... part of upholding this constitutional right is determining what is meant by "reasonable expectation," and how the validity of a police officer's probable cause can be determined. Starting in the 1960s, the Supreme Court extended and clarified the protections of the Fourth Amendment. The Warren Court initiated a line of defendant's rights rulings in Supreme Court cases with the Mapp v. Ohio decision in 1961. (Berman & Murphy, 2003, 471) In this case ... accused. Although everyone is entitled to equal protection under the law, the court is faced with the decision to determine when this pr...

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... no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." (The United States Constitution: The First Amendment). By the action taken on December 12, 1791 (when the Bill of Rights was adopted), the United States of America granted its people a power ... and religion also played a large part in the fight to keep the nation "dry". Some individuals even entered politics and took office in the gover...

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... , returning to Virginia in 1751. That being the era of the French and Indian War , Lee formed a militia troop of young men in his neighborhood, was elected the leader, and marched his troop to a council in Alexandria where General Braddock was preparing a campaign on the Ohio river. The young men were rebuffed by the General & returned home. In 1757 Lee was ... appointed Justice of the Peace, and was shortly thereafter elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. He was amongst those radical members ... of the Burgesses who met at the Raleigh tavern when the house was dissolved by the R...

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... to lean in favor of the central government on the issue of frontier lands. The land was placed under the control of the central government to be sold for the benefit of the nation, rather than individual states.10 Congress then eased the process of selling frontier lands by creating land titles, which would denote the borders of the land purchased from the government and show the ownership of the land by the person who held it ... was set aside to fund education, while the other lots were sold to people who were moving west. The money then went to the government, instead of a specific s...

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... reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to ceded from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand ... slavery and its expansion and most of the time took matters into their own hands to get their point across....

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... reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to ceded from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand ... slavery and its expansion and most of the time took matters into their own hands to get their point across....

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... of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. The removal of the restriction on the expansion of slavery ensured southern support for the bill, which was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. The northern Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form the Republican party in July 1854. A conflict developed in ... fully against slavery and its expansion and most of the time took matters into their own hands to get their point across. Some ...

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... of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. The removal of the restriction on the expansion of slavery ensured southern support for the bill, which was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. The northern Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form the Republican party in July 1854. A conflict developed in ... fully against slavery and its expansion and most of the time took matters into their own hands to get their point across. Some ...

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... of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. The removal of the restriction on the expansion of slavery ensured southern support for the bill, which was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. The northern Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form the Republican party in July 1854. A conflict developed in ... fully against slavery and its expansion and most of the time took matters into their own hands to get their point across. Some ...

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... be introduced against someone in court. Unfortunately, this rule only applied to the Federal government in earlier times. But that all changed in 1961, with the case of Mapp vs. Ohio. Dollree Mapp was a Cleveland woman who came under police suspicion for illegal gambling activities. So having probable cause, the local police broke into her home looking for evidence. But while they ... were there, the police came across a cache of obscene materials, which were outlawed at ... special areas of interest than the government. The liberals, on the other hand, have a completely different point ...

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... limitations were placed on the Smith Act. The Courts stated that the violent overthrow of the government in an abstract or philosophical sense but not advocating the violation of any laws currently existing. The specific decisions were Yates v. the United States, 1957 and Brandenburg v. State of Ohio, 1969. There are other judicial limitations that were placed on the First Amendment. For example, the free speech protection offered by the First Amendment ends on private property ... in such places as a shopping center and/or an office building. While one cannot be prosecuted for giving s...

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... the author of this book and he demonstrates that both sides are not accurate in their opinion of the law. He discusses how the gun control war took on a new urgency during the Reconstruction. At a point when the Democrats defeated the Republicans, it elevated the collective rights, which set the terms for constitutional debate over the issue for centuries to come. In the 21st century, conflict about the ... how no nation can survive without a military. The Anti-Federalists used the article against the Federalists. (Cornell, 41-45) In the early decades of the 19th Century, gun culture chan...

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... hands, guns reduce crimes and save lives". When guns are used by good people, they can help save lives that may have been lost otherwise. Owning a gun can be very important and can save many lives in its lifetime. On the opposite side, with more and more guns flooding the streets of our cities, police and CSIs have their work cut out for ... danger. With more guns owned legally, there is a greater potential for more guns owned illegally. "An increase in gun ownership fuels the secondary market by which guns flow to youths and criminals through loans among family and friends, off-the-boo...

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... to achieve their goal. On the other hand someone else will believe they are successful just by graduating. However success that stems from failure is the most intriguing to me. Perhaps one of the most significant examples of a failure that translates to success is how the current United States were formed. The United States are the product of the failure of the articles of confederation. The founding fathers could have given ... up after the first attempt did not work, but instead they chose to pin point the weaknesses of the articles of confederation and perfect them. After living by th...

