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Should same-sex marriage be legal in United States and nationwide? Should homosexuals have equal rights? Will same-sex marriage have negative impacts to our future? All these controversial debates on same sex marriage plays a big role where new era is approaching and society start to change. According to the development in recent years, same-sex marriage is now legal in twenty-two countries worldwide. The United States Supreme Court has passed the law on June 26, 2015 to legalize same-sex…

countries around the globe, the United States is a land that is full of freedom and justices. One reason why they see the U.S. as such is due to the fact that a sense of unfairness has been a part of their lives. Fairness is the rock that our court system has established in the United States. In today’s world, suspected terrorism has become a more increasingly important topic that needs to be discussed. The issue of alleged terrorism has now been entangled with the court system. Should a…

in and grant laws that provided them with rights as citizens, civil rights. Thirty-one years later, the Plessy vs. Ferguson case showed that the Federal Government had no interest in granting African Americans civil rights. Supreme Court Justice Harlan believed that the Court decision would not bring the races together socially. African Americans were intent on gaining civil rights. In the “Address of a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria Virginia”, African Americans explained that they…

United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914) (criminal.findlaw.com .d.). This case came before the Supreme Court because Weeks involved an appeal of a defendant who had been convicted based on evidence that had been seized by a federal agent without a warrant or any other constitutional justifications (criminal.findlaw.com .d.). Therefore, the Supreme Court changed the conviction of the defendant and then created what is now known as…

Media is taking over as Americans’ primary source of information; we need to face that this ‘information’ is, for the most part, opinions, not facts. But, these opinions aren’t meaningless. When it comes to opinions, Americans should consider them, but also be careful to not unquestioningly accept them. Avoiding biased and misguided opinions may be challenging now that opinions are often being used as facts, but it is possible to use opinions to help make decisions. Anyone can express an opinion…

to order commitment of a youth to the House of Refuge, these include commissions and by courts (Gehring). Most of the juvenile’s day…

There is currently a great debate in our nation about the necessity of Voter ID laws and the impact they will have on our democracy. It is with clear distinction that the Voter ID laws recently passed in various states, noted by right wing support, are a clear infringement on the ideals of a collective and openly participatory democracy. Voter ID laws, which in their inception are supposedly to protect democratic thought, would be a noble effort if they were implemented without malicious…

again. Jill’s father thinks justice has been done to Adrian Bayley. He said that there is nothing they can do to bring his beloved daughter back to live. He thanked the police and prosecutors at the conference after the trial at the Victorian Supreme Court in…

v. United States case. Charles Schenck was a leader of a Socialist party who decided to send information to men who were recently drafted for the war. The content of the letters criticized the war and advised the men not to go to war. He was later convicted under the Espionage Act. The government claimed that Schenck violated this act by his actions that could incite insubordination in the soldiers. Schenck then responded that the Espionage Act violated the First Amendment. The Supreme Court…

24, 1803, one mere Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison, changed the course of American history. From this ruling, the Supreme Court gained judicial review: the authority to give their opinions on the constitutionality of laws. This positively impacted America because it prohibited the government from abusing the Constitution. However, over the years, judicial review has spiraled into judicial supremacy and taken power away from the states. It has also led to the Supreme Court making laws,…