are several cases when the applicant faces difficulties in proving fault for slip and fail accidents. There are several conditions that should be met established and proved in order to ...

There are some approaches to natural law. The first conception assumes that it exists independently and does not need to be recognized, found by anyone or declared. On the other side, the positive law has to be approved according to certain procedural standards. The positive law is limited, while the natural law of God or of Reason is limitless and universal (Silving 477). In other words, they are of different origin and have different power and procedure of adoption. These concepts fit into my understanding of the role of law in the community. Thus, it is well-known that there ...

How has the Constitution been able to remain a durable and viable instrument of government despite the enormous changes that have occurred in our society since its adoption? Discuss the issue in terms of specific changes. The Constitution speaks predominantly in terms of the protection of individual rights from governmental abuse or abridgment. What corresponding obligations and burdens must each citizen undertake or bear to ensure that everyone remains free to exercise these rights to their full extent? The criminal law, both procedural and substantive, is limited by the Bill of Rights in terms of protection of US population ...

Foremost, in the views of the Federalists, the only means through which the Constitution could maintain the partition of powers into the executive, legislative, and judiciary departments was through instructions incorporated into the structure of government. Accordingly, as Madison explains in Federalist #51, the Constitution gives each department “a will of its own” by ensuring that factors such as appointments are devoid of the other two’s influence. However, the new government gives more power to the “fountain of authority,” the citizens. By that logic, in the strictest sense, the people reserve the right to select the Head of ...

The Analysis of the Washington farewell

Introduction The farewell speech of Washington is a historical reference in the history of America. Washington used the speech to tell the citizens as a way to indicate that he was retiring from the office. In the farewell speech, he addressed some things that would one way, or another affect the living of the people and the country itself. For example, he talked about the importance of unity in all the states; he advised the citizens to live as members of the same country and not to live as members of a loose confederation of states. He said that ...

On March 23, 2010, Congress endorsed The Affordable Care Act [ACA], otherwise dubbed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA], into legislation as a measure to reform the nation’s healthcare system (Hill 445). The new health care statute encompassed improvements to “appropriate, reasonable, or essential” health benefits and measures to regulate health costs through rules and regulations for the health care industry and insurance companies (Hill 445-446). The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which includes Fiscal Responsibility Acts and Student Aid, also went into the amendment of the PPACA. Hence, the “ObamaCare” is the ...

Is this a task best handled by the courts?

The task of deciding whether the laws enacted by the government are consistent with the rules in the constitution is best handled by the courts. The nature of the court system in the United States allows those sitting judges, especially in higher offices, to make decisions that are outside the bounds of party politics (Marbury V. Madison 137). This allows the decisions to remain within the framework of the law.

Would your answer be different depending on whether the judges in such courts were elected or appointed for life?

If judges were elected then they would not function as well in this role. This is because they would then be given the incentive to make decisions that will ...

The United States of America has a storied and complex history. Because the beginnings of our nation transpired with rebellion, there is much controversy about when our nation actually became a nation. Many believe that it was the formal acknowledgement of our sovereignty by the nation that governed us, Great Britain. But the true answer is that our nation actually became a nation shortly thereafter, when the Articles of the Confederation were adopted and ratified by the colonies in 1777. The ratification of the Articles of the Confederation marked the first founding constitution of our country. Up until that ...

Introduction

In a landmark case, the judges concluded that for the success of a modern liberal nation, there must be a constitutional protection that ensures that the constitution promotes free expression “by establishing a marketable right to the use of one's expression, copyright supplies and the economic incentive to create and disseminate ideas”. Thus, by implication, copyright is supposed to be “an engine of free expression”. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the accuracy of the claim that copyright is an engine of free expression. The paper will critically assess the original position taken on copyright by the ...

Discussion 2

Californios? Manifest destiny was a concept used by the Americans as a vision to enhance the expansion of their country regarding its exceptional behaviour, its size and regarding the general importance of the country globally. California began growing rapidly when deposits of gold were found in it. Many people came to California to trade for gold in the gold rush, and in the process, California turned from a remote, deserted land to a busy growing place. For example, San Francisco substantially grew from a small settlement of about 800 people to a big city of about hundred thousand people ...

