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    explicitly says that an us citizen has a constitutional right to privacy. But the constitution does the first amendment to privacy of one’s beliefs ("Constitute."). As well as the third amendment right to the privacy in a house from soldiers ("Constitute."). The constitution also covers the right of privacy of personal possessions against government search or seizure, and the Fifth Amendment right to personal information privacy ("Constitute."). The Supreme Court has also rule in the Griswold v.…

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    In this essay, the New Poor Law System established in 1834 was outlined and evaluated fundamentally on how it works. It outlined the causes of poverty, some historical backgrounds, Chadwick and the development of the New Poor Law, diseases & poverty and the Laissez Faire ideology. The outlines also include the underserving and deserving, how effective the workhouse and how the social problems were addressed. In 1832, the government setup an agreement for the Royal Commission to explore the work…

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    America the Exceptional Nation After the Revolutionary War, America was viewed as an exceptional nation. Still today the country is considered as a different nation due to the fundamental values it still holds. The founders of the country gave the world a new meaning of freedom and liberty. The Declaration of Independence and Constitution gave the nation as a whole their alienable rights. American has shown the rest of the world the success of capitalism, free marketing, and liberty. Without the…

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    Essay On Due Process

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    sixth, and fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution in which the individual rights of a person is protected. This includes the following: a law creating a and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to establish procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted. Furthermore, this underlines the first ten amendments to the Constitution,…

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    On Wednesday January 24th, a few friends and I were caught with marijuana and paraphernalia. We hadn’t actually smoked anything yet, but it was clear to campus police that we were about too. After they found us, they searched us for weapons and led us up to a parking lot where their car was. I believe that this is because there was a camera on the back of the police SUV and they wanted to record everything that happened. Once we were up there, they gave us all a phone number and told us we had…

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    Rights is the procedure by which American courts have connected parts of the United States ' Bill of Rights to the states. As per the convention of incorporation, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the Bill of Rights to the states (Lader, 2006). After the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, the Supreme Court wrangled about how to join the Bill of Rights into state enactment. Some contended that the Bill of Rights ought to be completely joined. This is alluded to as aggregate…

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    standard, but this appears to be what The City Commission on Decency has done. In Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton the court held “in the absence of distribution to juveniles or obtrusive exposure to un-consenting ageless, the First and Fourteenth amendments prohibit the state and federal governments from attempting wholly suppress sexually oriented materials on the basis of they 're allegedly obscene." By removing what would be one half of an exhibit from public view, they end up wholly…

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    Throughout history censorship has followed people’s freedom of expression like a shadow. When I fled my country Ethiopia, not only as a result of censorship, but also extreme intimidation, I left my entire family behind. While others continued to write controversial statements about the government and politics, I left because I was not a fighter. Even though Ethiopia’s Constitution explicitly protects freedom of speech, in reality the government ignores it for the most part. In 2011, Reeyot…

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    Dress Code

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    Do dress codes with the purpose of restraining a student’s attire intrude on his or her First Amendment right to free speech? The Supreme Court has found some speech, verbal and nonverbal, is protected. On the other hand, the Supreme Court has also found that students’ dress, although a means of expression, can be regulated by schools. Some courts have demanded the rights of students be balanced against the need for school leaders to make logical health and safety laws. Most dress code…

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    Essay On Obscenity

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    The joke has been made by some that if prostitution is indeed the world’s oldest profession, than pornography must be the world’s oldest expression. Indeed, the very word pornography was originally used to describe any art or literature that depicted the life of prostitutes (Jenkins, 2014), while obscenity is a word believed to have come from the Middle French word obscène in the late 16th century, meaning “offensive to the senses, or to taste and refinement” (Harper, 2001). In order to…

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