Fourteenth Amendment
Essays

This paper reviews the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature together with the precedential case law concerning the protections afforded by the Fourteenth Amendment to pregnant women who take illegal drugs. An analysis of recent and current trends as well as precedential case law is followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.

Case: FIRST NATIONAL BANK v. BELLOTTI 435 U.S. 765 (1978)

What is cruel and unusual punishment? Does the definition of cruel and unusual punishment change with time and changing social mores? Does the determination of whether or not a punishment is cruel and unusual depend on…

¶ … 1978, the aftermath of the civil rights movement still tore at seams of the status quo of the American social fabric. As the nation came to reckoning with the vast differences in racial progress, perception, and…

Civil liberties are protections from the power of governments, such as freedom of speech, which may be guaranteed to a people through a constitution. Political rights are those rights that a person is granted because of…

The First Amendment in the United States of America's Constitution is perhaps the hallmark of what current President Bush refers to continually as our "freedom." It represents the fundamental difference between America…

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, meaning that soon afterward white and black students would attend public…

Is it fair when dependent and neglected children come under the jurisdiction of the court system, making them status offenders? What is the relevance of the concept of parens patriae, and how does it potentially…

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…

¶ … Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), the Supreme Court determined that juveniles in delinquency proceedings had to be afforded many of the same rights as adults in criminal proceedings. These rights included the right to…