Introduction

Plato is one of the most influential philosophers in western philosophy. His main contribution in philosophical thought is the theory of ideas, also dubbed by many critiques as “Plato’s Idealism” (Nellickappilly 1). Upon careful analysis of Plato’s idealism, it is inferred that while it has many flaws, it still contributed significantly to the development of human knowledge and philosophical thought.

Strengths and Weaknesses

When it comes to flaws or weaknesses, diverse critiques point out that Plato’s idealism is not logical and is hard to understand. In order to understand these criticisms it is first essential to understand what this ...

The constitution of the United States provides balance war powers for the legislative and the executive branches of the government. During the war, the constitution provides the authority for the president to be the commander-in-chief or the highest governing individual. On the other hand, the authority to declare war is given by the constitution to the congress (Findley & Fraser, 2008). The division of powers according to constitution is considered harmonious until concerns and issues arose after the Vietnam War (Library of Congress, 2015). The congress has been concerned regarding the deployment of United States troops in hostile areas in ...

America was beginning to become a powerful and vital nation in the world in the twentieth century. Power was based on the assumption that Americans felt the abundant life, which was a promise to the world along with the concept and experience of freedom. However, freedom was not experienced by everyone at home in America. Black people felt oppressed and marginalized all the days of their life. In the 1920s, America was beginning to grab attention in the international scene. Europe was fading, while America was appearing as a dominant nation. However, this is not because of the popularity ...

Political parties and interest groups have similar as well as different roles. Political parties are nominating candidates, raising money, are running campaigns and are offering the support services for candidates of parties, they are promoting a set of values and opinions on various different issues. Parties organize the government, conventions and party functions. They have an effect on elections with recruiting candidates, nominating and supporting them, along with educating the electorate. Their role is the contribution to the legitimacy of the political system and providing a link between the citizens, different groups and the political systems. On the other ...

12 Questions 1 - Environmental law is the set of laws and treaties which governs the limits to which the human actions affects the environment around us. We need environmental law because without it the worsening situation of our earth cannot be controlled and the state of our environment will worsen even more than the current state. Environmental lawyers are needed to uphold the environmental laws so that the prosecutors can be brought in front of the law and served the rightful justice. 2 - The environmental law was first formed in the year 1970. The section which is ...

The Documents

The Declaration of Independence Among the founding documents of the American republic the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States share primacy. First in time was the Declaration of Independence. Prepared by the Continental Congress over a year after the American Revolution had started with the battles at Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, the Declaration was silent on the question of religious freedom. In Jefferson’s words, which still ring down across almost two and a half centuries, the Declaration is firmly based on the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and, of ...

The influx of drug-related criminals is the main cause of overcrowding in most correctional institutions across in the United States and specifically Texas. Offenders' numbers related to other crimes such as homicide, robbery, and burglary have remained steady over the number of years, but drug-related offenders are increasing leading to a high number of them behind bars in prisons across Texas. The problem is captured in a study by the state government which found out that six of ten prisoners in the state and federal facilities are convicted of drug possession or drug abuse charges. As such, this means ...

The United States of America have gone a fairly long way of establishment. Starting as a number of colonies, and ending up as one of the most powerful countries in the contemporary world, the U.S. has proved that nothing is impossible, and that mistakes can only lead to the better future. One of the greatest examples for this statement would be the existence of the Articles of Confederation, with all their vices, because it were the wrongs in this document that made it possible for the Constitution to be written. The present paper is meant to dwell upon the ...

Shaw v. Murphy 532 U.S. 223 (2001)

While Kevin Murphy was in the Montana State Prison, he became aware that a fellow inmate had been charged with assaulting an officer. He wrote and sent a letter to the prisoner offering to assist the accused inmate with I legal defense. However, as is the norm in prison the letter was intercepted and on the basis of the content of the letter, Murphy was sanctioned by the prison for violating the prison rules that prohibit insolence and interference with the due process hearings. Following the sanctions, Murphy sought a declaratory and ...

