Jurisprudence

Kenya Coleman Dr. DuBose English Comp 101 August 24, 22016 Homework Number Three: Jim Crow Laws The Jim Crow Laws were laws that allowed southern states to legalized segregation. Segregation was between African Americans and Caucasians. The Supreme Court case ruling in favor of these laws and made all this possible was 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson. Basically, it gave all the ”constitutional” or legal right to be separated as a race only if they were equal in doing so.…

knowledge in the art of philosophy. The Biography of Adam Smith adds, “In 1751 Smith was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow University, transferring in 1752 to the chair of moral philosophy. His lectures covered the field of ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy, or "police and revenue." In 1759 he published his “Theory of Moral Sentiments”, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures.” Ultimately, this established his status of intelligence towards his disquiet with moral…

America. The court case of Miranda vs. Arizona set precedence in protecting the rights of alleged criminals when taken into custody by law enforcement officers. The ruling rendered has withstood the test of time in restructuring American criminal jurisprudence. The Supreme Court ruling of 1966 in Miranda vs. Arizona has had a significant impact on the conduct of law enforcement agencies in the United States to present day. The 5th amendment is a privilege enjoyed by all American citizens…

in Babylonia during his reign in 1790 B.C. and was named The Code of Hammurabi; many of our legal concepts and procedures can be traced back to the code. Our laws had other influences from around the world that helped shape it such as English Jurisprudence, Roman Law, as well as French and Spanish legal concepts. The first law was brought when Columbus came to the United States in 1492 and was called compacts which were based off of the common law of England. Since they wanted and needed to…

Many gun owners use this guaranteed right to protect their ownership of guns. As it states, we have the right to possess firearms. That can not be infringed upon because the American Jurisprudence protects our rights currently, and it also protects us from any future law that may be considered unconstitutional. “The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly…

IRAC of #2B II. Count Two of the criminal complaint, possession of equipment to manufacture methamphetamine, should be dismissed on the ground that it is a lesser-included offense of Count Three, manufacture of methamphetamine ("meth"). The issue in the present case is whether §43: Possession of Equipment or Supplies with Intent to Manufacture Meth (“Possession of Equipment”) should be dismissed because it is a lesser-included offense of Count Three, §51: Manufacture of Meth. A defendant…

For a long time many minorities faced discrimination in the United States. Racial tensions hit it’s peak in 1950s and 60s. To fight discrimination, President Kennedy in 1961 signed an executive order creating affirmative action. Affirmative action required businesses and colleges to have a certain amount of minorities in admittance. In the following years since affirmative action, racism has dwindled away, but our society continues to hold on to affirmative action. This system once made to fight…

Crime continues to be an important issue of the 21st century. In the 1980s and early 1990s, crime was high. The increase in crime was very short but it still has a lasting effect on the juvenile justice system. Because of the many youth gangs, gun violence, and drugs, they created three agencies that present new ways of handling youth offenders on a separate system. The first agency was the way that they portrayed the violence of the youth. Because of that, the fear of crime to the public was…

it. If fact, some laws have already passed limiting speech without countering the First Amendment. An article by Jonathan Turley states that "There are some limitations on free speech that are universally accepted in domestic and international jurisprudence. Namely the exceptions of defamation (lying about someone for gain and/or profit) and incitement language (encouraging others to violence or panic). Many countries also recognize sedition (calling for the overthrow of government) as…

Due to this, millions of cases flooded the court system, charging people with minor drug law violations, drastically increasing the number of individuals in jails and prisons. Judges, in turn, tired of repeat offenders, try to apply therapeutic jurisprudence upon individuals in hope that their action world cease. The drug courts were not at all positively effective in the combat of the War…