Supreme Court of Canada

Racial Profiling Out of the nearly three hundred million people in the United States, the number of Americans that reported to have been profiled due to their race was thirty-two million in 2004, approximately the population of Canada (“Racial Profiling and the Use of Suspect Classification”). Racial profiling happens when a law enforcement official targets an individual based on their race or ethnicity. But racial profiling violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which…

The purpose of this case is to get a better understanding of why the Miranda law should be abolished for good. We take a closer look at the flaws in the Miranda law and how it does not help our justice system. The study will examine why Americans should know their rights, show us why Miranda does not protect us, and how it allows criminals to walk free. Miranda is used to inform suspects that are taken into custody that they have rights. Due process was created by the constitution for the…

Physician-Assisted suicide and Euthanasia has become a controversial term in politics in recent years, but the headlines that have occurred most recently have stirred the situation once again. In the United States, there are four states that have legally allowed terminally ill patients end their lives on their own terms, those states include: California, Oregon, Washington and Vermont. Montana also allows physician-Assisted suicide, but it is only on a case-by-case basis. Physician-Assisted…

some of the details about her were new to me, like that she was married to a French Canadian man, and that she later died of 'putrid fever', or typhus, and that Clark petitioned for and was granted custody of her two children. In regards to the Supreme Court case of Johnson v. M'Intosh, and the following 'Doctrine of Discovery' that enabled legal status for European, Christian white men to have a legal right to the…

Judges Leslie Tiller and Simon Skinner serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, respectively. Each has an involved history with Minnesota’s governor, Joyce Cooper. In this paper, I will argue that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause bars Skinner, but not Tiller, from hearing two cases to which Cooper is a party: the Sierra Club case and the Cooper Corruption case. I address each of the two cases in parts I and…

central government. Examples of the Unitary system of government is the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. The Federation system of government is divided between central and state or local governments. Examples of the Federation system of government is Canada, the United States under the constitution. Last is the Confederation system of government which is held by independent states and delegated to central government by consensus agreements. Examples of the confederation system of government is…

Multiple citizenship, also called dual citizenship or multiple nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states. There is no international convention which determines the nationality or citizen status of a person, which is defined exclusively by national laws, which vary and can be inconsistent with each other. Multiple citizenship arises because different countries use different, and not…

Summary Andrew Jackson, the man who set out plans that would usually send men floundering in panic, became a war hero during the War of 1812, shattered the Second Bank of the United States, removed national debt, and dominated over the Supreme Court. Historian and author, Matthew Warshauer of Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law, Nationalism, Civil Liberties and Partisanship claims that then Major General Andrew Jackson believed it was crucial to declare “martial law and suspend the…

Richard John 'Jack ' Baker and James Michael McConnell applied to Hennepin County District Court clerk Gerald Nelson for a marriage license. He denied the application, because the applicants both were men.” In the same case the court ruled based on its own opinion instead of written law, “The trial court was not impressed with the argument, agreeing with Nelson. The state Supreme Court agreed with the lower court.” Baker v. Nelson was the precedent to rule off future cases of gay marriage. The…

Sixth Amendment. In conclusion, the Crawford v. Washington case impacted the Supreme Court of Virginia’s decision in Briscoe v. Commonwealth and Cypress v. Commonwealth. The defense attorneys and prosecutors in Virginia should proceed in caution of the sixth amendment with confronting witnesses. Keywords, Briscoe v. Commonwealth, Cypress v. Commonwealth, Crawford v. Washington, Sixth Amendment The Supreme Court of the…