American Civil Liberties Union

when, while sitting in his office at the coal yard, he spotted a story in that same paper. The story in the May 4th edition quoted an American Civil Liberties Union chairperson, Professor Charles Skinner, as saying the organization was “looking for a Tennessee teacher who is willing to accept our services in testing this law in the courts”,” Scientific American, in which there is an article by Fay-Cooper Cole, a witness for the defense at the trial, says, “24-year-old John Thomas Scopes, found…

Epperson v. Arkansas in 1968. The US Supreme Court ruled that the Arkansas anti-evolution law violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution . Bibliography Craig, Maury. Scopes Monkey Trial: A Defining Event In American History. Amazon Kindle, 2013. Foote, Fred. The Complete Scopes Trial Transcript. Electronic Version. Amazon Kindle, 2012. Hannon, Michael. "Scopes Trial (1925)." University of Minnesota Law LIbrary. May 2010.…

Citation Gardner; re BWV [2003] VSC 173 Jurisdiction Supreme Court of Victoria Single Judge: Morris J Procedural History First instance – Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) Present Case- Supreme Court of Victoria Facts BWV is critically ill and has a degenerating form of dementia which inhibits her cognitive functions. BWV obtains essential fluids and nutrition to keep her alive, through a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (“PEG”). The medical witnesses who…

“Don 't Abandon Due Process, Not Even For Terrorism”, is an article written on September twenty-second by Andrew Napolitano. The article discusses the use by the American Justice system of the practice of Due Process in extreme cases such as terrorism. Due Process is defined as, “fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen 's entitlement”. Since the turn of the twenty first century there has been a worldwide increase in the amount of large scale terror attacks…

Information policy is one of the most ancient forms of governance. Due to our practice laws been diverse and fragment it’s helpful to think of them as elements in a system. Information policy system is open constantly and it’s affected by a lot of changes in the environment. The center of system is constitutional elements drawn from the words of the constitution and Supreme Court of calculated form of government that protect the rights of expression and political action. The constitution…

tragedy that happened on September 11th, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York. As of December 2011 the Patriot Act has prevented over 42 terrorist attacks on American soil, that’s…

name a few. At the heart of it, the patriot act violates certain constitutional amendments that should not have been violated by the executive. Nor should the branches of government been as passive and lazy as they been in time of crisis, and the American people should have been far angrier and less apathetic towards the Patriot act. Only a handful of sections within the Patriot act can be described as unconstitutional. The sections that are described as being unconstitutional go against the…

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. Three years ago, after the Edward Snowden revealed the massive surveillance program conducted by the U.S. Government, made it clear that we are living in an age where our information is being stored digitally. This had resulted in an ongoing debate between on balancing of national security and civil liberties. The government, however, argues that it is…

Liberty refers to a state of individual freedom in the society where individuals are free from oppressive restrictions that are imposed by an agent of authority upon their lifestyles and behavior. In the modern society, the inadequacy of liberty has become one of the biggest social problems. As each day goes by, governments are finding new ways to infringe the liberty of citizens with the most common ways being such as censorship and limited freedom of expression. At times, the limitation even…

in women’s basic liberties being overtaken by the state’s interests. As a result, states can continue to restrict a women from having an abortion after their interpretation of when fetal viability occurs. The court’s ruling ultimately is unconstitutional, as the basic reproductive rights have been taken away from women. The state’s interest in the development of unborn fetuses, along with their interpretations of when viability occurs, ultimately infringes upon women’s liberties that are granted…