Freedom of Speech: The Right to Free Expression – Thailand versus Australia

Introduction The freedom of speech is one of the major branches or rather an indication of the level in which a nation has attained so far when it comes to democratic progress. Freedom of speech is a human right to freely express their thoughts, one of the most important civil liberties. A person's ability to act in accordance with their own interests and objectives, based on knowledge of objective independence, there is freedom. Freedom of expression is closely linked to issues of truth-seeking, self-management, flexibility of the political system, self-realization of the individual, natural rights and their protection. Freedom ...

The United States government involves the separation powers to give each segment of the government the freedom to execute its roles independently (Thurber & Antoine 123). Based on my opinion, Madison believes that the separation of powers in the governmental setting will lead to the subdivision of roles; the three arms of government will have the ability to operate independently of each, other. Additionally, the division of roles will make it easy for the government to handle various tasks bestowed upon it by its citizens (Thurber & Antoine 124). It will be possible for one arm of government to act as ...

Question 1 Response: Creating a new Constitution was vital to the unity of the United States of America since the Articles of Confederation weren’t sufficient for good government. If there was any evidence of this, it was that the United States was clearly bankrupt and now needed to be organized in such a manner that both the States and the Federal government had to share power in such a manner that everyone’s interests were kept in mind. A centralized approach was key to putting the country back on track. Hence, a meeting was held in the Pennsylvania ...

Part 1

Objective: in this critical analysis, you are expected to demonstrate an understanding of public health ethics and legal issues. Also, you are required to actively engage with the subject and come up with a substantial perspective on it.

Introduction

This critical analysis will outline the main purpose of the public health ethics and legal issues for protecting and upholding public health. Public policies and social programs are some of the aspects that constitute a good public health. Also, some patients with distinct issues contribute to the wellbeing of the public health, especially in a situation of unethical event regarding health ...

Introduction

Data from the US Census Bureau shows that in 2014, some 33 million people (10% of the population) in the United States did not have health insurance (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -OECD, 2015). While all governments should offer universal healthcare to their people, some poor countries have plenty of socio-economic complexities to handle it, and for now developed countries like the United States are the ones highly capable of offering free healthcare to all their citizenry. The United States has one of the most unstable healthcare systems in terms of its affordability and access to all citizens ...

The common resources are natural and cultural resources, and they include air, water, ocean and habitable earth. These common resources are accessible to all society members. The resources are not privately owned but instead are held in common. Due to a tragedy of commons, individual users of the shared resources act independently as directed by their self-interest and deplete the resources by behaving contrary to the shared resources. For instance, oceans as common resources are usually subjected to overexploitation and abuse since it is not private property. Since the competition of fisheries is high, the fishing firms demonstrate predatory ...

First Entry: My name is John Claude a thirty five years old male working as a Parish Priest of the First Estate. I have not married and I am not expected to marry because as a career priest I have vowed to abstain. We as the members of the First Estate believe that the Third Estate need to be taxed because they do not have power, they are in the lowest rank of the social scale and they consume significant resources. However, we cannot be taxed because people look at us for religious growth and education and we heavily ...

Policy Analysis: Issue of Health Disparities in Alaska Natives and American Indians

Health disparities among Alaska Natives and American Indians (AI/ANs) have been reported since the initial contact that occurred nearly 500 years in the past. Moreover, the disparities are common in every age and across a wide spectrum of various disease categories (Sarche & Spicer, 2008). Accordingly, AI/ANs endure persistent health disparities that include health status decline, barriers to essential health services, and high uninsured rates. The group also experiences a lower status of health in comparison to other Americans (Frizzell, 2016). The disproportionate burden of disease and reduced life expectancy in AI/ANs can be attributed to cultural differences, discrimination in ...

