What is the Bill of Rights? Do they affect us today? The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments as written by our founding fathers in 1791. Although they were written to provide rights to the citizens of the United States throughout time they have been infringed upon and taken advantage of. Pol...
Dating back to 1774 when the United States was first established, trying to develop a basic functional government was not easy. First governed by the Continental Congress the U.S. was governed through a compact known as, the Articles of Confederation. The Articles created a weak central government t...
The exclusionary rule derived from Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961). ... California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884); Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 323 (1937); Alexander v. ... This principle is seen and cited in cases such as Murphy v. ...