Constitution
Essays

To some of us, Thurgood Marshall is the first black man ever to become Supreme Court Justice but to most Americans, he is more than that. His name today symbolizes complete equality and freedom, not only for blacks but…

When the market crashes, turns bearish, or severely corrects, investors not only lose objective things such as money, they also lose the sustaining functions of which the investing process (and/or money, which may…

Racial profiling is probably the biggest concern of minorities groups in our country because it has been the cause of numerous injustices against them. Our law enforcement agencies appear to be ruthlessly biased in…

The Tenth Amendment was originally intended to define the limits of federal power and the Ninth Amendment to limit the construction of new federal powers. This changed during the 20th century and by the turn of the millennium the Rehnquist Court had rendered the Ninth Amendment moot by conferring both powers to the Tenth Amendment. This essay examines this history and how federal preemption has been applied to two recent Supreme Court cases.

Drachman, Edward R., Robert Langran, and Alan Shank. "Case 4: Race-Based Affirmative

Max Weber was correct that in modern society, the power of the bureaucracy increased exponentially with urbanization and industrialization, particularly when it was called upon to deal increasingly with social and economic problems. Such organizations were hardly designed to enable others to act within a democratic or participatory system, but to act on their behalf and direct them from above in a very hierarchical system. For example, during the Progressive Era and New Deal in the United States, the civil service was expanded to regulate capitalism in a variety of ways, to administer large parts of the economy and the growing social welfare state. Of course, with the growth in the power and influence of the civil service, opportunities for bribery, corruption, authoritarian behavior and catering to special interests instead of the public interest became far more common as well.

When the historic passage of legislation permitting medical marijuana use in states like Arizona (2010), Delaware (2011) and Massachusetts (2012) is considered in conjunction with the fact that 13 other states have similar legislation or ballot measures pending, the traditional conception of marijuana ingestion as a criminal act is being reexamined on a societal level. Further bolstering this assertion is the legal situation in California, Colorado and Washington, where marijuana has been decriminalized entirely and permitted for recreational sale by licensed dispensaries, providing the platform for a restoration of basic rights in these jurisdictions. With approximately half of the states in the union already affording citizens with medical needs the liberty to seek relief in the form of marijuana, while the federal government’s ostensible ban on the substance remains in effect, the stage has been set for a national debate over the merits of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use. After decades of misinformation concerning the alleged link between marijuana use and addiction to more destructive “hard” narcotics like cocaine, methamphetamine or heroin, the lengthy period of legalized medicinal marijuana use in several states has provided a wealth of statistical data focused explicitly on long-term marijuana users. The so-called “gateway theory” asserted that marijuana use provided the foundation for subsequent addictions to other banned substances, and was widely used as the basis for government campaigns intended to extend the era of marijuana criminalization – an era defined by the institutional refusal to recognize the utilitarian function of certain civil liberties. By comparing the rate of “hard” narcotic usage (as measured by arrest/conviction rates for cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin) in several states that currently permit medicinal marijuana use, the correlation between societal acceptance of marijuana and addiction to more serious substances can be statistically substantiated. As a control, states that have never permitted marijuana use of any kind on a legislative level will also be studied, in an effort to determine whether or not “hard” narcotic use in these jurisdictions is higher or lower than their more liberal counterparts.

NAFTA and the American Trucking Companies

¶ … dealt with the issue of youth gangs and their prevalence in USA. Sociologists have been analyzing youth gangs in urban backgrounds for around 70 years. It has been debated that youth gangs were created in accordance…

¶ … electronic signatures as is used for the purposes of e-commerce. The writer explores their use, their problems and some of the legislature for their use. The primary focus is on the differences and similarities in…