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Privacy Rights - A Supreme Court Authority, 2005.
Questions whether the Supreme Court of the US has the power to limit President Bush in his advocacy.
737 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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There is much conflict over the issue of privacy in the US government today. Though much of the conflict revolves around the right to an abortion without parental or spousal notification, the right certainly applies to other aspects, like the Patriot Act and Civil Rights movement, in the lives of its constituents. Through the use of various amendments, cases and other resources, this essay examines these aspects and proves that a right to privacy exists in the Constitution, although not stated explicitly, and argues for the Supreme Court authority to undermine the Congress.
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"The right against unsanctioned intrusion of the government in the lives of its constituents is a fundamental, unalienable right of human beings to privacy. However, governments often create law enforcement agencies specifically designed to override this right in order to maintain security within the country. Civil rights libertarians strongly criticize such intervention, arguing, with proof, that such designs allow governments to become repressive regimes and prosecute people for political dissent. The issue does not concern whether a right to privacy is important, which it undoubtedly is, but whether the Supreme Court has been granted enough authority by the US Constitution to enforce this right."
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Women's Rights and the Canadian Supreme Court, 2002.
Summarizes to two Canadian Supreme Court cases regarding the equality of women.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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There are two parts to this paper; the first part summarizes the two cases. The second part discusses D.F.G. as a precedent for Dobson and the equality of Women in Canada.
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The Supreme Court And Civil Rights, 2007.
An examination of civil rights cases in the Supreme Court, in the post-Reconstruction period.
2,301 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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The writer argues that one of the major reasons why African-Americans failed to achieve equality in the United States, following the Civil War, is due to the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. The writer proposes that this makes it necessary to examine the records of this branch of the American government in order to determine how these decisions impacted African-Americans after the Civil War. The paper analyzes five important Supreme Court cases adjudicated following the war, which made equality in the United States impossible for African-Americans. The paper concludes that these decisions of the Supreme Court undermined the ability of African-Americans to obtain equality under the law and had a very detrimental effect on this brave and often dangerous quest to gain equality in America during the days of the post-Reconstruction Era.
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"One of the first major Supreme Court cases considered after the Civil War was the Slaughterhouse cases, brought before the Court by the butchers of New Orleans in response to a law passed in 1869 by the legislature of the State of Louisiana which allowed the incorporation of the Live Stock and Slaughterhouse Company in New Orleans and granted them exclusive rights to slaughter livestock within the city, effectively granting them a monopoly. Thus, the butchers had no choice but to seek redress through the courts via a lawsuit which argued that the new law violated their fourteenth Amendment right to due process."
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Federalism and the Supreme Court In the 1990s, 1998.
Examines new trends towards states rights seen in Supreme Court cases since 1992. Examination reveals that these Supreme Court cases have given more power back to the state rather than the federal government.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 63.95
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"Supreme Court cases since 1992 have given more power back to the states rather than the federal government. In the history of the nation, the balance of power between the states and the national government has shifted many times. The Supreme Court has previously provided additional support to congresses obsessed with the further federalization of government control by upholding federal supremacy in almost every area. This is no longer so. The current Supreme Court under Chief Justice Rehnquist has supported the states in four recent and significant cases. Two of these cases, United States v. Lopez and Seminole Tribe of Florida, Petitioner v. Florida, et al., have ended the congressional practice of regulating local and intrastate affairs via the commerce clause in the Constitution. States' rights to local sovereignty reserved under the 10th Amendment were upheld by two other cases, New York v. United States and Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana v. United States. When considered together, these four cases as well as the nature of the opinions written about them present an overall trend towards states' rights."
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The Privacy Rights of Individuals, 2005.
This paper discusses court cases, which deal with the privacy rights of individuals in the areas of homosexuality, drug testing, birth control and the right to die.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that, although everyone agrees that privacy rights of individuals should be protected by governmental laws, the extent of one's right to privacy has often been a matter of vast disagreement in the court system of the United States. The author points out that an individual's right to sexual privacy, including homosexuality, is an issue that has been brought before the courts repeatedly; "Bowers v. Hardwick" is a landmark case fought in 1986, which tested these boundaries. The paper relates that the United States Supreme Court has established that, to some extent, an individual does have a limited right to die: by citing "Griswold v. Connecticut" and even "Roe v. Wade", the court stated that, if the right to privacy is broad enough to include a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy, it also provides a basis for the right to die.
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"Drug testing is another issue that has been fiercely debated in the courts. With the increase of illegal drug use across the United States, many institutions have tried to institute a policy of random testing in order to combat the problem. Opponents of this policy claim that these random drug tests are an invasion of privacy rights and violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches. A group of parents challenged the Oklahoma school district's policy of random drug testing in front of the Supreme Court. The school district established a policy of random urine tests for students who want to join the marching band, academic team or any competitive extracurricular activity. In previous cases, the court had ruled that general urine testing required a warrant or some evidence of drug use. However, in a school setting, there is a lower expectation to privacy and in Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton in 1995, the Supreme Court ruled that drug testing for student athletes did not violate their privacy rights, since these students were the most at risk and could choose whether or not to participate in sporting activities."
