The United States Congress just recently passed a legistration that requires all pornographic material be blocked in all public schools and libraries. ... One reason we need censorship is because there are many people like Robert Thomas who start these internet bulletin systems that allows people to download pornographic files. In the case Untied States v. ... (http://www.louisville.edu/~kbwill04/Paper%203.htm) Censorship will always be a controversial topic in the United States because of the First Amendment rights, and people think that they can say what they think and feel. ...

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Jacksonian Democrats used the United States Constitution to protect all forms of government in the country. ... Warren Bridge " due to Robert Taney ruling that the Charles River Bridge Corporation did not have the right to build a bridge over the Charles River. Robert Taney was appointed to the Supreme Court by Jackson, further giving more rights to communities over corporations. ... Protecting economic equality in the United States was a large goal for the Jacksonian Democrats. ... By vetoing the Bank of the United States, Jackson saw the veto of, "a monopoly of foreign and domestic exchang...

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Political promoting is considered to be consecrated in the United States. Truly, this type of publicizing was once in a while the subject of laws manages or court choices (Zuckman, Robert, Frieden & Kenedi, 1999). ... The first amendments to the laws governing communication provide for a free press under the United States constitution. ... These requirements however have not been implemented by the supreme court of United States (Middleton & Chamberlin, 1988). ... The United States court in 2007 voted to permit ads aired on television (PARKER, 2014). ...

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Robert Fulton, one inventor of the steamboat obtained exclusive rights from the state of New York to navigate his boats between Elizabethtown, New Jersey and New York City. Robert Fulton, granted one license to Aaron Ogden to which ambitious investors were jealous and challenged. ... At issue was a clause of Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution, which said Congress has the power to regulate commerce with other nations and between the states. ... Supremacy of a national statute over a contrary state statute Thomas Emmet, Ogden's lawyer, insisted that many interstate matters have fu...

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Though, Robert Knight, a spokesman for the Conservative Culture and Family Institute, argues that the legalizing of homosexual marriages would lead to more deaths among gay men from sexual transmitted diseases. ... In the twenty first century states quo is more accepting of homosexuality. ... These four states prohibit same-sex couples to act upon oral and anal-sex between the two. ... That, should bring hope for similer changes to be made in other states. ... All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subjectto the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States a...

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Board of Education of Topeka Kansas Supreme Court case of 1954 is important cases in United States History. ... Ferguson case, blacks felt that segregation in education was unjust, and often petitions and suits were filled against states. One of the most interesting was the Roberts V. ... Much like the Brown case years to come, Benjamin Roberts, a black activist, filled a suit on behalf of his five year old daughter, against the city of Boston challenging its practice of segregated schools. ... Board of Education case changed the face of the United States forever. ...

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Explain how judges are selected in the Federal and in state systems across the United States. ... There is a hierarchy of courts in United States. ... Encyclopedia Britannica states: " The Supreme Court is a final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. ... The second option is present in 3 states (California, Maine and New Jersey). ... It is not uncommon for the President to choose the Supreme Court judge from his party's member (as it was with Chief Justice John Roberts nominated by George W. ...

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The largest money-making industry in the United States today is advertising. ... Robert Sack, a lawyer for the First Amendment, states it best by saying, "Nothing could be more dangerous in a democracy than banning things simply because people find them offensive or unlikeable."1 The First Amendment does not state that everyone must be satisfied in order to have this freedom of expression. ...

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Following the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, the southern states felt the need to secede from the union. This action would wage in a bloody four year war that would end with the surrender of General Robert E. ... At the close of the American Civil war, the United States was left to face the problem of re-admitting the southern states into the union. ... This amendment was not taken pleasantly in the southern states. ...

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Article 1191 states that Abortion was illegal anyone who knowingly killed an unborn child would be confined to jail anywhere from two to five years and if an abortion was done without the woman's consent the punishment was doubled. Article 1193 states that even an attempt to commit abortion would give you a fine of no more than $1000. ... The case was not ruled in her favor but was later appealed to the United States Supreme Court. ... The twenty eight week old, weighing at least 1000 grams, now often has in the studies at least a 70 percent survival rate if born in or near a good hospita...

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Because of Thomas, Hill was very stressed and afraid at work, and therefore found another job at Oral Roberts University, teaching law. In 1991, Clarence Thomas had been nominated for a position as a United States Supreme Court Judge. ...

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Decision In a 5 (Kagan, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor) to 4 (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito) decision, The U.S. ... Dissenting Opinions Chief Justice Roberts filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito, joined: The parties agreed that nearly 2,500 prisoners are presently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for murders they committed before the age of eighteen. ... Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Scalia joined: As a result, the Court now holds that Congress and the legislatures of the fifty States ...

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The Constitution of the United States is a carefully balanced document. ... The United States is a government of enumerated powers. ... Amendment ten to the United States constitution is known as the residual clause, it states that the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ... Filburn first gave the Congress power to do almost anything, United States vs. ... On the forefront of originalism is Justice Robert Bork. ...

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Established in 1789 as the highest federal court in the United States, the Supreme Court is used to settle cases involving federal laws after being argued at state level courts. ... Some other states that also had this law required out-of-state steam boats to pay additional fees. ... John Peck had acquired land from the original grant and three years later had sold it to Robert Fletcher, oblivious that the land had become invalid. ... In 1816 Congress established the Second Bank of the United States, run by the Federal government. ... The Supremacy Clause of Article VI, states that the federal...

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In a 5-to-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that officials have the option to strip-search the people they arrest before admitting them to a jail regardless of the original offense or whether it is reasonable to suspect that they are carrying contraband. The two sides seemingly disagree on the interp...

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In 1988 and 1989 Governor Robert Casey of Pennslyvania enacted new abortion statutes that required that a woman seeking an abortion give her informed consent, a minor seeking an abortion obtain parental, that a married woman must notify her husband of her intended abortion and that clinics must provide certain information to a woman seeking an abortion and wait 24 hours prior to performing the abortion. ... First, an article that states the differing opinions on the case entiltled "Excerpts From Abortion Case" gives a cross section of the controversy agitated by Roe v. ... Wade made it so stat...

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The 1960's were a time of movement and struggle for the Chicanos in the United States. ... The walkouts eventually gained national attention and began to attract many leaders in support of their beliefs such as Robert Kennedy who was a prominent leader of Civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr. ...

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Not the chief one, John Roberts. ... In 2010 in California, I covered  a Tea Party rally  at which Carly Fiorina, vying for the Republican nomination for a United States Senate seat, was scheduled to speak. ...

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