Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Dress Code: a Critical Look The school bell rings, and the students all file into their first class. The teacher enters the classroom and looks them over with a critical eye. “Smith!” The teacher points at the only kid in the room that is different. Amidst the sea of brown, black, and blonde hair, hers is a bright, fluorescent, pink. Her cheeks heat and she stops trying to pull her homework out of her bag. Some of her classmates snicker as the teacher orders her to the Principal 's office, while…

contended and after that followed up again not exactly a year later on October 11,1972. The US Supreme Court on January 22,1973, they went to a 7-2 choice to assert the activity of fetus removal to be lawful to ladies under the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. Later on not far off around 30 years on June 7,2003, Norma McCorvey recorded a movement to the US Locale Court in Dallas to have her case upset since she had 1,000+ testimonies from ladies who say premature birth harms and that…

and many others. The principles of a healthy economy are the basis of the US functioning. Consequently, 'corporate entities” ( Hopkins, 2016) benefits from the same rights as the physical persons, and are similarly protected under the First Amendment rights, as each ordinary single person. Their rights for free expression are distributed, in a form, if the corporations were persons. “The inherent worth of the speech in terms of its capacity for informing the public does not depend upon the…

As the dust settled after the Civil War, the United States looked to rebuild and bring back together their broken country. In the South, the people were defeated and under the control of the North which resulted in the lives of the freed slaves becoming somewhat improved. But it was not long after that the ex-confederate states started to revert to their ways of treating the blacks as inferior. They passed a series of laws to attempt to restrict black’s freedom and continue to keep them as a…

Parents of minor Children - Plaintiffs / Appellants Governor of the State of Texas, Rick Perry - Defendant / Appellee Facts: In 2006, David and Shannon Croft, parents and friends of three minor children, filed a suit alleging the Texas Pledge and Minute of Silence Statute was unconstitutional. Each morning, Texas public school students are mandated to pledge allegiance to the United States and Texas state flag and observe a minute of silence. The Crofts sued Governor Rick…

come in the the way of lower level judiciary branches, police forces, and other people who are able to carry out what the Supreme Court has decided would be the law of the land. This is the structure upon which the entire judicial system in the United States is based upon. There are only nine Supreme Court justices, and it would be impossible for those justices to literally be “protectors” of the rights that they deem are inalienable. One’s opinion on the statement is entirely based upon their…

towards minorities and the thoughts that candidates of the 2016 presidential election have to say about minorities, shows why it is important for all people to vote. There has been a recent change in the voting rights for citizens who live in Southern states that have recently had historical discrimination against minorities. Voters were not informed of the requirements for voting as well as the changes that were made to the polling sites. Many voting rules targeted Black Americans. Voting is…

like myself, believe that students should not be forced to wear uniforms because it restricts the right of self-expression and individuality, and doesn’t improve academic achievement and attendance, and effects self-image. The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees its people the freedom of expression which is violated by establishing mandatory school uniforms. The ability of students to express themselves is limited when they are forced to wear the…

Jon Johansen, a resident of Norway, purchased a computer program for playing digital versatile discs (DVDs) and reverse-engineered the program to obtain the Content Scramble System (CSS) algorithm, however, the program that Johansen purchased was subject to a click-through license provision forbidding such activates. The license informed users that the program contained confidential trade secret and forbade reverse engineering of the program, however, Johansen, successfully obtained the CSS code…

This class has been a very fun and enjoyable experience in learning about the very important Warren Court Era. The Warren Court has led the way for variety of changes in the United States of America through landmark decisions like Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona. A very interesting thing that I learned was that Earl Warren was appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower with the intent that Warren would be a very conservative judge, but as cases were presented to the Supreme Court the…