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Email Privacy Rights, 2005.
An examination of email privacy rights as they relate to employees, employers, and the workplace.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper explores email privacy rights concerning employees, employers, and the workplace. The paper explains employer vs employee rights. The paper also includes the invasion of privacy lawsuits.
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"The growing number of employees with desktop computers and work-provided laptop computers has increased management concerns for balancing potential liability and loss of productivity issues against the employees' rights to privacy."
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Privacy Rights, 2005.
A research paper on different aspects of current privacy rights and the acceptance of their violation by the U.S. government, such as the Patriot Act and surveillance issues.
824 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains privacy rights as they relate to anti-utopian literature, such as "Brave New World" or "1984". It also describes current violations of these rights as they relate to technological advances and military operations.
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"Privacy can be considered one of the most valued rights of a civilized society. The framers of the constitution had this in mind when they developed search and seizure laws to protect the citizens' privacy from British soldiers. The American Civil Liberties Union predicts, "The United States is at risk of turning into a full-fledged surveillance society" (ACLU). The invasion of privacy has long been evident in anti-utopian literature, and now it is becoming more common, openly available, and more accepted by our government."
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Censorship and Privacy Rights, 2003.
A persuasive essay that analyzes the social problems of censorship and violations of privacy rights and persuades American citizens to take a stance against government manipulation.
2,126 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper carefully describes the sociopolitical problems of censorship and privacy rights and presents a proposal of possible solutions to these problems. It explores various modern government manipulations that have been increased since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and includes an analysis of various new legislation such as the Patriot Act.
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"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every website you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend?all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as ?a virtual centralized grand database??. To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that [the] government has about you?passport application, driver?s license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from noisy neighbors to the FBI?your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance?and you have the supersnoop?s dream: a ?Total Information Awareness? about every US citizen? (Krigg 2) This serves as just one example of the many acts that were passed due to an increased desire for national security."
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Privacy Rights and the Internet, 2003.
This paper discusses the ease of obtaining personal information on the internet and the lack of privacy rights including for inmates.
995 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that, although a prisoner has limited rights, there are certain protections provided to prisoners under the law, which brings up questions in terms of the rights and protections offered prisoners with regards to their personal privacy and information, which can be easily found on the internet. The author points out that, at present, there are no laws regarding internet privacy and reviews the United States' long history of struggling with privacy issues using the cases "Roe V. Wade" (1977), "Olmstead vs. United States 277 U.S. 438" (1928) and "Katz vs. United States, 389 U.S. 347" (1967). The paper states that, because there currently are no laws concerning privacy on the internet, there should be no problem with using VeriSign as a company to introduce e-commerce to the inmates as this company's policy considers the protection of an individual's privacy of the utmost importance.
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"There are also more complex searches that a person can perform on the internet. For a fee, several companies will offer a complete profile of a person. For example, a company called, US Search, will find anybody and offers services such as background checks, locators, criminal search, sex offender search, and department of corrections search. They also offer other information like marriage and divorce certificates. There are many of these sites. They work by compiling databases, similar to the ones that law enforcement uses to find people by social security number or license number. Another site compiles scientific data as well. Abika.com offers background searches, psychological profiles, DNA profiling, etc. In short, if it is part of the public record, it can be compiled in a database for businesses to sell."
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Supreme Court Striking Down Taboos, 2002.
A paper which discusses the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court on two cases dealing with interracial marriage and gay rights.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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The paper discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court provided tangible direction in 1967?s 'Loving vs. Virginia' and in 1986?s 'Bowers vs. Hardwick'. The paper shows that by ruling against states? rights, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriage in Loving but sided with Georgia in Bowers and ruled that the state statute prohibiting sodomy was constitutional -- striking gay rights a blow from which they only began to recover in 1996. The paper explores how these two cases had an immense impact on the historical progress of the twentieth century - the end of the century concerned itself primarily with equality and equal rights for various groups and these two cases were seminal in determining the course of the twenty-first century?s continuation of the quest for equal rights.
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"Interracial marriages and gay rights represent much larger issues -- as if those issues are not large enough. American history since 1789 is one long debate between states? rights and federal powers. Those usually willing to effect change in favor of minority groups have clamored for federal powers to refuse states the right to marginalize certain groups. Those who prefer the conservative -- whether evangelical Christian or not -- viewpoint call for the federal government to stay out of states? regulations pertaining to hotbed issues like race and sexual orientation."
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The Supreme Court and Public Opinion, 2006.
An analysis of the effect that the Supreme Court has on public opinion.
2,721 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper focuses the effects of Supreme Court decisions on public opinion as debated by Johnson and Martin in "The Public Conditional Responses to Supreme Court Decisions," Mishler and Sheenan's "The Supreme Court as a Countermajoritarian Institution? The Impact of Public Opinion on Supreme Court Decisions" and Rosenberg in his book "The Hollow Hope". This paper argues that the Supreme Court does have an effect on public opinion but that such effects are conditional.
