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What is Constitution?

The Constitution stands as one of the most examined documents in American political and legal history, making it a central subject in history, political science, law, and civics courses. Students write about it because it raises enduring questions about the balance of power, the protection of individual rights, and the relationship between citizens and their government. Its origins in the turbulent period following the Articles of Confederation, the debates surrounding its ratification, and its ongoing interpretation through amendments and Supreme Court decisions give it layers of complexity that reward sustained academic attention.

The papers collected here approach the Constitution from several distinct angles. Some take a historical perspective, examining the political pressures of the mid-1780s that drove delegates toward a new framework, or asking whether the document represented a counter-revolution or a national salvation. Others focus on legal and structural analysis, tracing how amendments shape the broader legal system or how federal power is distributed through federalism. Case-focused essays use specific Supreme Court decisions and cases such as Ruiz v. Estelle to ground constitutional principles in concrete legal outcomes. A smaller number of papers place the Constitution in comparative or thematic contexts alongside topics like secular humanism or revolutionary America.

A strong essay on the Constitution requires a focused thesis that moves beyond description toward an interpretive claim about power, rights, or legitimacy. Evidence drawn from the text of amendments, congressional authority, and documented legal precedent carries the most weight in historical and legal arguments. The most common pitfall is treating the Constitution as a static document rather than one continuously reshaped by political conflict, court interpretation, and the evolving relationship between citizens and federal government.

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U.S. violations of Geneva Conventions in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay

It seems there is very little we have done in Iraq that is in any way honorable. It is common knowledge, now, that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and therefore precious little excuse for the war.

Paper Doctorate

Women's political representation and voting rights in the nineteenth century

This paper is about women's history and policy opinion. The History & Policy group aim to demonstrate the relevance of history to contemporary policymaking and to increase the influence of history on current policy and media debate. They put historians in touch with policy makers and the media and it advises historians on how to communicate more effectively with both groups.The number of female employees is increasing at workplace. It is giving birth to many issues which need serious attention of policy makers. These issues include equal pay for the same job performed by men and women, nature of job to be offered to female, avoidance of gender discrimination and protection from sexual harassment.

Thesis Undergraduate

Warrantless GPS surveillance and Fourth Amendment privacy protections

This paper discusses warrantless GPS tracking on the part of the federal government and argues that it is unconstitutional. It uses court cases, studies and the Constitution to make its point that the federal government violates a citizen's Fourth Amendment rights when it warrantlessly uses GPS devices to monitor a person's movements.

Research Paper Doctorate

Marina Ottaway's analysis of factionalism in South Africa's transition from apartheid

Rather than a mere struggle between black and white Marina Ottaway suggests that the conflicts in South Africa that hampered the nation's transition from apartheid to a fuller participatory government lay in the…

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Orthodox Jewish perspectives on abortion and Halakha

It is true that Judaism does not assign the same status to the unborn child as to life after birth, and thus abortion is permissible, indeed mandatory, when the mother's life is threatened, however the practice in…

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Philosophical interpretations of natural law and modern implementation

The concepts of natural law have been composed by a number of well-known philosophers. However, these multiple compositions have created a lot of problems in the context of the authenticity of the natural law.

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Constitutional violations in post-9/11 detention and torture practices

In his book The Enemy Within, author Stephen J. Schulhofer notes, "In the two months following September 11, approximately 1200 foreign nationals living in the United States were arrested and detained by federal law…

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African-American voting rights and the path to the Fifteenth Amendment

¶ … U.S. Constitution made no actual comment or mention on the suffrage and voting rights and these were left to the States's jurisdiction. This meant that the enslaved African-American population did not have any…

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Gender stratification and traditional roles in American society

The ethos of the American society has been informed by two main influences: One the Puritan Christian values inherited from European immigrants primarily from England but also other places and two the harsh conditions the immigrants faced in the wilderness of a new land which necessitated a protected environment for what was deemed as the weaker sex. Christian society in its essence was a patriarchal society and the same traditional patriarchy was carried across the Atlantic by the early colonists. The primordial roles of the man as the hunter/gatherer (and by extrapolation merchant, soldier, ruler) and woman as the homemaker and mother of the man's children have been ossified to an extent that even in this advanced age, we are unable to break through it entirely.

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Presidential authority to detain citizens as enemy combatants in Padilla v. Hanft

On June 10th, 2002, CNN.com reported that U.S. officials had "captured a U.S. citizen with suspected ties to al Qaeda who allegedly planned to build and explode a radioactive 'dirty bomb' in the United States."…

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