can study the past 1 - first task of historians is finding the evidence -facts and clues = documents‚ letters‚ memoirs‚ interviews‚ pictures‚ movies‚ novels‚ & poems 2 – Questions and compare the sources Historians look for answers beyond act and motive Historians collaborate w/ one another to seek help from specialist in other disciplines Each document is a witness from the past and open to interpretation in different ways Each book has a specific topic Preface December 1828‚ young
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Church) has more liberal views‚ In 2006‚ the US Supreme Court said that legislation in Oregon allowing doctors to help people to die was constitutional‚ which means that physician assisted suicide is inline with the basic rights on which America was founded. A retired bishop from the Episcopal Church‚ John Shelby Spong‚ said: "The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice
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Each court period in U.S. history impacted the U.S. Supreme Court differently. When the new era of the Warren court was established in 1953‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower had appointed Earl Warren as the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court thinking that Warren would introduce and spread conservative views throughout the U.S. Supreme Court when in fact he led the court into making liberal decisions. Warren surprised and tricked Eisenhower by his decisions in landmark court cases. The cases heard
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Marbury and others sued the government and the case went to the Supreme Court. One of the members of the Supreme Court was the recently appointed Chief Justice John Marshall. Appointing the men to be Justices of the Piece was with in Adams constitutional rights as president. John Marshall says “ The constitution is either a superior paramount law‚ unchangeable by ordinary means‚ or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts and‚ like other acts‚ is alterable when the legislature shall please
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The Supreme Court has had to rule on issues regarding Presidential immunity in a few cases. Three specifically have helped to set the precedent for how the court would interpret another case brought before the court. In Mississippi v. Johnson the ruling decided whether a president can have an injunction placed on him/her based on the carrying out of their executive duties. Next‚ in the case of Nixon v. Fitzgerald the court ruled on whether a president can be personally sued for decisions they
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For nearly half a century‚ the Supreme Court’s decision in Tinker has been applied to numerous cases involving student speech. However‚ in recent years‚ the Supreme Court has been faced with the difficult decision of how to apply it to online‚ off-campus speech. So what direction are the courts currently heading to give clarity to school leaders on how to approach discipline of students’ off-campus‚ online speech? The answer… is very little. One case we briefly mentioned in class this semester
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Madison is considered one of the most important cases in U.S. Supreme Court history. This landmark case is of great importance in the American political system because John Marshall‚ chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835‚ was able to bring respect and prestige to the Court. The Marshall Court announced that a court has the power to declare an act of Congress void if it contradicts the Constitution. For the first time in history‚ the Supreme Court asserted its role in reviewing federal legislation
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The Supreme Court is the highest federal court in the United States. It rules over all federal courts and state courts when pertaining to cases that involve federal laws. Moreover‚ the Court has one Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate Justices that have been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Amongst the Justices there are liberals‚ conservatives‚ and a moderate. The liberal side consists of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg‚ Justice Sonia Sotomayor‚ Justice Elena
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Supreme Court Decisions Decisions of the United States Supreme Court have had a significant impact on the nation. Multiple cases that have been brought upon the Supreme Court have huge impacts on the nation. A lot of these cases have had such an impact on American society that they’ve left a permanent mark. Marbury v. Madison‚ a Supreme Court case in 1803 that is considered one of the first major cases is very important to the way our government is structured. Also Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
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1. I think some of the work of the Supreme Court is constrained by institutional roles and procedures but the vast majority of work done by the Supreme Court is autonomous. One of the first examples of constraint by an institutional role and longstanding tradition in the book “A Wild Justice” is “In the early 1960s‚ the notion that executions were cruel and unusual punishment seemed fanciful. When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution‚ the death penalty was mandatory for most felonies and
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