Constitutionality

Despite being a liberal democrat her entire life, my grandmother, along with her family, has always supported the death penalty. She believed that there were some crimes committed where the criminal deserved to die. I remember having a conversation with her in 2014 where we discussed the death penalty. I told her I opposed it and she told me I was wrong for that and that some people did not deserve to live after committing very serious crimes, such as murder or in certain rape cases. However,…

NOVEMBER TERM, 2014 Justice JACKSON, A., writing for the majority SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES WEST CENTRAL DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY v. THE ASIAN SOCIETY AND THE SONS OF THE CONFEDERACY CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS *Decided November 7, 2014* West Central Dixie State University was once known as a stronghold of the Old South and Jim Crow policies. The all-segregated university was known for resisting efforts by civil rights activists and federal courts to bring…

government. Through our three branches of government, they have the ability to check on each other in order to prevent any branch from gaining too much power. The president can veto laws proposed by Congress, the Supreme Court can check the constitutionality of a law, and Congress can impeach the president. The president has the power to nominate someone to the Superior Court, but Senate has to confirm the appointment. In fact, Madison believed that the way to keep politicians honest was by…

Through relentless effort and well thought out political strategies, Abraham Lincoln drafted and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Honorable as the notion of freedom for all may seem now and to certain groups at the time, the order was very controversial and vastly unwelcome. Slavery was a widespread disease killing the United States, dividing the country, and mutilating the freedom the United States was supposed to stand for. Slave states couldn’t see the hardship they were placing on…

The Supreme Court has been vested with the force of Judicial review. It implies that the Supreme Court may audit its own particular Judgment order. Judicial review can be characterized as the skill of an official courtroom to pronounce the constitutionality or generally of a legislative enactment. Pros and Cons of British and Indian Government: • Parliamentary systems including parliamentary democracy for the most part stimulate legislative activity on the grounds that the executive branch needs…

Analysis of “Just Take Away Their Guns” James Q. Wilson is a man who is very passionate about the issue of gun control. However, in his essay “Just Take Away Their Guns,” that passion gets the best of him in what is decidedly a very biased and unsupported argument for the implementation of “stop-and-frisk” policies in place of more gun sale restrictions. While his claim that people need guns to defend themselves is at times convincing, he fails to provide enough evidence to convince his audience…

They are Still Children It was after midnight on a warm summer night in the bar and club district of downtown Columbia, and many people were outside on the sidewalks and patios of businesses enjoying the weather and the atmosphere. The pleasant night was disrupted by gunfire, and the groups of people on the sidewalks and patios outside the bars and clubs started to scream and run for cover as the shots rang out. At least one person videoed all this as it was happening, and the video was all…

Self - protection and gun control are still a big topic of discussion. There are those who are against self-protection and want strict laws set for gun usage and there are others who don’t want to have strict restrictions for guns and who are for self-protection or their rights to bear arms. Without researching the topic, I would believe it could be beneficial to carry a concealed weapon around in case someone was in trouble. I could also see it being a terrible mistake if it got into the wrong…

In 2015, for the first time in state history, the Supreme Court of North Carolina determined that non-public schools could qualify as constitutionally eligible recipients of public taxpayer dollars. The court in Hart v. State determined that the expenditure in question, the Opportunity Scholarship Program (“the Program”), met the standards required for designation as a public purpose. The Program consisted of a $4,200 per year voucher scholarship set for distribution to eligible students who…

assumed the name Jane Roe for the case. Of course, Texas was not one of the states to have legalized abortion so a class action lawsuit was filed against Texas with District Attorney Anthony Wade as the respondent. The lawsuit challenged Texas’s constitutionality of the criminal abortion laws. Also in the lawsuit was Halford. He was named in the lawsuit as a plaintiff because he had two pending prosecutions from the state for performing abortions. In a companion lawsuit, a couple, the Does who…