Unwanted Integration In the early 1950's, racial segregation in public schools was the standard across America. Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal, most black schools were greatly inferior to their white equal. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education d...

Opinion of Election 2000 "It is finally over", probably the most common statement you would hear if you asked any U.S. citizen their thoughts on the presidential election of 2000. This election was definitely the closest of any presidential election recorded in history and believe me whe...

That's Why We Pray A bill has been presented by over one hundred members of the House of Representatives called the "Religious Freedom Amendment." This bill would permit prayer and other religious expression on public property. However, it will not become mandatory. The bill offic...

Abington School District vs. Schempp Required School Prayer In 1949, a state-wide law was passed in Pennsylvania that required public school students to read scriptures from the Bible and recite the Lord's Prayer everyday in class. This law stayed intact until Edward Schempp challenged it n...

The Supreme Court ruled on June 14, 2004, to keep the phrase, "under God," intact in the Pledge of Allegiance. While the eight participating justices had dissenting opinions, all unanimously ruled against the case Matthew Newdow had presented to the court many months ago. The court state...

The Right to Choose The main issues of euthanasia are maintaining the status of illegality, legalizing the procedure, and regulating the procedure. The controversy of euthanasia involves moral, ethical, and legal concerns. "In this country, according to a survey reported in the Journal of American M...

Assignment # 2 1. Summarization of the holding in Roe v. Wade. The court does not authorize a direct appeal when there is the pursuit of only declaratory relief. The court does review the case, on appeal, because there is no reason not to if the seeking of relief when the case is properly before th...

Since the Supreme Court ruled that schools would be allowed to perform drug testing on students, many angry parents have rebelled. They have created web-sites, complained at school board meetings and taken their cases to court. Although they claim their constitutional rights have been infringed, the...