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... a new form of government was looked at as an opportunity for the economic and educational elites to form the government of America based on their personal economic interests, particularly money, public securities, manufactures, and trade and shipping. In his book, Beard claims "that the first firm steps taken towards the formation of the Constitution were taken by a small and active group of men immediately interested through personal ... possessions in the outcome of their labor" (Beard 134). During such a vulnerable ... ...

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... to reduce firearm related violence, gun control laws must be implemented to remove the violence caused by firearms. Although this may seem reasonable, the consequences of such laws are ironically counterproductive; they exacerbate the problem instead of fixing it. Besides the fact that the American Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to bear arms, the idea of restricting gun ownership in order to reduce firearm-related violence would ... outlaw any restrictions on citizens owning guns (Hatch). Some gun-control advocates have their own way to get around the Second Amendment. T...

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... have a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution. Before the Bill of Rights, the Constitution focused on government, and the government system. Britain's Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone even had something to say about the Constitution; "The most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."(The Evolving Constitution page 6) As great as the document was it failed to go ... to sue in court to establish their first Amendment right. The case reached the Supreme Court in 1969, and the students were favored seven to two by the justices. The Bill of Rig...

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... be well intentioned enough to warrant a trial run, so to speak. But, when the gray fades, American's must look deep within the heart of the freedom granted us by Bill of Rights, and in particular, the First Amendment. Justice Sandra Day O?Connor noted, the statute applies to works on any subject provided they express the author's thoughts or recollections about his or her crime, however tangentially or incidentally ... last, be punished by a just society for their crimes. Let us not mistake what should be fair and just punishment for criminals over every American's entitlement to free e...

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... Court decisions on the cases of McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden represented a bold abuse of the power by the Supreme Court in favor of the national government. In both of these examples, the Supreme Court wrongly interpreted the Constitution, gave too much power to the national government, and brazenly ignored the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution. This Amendment states that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor ... is right. Nowhere in the Constitution does it explicitly allow for the creation of a National Bank, and since th...

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... should be able to provide their opinions through identifying their choices for the position of representative, but that the state senators should select them. The other part of Congress is the Senate. The Antifederalists feared that the Senate would ultimately become an aristocracy. Senators were to be selected from a small number of individuals, elected by the state legislatures for terms lasting six years, and were to be ... requiring rotation in office and permitting recall votes to be held by the state legislatures. They also wanted a separately elected executive council, which would...

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... " (15). This assumption and sense of innocence was also fueled by the media during that time as Christopher Vaughan suggests in his article; "The "Discovery" of the Philipines by the US Press 1898-1902" in The Historian. Vaughan dicussess the element of the newly emerging importance of the media around this time and the implications that the press may have played in shaping the opinions of American citizens at this time. While "U.S. readers ... widely varying views of the Philippines depending on their locale and reading habits, there was a remarkable degree of thematic similarity in the...

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... out for Virginia but landed in New England on Cape Cod. Upon landing at Cape Cod they believed themselves to be outside the rule of any government. An agreement was drafted for the new settlement to abide by "just and equal laws". A new wave of immigrants arrived on the shores of Massachusetts Bay in 1630 many of ... nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. " In his book, The Empty Church, Thomas Reeves says "The United States is the most religious nation in the advanced industrialized west, but it appears blatantly,...

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... and bear arms is truly in my opinion not the problem. The true and challenging part of debating gun control is the age regulation. For example, there was a shooting on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University and one of the students were hit by a bullet from the suspects. The oldest male out of the suspects was 21. The other suspects were between the ages of 17 and 19. How do people of ... those ages obtain a firearm? The age regulation to obtain a handgun is 21 ... . The age regulation for a shotgun is 19. The controversy is that the way that the society is ... ...

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... Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, it was stated that "The ruling was largely based on the idea that a woman should be able to choose whether or not to bear children and that making such a decision should remain between a woman and her doctor " (Haney 34). Involving the government in this type of decision eliminates the privacy guaranteed to the people by the government. This situation could be palliated if ... the Court would follow its own rulings, which were: "Finally, the Court summarily ... ...

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... . Gays and lesbians have long been banned from serving in the United States military. In the early 1990's many gay and lesbian activists were trying to appeal the ban on homosexuals in the military (discriminatory) "1993-Clinton " In the book, Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Debating The Gay Ban In The Military By: Geoffrey Bateman, which discusses how in the year of 1999, Private Calvin Glover challenged Private First Class Barry Winchell ... to fistfight in front of their barracks at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Outcome was, Glover lost, and two days later, on July 5th, he ... ...

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