Paul Kens, in his book Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial, makes the case that Lochner, and the Lochner era of the Supreme Court, forms the foundation of ideological battles between economics and personal liberty and rights. The court found, in that case, that the state of ...

Segregation is defined as a legal or social practice of separating groups of people by custom or by law based on differences of race, religion, wealth, culture, or sexual orientation (www.worldbook.com). Segregation is usually the result of a long period of group conflict, with one group having more...

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Those words make up the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Those are the words our country's founding fathers wrote when the United Sta...

One of the worst types of discriminations next to that of racial or ethnic discrimination is age discrimination. A person's age should never be a factor in how they are treated. Once we reach the age where we can make logical conscious decisions on our own, we should be treated like everybody e...

The industrial revolution was one of the hardest times in American history. With these hard times brought pollution, poverty, and prejudice. Along with these corruption's brought one of the darkest sides of the industrial revolution and America's past, child labor. The industrial revolutio...

On November 7, 2000, American voters went to the polls to elect the 43rd president of the United States. Ritualistically, the nation watched that evening for the election returns. The tallies for Democrat Albert Gore and Republican George W. Bush teetered in the makings of a dead heat. It soon be...

There have been many attempts to look at the decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and claim it was erroneous in some respect. One of the most often used is the social policy' argument. Some constitutional scholars believe that the Supreme Court went too far in the decision, ...

Law constituting various sets of rules and regulations survives to date and came into existence in order to safeguard the rights of its people, its followers. However, how these laws are formulated and used in order to defend the innocent and punish the guilty still depends largely on judg...

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey 505 U.S. 833 (1992) The Abortion Control Act was passed in 1982 and was amended in 1988 and 1989 in Pennsylvania due to the 1986 court case, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which deemed the 1982 act uncon...

Article Five, clause two of the United States Constitution states, "under the Authority of the United States, [the Constitution] shall be the supreme law of the land." As a result of the fact that the current activist government is pursuing inconsistent policies, many believe ...

The U.S. Constitution Article Five, clause two of the United States Constitution states, "under the Authority of the United States, [the Constitution] shall be the supreme law of the land." As a result of the fact that the current activist government is pursuing inconsistent polic...

The issue of sexual harassment has been prevalent throughout this country from the office of the President of the United States, throughout military services and among educational institutions. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination and alth...

For more than 200 years the American Constitution has served as much more than a framework of government. Our belief in the great document's guarantees of freedom, justice, and equality has come to define what it means to be an American. From 1787 to today, in times of both tragedy and triumph, Amer...

Maurbury v. Madison Reading Review In the article "Maurbury v. Madison, author John A. Garraty analyzes the famous supreme court case of 1803. Garraty describes the events leading up to Maurbury v. Madison, and explains the significance of the trial's outcome today. The stage ...

Following the breakup of the so-called "Virginia Dynasty," the rise of Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Democrats moved the government of the United States in a whole new direction. For the first time, a common man could rise to become president, and his party would therefore try to guard the var...