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    William Rankin CP Government 7th Period 24 September‚ 2014 Dennis VS. The United States The case Dennis VS. The United States is a case that has largely to do with First Amendment rights. In this case‚ one side argues that the American Government should not be allowed to infringe upon an individual’s rights and the other side argues that the government should be allowed the power to limit rights dealing with freedom of speech in order to ensure national security. The findings in this case allow

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    THE DEMISE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in Herring v. United States suggested there is more to the exclusionary rule than just deterring police misconduct.[1] She explained that the rule was an “essential auxiliary” to the Fourth Amendment right‚ which is owed “a more majestic conception” due to the important purpose of preserving judicial integrity.[2] With this reference to judicial integrity‚ Justice Ginsburg and three of her colleagues reminded us of the importance of

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    of the Supreme Court in 1953. Warren had been the governor of California twice and was also on the republican ticket for Vice President under Thomas Dewey. It was assumed that Warren would pickup where his successor Fred Vinson left off as a conservative member of the Supreme Court‚ but instead Warren positioned himself as a liberal. When Warren took over as Chief Justice‚ justices who aligned with judicial activism and those who were in favor of judicial restraint divided the Supreme Court. One of

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    1. Supreme Court’s Rule of Reason- The United States Supreme Court created the Rule of Reason as the basic principle in regards to anti-trust cases. It was created as a result of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v the United States. The government tried Standard Oil due to violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. They claimed it had used its powers to prevent other oil companies from being created. After this‚ it became a principle of the time period‚ on a case by case basis to determine if

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    I. The confrontation clause of the sixth amendment to the United States constitution provides that all criminals’ prosecutions‚ the accused shall exploit the right to confront the witnesses against him. the Confrontation Clause applies to ``witnesses’’ against the accused‚ meaning ``those who ’bear testimony’’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confrontation_Clause 1. The sixth amendment goes on to protect the right of the accused person on trial to confront witnesses

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    be admitted in court. The exclusionary rule was one of the few laws the court system had made to enforce the Forth Amendment’s unreasonable search and seizure clause. The many exceptions and alternatives to the rule caused major controversy over why the rule even stands. The rule originated from the court case Weeks v. U.S. The Forth Amendment was virtually powerless until the early 1900s.

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    article is ad hominem. “The courts should require the government to disclose this information and quickly‚ and the practice of delving into travelers’ private lives at the border without reason to suspect them of wrongdoing should ultimately end. Everything we know about the government’s searches of devices at the border suggests the government is dramatically expanding an unconstitutional program.” This section of the article is an ad hominem fallacy‚ for it is blaming the courts decisions on government

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    Court Systems Interview G.M. University of Phoenix AJS/504 June 22‚ 2015 William Miller Court Systems Interview When the United States Constitution was established‚ the founding fathers devised the core of the court system that is present in today’s society. The state and federal government each have a version of a Supreme Court which is typically led by a Chief Justice. The states level Supreme Court Justice governs the issues that pertains to the citizens within the respective state

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    different court systems. I will also describe the distinguishing features of the major court systems‚ ranging from state-level superior courts and federal district courts through the U.S. Supreme Court. We will include key players‚ jurisdictional rules and interpretation issues‚ and the effect of evolving technologies on court proceedings at each level. The case that I decided to write about is; Gideon v. Wainwright‚ 372 U.S. 335 (1963)‚ “which was a historic case in United States Supreme Court history

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    he proclaimed‚ “I am the state” (Encyclopedia Britannica). This statement alone made by Louis XIV showed familiar assertion of absolutism. It has existed in various forms in all parts of the world‚ including in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler and in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. The most studied form of absolutism would be absolute monarchy. Absolute monarchy originated in early modern Europe and was based on the strong individual leaders of the new nation-states that were created at the

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