One of the many controversial Supreme Court cases of the twentieth century was that of the New York Times Company versus the United States. This 1971 case, commonly referred to as the “Pentagon Papers” case, challenged the boundaries of the First Amendment as well as the role of censorship. The premise of the case dealt ...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (Amendment 1, U.S. Constitution). A spirited debate is taking place ...
Any student who takes Political Science Classes in College or Law related classes, or even is planning on going to law school, sooner or later you will have to learn how to write a legal brief. Legal briefs are very helpful and useful because professors will ask you summarize a Supreme Court case and give ...
Trial by jury is so ingrained into the consciousness of Americans today that a jurisprudence system based on anything else is virtually inconceivable. At the same time, however, most Americans’ knowledge of the system of judgment based on a collection of twelve of one’s peers is limited to what they glean from watching one of ...
Introduction Sovereign Immunity is a doctrine that precludes a suit against the sovereign (government) without its consent. In English law, this concept is based on the concept of the “the sovereign can do no wrong.” In American law, the doctrine was implemented with a slightly different rationale in mind. Under United States’ common law, the ...
Two-thirds of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty, with more than thirty abolishing it in the last ten years. Thirty-five of the United States, including the federal government and the military, are still using the death penalty as a form of capital punishment (Facts about the Death Penalty 2009). Though many countries and ...