Essays on Earl Warren

After the American Civil War of between 1861and 1865, the federal government abolished slavery in the United States through the endorsement of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Subsequently, before the law, persons of African descent were free from the yoke of bondage and concurrently, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments declared black people as citizens of the United States and gave them the rights to vote respectively. In other words, racial divisions were no longer recognizable before the law and as a result, equality among blacks and whites was possible. The problem was that white supremacy was not a ...

Introduction

While this crime has happened decades ago, it still haunts the minds of investigators, experts, and historians. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the mysteries that has remained unraveled until these days. Myriads of conspiracy theories linking together the CIA, FBI, KGB, Cuba, and Lyndon B. Johnson, were the result of, as experts admitted, an ambiguous and negligent official report. The assassination of JFK was particularly sudden and shocking for the American people, which required a close and meticulous examination. On November, 1963 President of the U.S. Lyndon B. Johnson has created a special commission for ...

Designation: ______________________________________

Earl Warren was nominated as a Supreme Court judgepursuant to three years as California’s governor. This followed posta failed attempt to be a presidential nominee for republicans in 1952. He is famously acknowledged for his affable ways and likeable character. Warren fought vigorously for achieving consensus on multiple controversial issues. He was responsible for some key compromises that enabled apprehensive justices to reinforce his ranks and also deployed a substantial amount of diplomacy to this effect. The Warren Court has been on the receiving end of both adulation and opposition for its improvised constitutional judgments and its contemplation of the judiciary ...

Arunabha Banerjee

Senior Associate, Corporate & Compliance Solutions, Thomson Reuters Abstract This article proposes to compare the reigns of Chief Justice Earl Warren and William Rehnquist, two stalwarts of the Federal Supreme Court, in influencing civil rights protection jurisprudence in the history of American Constitutional law. After individually addressing key aspects of their respective tenures, the article delves into a comparative analysis and examines recent trends in protection of civil liberties in light of past developments and future prospects. Keywords: Supreme Court, Warren, Rehnquist, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Constitution, National Security

Introduction

The Federal Supreme Court in the United States of ...

Section 1: US Government

When the US constitution was set up, the founders divided the new government into three co-equal branches of government: The Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial. Each was given separate areas of responsibilities, that were designed to make the branches work together to govern the county. The idea was that no one branch would grow to dominate the other two. To make sure that didn’t happen, the founders built a system of checks and balances into the constitution. This system consists of a series of powers that each branch has over the other two, to prevent any one branch from ...

Political history has been shaped by various people and historical events in the state. Some of these people are; Earl Warren, Goodwin Night, Ronald Reagan. On the other hand, historical events such as the Ronald Reagan election as governor in 1962, removal of ``west coast Japanese” to camps in 1942, Watts riot in 1965 and California becoming one of the popular states in 1962 due to Richard Nixon attempt to defeat Governor Brown which intensified conflicts between the democrats and republicans further contributed to the politics of California. Earl Warren is a very important person in California politics due ...

(CANADIAN LAW, STATE AND CONSTITUTION)

Introduction

It is common for a trend to emerge in the process through which a country’s judiciary takes a given field of law and for how the law based approach evolves in a gradual manner over a given time period. In most cases different judicial eras often emerges in a delineated way, reflecting some changes in the human rights, even in the nation’s highest level court. In promotion of human rights, the pattern emerging in Canada is popularly defined as fast moving and a highly accelerating roller like coaster ride. At some occasion, the Canadian judicial system led by the ...