Amendment
Essays

Reducing Gun Violence in the State of Georgia

Many of the privacy issues driven by the "war against terror" can be directly linked to the Patriot Act. Title II of the Patriot Act, "Enhanced Surveillance Procedures," increased the government's authority to seize…

It is a fact that the elderly or the aged population has been discriminated against throughout the years, and the elderly have been an oppressed minority anywhere in the world. For example, in the year 1970, Maggie…

Gun Control and laws regulating this issue in the United States have been a controversial topic of debate for more than a decade. Since the inception of extreme gun control laws during the end of the 1980's, the debate…

In the case of Engel v. Vitale (1962), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prayer in the U.S. public school system was unconstitutional and that such prayers "breached the constitutional wall of separation between Church…

Case: FIRST NATIONAL BANK v. BELLOTTI 435 U.S. 765 (1978)

This paper is a memo for the case of Joe Lee Simmons, Appellant v. State of Texas, Appellee; Docket number: 01-07-00543-CR. It examines the following issues:[1] was there evidence of possession of cocaine weighing four or more grams but less than 200 grams given the evidentiary requirements of TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. § 38.35(d)(1); [2] the validity of a motion to suppress based on the officer's failure to report all offenses committed in his jurisdiction to the magistrate, as required by TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. § 2.13(b)(3); and [3] the sufficiency of an indictment under TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. § 28.10. It concludes that an appeal under any of those issues is unlikely to be successful.

This study concerns the duty of care in American corporate law vs. The duty of care in Australian corporate law. To fully understand that duty, it waxes absolutely essential to distinguish between roles, functions,…

Economics is oftentimes shaped by societal conditions and political decisions. Such is the case with business operations in the United States. Antitrust laws have gradually emerged to reflect the values and perspectives…

The steps a the federal level that must be taken through Congress -- combined with the complicated steps that must be taken by the states -- make it very difficult for the U.S. To amend its Constitution.