Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

accommodations for white and non-white passsengers of the train cars. This lead to the Plessy v. Ferguson case because when Plessy was prosecuted he claimed that his 13th and 14h amendment rights were being violated. In the Brown v. Board of Education case Linda Brown and her family went to court claiming that her 14th amendment right…

In 1993 there was a court case was brought into the light in reference to whether or not schools should be allowed to send students outside of the district to fulfill their educational needs. The case was called Oberti v. Board of Education and the plaintiff was Rafael Oberti who was an eight year old boy with down syndrome who was being told he needed to go to a school forty-five minutes away instead of the local school. The defendant was the Clementon, NJ Board of Education, who were the…

Case title: Herring v. United States Citation: 555 U.S. 135 Year decided: 2009 Facts: Bennie Dean Herring was arrested on July 7, 2004 after he went down to the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department to obtain items from his truck which was impounded. Investigator Mark Anderson became suspicious of Herring and began to inquire about his past. He had Sandy Pope, the county’s warrant clerk, to run Herring’s name in the system to see if he had any active warrants for his arrest. After running…

In Chapter 2 of Slaves of the State named “Except as Punishment of a Crime”, Dennis Childs expresses how slavery was still continuing even after the thirteenth amendment had passed. Childs has the overarching argument that the thirteenth amendment actually has an exception clause that allows chattel slavery to occur. Evidence of African-Americans being sold as property differently than traditional slavery and the use of the exception clause of the thirteenth amendment is apparent throughout the…

1950s America was a very difficult time for African American communities. Segregation was at its peak, and the country as a whole was experiencing growing pains while trying to make acceptance of African Americans a common way of life. During this time many court cases had been filed in attempts to help move this progression further along. One of the court cases involved is known as Brown V Board of Education. Brown V Board of Education involved an African American man by the name of Oliver…

information was 14 times more likely to happen early in the process” (Fessenden). In the U.S. torture is illegal and any kind of treatments that causes physical or mental pain, committed for any reason, is a violation of international law. Also the 8th Amendment states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” (Stevenson). I think torture would be considered as cruel and unusual punishment. Personally, I think that our…

The first amendment, “The Freedom of Speech”, adopted in 1791 gave people the right to voice concerns or opinions, peaceably assemble and to petition the government. This amendment is one of the most important in the Constitution allowing society free expression of oneself allowing the voices of the country to promote growth. There are arguments of the freedom being abused and taken for granted to belittle others for their race, disabilities or ethnicity. Slandering of people or groups publicly…

an officer of the court seizing it at that time was a legal obligation. Moreover, this type of seize is justifiable under the plain view doctrine and does not violate the rights given to the accused under the Fourth Amendment. Hendrix (2013) explains that “in Harris v. United States (1968), the Supreme Court established that anything a police officer sees in plain view, when the officer has a right to be where he or she is, is not the product of a search and is therefore admissible as evidence”…

Discretionary legislative accommodations and diverse religious beliefs are widely permitted in the United States except for a narrow range of cases disallowed by the Establishment Clause. This is because the Establishment Clause is synonym for religious freedom for individuals as well as organizations they may procure, thus, the clause 's predisposition rightly leans toward what is permitted. The First Amendment and legal precedent also provide a clear interpretation of permissible speech, yet,…

Locke stressed the freedom of an individual’s integrity was of upmost importance and any attempts by a government or a church to dampen such freedoms should be looked upon with disdain. According to Locke, the old strong-arm uniformity of church and state had to concede its power to liberty of individual conscience. Locke’s thoughts in regards to this liberty of conscience was Protestant, and theological, harping on religious reasons for desiring free conscience over the claims the church or…