Constitutionality

A plea bargain is a procedure that prosecutors use to avoid a trial as juries or even judges can be unpredictable in their behavior and may rule against them. Prosecutors like sure things as does the State and a plea bargain gains an admission of guilt without the right to an appeal in exchange for leniency. However, a plea bargain may induce prosecutors to over-charge a suspect in an attempt to bully them into gaining a plea bargain. Plea bargains are also not conducted in open court so there…

year old boy became the first juvenile sentenced to death in colonial America. Over three centuries later, the Supreme Court established 16 as the very minimum age for an offender to be sentenced to death. Despite the courts recognition of the constitutionality of the practice,…

In September 2015, Pope Francis urged the United States to abolish the death penalty during an address to Congress. Similar to the previous pope, Pope Francis advocated abolition because “every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes” (“Address of the Holy Father”). Although the Roman Catholic Church now opposes capital punishment, their strong stance for abolition is fairly…

There are conflicting views on the degree of damage that access to Internet can do to our society. A large number of people claim that as more and more people become familiar with Internet, the potential of its damage grows to an uncontrollable rate. Whereas some people claim that any regulation to limit the access of Internet is an act of violation against their first amendment rights. Because in some cases there are no restriction to what can be put one the internet, what can be viewed on the…

The “Separation of Powers” has been included as part of the U.S. Constitution and also divides them into the three branches: the executive, the legislature, and the judicial. The government limits the roles in equal amount, so that no other branch becomes more powerful than another. The reason for the separation of powers is important because they have roles which are laws we must obey and not break the laws when it comes to the three branches. They wrote the U.S. Constitution and the division…

passed by congress. We also have the lower number of judges and law, not the constitution, dictates the structure of the lower courts. Then we have Supreme Court. This is the highest court in the judicial branch. They have the final say on the constitutionality of all cases. The legislative branch consists of Congress. Therefore the Congresses main purpose is to create laws and legislation. The Congress sees over the execution of these laws, and checks the judicial and executive branches…

If the Supreme Court didn't have the power to overturn unconstitutional federal laws, then who would? Without the supreme court, the other two branches will be overpowering. The United States can’t have a workable system of the government without the judicial branch. The Judicial branch act as a tiebreaker for the legislative branch and executive branch. And those three are the reason to prevent the government from overpower. Without them, it will lead to chaos, and nobody makes a decision. The…

Tara Mikaelian POL 343—Fall 2015 President Nixon’s Infiltration of Cambodia In 1970, President Richard Nixon invaded Cambodia, on behalf of Khmer Republic and South Vietnam. Although this action kept with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, regarding constitutional authorization, the bombings lacked congressional awareness; thereby stripping Congress of the opportunity to rescind their prior granted authorization. The bombings of Cambodia failed to give Congress the opportunity to rescind…

And when we went to the internment camp, guard towers, double security fence and all that, I really wondered what’s going to happen to us. You know, that this is just the beginning and they may very well send us back to Japan. And that, to me, was horrible. I, in my heart, knew my loyalty belongs to America. I went to school, pledged allegiance every morning in grammar school. And for me to think that I may be sent to Japan was horrendous. And so that was sort of a nightmare. —Susumu Satow, THE…

The Jackson administration was a great crime in the history of the United States, President Andrew Jackson has managed to bring continual destruction to our nation. For three main reasons were the charges placed upon President Jackson; the first reason, in which Pres. Jackson destroyed the separation of powers by illegally increasing the pre-established powers of a President. For the second justification, was when he weakened the federal system of government by impairing the power of state…