Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

who operated a website for a group whom he founded, called the guardians. The guardians questioned President Obama’s citizenship; in 2011 Comerford was convicted of aiding and abetting threats on the President, however the Supreme Court of the United States reversed his conviction the following year. After his conviction was reversed, Comerford went to a local merchant to purchase a smart-phone. Knowing that a phone could be tracked through GPS technology, Comerford disabled the GPS tracking…

school go as far as to going through the bookbag and the student 's pockets. But Safford Unified school took it too far when they conducted a strip search on a student that they believed might have pills on her. The strip search violated her fourth amendment rights which the safford unified school district disagrees. Safford Unified School District vs Redding was a controversial case…

The United States path to freedom was long and arduous. It took almost two hundred years to establish a firm constitution, the limits it had on people, and how much power the government had over citizens’ freedom. On the path to freedom, many people suffered. Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison simply for talking to a group of workers about something the government disagreed with (Eugene V. Debs). Alice Paul, an early feminist, was imprisoned, beaten, and tortured on multiple…

took office as the President of the United States and with it he inherited a nation at odds. While there are numerous issues that could be mentioned during this volatile time in America, the focus of this research is on the tensions surrounding slavery and the abolitionist movement and the role Lincoln played in the establishment of the 13th Amendment. At the time of Lincoln’s presidential appointment, America had already seen the secession of the Confederate States and was on the verge of…

the problem case to the court and claimed the law violated the 13th and 14th amendments by treating Black Americans inferior to whites. According to Telgen, the case came before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 7-1 votes, the court majority ruled that the state required separate accommodations for the races but the accommodations were equal (Telgen, Pg. 13). After Plessy, all the education for blacks in the southern states wasn’t only separate schools and buildings but still never was equal.…

the Fourth Amendment’s protected areas.” By ruling as it did, the Grice court handed down an overly-generous interpretation of a license’s scope, the implications of which are worrisome to the future of Fourth Amendment protected areas. The events in Grice transpired on Fourth Amendment protected property. In North Carolina, it is generally agreed that driveways, pathways, porches, lawns, and other areas that must be traversed in order to reach the front door of a private house are classified…

If the comments relate to matters of public concern, then Phelps and his followers are not guilty of the actions because they are protected under the free speech clause of the First Amendment (Fasoro & Haddock, 2009). The Supreme Court ruled that the issues presented by the church related to the public, thus, they were right to air their views. The court further argued that the expressions made were not meant for private significance…

censorship should be abolished because one’s right to express himself should supersede traditional morality. The first amendment to the United States Constitution grants freedom of speech and expression. Censorship is against those freedoms. Artists spend time making art and then have it taken away from them by getting arrested for…

should not see at their age. Now censorship has gone so far that even adults are being censored. The First Amendment of the constitution gives every American the freedom of speech. That freedom is being taken away by the censoring of what certain people feel is uncomfortable or explicit. Francis Canavan wrote an article titled Speech That Matters. In that article, he wrote “The First Amendment limits what governments may do, not what private institutions or individuals may do in regard to…

act drive her to write Uncle Tom 's cabin but sodid the loss of her child, she wrote the book to help her understand the pain of enslaved mothers had to go through when they lost their child. The idea of the book came from when she lived in a slave state. Previously Stowe lived in Kentucky where she was acquainted with abolitionists and run away slaves who told her tales of appalling treatment there drive for freedom. A few months later, Stowe hired a small scaled servant girl. Later on she…