United States v. Lopez

the studio system. The Paramount decision, stemming from the United States Supreme Court Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948 (United States vs. Paramount Pictures), defined how studios could no longer hold financial interests or own theaters. Another historical event also saw its beginnings during the 1930’s and 1940’s where American entertainers were denied employment opportunities due to suspected Communist affiliation. As the United States government, specifically the office of HUAC, turned to…

Take the case of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), where Ogden received an exclusive license to operate steamboat ferries between New Jersey and New York City on the Hudson River from the state of New York. Gibbons, a competitor, wished to conduct his own ferry business on the same route. Ogden sought an injunction against Gibbons since he had the exclusive rights to operate the route. Since the route crossed state lines, Gibbons claimed he had the right to operate on the…

addressed equal protection of the laws, due-process of law, and citizenship . In section one of the 14th amendment it states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States…

On March 10, 1992, Alfonso Lopez Jr. brought a .38-caliber handgun and five bullets to Edison High School in San Antonio, TX. He was arrested under Texas law but the next day, state charges were dropped after he was charged by a federal grand jury for violating the Gun- Free School Zones Act of 1990. He was convicted and sentenced to 6 months in prison and 2 years of supervision. Lopez’s lawyer, John R. Carter, a federal public defender, argued that the Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) is…

plagued by illiberal politics and policies. Additionally, how does the Church and its followers impact politics in South America, specifically in the liberal sense. My personal interest is understanding why the states of Latin America did not unify under a similar fashion as the United States of America, but rather fought wars against each other and were plagued by economic and political decadence. In this sense, I am trying to understand how the Latino political mentality legitimized illiberal…

With the act passing it became a major success and showed immensely two years later when they saw how the massive increase in voter registration in blacks as German Lopez states in his article on voting rights “ ...black voter registration rates in Mississippi increased from a mere 6.7 percent in 1965 to 59.8 percent in 1967…”(German Lopez, 2015). This left the biggest goal of the movement left to accomplish, true equality, and it would be a goal that would take MLK until his death to fight for…

able to shape the direction of the court throughout his tenure. Throughout his time on the nation’s highest court he would seek to enhance the power of states to expand their abilities to construct policies, as he sought to limit federal power. This culminated successfully with the striking down of laws under the Commerce Power in U.S. versus Lopez. However, as a Chief Justice he would often act as a writer and arbitrator of majority opinions to maintain past precedent and to moderate the…

Equality is the state of being equal, which means everyone in a society has the same rights and opportunities. Groups of people, such as African Americans and women, have been fighting for equality for millennial years. Currently, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people are fighting for equal treatment. The obstacles faced by a person, or group of people, can determine how their life will turn out. Like any group of people, the Latinos have faced issues in the past, currently facing…

collect taxes and coin money. Perhaps the most crucial power given to Congress is to regulate commerce between states, foreign nations, and Indian tribes. With this Congress can control anything that directly affects the flow of commerce, i.e. discrimination based on race. Even if Congress sometimes uses this ability to over step their boundaries of commerce, such as United States v. Lopez, their main prerogative is to guarantee the stream of commerce and protect the citizens. In the…

The United States Constitution created a structure for government that prevents any one branch of government from having too much power. While the framers of the Constitution were concerned with the abuse of power in terms of having too much of it, there were certain aspects of power that the document ignored. For example, the constitution prevents the President from doing what is beyond his scope, however it does not prevent unethical behavior that may be done so long at is part of his…