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protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that no business or state shall deny a person based on their race or sex. Allan Bakke, the defendant in this case, actually applied to the university two…

knowing the arbitration agreement stated at the back of the document. The complainant argued that, the contract she had signed was invalid since it was totally misrepresented. The first thing she was arguing was the fraudulently of the arbitration clause, such that the arbitration agreement was not visible since it was written…

This all started when the state of Maryland placed a tax on the banknotes of the second bank in the United States. One of the cashiers ,James McCulloch, of the bank branch appealed to the supreme court. This certain bank happened to be the only bank that was uncharted. Which means there was a heavy tax laid on it. John Marshall declared the vote to the court. Marshall stated that the law says that the bank was a lawful instrument of specific federal authority, the tax was constitutional. The…

The United States Constitution was created for various amount of reasons. It is what makes up most of the US history and government. One of the reasons for the constitution was to bring together the 13 colonies after becoming free from the British. They have used the Articles of Confederation as a fix but then realized that it was not a permanent solution and was not a prospering system for all the states they set out to make a better and stronger central…

1. McCulloch v. Maryland Constitutional Question: Did Congress have the power under the Constitution to establish a national bank under Article 1, Section 8, and Clause 18 of the constitution and did Maryland unconstitutionally tax a branch of the national bank operating within its borders? Background information: The U.S government created the first national bank in 1791, while in 1816; the second national bank of the United States was created. Many branches of the Bank of the United…

Civil liberties include the rights such as free speech, privacy rights, free from unreasonable searches, and fair court trial. b. The 14th amendment 's equal protection clause. It specifies that no state shall reject any person with in its domain even, “the equal protection of the law." A primary motivation for this clause was to guarantee that all people have equal rights as much as white people do. c. The civil rights act of 1964-outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex…

the novel is short. “YOU don’t know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.” (1). This quote is made up of one coordinator, connecting the two independent clauses; the first clause fairly long compared to the second clause. The sentence is a compound one. The author writes this sentence and others short in the beginning to symbolize Huck’s mind. In the beginning Mark Twain writes about Huck thinking quickly. He didn’t think carefully…

It is not equal because all states have to send the same number of members to the Senate, even the smallest states. Slaves increase the proportion of members. In Article One, Section Two of the Constitution we are given the Three-fifths Clause which reads, “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including…

The United States Constitution grants Congress the ability “To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water (Article I, 2009)” in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11. However, it also states in Article II, Section 2, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States. (Article II, 2009)” These two sentences in the…

Chief Justice John Roberts stated that marriage is a matter of constitutional law. In Roe Vs Wade the court decided that abortion was protected under the Due process clause just like same sex marriage. The role of the court is not to make things legal that they personally feel is better for society. They go with what they perceive will be best for public policy. People who support same-sex marriage say that the country was already on its way toward fully legalizing it and that this decision just…