Fourteenth Amendment
Essays

Adopted in 1868 to the U.S. Constitution during the Reconstruction era the Fourteenth amendment is known as one of the three Reconstruction Amendments. Of these three, the Fourteenth is the most complex and resulted in…

The adoption of the constitution of the United States of America faced opposition from groups that feared the takeover of a centralized government. This opposition arose from the fear that this new centralized…

Correctional institutions have tried to implement inmate postcard-only mail policies to reduce staffing needs and contraband trafficking. The U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts have tended to give correctional authorities the benefit of the doubt when prisons restrict the Constitutional rights of inmates, in order to ensure prison security and the safety of inmates and prison staff. However, the Court has established a reasonableness test under Turner v. Safley (1987) when it comes to prison policies infringing upon inmate speech. This essay examines the Constitutionality of prison postcard-only mail policies and offers recommendations based on established jurisprudence.

Facts: This case was the only Latino-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II. It involved the 1950 trial of a migrant cotton picker named Pete…

The right to privacy should be protected more than the freedom of the press to avoid more harm to victims of crimes and to allow celebrities to enjoy private lives with family. the courts have upheld a broad view of the right to privacy and interpreted amendments where journalists do not have special privileges. The press should be made to uphold the right to privacy as well.

Maria Bailey clearly and blatantly misrepresented the size of her start-up business, but shrugged it off saying she knew what she was "capable of doing" and just wanted to show potential clients "what we were going to…

The so-called Bakke decision was the earliest in which the United States Supreme Court addressed affirmative action. The case certainly did not mean and end to the issues involved, and there have been several attempts…

This paper provides a case summary for the court case In re Gault. At issue in the case was whether a juvenile in a delinquency proceeding that can result in incarceration in a juvenile detention facility is entitled to Due Process protections. The Supreme Court determined that juveniles facing incarceration are entitled to the same Due Process protections as adults.

This paper discusses three recent US Supreme Court cases, all of which set limits upon discipline meted out to students within the public school system. The Court has found that students have a right to due process, although First Amendment rights are not absolute (the suspension of a student waving a pro-drug banner was upheld). While searches of student belongings and outer clothing have found to be constitutional, strip searches by school personnel must only be conducted under extreme circumstances such as when there is a risk to other student's lives and well-benig.

Former slave, abolitionist, civil rights advocate