The chapter discusses the histories of the ruling families of Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. Many of these families shares same origins, but with time they broke away and founded their own kingdoms and developed their own rules.

Al Sabah Family of Kuwait

The founder of the Al Sabah family ruling over Kuwait was Sabah bin Jabir who was from the Utub tribe. The Utub tribe is part of the Anaiza tribal confederation, from which the Al Saud family of Saudi Arabia belongs. Sabah bin Jabir is also credited with the founding of the state of Kuwait. The Utub tribe is also the source of ...

According to current population reports, 28.5 million of the United States population remained uninsured. Of the 34 member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United States, Poland, ad Greece are the only countries without a universal healthcare system. In many of the cases, advocates for the right to health care often argue that no individual in the developed countries like the United States ought to go without a health insurance. In their arguments, they admit that a right to health care would halt medical bankruptcies, enhance public health, and reduce the general costs of ...

Question 1

The political climate in Kenya is majorly shaped by the domestic tensions that have occurred in the past. The climate is also determined by the contestation that has resulted from the high corruption levels and abuse and centralization of the political power. The long process of reviewing the constitution in the country as well as the post-election violence have set the political climate. With an approved new constitution, the country is relatively peaceful as well as transiting from all the political crisis in the past. The political climate in Kenya has affected the gender equality in terms of the ...

The exclusionary rule holds that, when the police violate a suspect’s constitutional rights, that suspect has the option of requesting a court to “exclude” or declare inadmissible any evidence that was obtained as a result of the constitutional violation. The exclusionary rule is not a constitutional right but rather a judicial tool established by the Supreme Court in 1914, as a means of deterring police officers and law enforcement officials from violating the Constitution when arresting suspects and conducting criminal investigation (Weeks v. United States, 1914). Up until 1961, the exclusionary rule was only available to defendants in ...

This paper is about Freddie Lee Hall and the review of the case Hall v Florida No. 12-10882 (2014), with reference to Atkins v Virginia. Mr. Hall committed multiple crimes of rape, kidnap, robbery and murder, although with an accomplice in 1978. There was an effort to refute his claims of being intellectually challenged because of the degree of planning needed to conduct such a robbery and also a consideration of the fact that he had an IQ score of 71. Automatically, the fact that he killed two people, one of them a deputy, should have gotten him a ...

Introduction

Law enforcement has turned out to be extremely challenging in the contemporary changing social and cultural climate. It has continued to experience a range of challenges that are generated by the existing environment. The law enforcement practices, as well as policies, have received a lot of public scrutiny. Terrorism, large-scale population movements, globalization, and entrenched social problems have made the enforcement of the law, especially by the police, more challenging. The contemporary policing is primarily marked by the uncertainty and broadening of crime deterrence problems. Among the law enforcement officers, the police have been scrutinized heavily by the public. ...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law that restricts freedom of expression or of the press. Such wording restricts state power as a greater and a lesser degree compared to what it could do in this regard if the wording used in the literal sense. The said formulation limits the power of the state to a greater extent in the sense that it applies not only to Congress but to all branches of the federal government, all branches of state governments and local authorities. The wording in question, limit state power to ...

Learning Activity 1

QA answer Ohio court has the jurisdiction to handle this case but not Texas. Although the involved parties cut across the two states, Ohio has the personal jurisdiction because the Flower World Business is in that state. In other words, the defendant involved case is physically located in Ohio and this is the area where the investigation should be conducted. The best way to determine the jurisdiction is to look at the court that will have both personal and subject matter jurisdiction over the defendant of the case as argued by Orakhelashvili (n.d.).

QB Answer

Legally, the type of jurisdiction that ...

Introduction

There are numerous debates about the death penalty in the United States. America continues to allow states to decide whether to apply the death penalty or not. There are 32 states in America that have the death penalty as opposed to 18 states that have abolished the practice. The United States of America continues to act as the leader of the free world. American exceptionalism is premised on the fact that America is a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberties. America has led the process of exporting liberal democracies around the world and many nations ...

