Essays Tagged: "United States Supreme Court"

Death Penalty and the Eight Amendment

y, murderers have been getting a punishment equal to their crime, death. In 1967, executions in the United States were temporarily suspended to give the federal appellate courts time to decide whether ... ate courts time to decide whether or not the death penalty was unconstitutional. Then, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of "Furman versus Georgia" that the death penalty viol ...

(5 pages) 229 0 4.1 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

The United States Supreme Court

THE UNITED STATESSUPREMECOURTI've chosen to research on the Supreme Court and it's Justices. This seemed ... sting topic to me, because someday I want to be a part of the legal system.The Supreme Court of the United States, composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices, is at the apex of the U.S. ... six members in 1789 and had as many as ten justices in the period 1863-66. The Supreme Court of the United States is unique because it serves two functions, each of which must be carried on in a subtl ...

(8 pages) 388 0 4.2 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Abortion

r the 13th week of pregnancy. Before the right of a woman to obtain an abortion was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in the 1973 ruling on Roe vs. Wade, many abortions were performed illega ... ordered it to be made available. The use of RU 486 was supported by family-planning agencies in the United States, France, and elsewhere and by the World Health Organization and the World Congress of ...

(3 pages) 117 0 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Capital Punishment, should it or should it not be used in today's criminal judging system

lty has been opposed by the people since the beginning of it's era, which was around 1976, when the United States Supreme Court declared that the death penalty was not against the Constitution. But if ... ions' Between the years of 1930 and 1940 the African Americans only made up about 12 percent of the United States' population, but between those times they also made up about 51 percent of the people ...

(6 pages) 144 0 1.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Benefits of Incorporating a Company

siness, first I should try to explain what a corporation is. In 1819, Chief Justice Marshall of the United States Supreme court said: ' A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and ...

(2 pages) 90 0 4.5 Feb/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Civil War Facts

1) Compromise of 1850 : It's a series of compromises passed by United States congress in order to settle slavery issues. It was used to balance pro and anti slave ... balance pro and anti slave states. (36 -30)2)3) John Calhoun: (1782-1850) Political leader who was United States congressman, Secretary of war, Vice President (1825-1832) senator and secretary of sta ... y years. He was a nationalist, devoted to the economic development and political integration of the United States.4) Daniel Webster: Practice as a lawyer before the United States supreme court and ser ...

(3 pages) 140 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Abortion - Legality, Morality and The Catholic Church. This paper discusses the legal and moral issues surrounding aborion, also the veiw of the catholic church.

The 1973 United States Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decisin, while providing for some semblance of legal struct ...

(6 pages) 208 3 3.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Exclusionary Rule

The Exclusionary RuleOne of the most controversial and historical rulings that the United StatesSupreme Court has handed down was in 1961 Mapp v. Ohio ruling that extended "The Exclus ... s changed American justice and law enforcement procedure.The exclusionary rule was developed by the United States Supreme Courtstating that any and all evidence that is obtained in violation of a citi ... ment officials (Ferdico 76-77).The exclusionary was first developed in 1914 in the case of Weeks v. UnitedStates, though it was limited to a prohibition on the use of evidence illegally obtained by fe ...

(5 pages) 390 1 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

This is a persuasive paper on capital punishment.

From 1967 until 1972, the United States Supreme Court debated on whether or not capital punishment is constitutional. On June ... in all but 12 states. From January 1977 through April 2001, 710 executions were carried out in the United States. 545 were by lethal injection, 149 by electrocution, 11 by gas chamber, three by hangi ... wo by firing squads. Although more than 105 nations worldwide have abolished the death penalty, the United States, along with countries notorious for abusing human rights, are major advocators and use ...

(3 pages) 181 1 1.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Public School Vouchers.

tracted attention over the last decade, climaxing with a final decision of constitutionality by the United States Supreme Court expected by June 2002. School vouchers are different from other educatio ... l issue its ruling of whether school vouchers violate the separation of church and state. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU) points out that 85% of voucher students attend a ...

(10 pages) 169 0 4.6 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

"Feminism" This is a personnel review of how feminism has changed from my mothers generation to the present.

trol pill was legalized thus spawning the "sexual revolution" and of course the still controversial United States Supreme Court Ruling of Roe v. Wade which determined that women have the right to term ...

(4 pages) 244 3 4.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

This is a presuasive essay on Capital Punishment. This essay has a pro-capital punishment stance. Argues against common statements used to challenge the death penalty.

ult issue to address and has been the subject of highly controversial debates over the decades. The United States Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was a form of cruel ...

(3 pages) 370 3 4.6 Sep/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Partial Abortion Ban Law. What does this law do to the women of the United States? What are some of the consequenses?

must go back to the facts and where it all began.In 1973, in the landmark case of Roe vs. Wade, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution pr ... for women to obtain abortions. Since then abortion has been an important controversial issue to the United States. The problem begins with should it be a woman's choice whether or not to terminate her ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Legalized Discrimination in America this paper is about how affirmative action is a form of legalized discrimination towards whites in the United states.

United States history is filled with discrimination and injustice. Many Americans have fought for eq ... ination and should be abolished.For years minority groups have fought for their civil rights in the United States. African Americans, Native Americans, women and the disabled have won numerous civil r ... ority people get an advantage over white males when it comes to receiving education and jobs in the United States. Affirmative action discriminates against the majority of the United States population ...

(4 pages) 204 1 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

This is an overview of the landmark Engel v. Vitale Supreme Court case in 1962 regarding religion in school.

Engel v. Vitale is a landmark 1962 United States Supreme Court case which declared the inclusion of state-sponsored school prayer, even ... ing an establishment of religion or its free exercise. This case has been monumental to that of the United States and continues to apply to recent United States Supreme Court cases which deliberate ab ... New York Court of Appeals which once again, sustained the same ruling. Finally, he appealed to the United States Supreme Court who would recognize the case.As the case began, Engel maintained his pos ...

(3 pages) 63 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

When God Speaks, Who Will Listen?

In 1962, the United States Supreme Court made a ruling on a case that would change the face of American schools f ...

(5 pages) 67 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Capital Punishment Should be Abolished. This is an argumentative essay written in opposition to capital punishment.

ruel and unusual punishments inflicted," thus reads the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The term "cruel and unusual" first appeared in the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Th ... a part of our civilization, in the 1970's it came under close scrutiny by the Supreme Court of the United States and it has somewhat remained an issue ever since. The landmark decision in 1976 ...

(9 pages) 542 2 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Role of the United States Supreme Court in obtaining equality for Blacks during Reconstruction

The role played by the United States' Supreme Court in obtaining equality for Black Americans was one of immense stature. T ... s and the 1960's) that supported Black civil rights as to opposing them as this one did. The United States government finally let the South know that it would not tolerate the treatment of Blac ...

(6 pages) 52 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

An essay focusing mostly on the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case, and on the issues raised by affirmitive action. 400 words.

niversity of California v. Bakke". The case traveled through the California courts, and then to the United States Supreme Court October 12th, 1977. The Supreme court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of Ba ...

(2 pages) 47 0 4.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Change The Law of Abortion

ocent babies are being killed, and it will affect teenagers' lives when they get older.In 1973, the United States Supreme Court made a decision that women have a constitutional right to decide whether ... or not to terminate a pregnancy. Abortion became legal across the nation. This law has been in the United States for twenty-seven years now. It is time to change this law and make abortion illegal ac ...

(3 pages) 33 0 2.5 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing