Mary Bodunde 11/16/10 period 30 1. Thomas Jefferson once said he believed that "all the good" of the new constitution might have been accomplished by simply amending the Article of confederation. According to the text’s authors‚ it is probably a good thing that the Fonding Fathers did not merely amend the Articles of confederation. with which position do you agree? Why? 2. Why didn’t the leaders of the American Revolution extend their spirit of equality to the abolition of slavery and giving
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The Brown v. Board of Education case is one of the most famous segregation cases that said states laws with separate schools for black and white students was unconstitutional. This decision also went to overturn the Plessy v. Ferguson case‚ which allowed state segregation. In 1951‚ a lawsuit was filed against the Board of Education of the city of Topeka‚ Kansas. The plaintiffs consisted of thirteen parents of twenty children who attended the Topeka School District. They filed the suit hoping that
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White was the person who wrote the dissent opinion. White said that nowhere in the Eighth Amendment does it say the limitations are to criminal punishment. White stated that if this amendment was meant for this‚ the word criminal could have been added to accomplish that meaning. White believed that the paddling of the two young boys was for punishment‚ and needed to be tested as a standard of the Eighth Amendment. White was clear that he did not think that corporal punishment was cruel and unusual
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Lee American National Government Dr. Stewart August 6‚ 2012 Obamacare or The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010 by President Obama. It has been the most significant overhaul in the United States healthcare since Medicare and Medicaid passed in 1965. Obamacare is aimed at helping the underinsured be able to gain insurance‚ when there would be no other way for that person to have insurance. With this plan everyone would have health insurance
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Consent Decree – Identification and Assessment One important court ruling regarding bilingual education was the case of Lau vs. Nichols‚ in early 1970. Although the court ruled children’s Fourteenth Amendment (Equal Protection) was violated‚ accountability wasn’t established. The 1990 Consent Decree addressed this issue by outlining ESOL teacher training requirements‚ as well as needs of ESOL students needing to be addressed by school districts. Before the Florida Consent Decree‚ there
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witnesses. v. Reasoning Under Ohio law you have a right to public education. School has the authority to establish code of conducts however; authority is subject to constitutional limits. Students have a right to education under the Fourteenth amendment. The court reasoned “Having chosen to extend the right to an education to people of appellate class generally‚ Ohio may not withdraw that right on grounds of misconduct‚ absent fundamentally fair procedures to determine whether the misconduct
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American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories. Finally‚ the Court declared that the rights of slaveowners were constitutionally protected by the Fifth Amendment because slaves were categorized as property.” - Alex McBride (McBride 2006‚ 411). The verdict was unlawful and absurd. In 1787 the three-fifths compromise was enacted. It was one of the most controversial topics at the time. The three-fifths
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was a decent thought process but‚ as time proceeded we‚ as Americans‚ believe that society is equal enough now that race should not be considered for a college admittance or a job opportunity. A color blind society is the ultimate goal of the United States. In the court case University of California Regents v. Bakke‚ a claim was made in which special programs set aside a certain number of seats for minority students who were admitted by standards lower than the normal admittance. The decision was
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late 1700’s‚ several states were called for a constitution to protect individual’s rights from the government. Through these calls‚ James Madison came forth and put together the Amendments‚ which was later signed in 1791(1). What started off as 17 Amendments was trimmed down to 10 main one’s which is where we stand now with the Bill of Rights. There are several key Amendments that tie into criminal law. Those amendments are 1st‚ 2nd‚ 4th‚ 5th‚ 6th and 8th. The 1st amendment allows individuals the
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aspects of our first principals of our constitution which was the fundamental relationships between both the citizens as well as the government‚ and the fundamental relationships that was between both the states as well as the federal government. The judiciary role in regards to saying what the law truly is along with checking the political branches‚ the scope‚ and the limits to the tree different branch powers. That is why this great case was never about the state of health care in America or even
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