Texas v. Johnson

Topic Selection/Case Study: Edwards v. Day and McDaniel and Underground Water Rights in Texas. Thesis Statement: The recent ruling of Edwards Aquifer Authority V. Day and McDaniel is an encouraging step in Texan property owners’ just fight for more control over their underground water. Sources Johnson, R., & Ellis, G. (2013). Commentary: A New Day? Two Interpretations of the Texas Supreme Court’s Ruling in Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day and McDaniel. Texas Water Journal, 4(1), 35-54.…

separation of power. Since Lochner v. New York (1905) decision was overturned in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937), we can learn from the history that no horrifying law like the one I speculate has been adopted even decades later. In this case, the majority was indeed wrong about the slippery slope. However, in numerous other cases involving newly created implied fundamental rights, the employment of slippery slope argument involved accurate prediction. In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), Justice…

wives and 17 children. Brown argued that the government forbidding the cohabitation violated rights to privacy and religious freedom (Schwartz). In the case, the judge ruled in their favor by providing quotes and conclusions from the case Lawrence v. Texas. For example, he quotes that the Constitution protects people from “unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places” and “an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression and certain intimate…

However, under the law they were able to exercise their liberty under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ruling of Lawrence v Texas was a landmark case, which overturned the ruling of Bowers v Texas (1986), which dealt with criminalizing oral and anal sex between homosexuals. Lawrence v Texas made same-sex activity legal in every U.S. state and overturned sodomy laws in thirteen other…

that LGBT Americans are facing. Many states (including Texas) have no laws protecting employment non-discrimination that covers sexual orientation and gender identity. This means that an LGBT individual can be fired for merely just being who they are. A few other obstacles those LGBT individuals’ faces are still being denied: the use of public accommodations, the…

Who Are These Guys? Have you ever wondered about the relationship between two very diverse cultures that both wanted to claim the same land? By reading documents and taking detailed notes in class, I finally understood how culturally different the Native Americans were compared to the Anglo-Europeans. It was said that The Anglo-Europeans stumbled upon the Americas and discovered people that had already occupied the land. These people that the Europeans saw were called the Native Americans. At…

themselves from Mexico. Manifest Destany contributed to the annexation and now Texas was part of the U.S. The U.S was getting what getting what it wanted (expansion of the western frontier), while Mexico struggles to control its own land. The U.S now shared a Texan border with Mexico. Tensions between two newly powerful nations roused. The indication of the boundary of Texas was what later became problematic. Mexico defined that Texas included only the eastern part and was bounded by the Nueces…

The growing pains in Texas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to expansion and modernization affect everyone. The rapid changes in Texas created chaos and prosperity for the people on the land. The swift changes caused people to face economic, social, political, and demographic issues differently and some faced with more difficult issues than others were. The demographics of the state experience great change because many were created in the cities. The people had to move in…

Molly Ivins’s essay, “Is Texas America?” states various points in her essay about Texas politics, demographics, geography, and education. The “Is Texas America?” essay is according to the author’s perspective about Texas. There are various statements within Ivins’s essay that are supporting and contradictory to the modern-day Texas. The reason there is a difference in the number of supporting and contradicting statements about Texas within Ivins’s essay is because Texas is changing over time…

Whereas segregation by its nature sounds evil; examining the effects of “voluntary segregation” the discussion must begin with the underlying cause “forced segregation”. Voluntary segregation tends to be the result of some form of forced segregation; where family, race, nationality, and religion tends to be the primary cause. This cause may lead individuals to this decision where they choose a path of voluntary segregation, but the effects can either be positive or negative to the individual and…