Federalism in the United States has evolved over the past 200 years from an arrangement where state and national government powers and responsibilities were clearly distinct and separate, to one in which the line of distinction between the two has blurred. When the framers drafted the Constitution, they provided separate powers to the federal government in Article One. A few of these clauses extended the power of the national government in order to prevent the hazards faced by the Articles of Confederation. In order to ensure that limitations still existed on the federal government, the Tenth Amendment was included. ...

Business Research on India

Business Research on India The Republic of India was considered by the Asia Society (2016) as a former colony under the British Empire along with the East and West portions of Pakistan. But this was further subdivided into the Princely states and the 11 provinces of British India (ClearIAS, 2015) until its independence on August 15, 1947 (Mayor, 2003, p.77). The constitution implemented in the country is based on the legacy systems that were developed during the British India resulting in a Parliamentary form with a Federal government rule (ClearIAS, 2015). The implication of which is that the executive ...

Is the Separation of Church and State in America Real?

Is the Separation of Church and State in America Real?

Introduction

The United States is supposed to be a nation in which there is a defined separation of church and state. This means that anything the provides preference of one religion over another should not be permitted in public institutions. These institutions include, public schools, federal buildings, the federal government, and the White House. However, due to machinations of numerous political parties throughout America’s history the separation of church and state is not as defined as it is supposed to be. Many Christian groups have continually fought to push ...

Central to the 1956 penning of the Southern Manifesto was the decision to resist the directives that the Supreme Court issued after the Brown v. Board of Education case. Apparently, the mandate sought to desegregate public schools in the United States and among the white supremacists in the South, such a move was a threat to the color line. First, according to the document, the Brown decision was a threat to the people as its effects were going to “[destroy] the amicable relations between the white and Negro races” (Foner 254). Because segregation entailed separating the populace based on ...

The right to counsel is often considered as a right to a fair trial as enshrined in the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Amendment states that it is the right of a defendant to be represented by an attorney. In case they cannot afford legal services, the government is mandated to ensure that they are represented by a legal counsel. Every defendant has the constitutional right to be represented by legal aid (Silva, 2012). The right to legal counsel was successfully pushed for by an unlikely America hero by the name Clarence Earl Gideon. He successfully ...

INTRODUCTION

There are some events in the course of the world’s growth and development that seem likely to occur; people will experience conflict, social unrest, possible warfare and any number of natural disasters that can devastate communities all across the globe. In the modern era one of the most terrifying of occurrences are terrorist attacks. Terrorist threats can exist unnoticed; no one knows when they may occur and what public place, government buildings or function that may be targeted. This makes terrorist attacks a huge source of stress, fear and shock for the people and for the governments involved. ...

In terms of judicial interpretation, the fact of the matter is that there is no one “proper” way to interpret the Constitution; there is a wrong way to interpret it. Moreover, as all judges are human, there is no way that a judge can or will be able to separate completely, who they are and, as Justice Sotomayor said, their “background and experiences,” from their judicial decision-making. For example, an African American or Latino judge that has been profiled by a police officer during their youth must necessarily have a different interpretation of the parameters of the Fourth Amendment ...

Williams v Pennsylvania (2016) was brought to the Supreme Court by Williams who was found guilty of murder back in 1984 and sentenced to death because he claimed that the prosecution not only utilized false testimony but withheld evidence that could have led to his exoneration (Supreme Court, 2016). I found this particular case interesting due to its conclusion where the petitioner was ultimately denied his appeal even after his allegations were proven by the PCRA (Supreme Court, 2016) which just goes to show how even if the filer was in the right, the law still refused to rescue ...

I. Introduction A corporation is a common type of business organization in which its owners have the ability to use it as a separate, and distinct legal entity. One of the primary differences between a corporation and other types of business organizations, such as a sole proprietorship or general partnership, is that a duly formed corporation is, legally a person. Moreover, under the law, a corporation is a legal person who the owners, in essence, can control and direct to carry out a range of activities. To be sure, corporations are deemed to have a personality or personhood, including ...