Dissent

Landmark Decisions of the Supreme Court Since the late 1700s, the Supreme Court has been operating as the highest federal court in the United States of America. “Defined by Article III, Section I of the Constitution, the Supreme Court operates under nine Justices, who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Each Justice holds office for life as long as they are well behaved,” (“Supreme Court Procedures”) The Supreme Court functions by deciding what case to choose,…

make it more difficult for police officers to investigate crimes and would place burdensome duties on them. The importance of autonomy for states and each state's right to establish its own criminal justice systems was underlined in Justice Clark's dissent. He maintained that the Miranda ruling by the majority violated state autonomy to establish their own guidelines for police questioning, “In this way we would not be acting in the dark nor in one full sweep changing the traditional rules of…

other, and as voiced by the dissenting justices, it cites and holds what some see as political, social, and foreign influences, rather than the interpretation or meaning of the law and spirit of the Constitution as implied by Justice Scalia in his dissent. Citing Scalia in his opening paragraph, “The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nation’s moral standards—and in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and…

time in history. Although every country had a unique decolonization experience, two that are starkly different were Kenya and Nigeria. Both experienced wars, however; Kenya had to fight against the British, and Nigeria had to fight against internal dissent. In these two countries, the differences outweigh the similarities, and the multitudinous differences between the two clearly demonstrate their dissimilarity in decolonization. In Kenya, the African people in this area had to struggle for…

Absurdity and Counterculture: The Orange Alternative in Communist Poland Of the dissident movements in communist Poland, collective memory only remembers the work of the movement Solidarity and the Catholic Church. What about the people who did not fit into this narrative? The outsiders, the rebels, the artists; what about their story? The Orange Alternative exemplifies the movement of said outsiders; a blend of artistic expression and political defiance. It was a movement made up of “rebellious…

by disorganizing the backbone of democratic civilization: order. Appropriate dissent to existing law is exercised at the polls. In a majoritarian democracy, the laws duly passed by our elected officials must be followed. At the same time, however, a minority may exercise the ability to affect the law by flexing their voting ability during democratic elections. If a society is unhappy with the existing laws, dissent may be expressed through…

The two documentaries ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ by Michael Moore and ‘Manufacturing Dissent’ by Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine have a similar theme, but are different in many ways. The reasons why these films are not alike is because of the different directors; there is a Canadian director and an American director which makes the film styles different from each other. ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ uses propaganda to try and convince the viewers that they are right. These documentaries were very hard to follow for…

are so concerned with being politically correct and ensuring that discrimination against the African Americans does not prevail, they have gone overboard. Since the eradication of discrimination against African Americans, many people of European dissent are now suffering from reverse discrimination. In Washington D.C., before the civil rights movement, discrimination…

released. In March1931 he and the British reached an agreement for the release of the remaining political prisoners in exchange for the suspension of civil disobedience actions. The Information contained in the article, Two Occupys: Perlin, Ross. Dissent (00123846). Summer 2015, Vol. 62 Issue 3, p92-100.9p., it was stated that, “In China Assaulted with eighty-seven cans of tear gas and rubber ammo, students and protesters engaged in and were accompanied by an additional 30,000 Hong Kongers,…

On January 23, 2002 a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, that goes by the name Joseph Frederick, was excused from his classes, with the other students, to watch the Olympic Torch pass by in his town of Juneau, Alaska. Him and his friends went across the street and waited for the TV cameras to start rolling to unravel a banner that they made that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. The principal, Deborah Morse, soon saw the banner and ran across the street to intercept their act. Principle Morse says he…