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"It would be simple to conclude that the Supreme Court either has an effect on public opinion or that it has no effect whatsoever on public opinion. The correct conclusion would be to say that the Supreme Court has an effect on public opinion and that such effect is not always clearly determinable. In other words, "The Supreme Court can and does influence public attitudes toward highly salient issues, but its effect is conditional" (Johnson and Martin, 1998, 306). This is known as the Conditional Response Theory, as established by Johnson and Martin in their article The Public's Conditional Response to Supreme Court Decisions. Johnson and Martin assert that the Conditional Response Theory is based on three facts: First, the Supreme Court is viewed as a creditable institution and therefore a highly legitimate one. "
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Interest Groups & Supreme Court, 1991.
This paper analyzes the role that interest groups play in Supreme Court cases: History and development of influence of lobbyists, accessibility of the Supreme Court, pros and cons and legal theory.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, $ 95.95
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"This paper will critically analyze the role that interest groups play in Supreme Court cases. As a general rule, it is assumed that special interests do not belong at the level of the federal judiciary. The function of the Supreme Court is solely to interpret the Constitution as it pertains to matters of law. In order to arrive at fair and equal judgements, the Court needs to be free from the influence of outside sources. Interest groups are permitted by law to seek influence among members of Congress through the practice of lobbying. In this regard, the Supreme Court has played an important role in regulating the extent to which interests may take advantage of this First Amendment right.1 Nevertheless, the Court itself has for the most part attempted to remain "insulated" from the influence of lobbyists and other groups.2 The idea that this freedom from ... "
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Privacy Rights, 2004.
This paper discusses the privacy rights of employers and employees, which are becoming even more important due to technological advances.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that the right to privacy is a very complex subject stemming from the protection provided by the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure and is often at issue when employers are challenged in court. The author, reviewing AT&T Wireless?s guidebook, indicates that the company reserves the right to monitor, obtain, review, copy, store, and disclose all information, content, and data used, stored, or maintained on the company?s system, including, but not limited to, e-mail and voice mail messages, intranet sites, and Internet access. The paper relates that employers monitor the activities of their employees because employers may be liable for misconduct of employees, and causes for low productivity may be discovered by surveillance.
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"Large companies such as AT&T Wireless realize they need to create a privacy policy in order to protect propriety information and most importantly employee data. In order to ensure that employees are aware of their privacy rights, many companies such as AT&T Wireless distributes a yearly colleague guidebook. This guidebook gives specific information on several privacy topics, including the actions the company can take to review company property if they feel you are abusing the use of it. The guidebook discloses the following: ?E-mail, voice mail, intranet/intranet use access is for authorized business use only. The company retains the right to monitor and to electronically limit access to certain sites in its sole discretion.? "
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The U.S. Supreme Court and Politics, 1998.
A discussion of the various topics that the U.S. Supreme Court deals with.
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 54.95
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A detailed examination of the U.S. Supreme court and the type of matters it addresses. The author argues that issues of politics and political controversies should be taken into account by the supreme court as often they form constitutional issues, and supports this view by emphasizing the chief objective of the U.S. supreme court: to preserve the principles and rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. The paper includes an analysis of various politicians and an explanation of the roles of the supreme court and judiciary.
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"When political beliefs and thoughts evolve into law, often times, constitutional issues arise alongside. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has the license to decide whether or not to adjudicate matters involving hot political topics, past history has indicated that the Court has not been inclined to evade such questions, but rather, to thoroughly delve into such controversies. As a staunch Federalist, Alexander Hamilton had strong beliefs and ideas as to how the infant U.S. government should be set up and efficiently run. As opposed to Thomas Jefferson?s notions on the importance of strong state governments, Hamilton believed in the superiority of a powerful central government body. He set forth his political views in the Federalist papers, examining all aspects of government and focusing on the role of the judicial branch in numbers 78, 79 and 80."
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The Supreme Court, 2005.
This paper extensively reviews the Supreme Court, two of its Chief Justice--- Earl Warren and William H. Rehnquist--- and some of the cases relating to their tenure.
5,610 words (approx. 22.4 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 136.95
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This paper relates that, when studying the Supreme Court, the views of the Chief Justice becomes the generalization for the Court as a whole because, when each new Chief Justice is appointed, the view of the Court tends to change. The author points out that two of the main changes that the Supreme Court has gone through over the last half century were periods when it was headed by Chief Justices Earl Warren, who became a liberal and by William H. Rehnquist, who remained a staunch conservative; both were Republicans but they had completely different views on how the decisions of the Supreme Court should be made. The paper concludes that the Supreme Court would not be considered the most prestigious court in the United States, and perhaps even the world, if it was not a court with diversity, not only in the justices themselves who represent various races, genders, ethnicities and religions, but also in ideologies and political views.
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"Throughout Warren's years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he changed the entire way the nation operated. Warren and his court overruled precedents and set new ones. When an individual wakes up, gets ready, and goes to school, that individual will most likely step into a classroom where there are people of many different races, ethnicities and religions. If it was not for the liberal views of the Warren Court, especially Warren himself, there is no way to determine if the United States would have the civil rights that it does. If it were not for the Warren Court, we would not hear, "you have the right to remain silent..." on the television show, Cops, every night. Warren's liberal views helped mold the United States into what it is today."
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